Mark interviews Republican candidate for Governor of New York, Bruce Blakeman.

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🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Bruce provides an update on how his campaign is progressing and has vowed that at 12:01 AM on his first day in office. He will pardon NYPD’s “Cooler Cop,” Erik Duran. Bruce is fighting for his matching campaign funds, which he believes he is entitled to, and views the opposition as a Democratic effort to undermine his campaign. Mark and Bruce discuss the challenges of negotiating the cost of daily expenses in Albany. The conversation also touches on whether debates between Governor Hochul and Bruce Blakeman are on the horizon.

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0:00.0	give w o r a preset on the ihard radio app to hear mark simone and all the w o r hosts in an instant now back to the mark simone show on w o r
0:12.9	bruce blakman running for governor he's the nassau county executive county executive is like a governor's job it's
0:20.2	basically the same thing,
0:21.4	and he's proven to be the best county executive in America. Everybody who knows what they're
0:27.5	doing wants him to be governor. He'd be the best governor we could have right now, Bruce Blakeman.
0:32.8	And you've got to help him out. Go to Blakeman for New York.com com i know you're supporting him but you got to uh help out
0:39.3	donate volunteer go to blakeman for new york dot com blakeman for new york dot com bruce blakeman
0:46.8	how you doing i'm doing great mark and thank you for your support you're a dear friend friend. You are an amazing personality, and I just value our friendship.
1:00.1	Thank you so much.
1:01.4	We're doing great.
1:02.4	I just had a press conference where I indicated that on day one as governor,
1:08.7	I will pardon Sergeant Duran.
1:11.7	He was doing his job.
1:13.2	It was a gross miscarriage of justice to convict him.
1:16.9	And to put a sentence of three to nine years on an NYPD veteran who was just doing his job,
1:23.3	he's got three children.
1:24.7	I think it's just a disgrace.
1:26.8	It's the air of criminality that now exists in New York State under Kathy Hochland, Zoran
1:32.4	Mandami.
1:33.2	That ends on day one when I become governor.
1:35.8	Yeah, Duran is the cop who threw the cooler.
1:39.1	It was a split-second decision.
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