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the southern tier and western portion of New York State. And Lewis County does not have many Amish people. It has three separate conferences, they're called, or congregations, you and I might call it. It does, however, have the oldest Amish community in New York State. And it was one of these dear people's little babies who passed away. And that tragic loss is that baby's particular case had nothing whatsoever to do with the policies of Washington. And this little baby contracted measles before it was old enough for the vaccine. Now, from a health and medical standpoint, yes, if this baby had been in a community where people were vaccinated, if it had lived three miles that way outside the Amish community in the larger Lewis County community, The people around it, the little child, would not have been able to transmit the measles because they would be vaccinated. Yes, a lack of vaccination was undeniably a factor in this tragic turn of events, but that had nothing to do with Trump. Anyway, I'll shut my mouth. One other issue that arises from this is that New York, under Governor Hochul, is pushing the Amish hard. They have schools. We've talked about this. They have schools that they run, and their kids go there. And they're typically one-room schools. And if you know, as you drive through an Amish community, what they might look like, you can find them pretty easily. They take their kids, and their kids aren't vaccinated. New York says if you go to a school, whatever kind of school, public, private, whatever, you must be vaccinated. No religious exemptions. and the Amish are trying to fight to have that mandate taken off them. That case will probably go to the United States Supreme Court. If the Amish do not prevail there, if a religious exemption is not granted for these people or these vaccines, then the Amish will leave New York, right? But forcing people out of New York, to be honest with you, seems to be the policy of you know, this administration and prior Democratic administrations. So that's enough on that. It was a heartbreak, and we have it pointed to again as, yes, we have to extend the disaster emergency for a very localized problem within very select communities. And I'd also like to point out that in the counties and communities around these Amish communities, there has not, that we've seen, been spread of measles. I'm not trying to be flip or cavalier about this. I just want to point out that in the non-Amish population of our region, we have good measles vaccination rates, as we should, often 85% to 90% when you exclude the Amish folks. And that does, again, miraculous protection for us. This is in no way an argument against vaccines. It's just an argument for stop using scare tactics and stop using deception and to try to advance your public health agenda. We learned in COVID that that doesn't work, and it destroys confidence in public health folks. Linda, I appreciate you calling up, holding on. Welcome to NewsRadio WHAM 1180.

00:07:29 Speaker 2: Hi there. Yes, Bob, I listen to your show all the time. Thank you. I've been wondering since voting day what is going on with those big orange bags and those ballots that wouldn't fit in the machines. and how Kathy Hochul could claim her, her. 00:07:53 Speaker 1: Victory. Victory. 00:07:54 Speaker 2: That's what I'm trying to say. Sure. How she could claim her victory, you know, so fast if they took all those out of there and they all had to be hand counted, the paper ballots. 00:08:05 Speaker 1: Yeah. Thank you for the kind call, ma'am. She's speaking about Westchester County where the board, here's the thing, not trying to be a jerk, And we've talked about boards of elections, but over the last handful of years, every time there's an election that comes around, somewhere there's one or two counties in this state where the board of elections just make a mistake based in incompetence. And in this situation in Westchester County, as they had their ballots printed, they did not have the– And I don't know if I'm using the right word. I didn't watch quite enough of The Office. I'm not an advanced under Mifflin sales representative. But paper has a weight and other characteristics. And in a contract to purchase paper or to have printing done, you will specify the stock upon which it is to be printed. And that may include the weight of the paper. Some paper, you know how it is. You're standing at the copier. It's like flimsy. And other paper is thicker. And of course, you know, they're, they're, they're thicknesses. The, um, uh, machines that count the ballots are designed to accept paper up to a certain thickness or weight. Um, in Westchester County, the best explanation we have is that as the County bought its ballots, um, it didn't appropriately supervise or specify with the contractor, the paper upon which it was to be printed. And, um, You know, they got the expensive paper, they got the thicker paper, and it literally wouldn't work in the scanner. I have a daughter. She and her family live in Westchester County, and the ballot, as she described it, was palpably thicker. You could say, well, this is interesting. But those votes were counted. They were hand-processed that night. And here's the deal. You could take Westchester County completely out of the election. I mean, you could say that Westchester County doesn't exist. and Kathy Hochul still would have won. She won Westchester County decisively. Again, it was a 20-point margin. It was really one of the biggest blowouts we've had in a gubernatorial election. We'll take a break, be back with you in a moment. It's Open Lines Friday. This is NewsRadio WHAM 1180. The Syracuse Orange, the Indiana Hoosiers, Monday night at 6 on NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Dental implants was a little change which was made by our Democrat friends up in Albany, which had an effect and a consequence all across this state and will into the future. Town supervisor races, for example, and some other prominent

