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now back to the mark simone show on w o r hey let's take some calls let's go to uh mike st james out in long

island mike how you doing hello mark fine thank you uh

i love that you know st james is a beautiful place in a what a name for a town i'm from st

james i used to live in st alman's now i live in but then you meet you meet somebody from st james

and they go how are you it doesn't fit the name but go not you are but go ahead do you remember mayor beam

a beam yeah when he was having financial troubles yeah the city was in default paid back the bank

loans and they declared a new bond program big max municipal, municipal assistance, corporation, high interest bonds,

bought by the public, paid back and solved the problem.

Yeah, no, that's a good point.

You know, when the city was in financial crisis, about to go bankrupt, what you're supposed

to do, the mayor and others, they turn to the great business minds the

great financial geniuses Felix royattan and others Rockefeller got involved but you know

you're in the middle of New York you've got the greatest financial geniuses in the world

that work here that can save anything save corporations save you turn to them turn to them, you go see them, call them and they'll help you. They'll help you. You know, you call all of our top financial minds that live right here in New York, they will be happy, they'll come right down to City Hall and meet with you. They will help you. But if you're Mom Donnie and you're an angry little socialist, you don't know how to do that. Even when it comes to police stuff, if you called the greatest police geniuses in the world, you've called Ray Kelly, I guarantee you would he be happy to help you? That's the kind of people there. I think of our great police leaders. But if you call them and said, hey, could you come down? Could you consult us, help? Yeah, I'd be happy to. You've got access to all this genius, and they're so bitter and nasty, these crazy left-wingers. They could never do it. Let's go to Carissa in Queens. How you doing? Okay. How are you, Mark? I'm good. Good.

It's been a while since I talked to you,

but I don't know if you remember,

but when Mandami was running,

the first thing I said was that this was going to be a total disaster.

Really?

Everybody thought he was going to be wonderful.

You knew he'd be bad, huh?

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