Mark Simone on 710 W.O.R.

Hey, Jake Blumencrance, very popular assemblyman, state assembly.

He's from Oyster Bay.

He might have seen a lot of him on television and everywhere lately.

Served with Mom Tani, can give us some insight into that whole phenomenon.

And he's with us right now.

Jake Blumencrans, how you doing?

Good. Thank you for having me on. Hey, also, you're a young guy. How old are you?

I am 29. 29, and you're in the State Assembly. Momdani is 34. We're seeing more and more of this.

What is this new phenomenon of all these very young public servants?

Look, I think when you see issues go unaddressed by establishment candidates on either side of the aisles

as a young person, you've got to step in and you've got to say, this isn't right. We have solutions.

We have answers. And in reality, my answers and Mayor-elect Mondami's answers are different, but I think that

the sentiment that things need to change is the same.

Yeah, but we're used to these Sheldon Silver, Chuck Schumer, old men with the glasses all fogged

up kind of people in the government, but it's good, so it's good to see.

Hey, tell us about Mamdani. You served with Mom Donnie. What did you think of him back then? I do. He's been an assemblyman with me since I started. Interesting character. I think what I'd say to anyone who asked me that question is he means what he says, and he says what he means. He's an ideological guy, and he believes a lot of the rhetoric that he espouses,

and unfortunate as a Jewish legislator to see someone like him rise so prominently, because he

introduced legislation like Not on Maidan, which would effectively empower the AG's office

to hurt Jewish charities and not-for-profits for supporting Israel, among many other

very dangerous pieces of legislation.

So in a new place of power, we're going to have to see what he's going to do.

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