Interview Highlights – “Mike Bloomberg was a very effective Mayor…people of this city found him to be accountable, responsible…after 12 years in office, he left the city as strong as ever…he has a calling to see this country move in the right direction.” – On the chances of an independent presidential bid of Mike Bloomberg having success: “This is such […]
Interview Highlights – The President needs to realize that “climate change is not the number one threat to our country but terrorist attacks from oversees and from within our own nation is.” – The President has “never had a plan to attack terrorists within our country and never came up with a strategy to defeat ISIS.” About Congressman Daniel Donovan Congressman Daniel […]
Interview Highlights – “This particular (NYC) budget is not too bad…but we’re still suffering from the first budget de Blasio did two years ago…he awarded the city work force these huge pay raises without asking for enough savings in return. We have to pay for those every single tear. We’ll pay $3.5 billion more in wages for the city workers […]
Interview Highlights – Speaks about her role as CEO & President of WIN (formerly Women In Need). – “We are the largest provider of shelters and supportive housing to homeless families in NYC…families are the forgotten face of homelessness in NYC.” – “80% of people in shelters right now in NYC are families…20% of people in shelters are under five […]
Interview Highlights – “All the water around NYC is too salty to drink, so for over 200 years NYC has been thinking about how to get clean drinking water and what we settled on was 19 reservoirs upstate, many of them west of the Hudson.” – “We test the water from top to bottom. We test it when it comes […]
Interview Highlights – “The relationship with Paul (Ryan) is entirely different than it was with Speaker Boehner. I don’t think Speaker Boehner ever understood the Tea Party movement, I don’t think he really understood what really happened in 2010, and I don’t think he understood that there was this whole wave of members in Congress who are very different than they […]
Interview Highlights – “I support Hillary. I actually think that she’ll be a tremendous President and has the experience for exactly what the country needs at the moment.” – “The Republican party has become the party of the disenchanted, of rural America, of white lower, middle class America, the evangelical community that is outside the American economic and cultural mainstream.” […]
Interview Highlights – “Our league has never been stronger in terms of where our franchises are, who owns them, and what the fan support is. We continue to set records each year for attendance and for revenues.” – “The game we play is the best its ever been…we have incredible competitive balance, probably the best competitive balance in professional sports…the future […]
Interview Highlights – “It’s an important issue (ethanol) out here. “I don’t think it’s an issue that will sink or allow one candidate to rise necessarily, but, I mean, it is a factor. If Senator Cruz wants to explain his opinion (opposition to ethanol), and I know he has an explanation for that, he can take it right to the people out […]
Interview Highlights – “People talk about the problems in the Republican Party, but I think Democrats have a bigger problem. Hillary Clinton is cratering, the scandals just keep coming. She has grave legal issues that could totally prevent her from continuing her campaign, and the alternative is a self-avowed socialist who has never run anything.” – Can see an “outsider jump into […]
Interview Highlights – “I think that Donald Trump really scored big time on the shot, which was well thought out. He (Cruz) and his people obviously said, you know, we’ll try to tie the liberal New York around Donald Trump’s neck and use that to diminish his conservative credentials, and of course it backfired.” – I think Trump did extraordinarily […]
Interview Highlights – “I think Senator Cruz is right that ‘natural-born’ as understood would more likely than not be held to mean someone that didn’t need to be naturalized, didn’t have to go through any procedure to be an American, as of course he did not because he had an American mother.” – “I’ll tell you what I think they […]
Interview Highlights – “I’m a Democrat, but Donald Trump did a very good job defending New York.” – “I’d like Ted Cruz to go talk about New York values to the firefighters who rushed to the towers on 9/11, and the police and EMTs, to the brave New York police officers who keep our streets safe.” – “I think (Cruz) […]
Interview Highlights – “There’s no reason any New Yorker should be helping him (Ted Cruz) with money so he can insult us…It’s disgusting for anyone to attack New York City for their own political gain.” – “He (Ted Cruz) is very happy to come here and raise money. He’ll take New York’s money. He’ll take big loans from Goldman Sachs […]
Interview Highlights – Speaks about the impact of red wine on the heart and how alterations in energy metabolism contribute to heart diseases. About Dr. Jason Dyck Dr. Jason Dyck is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and the Director of the Jason Dyck Cardiovascular Research Centre at the University of Alberta. He is also the co-director of the Alberta […]
