Dan Goldman
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400 appearances
26 recordings
12 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 25 Jun
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Exactly. What I say pretty consistently is the easiest way to describe my district is it is the coolest district in the country. We have basically Manhattan below 14th Street. So we have the West Village, we have the Greenwich Village, we have the East Village, Lower East Side, Chinatown, Soho, Tribeca Financial District. And then about half of the district actually is over in Brooklyn.
So we have Dumbo, a lot of downtown Brooklyn. It sort of cuts right through downtown. Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope, Brownstone Brooklyn, and then it goes south even further all the way through Borough Park, Sunset Park, a little bit into Bay Ridge, and Red Hook, and then it comes back up the coast.
So it's a great, diverse district with lots of really spectacular neighborhoods, and it's fun to represent.
No, I'm actually not. I think there is data on that. My district is very much of a barbell. There are very, very wealthy... Some highs and some lows. But there's a significant number of my constituents who are really struggling. And I've got, for example, 31...
nicht public housing developments in my district and have a lot of of neighborhoods that are underserved and have been i think underrepresented by elected officials and i spend most of my time in the district in those neighborhoods
I think that that is a very reasoned, rational and probably common thought. I very intentionally don't view it that way. Because I am someone who approaches this as... A true rising tide lifts all boats. And that even when you talk to the real estate developers, etc., they are also very much invested in New York City and in making New York City a better, more affordable place. place to live.
And that's to their benefit as well. So I actually do not think that working as a member in this district has mutually exclusive interests, because I think that if you are working to help those that need perhaps a little bit more of a boost, as long as you're not trying to do that at the expense of
of other people, and I think that's one of the things that the Democratic Party suffers from, is to view it as a zero-sum game. Or not and, right? You're taking it away from someone else. I don't think that's the right way to look at it. It's not the way I look at it. And I think because of that, we can all collectively be working together to improve the city, the country, and everyone's lives.
That's a very good question. I took an unconventional path to Congress because I was not an elected official beforehand. And I had worked as a staff member in Washington. Most members of Congress get to... get to Washington, get to Congress, they're very familiar with their districts and all of the leaders and the community stakeholders and other officials, etc. And they need to learn DC.
I actually kind of had it the reverse. I felt most comfortable in a committee room because that's what I had done as a staff member. And so I spent a lot of time, I hired a disproportionate amount of staff in the district because I wanted to make sure that I was putting proper resources in the district so that Even if I have to be in D.C., I have staff everywhere.
And so the real steepest learning curve for me was really understanding a lot of the local politics, a lot of the local issues. Ja, genau. Genau, genau. Und so habe ich das genossen, weil ich mehr ein Konvenienten und mehr jemand bin, der ein Verkäufer ist, der versucht, Dinge zu machen und versucht, das schwierige politische Umfeld in New York City zu navigieren.
Und ich habe das tatsächlich viel mehr genossen, als ich es erwartet hätte, bevor ich in die Office ging.
It's a great question. I spent 10 years as a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York. And the rule of law was everything. And I say that because...
in obviously in legal profession in litigation you are you are governed by laws and everything you're doing is either interpreting of the law or enforcing the law but when you are a prosecutor you are truly driven by the law and justice you're not driven
It was really important to always keep in mind that my job was to justly, equitably and properly enforce the law, not necessarily beat defense counsel. And so that you're presented with sort of a different quandary. There were many times when I would go to the court
Und ich würde sagen, dass ich eigentlich beide Seiten repräsentieren würde, weil ich mich gezwungen fühlte, sicherzustellen, dass das Gericht all die Informationen hatte, auch wenn es mir nicht hilfreich war. Und so war meine Sicht auf die Regelung des Landes, du weißt, an diesem Halcyon-Niveau, wie das alles ist.
Our criminal law and our criminal law enforcement depends so much on the proper enforcement, the just enforcement of laws. Our legal system, we don't have as many other countries do a civil code. where every specific instance, every issue has a specific line item that decides it.
What our system is based on, and it's the same as, you know, and people complain about the tort system, we enforce our laws. in sehr vielen Fällen durch private Litigation und durch die Haltung der Leute zur Gesetzgebung, nicht unbedingt von der Regierung, sondern von anderen Litiganten. Es gibt Vorteile und Kosten dazu, aber so funktioniert es.
Unsere gesamte Wirtschaft, unser gesamtes System der Regierung
depends on a fidelity to the law and depends on the rules based order which you hear a lot about which really just goes down to the there are rules there are laws they govern there's a neutral independent arbiter of those and that's a judge and it's it's up to everybody to try to convince the judge but whatever the judge says is what happens
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