local races have traditionally been held in odd-numbered years, right? So like town board, town supervisor, stuff like that. And, you know, what that did, I think county executive, what that did was it, you know, took those elections out of the shadow of like Congress elections and governor elections and presidential elections. And it allowed them to stand alone and their issues to stand alone. Well, that was the argument for odd-numbered years. Well, Democrats in Albany came up a few years back and said, hold it, this wastes money. Why don't we just have all of our elections in the even-numbered years and we won't have to pay election inspectors as often and everything will be great? Well, what that also does is one of the dynamics has been that in odd-numbered years, not very many Democrats come out. in even-numbered years, Democrats, driven by often a governor's race or a presidential race, will come out. And so Democrat turnout far higher in even-numbered years, Republican turnout kind of at its peak in odd-numbered years with diminished Democrat turnout. So when the Democrats moved all elections to even numbered years, what it did was, is it changed the dynamic of those elections. And this last Tuesday, all across New York, you had a whole bunch of towns switching from Republican to Democrat. And maybe, you know, some of that was the, you know, the big blue tsunami or whatever, the anti-Trump vote. But, A lot of it was that all of a sudden you had town races at the same time you had Congress races. And with higher Democrat turnout, you had folks voting straight tickets. And there was a big coattails effect that came to local towns. Now, Monroe County, this was far less noticeable than in years past. It probably was the determining factor. in moving gates from Republican, which had been for 70 years, to Democrat. But in other counties where the blue wave last year wasn't so strong, there have been dozens of supervisor races across the state, which just last year went kind of hard Republican-ish. that this year went a hard Democrat. And again, some of that, no doubt, is the whole we hate Trump thing. But others of it was that this effort by the Democrats to move elections to when their people tend to come out proved to be successful. That will have the effect, as it did on Tuesday night, of taking a lot of local races, town supervisor races, and pushing them into the Democrat category has happened, like I said, in dozens of places this week all across New York State. Let's stop. Let's get news from Joe Lasky. After that, I'll beg calls and stuff like that on NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Some answered the call. Hello? And wore the uniform. This Veterans Day, honor and welcome them home. Again, NewsRadio WHAM 1180. Correct! on Wednesday after the election, it was like happy, happy, joy, joy. And we went over the rationale. It seemed like investors thought that some kind of gridlock, wherein President Trump kept the Democrats on a short leash and the Democrats kept President Trump on a short leash, it seemed like that was reassuring to people. And so on Wednesday, like I said, happy, happy, joy, joy. And then I think by yesterday, some folks had read the fine print and thought through things. For example, you have just elected to a position of extraordinary power a party that is dead set against artificial intelligence. Data centers is just the fancy way to say artificial intelligence. Data centers is where artificial intelligence is made, if you will. And so the stock market has put hella money into artificial intelligence for quite some time. That has been a big driver. And yesterday, people realized, holy crap, artificial intelligence is, you know, by hook or by crook, going to be dramatically, you know, handicapped over the next couple years, at least. And so people moved rather powerfully to get out of artificial intelligence and all the ancillary businesses associated with it, many of the chip makers and such like that, providers of electricity, they all got hosed and hosed royal. Some $ 3 trillion in value were lost yesterday in the stock market. Now, there's been a phenomenon since the start of the war against Iran, and that is that somebody will say something positive oh, we almost got a peace deal, and the stock market will shoot way up, okay? And then the next day, somebody will fire a missile at a ship in the Strait of Hormuz, and the stock market will go way down. If you look at the graph, you know, of the up and the down since February when we attacked Iran, it is outstanding, I mean, not outstanding, but it is