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The Chris Plante Show

8-31-23 Hour 3 - Should Staten Island become State Island?

The Chris Plante Show

WMAL | Cumulus Media Washington

News, Government, Politics

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In hour 3, Chris talks about the borough of Staten Island threatening to secede from New York City to become it's own city, with a more sane Mayor and things like that. For more coverage on the issues that matter to you, download the WMAL app, visit WMAL.com or tune in love on WMAL-FM 105.9 from 9:00am-12:00pm Monday-Friday  To join the conversation, check us out on Twitter @WMAL and @ChrisPlanteShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

We were ready for this, so we had a search and rescue team stage, National Guard.

0:08.2

We had 5,500 National Guard.

0:10.4

We had 1.2 million gallons of gasoline in the event of fuel shortages.

0:14.8

We had over 30,000 linemen to restore power.

0:19.4

And so as soon as the storm passed, our first responders were on the scene checking on

0:24.9

people.

0:26.1

Governor Rhonda Santos, after the dumbly named hurricane that blew through there yesterday.

0:35.2

And of course, Rhonda Santos is being attacked by the left-wing media because, you know,

0:40.8

global warming, climate change, something like that.

0:45.7

We're going to need a lot of mental health professionals going forward.

0:50.8

I can tell you that much.

0:53.7

So welcome back and happy Thursday once again, Labor Day weekend coming up.

0:58.8

Hopefully a three-day weekend for you, your family, normal people, and I have but one hour

1:08.0

left to give to my country and so much stuff to get to.

1:17.8

So much stuff.

1:18.8

Let me go to New York City.

1:21.2

New York, New York, the city that never sweeps.

1:25.3

And the New York Post has this story.

1:26.7

There is a Republican congresswoman who is great.

1:30.2

She's from Staten Island, which is one of the five burrows of New York City.

1:35.4

And the only one that votes Republican, but they do reliably vote Republican on Staten

1:40.8

Island.

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