This is the Mark Simone Show.

Mr. New York.

On 710 W.O.R.

Well, Rob Astorino, great broadcaster.

Also, he has spent a lot of time in government.

He was the Westchester County Executive, so he knows the inside of all of that stuff.

Rob Astorino, how you doing?

I've been in the underbelly of government, Mark, and it smells. It's not good either.

Hey, this congestion pricing. Everybody jumped the turnstiles, so there's less revenue, and they try to make it up by charging people to come in.

You know the suburbs better than anybody. What are suburbanites going to do about coming into New York?

Oh, they're pissed about that. And, you know, Richard Ravich, who just died and does deserve a lot of accolades that he's received because he kind of stood up to everyone, the unions and the crazies on the left and those that just wanted more and more and more money. But he said, first, we've got to reorganize things.

And they were able to do that.

But since then, the MTA has completely gone off the rails.

And, you know, I've seen it because I, as County Executive, Westchester County Executive,

has one full voting member of the MTA, as do some of the other counties outside of New York City.

And so, you know, we would get reports or we would be able to vote on issues.

And I can tell you that we were never able to get a complete audit or understanding of where all this money is going.

And that's the problem I have.

I'm all for fixing something that

is broken but not throwing good money after bad constantly and if you look at where the money is

being eaten up it's by the unions and so this is just more money coming out of suburban pockets to

feed the beast and not fix the problem because you know what's

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