Louise Slaughter

I am still eating stuff that I, I got out of that thing, so just an FYI.

Uh, years ago, dear Louise Slaughter, who played such an important historic role in the politics of Monroe County, uh, God bless her, her memory, but one of the things she went on about forever was high-speed rail.

She was sure high-speed rail was gonna change the world.

It was gonna bring prosperity.

Uh, single mom who raised me and put me through the Rochester City School District, and very proud to be the first RCSD graduate to serve in the Senate in over 40 years.

Um, got scholarships to college and law school, came back to Rochester and got my start working in public service for one of, I think, Rochester's, um, most beloved elected officials, and that's the late Congresswoman Louise Slaughter.

And 25 years later, Evan, I think we're working on some of those same issues that Louise championed, uh, making sure people have access to affordable healthcare, making sure that our public schools are terrific and not dependent on what zip code you live in, and making sure that our streets are safe.

Uh, I think the biggest change in the last, uh, two years since I was, uh, up for re-election before is that my wife and I have welcomed our first son.

Uh, some of their ideas are interesting, and we can find consensus around, um, some of those concepts, but I would not identify as a DSA member.

Who is a political hero for you?

Louise Slaughter.

Uh, look, Louise was what I consider to be an upstate Democrat.

Just being honest with you.

Um, Louise Slaughter, [clears throat] deceased, uh, Democrat, um, uh, she was the one who, who kinda set the no Democrats go on the Lonsberry show standard and enforced it.

She was a person, um, of individual achievement.

Uh, Louise Slaughter was a, a- an unusually intelligent person.

She was a, a cut above.

Um, and, um, I think that Nick Langworthy down in the southern tier is, uh, um...

You know what they did, these people that are so concerned about the First Amendment and about democracy? Why, they tried to get Rush taken off the air as much as they could.

Democrats, including Louise Slaughter from New York, tried to make it a congressional act, what we call the Hush Rush Bill.

By the way, they tried to do the same thing.

Now, I just want to get rid of talk radio, and thank God John and Margo Katzenmatidis have helped organize this industry to stop them from getting rid of AM radios in cars, but they're still doing the same thing.