stunning the volatility of the stock market. And that makes some of these people nervous because each of those ups and downs, there are some people who are losing their shirts on deals like that. Yesterday, folks lost a lot more than their shirts. We'll see what today brings. There's another phenomenon of Tuesday night's results that really hasn't been talked about much. It's interesting, the freak job Democrats get the attention, by which I mean the socialists, the folks who are really Islamist, the folks who have very unusual personality profiles, if you will. And these folks all tend to be the most progressive of the Democrats. As you look across the country, and here's the thing, There is an exception to what I'm about to say, and that exception is New York State, unfortunately. But as you look everywhere else across the country, on Tuesday, yes, Democrats won, top to bottom. However, there were two different types of Democrats, and you could pick out those Democrats by their vote totals. The more extreme Democrats won. who were socialists or Islamists or had very unique or distinctive woke personalities, those people just barely won. Moderate Democrats, who as a number were significantly the largest share, moderate Democrats won big, right? It was a Democrat sweep, but it wasn't across the board, we all love Democrats. There was discernment about the type of

Democrat. The big blue wave, if you will, it did push the, you know, very distinctive, progressive Democrats across the line, but often just barely. The people's preference clearly was for the moderate Democrats. So in that argument about the fight between the progressives and the moderates in the Democratic Party, from the voters' standpoint, clearly people preferred moderates. However, that doesn't mean that the moderates will win. out in the fight for controlling the direction of the party. It's a funny thing about revolutions. If you look at the Russian Revolution that gave rise to the Soviet Union, if you look at the Islamic Revolution, you look at the French Revolution, if you look at the Chinese Revolution under Mao Zedong, each one of them starts as a large coalition. And there will be some extremists who will be on the periphery. And in each one of those revolutions, it is the extremists who use the coalition to create a situation of power. And then the extremists take over the coalition, typically in a very savage fashion, right? And all the allies and all the helpers and all the other members of the coalition who aren't the extremists, well, in those examples I've given, they ended up dead, okay? I'm not saying that'll happen here, but the phenomenon of revolution is that you can't pull it off with the extremists on the edge. There aren't enough of them. They use, consciously or unconsciously, allies, fellow travelers, people who are kind of in the revolution. And those numbers are take the whole operation to victory. And then the extreme folks on the edge, they set about viciously, typically taking over the whole movement. Another example of that, to a lesser degree, was Adolf Hitler. So a large bunch of mostly moderate Democrats were very, very successful on Tuesday. How that manifests itself in terms of the control of Congress and And how that Congress acts over the next couple of years and more, that remains to be seen. Here's one indicator. It's interesting. Chuck Schumer worked hard to get the Abdul Al-Sayed, or now as he's gone by, Abdul Rahman Muhammad Al-Sayed, whatever. Schumer pushed hard for him. In fact, Schumer, in charge of the big Senate effort, with Gillibrand helping him, Schumer dedicated $ 30 million to the Abdul campaign. And now asked, Abdul is by reporters, if he'll support Schumer to be the majority leader of Senate Democrats. Abdul's not so sure. He says, yeah, I don't know. And Schumer is all shocked and everything. And you just want to go, Chuck, do you understand the premise of the Arab-Israeli war? Do you know what that's about, buddy? And, you know, Abdul appreciates the help. Now get the hell out of the way is what he's saying. And, you know, whether issues of faith are involved in that or not, I guess we're not allowed to ask. So at any rate, it will be interesting to see in coming days what if Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries remain the leaders of their parties in their respective houses. I believe Hakeem Jeffries absolutely has earned the right to be Speaker of the House. Chuck Schumer I'm not a Democrat. I'm not a senator. I don't have a say. But if people were to say, hey, we're tired of Chuck Schumer, I could kind of see where they're coming from. You know what I'm saying? No, I see where they're coming from. Take a break. Back in a moment. 222-1180, our number. This is NewsRadio WHAM 1180. This is where we are today. This is a very dangerous and an interesting time where people need to come together. 00:23:42 Speaker 2: And this is. 00:23:42 Speaker 1: This is where we talk about it. Realize what unites us rather than what makes us divided. Use radio. Wham! 00:23:49 Speaker 2: 1180. 