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The Mark Simone Show

Mark interviews Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman.

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

News

4.3695 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Bruce provides an update on his campaign. He also emphasizes his commitment to lowering taxes and electric bills and criticizes Zohran Mamdani and Governor Kathy Hochul for raising taxes. Governor Hochul’s restrictions on purchasing gas from certain areas are causing difficulties for many New Yorkers. Bruce discusses his actions as Nassau County Executive to remove violent migrants with ICE. He also addresses how driving billionaires out of certain cities can impact tax rates and job creation.

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0:00.0

Mr. New York.

0:22.2

Mark Simone on W.O.R. Well, Bruce Blakman, the best county executive in America. That's really being a governor of a county, and he would be the best governor for New York. He's running against Kathy Hochle. He's going to win. He'll be the next governor in New York. But he needs your help. Very important. You go to blakeman for New York.com.

0:22.9

You can donate.

0:24.0

You can volunteer.

0:25.0

But do what you can.

0:27.1

Go to blakeman for New York.

0:28.6

com.

0:30.3

Bruce Blakman, how you doing?

0:33.0

We're doing great, Mark.

0:36.6

We've had a very, very great couple of weeks. We're building tremendous momentum.

0:39.2

We are going to win because people throughout New York are miserable under Kathy Hockel.

0:45.8

We have the highest taxes.

0:48.3

Our utility rates are 70% higher than the national average, all directly attributable to Kathy Hockel.

0:55.9

We are at the bottom of economic development.

0:59.4

We're 41 out of 50 states, Mark.

1:01.5

Can you imagine the once great Empire State is 41 out of 50 states in economic development?

1:09.4

We've got to create jobs for our young people, good-paying jobs with good benefits. We've got to create jobs for our young people, good paying jobs with good benefits.

1:13.8

We've got to get the economy going.

1:16.3

That's how you make it more affordable.

1:18.5

You've got to cut utility rates, cut taxes, put more money in people's pockets,

1:22.9

and they'll spend it the way they want to spend it, not the way government tells them to spend it.

1:26.7

And we've got to stop spending all this money, billions of dollars on illegal migrants

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