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Sid & Friends In The Morning

Blakeman Strikes First | 03-31-26

Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

Sports, Comedy, News

4.2828 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 165 minutes

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Summary

On this Tuesday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, Sid details Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman on the steps of City Hall yesterday, where he threw the first punch in this year's gubernatorial battle against incumbent Kathy Hochul, spending the afternoon railing against her and her comrade Mayor Zohran Mamdan. In other news of the day, Curtis Sliwa takes to NY1 to clap back at Republicans upset with his appearance in an Inner Circle Dinner comedy skit with Mayor Mamdani; the illegal migrant crisis in New York City is apparently alive and well, with city government just doing a better job of hiding it these days; President Trump delivers another ultimatum for Iran amidst our conflict in the region; and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis moves to rename Palm Beach Airport after President Trump. Brilyn Hollyhand, Inna Vernikov, Lara Trump, Monica Crowley & Morton Klein join Sid on this Tuesday installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Sid and Friends in the morning.

0:03.6

Entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

0:09.6

The future of New York, the future of the country, the future of the world is me.

0:14.8

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman took his campaign for governor to the steps of City Hall. And he not only called out

0:21.9

Governor Hockel, but also Mayor Mumdani and his tax plan. As political reporter Marsha Kramer

0:27.4

explains, the mayor didn't take kindly to Blakeman's incursion into his domain.

0:33.3

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman leaving City Hall after firing some pointed

0:38.5

broadsides at Governor Hokeland Mayor Mamdani, two people he regards as comrade tax hikers.

0:44.8

It's no longer affordable to live in New York, and now under what they proposed, it won't

0:52.2

even be affordable to die in New York.

0:54.5

Blakman insisting he is the real affordability candidate, slamming a proposal made by

0:59.4

Mondani to cut the estate tax exemption threshold by roughly 90%, from $7.35 million down to $750,000

1:08.6

and raised the top estate tax rate to 50% from its current 16%.

1:13.7

It will take away the wealth of middle class workers.

1:18.1

But the mayor, whose job-winning platform was all about taxing the rich, was clearly unhappy

1:22.7

that Blateman took his campaign to his turf.

1:24.9

He described him as someone who looks at what ICE is doing

1:28.7

and thinks it's exactly what the city needs to see. In Nassau County, his focus is on how

1:33.0

to round up as many people as possible and send them as far away as he can.

1:36.5

Blakeman slammed back. We have deported 2,000 illegal migrants with criminal records from attempted

1:42.3

murder to rape, to carjacking, to drug dealing.

1:46.6

Where would they like us to put these 2,000 people back into the metropolitan area?

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