00:23:49 Speaker 1: You've heard those ads. A brand new bathroom in just one day. Sounds great until the shortcuts show up. Rushed work, corners cut, and homo. Um, I'm about to sound like a jerk. Which, you know, not to boast, but we track these things. Obviously, these metrics are very important to our corporate bosses. Um, I'm about to be a jerk. In my defense, I have not been a jerk in almost 20 minutes. So it's kind of getting close to a personal record for me. I am so grateful that the town of Parenton is opening a new food cupboard, right? And I'm very grateful that Henrietta is opening a Goodwill store, the biggest one in the Rochester region. And I recognize that these two events are not connected and that they are anecdotal and therefore not reliably representative of the region's economy or anything else. But when your economic development news is we have a new food cupboard and a thrift store, Again, I appreciate and love and support the people behind these efforts, and I know that they will accomplish much good. But I'm stuck in the old days where I wish we'd open a factory. You know what I'm saying? And I wish that the factory opened here without some vast outlay of taxpayer money. And another thing, too, about economic development, I can't remember– who it was, it might have been poor Harry Bronson. I crapped on him the other day on social media. And he's, again, posting a very nice thing about a new business that is opening in the South Wedge, you know, in his district. And that's tremendous, right? But I think that this business had moved in from Fairport and it had been moved, its new facility prepared with money from COMETA, the County Monroe Industrial Development Agency. So, In the name of economic development for Monroe County, taxpayer dollars were used to move a company from Fairport to the south wedge of the city of Rochester, and that was celebrated as economic development. And, you know, I don't think that's development, okay? I think, you know, shuffling the chairs on the deck of the Titanic was not, you know, I mean, and again, I wish that company nothing but the best. And I recognize that politicians like Harry Bronson or anybody else, they can't control. They can't say, I demand a factory now. And it magically appears. I know

that's not the way it works. And I know that this is, you know, but it would be good if economic development actually was economic development, right? As opposed to another nonprofit or more shuffling of the deck chairs with no criticism intended towards nonprofits or to the deck chairs, right? And why do we not have more economic development? Not to be a broken record, but we have the same problem because we make the same poor decisions. And the poor decisions are made overwhelmingly at our state capital. And they involve taxes and regulations. And, you know, I'm glad we had an election. I'm glad everybody's happy. That's wonderful. But before the election, we had the worst business climate in America, in New York State. And after the election, we still have the worst business climate in New York State. And it is that fact, which means that a new thrift store and a new food cupboard are our economic development news. And again, not throwing any shade at those operations, which are good and noble things. But at the end of the day, what we need are jobs people can go to. Not new welfare checks. Not some government, you know, waste your time, waste your money thing. Not some, oh, we're giving back to the community. We need a mother frigging job, right? At some plant or some office someplace with time cards. And benefits. And you know what? What the hell? Let's get high and pretend there's a pension, okay? And you get a vacation. Anyway, I'll shut my mouth. But the thrift store, I guarantee, will be visited by Lonsbury children at the first opportunity. They are all thrifters of the first rank. And I am grateful that there are people who otherwise would be hungry who will now be filled and served by the wonderful people at the food cupboard. Um, but, um, if they open a factory around here, that would be an outstanding, outstanding, uh, thing. Jobs creation, uh, across the country and these numbers, economic development that come out every month, uh, they, they cross your eyes and how much you can depend on them, them or not. I don't know. Last month, supposedly there was a small number of jobs created, um, And so the number of jobs expected to be created this month was similarly small. In fact, economists, whoever they are, thought there'd be 59,000 jobs created in the country this last month. It turned out to be 165,000 instead of 59,000, 165,000. And here's the thing that makes these numbers maybe a little more believable. They were released a few days after the election, not before. So these weren't cooked up to try to influence our vote one way or the other. So, again, to the 165,000 people who I hope very quickly fill those jobs, outstanding and congratulations. Let's stop. Music means we've got some news from Joe Lasky coming up on NewsRadio WHAM 1180. As events happen. What is happening right now? 00:30:19 Speaker 2: The midterms. 00:30:20 Speaker 1: It's a toss-up. 00:30:21 Speaker 2: Steal a citizen from the. 00:30:22 Speaker 1: Voters of Alaska. Hear them happen. 00:30:24 Speaker 2: In a way, I am on the ballot. Check in. 00:30:26 Speaker 1: This is a choice election. For what's happening. Time to choose. Use radio. 00:30:30 Speaker 2: Wham! 00:30:31 Speaker 1: 1180. James Cook scores. Build Promise wins. Please join the James Cook-William Mattar team.