Interview Highlights – “You know, 30 years ago there was a movement started by someone (Ronald Reagan) who establishment Republicans were opposed to. Well let me tell you, I think Trump has got a movement that’s picking up steam, and once a movement picks up that kind of steam, pretty hard to stop.” – “He demonstrated that he’s not going […]
Interview Highlights – “ISIS has had some setbacks in Iraq and Syria, no doubt about it, but it’s still consolidating its control over that territory, it’s gained new adherents across Libya and North Africa and more adherents around the world. We’ve seen the consequences in the attacks in Paris and the attack in San Bernardino, and I think every prospect […]
Interview Highlights – “The Employees Rights Act (which has over 100 co-sponsors in Congress) changes the law that was passed in 1947, known as the Taft-Hartley Act, to give employees a 21st Century set of rules concerning employees and unionization. – The Employee Rights Act contains 8 provisions giving employees more rights, including guaranteed secret ballots and the ability to […]
Interview Highlights – Speaks about the race for the White House and the party primaries. About Robert M. Shrum Robert M. Shrum is a political consultant, who has worked on numerous Democratic campaigns, including the presidential campaigns of Al Gore and John Kerry Shrum wrote the famous speech Ted Kennedy gave at the 1980 Democratic National Convention conceding to and supporting […]
Interview Highlights – ”When snow hits you have eight and a half million customers, and their expectations are very high so I have a new respect for the department in terms of how we mobilize all our forces and get out there to fight snow because the expectations are pretty incredible.” – On winter storm Jonas: It was “a very […]
Interview Highlights – “Overall, this month, January, we had a great month. I’m pretty confident…January was probably the safest month we ever had. That’s good news for New Yorkers.” – Will deploy “more resources…to increase the public confidence” in the wake of six subway slashings this month…New Yorkers have a right to be alarmed or concerned — particularly those riding […]
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 […]