Interview Highlights – Speaks about the Jack Kemp Foundation and his father’s legacy. – The mission of the Jack Kemp Foundation is “advancing the universal values of the American Ideas of growth, freedom, democracy and hope. Each of their programs is intended to foster the spirit of leadership that Jack Kemp demonstrated, expand the impact of powerful ideas on public […]
Interview Highlights – Speaks about Queens issues and her priorities as Queen Borough President. About Melinda Katz Melinda Katz was elected on November 5th, 2013 to serve as the 19th Queens Borough President. Melinda represented a portion of Queens as a City Council Member from 2002 to 2009. Prior to being elected to the Council, Melinda served as Director of Community […]
Interview Highlights – “I just don’t think I could take another day asking another donor for another dollar. Fundraising is just a relentless regimen.” – We need to “reform campaign finance that in so many respects, I think, stacks the deck against those everyday Americans.” – “I may endorse (someone to succeed) at some point, but right now I just want to see how […]
Interview Highlights – Speaks about the building boom that is re-shaping New York City’s skyline. About Richard Anderson Richard Anderson is the president of the New York Building Congress, which represents professionals in the construction industry, including laborers, contractors, architects, engineers and developers. He has been running the nonprofit association since 1994 and before that served as the president of the […]
About Ed Mullins Ed Mullins, President Sergeants Benevolent Association.com, has been a member of the New mullinsYork City Police Department since January 1982. On July 1, 2002, he was elected President of the Sergeants Benevolent Association by an overwhelming majority of its members. As President of the SBA, one of New York City’s most visible labor unions, and one of the […]
About Norman Siegel Norman Siegel was the director of the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), New York’s leading civil rights organization, under the umbrella of the nationwide American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Siegel served as director from 1985 until 2000. Since ending his work at the NYCLU, Siegel entered private practice. Siegel Teitelbaum & Evans, LLP. The firm handles a […]
About Senator Jeffrey Klein Senator Jeffrey Klein is a New York State Senator representing parts of Bronx and Westchester Counties. He was elected to his first term in the Senate in 2004. Though he is a member of the Democratic Party, he caucuses with a small group of Senators, few in number but who can sway a vote in the closely divided […]
About Arthur Laffer Arthur Laffer is an American economist who first gained prominence during the Reagan administration as a member of Reagan’s Economic Policy Advisory Board (1981–89). Laffer is best known for the Laffer curve.com, an illustration of the theory that there exists some tax rate between 0% and 100% that will result in maximum tax revenue for governments. Laffer played […]
About Governor Bobby Jindal Governor Bobby Jindal was the Governor of Louisiana and a former Republican candidate for President in 2016. Today is the last day of his administration Sunday 10, 2016. https://www.businessreport.com/politics/gov-bobby-jindal-lies-ahead In his first job in public service, at 25 becoming the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. His deft handling of the very difficult hurricane Katrina disaster earned him widespread […]
About Dr. Bruce Banerdt Dr. Bruce Banerdt, Principal NASA investigator for project InSight. InSight’s Mission is to place a single geophysical lander on Mars equipped with science instrumentation to study its deep interior. Launch in 2016. Banerdt spent the last 20 years working to put a seismometer on Mars; seismology is the “gold standard” for investigations on Earth, he says. In […]
About Diego Rodriguez Diego Rodriguez – Assistant Director in Charge New York Field Office. As leader of the Bureau’s largest field office, Mr. Rodriguez oversees all operations and personnel in the five boroughs of New York City, eight counties in New York state, and La Guardia Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport. He most recently served as special agent in […]
About Ambassador Patrick Theros Ambassador Patrick Theros was a career Foreign Service Officer from 1963 to 1999. Key positions he held in the Foreign Service include Ambassador to the State of Qatar, 1995–1998; Deputy Coordinator for Counterterrorism, responsible for the coordination of all U.S. Government counter-terrorism activities outside the United States, 1993–1995; Chargé d’affaires and Deputy Chief of Mission in Abu […]
About Tom Mueller Tom Mueller is a free-lance writer of non-fiction and fiction. Educated at Oxford Rhodes Scholar, and Harvard. He has lived or worked in 48 countries. His first book, “Extra Virginity”.com, is a New York Times best-selling account of olive oil culture, history, and crime. He lives in a small village in northwest Italy, near the French border, with my wife […]
About Congressman Peter King Congressman Peter King, a Republican, is serving his twelfth term in the U.S. House of Representatives, last reelected with 68.5% of the vote – – the highest margin of any Congressional candidate on Long Island. Congressman King is a leading authority on terrorism. Congressman King is a member of the Homeland Security Committee and Chairman of the […]
