Jeremy Cooney

Well, she, uh, uh, uh, lived out her, uh, a long life, and nothing ever occurred i- in regard to high-speed rail.

Well, uh, enter Jeremy Cooney, uh, who apparently has run out of dumbass ideas of his own, and believe you me, he's had a pretty good supply of dumbass ideas of his own over the year, uh, years.

But he now is big on high-speed rail.

He's chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee, um, which really helps with the campaign contributions, I tell you what.

Again, which gets back to the thing, what the hell do I want to go to New York City for, okay? We got mosques right up here, buddy.

I don't need to go down there.

So anyway, uh, Jeremy Cooney is now pissing away his day in the sun, uh, chasing this particular, uh, uh, pipe dream.

So anyway, if you have high-spree- speed rail delusions, uh, uh, uh, Jeremy Cooney is, is your ma'am.

They didn't quite get it.

We have champions in both the Senate and the Assembly, Jeremy Cooney and Anna Kellis, and we're really going to put a major push on it this year with the governor's office.

And meeting with the people in DCJS and the public safety folks on the second floor.

Before we move on, let me reintroduce you.

State Senator.

Cooney, actually.

Jeremy Cooney.

Okay, excuse me.

I stand corrected.

That's a reference to Kathy Hochul.

It's a reference to Jeremy Cooney.

It's a reference to Samer Bruke.

It's a reference to, uh, Harry Bronson.

On News Radio, WHAM 1180.

Jeremy Cooney, I don't know if you saw, is gonna save us.

I- it's, uh, high-speed rail.

He wants to spend six billion dollars over 25 years to take 90 minutes off a train trip from New York City to, uh, uh, Niagara Falls.

I'm David Lombardo, and you're listening to Dispatches from Planet Albany, a podcast about power and politics in New York State, at least usually.

For this episode, we're continuing to discuss new parenting, and we're going to hear an interview we recorded in mid-September with State Senator Jeremy Cooney, a Rochester-area Democrat who became a dad this spring with the birth of his son, Aiden.

We'll discuss getting in shape in order to become an active parent, coming up with a meaningful name, grappling with being an older parent, and the process of returning to work after parental leave.

Since we recorded our interview, my wife Emma gave birth to our daughter at the end of September.

We're all back home now and trying our best to find eight hours of sleep each night.

Now here's our conversation with Senator Cooney.

So I want to start by talking about when and why you decided you wanted to have a kid in the first place.

Because I know for me, I was at this point where I would have been fine being a dink, dual income, no kids, household and everything like that.