PREVIEW: #NYC: #MTA: Excerpt from a conversation with colleague Harry Siegel of The City re why Governor Kathy Hochul of New York has deployed National Guards units carrying long guns to some parts of the New York City subway system. More later tonigh
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 8 March 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. This is John Bachelor, conversation with my colleague Harry Seagull, a senior editor at the City, an online journal for New York City, |
| 0:26.0 | as well as the columnist for the New York Daily News, commenting on a decision by the Governor of New York, Kathy Hochel, to deploy National Guard with long |
| 0:37.0 | guns in some of the subway stations of some parts of the Metropolitan Transit Authority, the |
| 0:46.3 | MTA of New York, the subways. Why and how this happened is the subject of Harry's analysis. And herein he |
| 0:56.6 | puzzles about the politics of this, about why it came to pass, without the request by the mayor, without requests that we can find anywhere. |
| 1:07.0 | Harry Siegel, the city, an online journal, he's a senior editor as well as a columnist |
| 1:11.8 | at the New York Daily News on the |
| 1:14.9 | governor of New York dispatching long gun carrying National Guard to the |
| 1:20.2 | subways on the basis of question mark. |
| 1:23.4 | John, it's a little baffling to me. |
| 1:25.8 | She won a much closer than she wanted |
| 1:29.2 | or many people anticipated election campaign |
| 1:32.4 | against Lee |
| 1:33.1 | Zelda and a Trumpy former congressman who ran on a New York city is |
| 1:38.6 | out of control. |
| 1:40.0 | So maybe this is a way of addressing all that. |
| 1:43.0 | That's what I'd assume, but it's remarkably clumsy. |
| 1:47.6 | And of course, New York City is not only |
| 1:50.0 | the economic engine of the state, |
| 1:52.1 | but where so many of its Democrats are. |
| 1:54.8 | I just, even if New Yorkers feel like they want more public safety and would like more police |
| 2:02.4 | bringing in the military not for any particular function but |
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