Here's more of the Mark Simone show on WOR.

Well, hey, we'll get to Bruce Springsteen.

Whether you hear this new masterpiece.

We'll get to Jimmy Phala.

He'll be with us a little later this hour.

So, Mom Dani, you know, he's like 12 years old.

Never had a job before.

He gets elected mayor.

And it's his first week.

He gets a major snowstorm.

And he gets a budget crisis where we're going to have a gap of like $12 billion that has to be made up.

Here's a guy who never had a job.

No financial experience of any kind. now he's got to do uh uh all kinds of

emergency things to fill this budget cap now a businessman looking at this would say well obviously

you're overspending your city one city and you got a budget of 120 billion that's more than the budget of most states. So you've got

to make cuts. You got to cut. But, you know, he doesn't know that. He thinks he has to increase

taxes. Now, he's blaming it on everybody else. He's blaming it on Adams. In 2025, under the

banner of what he called the best budget ever, former Mayor Eric Adams handed the next administration

a poisoned chalice. He systematically under budgeted services that New Yorkers rely on every

single day, rental assistance, shelter, and special education, while quietly leaving behind

enormous gaps for the future. And knowing his time in office was likely coming to an end, Mayor Adams chose political

self-preservation over fiscal responsibility.

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