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The Mark Simone Show

Mark interviews Businesswoman Bernadette Castro

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

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4.3694 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Mark and Bernadette talk about a great charity that helps the people of Ukraine. www.Georgepatakicenter.com . It's also the last weekend you can get into state parks for free. After April 1st you will have to pay for weekend visits

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0:00.0

well bernardette castro of course one of our favorite guests she is a big name in the private sector

0:06.4

the public sector served in the pataki administration uh and uh always love having her on bernad castro

0:12.4

how you doing i'm doing great mark how are you doing very good how your ex boss yes your ex boss

0:20.8

i love my ex boss let me tell you something about george

0:22.9

pati you know yeah i just want to say people but let me just say people are i all want to help

0:29.6

ukraine they want to donate the one you got to be very careful where you donate to because

0:33.5

there's a lot of questionable places collecting money out but the best way you can donate is George Pataki's group.

0:40.3

And tell us what he's doing with Ukraine.

0:43.1

Yeah, you know, the governor and I share a heritage with Hungary.

0:47.1

Okay, his father was Hungarian.

0:49.4

So he took a trip over to Hungary recently and Ukraine,

0:53.4

which his youngest son Owen, who, by the way,

0:57.8

was a lieutenant in the 10th Mountain Division in Afghanistan, an amazing soldier.

1:03.1

So they went over to Hungary, and the governor is raising money through his Leadership Center website,

1:14.6

the Taki Leadership Center for a specific Ukrainian refugee camp in Hungary.

1:17.7

And the beautiful thing when you donate to this, the governor's leadership center, is you

1:24.0

know exactly where the money is going.

1:26.5

300,000 refugees headed to Hungary.

1:30.1

Okay, they can't handle it. This refugee camp doesn't have supplies, doesn't have food.

1:36.3

And the governor's targeting the fundraising he's doing to this specific refugee camp, which is great.

1:43.3

And, you know, my grandfather was Hungarian. In fact, in the 50s,

1:47.5

my mother, I was a little girl, she took in a Hungarian refugee family. Decades later,

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