May 22, 2025 • 8 mins
Curtis joins the show the update Larry on how his Mayoral campaign is going. The race is tight, and Cuomo and Curtis are close to becoming neck and neck.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's get to the mayoral race. Curtis Leewa is the
Republican candidate for New York City mayor. And there's so
much going on that I know that Curtis is going
to have a field day with Good morning, Curtis. Thanks
for joining us.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Oh, my pleasure, my pleasure. The rain is falling. But
I'm getting ready to get out on the campaign. Tril.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Yeah, I see you out there all the time. I
follow you on social media, and man, are you working
hard to win this job. But it might be getting
a little bit easier for you considering the fact that
all these other candidates seem to be tripping over themselves.
Let's talk about the investigation into Mario Cuomo now lying
(00:42):
to Congress. He has an ad out today running on
the fact that he lied to Congress. Anything that has
to do with taking on Donald Trump. He wants to
get out there immediately. It's a strange campaign when you
do that.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, but it's pathway to victory because, as you know,
he's facing a brutal Democratic primary with ranked choice voting,
and even though he's ahead of the polls of all
of his Democratic pros, when you get into rank choice voting,
if they're disciplined, they can actually take him out by
the fifth round. But I don't think what people realize
(01:21):
is Janine Piro, the former DA of Westchester who ran
against Andrew Pomo for Attorney General and loss as a
Republican candidate, featured on Fox News Channel, was a bitter
critic of the way he handled the lockdown and pandemic,
and the way he shuddled those elderly who were diagnosed
(01:42):
with COVID nineteen into long term nursing home care units,
where that COVID spread like fire and caused the death
of fifteen thousand people. He would never acknowledge it, he
would never take responsibility for it. And so now the
Department of Justice has given that to their brand new
US attorney in Washington, DC. Hasn't gotten much attention in
(02:05):
the press. Jinnine Piro, So I think she's going for
his jugular on this. He wears it like a badge
of courage. Oh, this is law fair, This is Donald
Trump's administration coming at me. No, no, no, no, no,
Andrew Como. This has nothing to do with Republican or
democratic interest. This has to do with the fact that
you are responsible for the death of fifteen thousand elderly people,
(02:29):
lied before Congress and tampered with one of the witnesses
who used to be part of your administration. So I
feel it's a perfect time to address this issue because
this is one of his many achilles heels, along with
no cash, fail raise the age, and so many other things.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah. No, absolutely, and he definitely lied to Congress. I
mean she has an easy case. That's the whole case.
The whole case are three counts of lying to Congress.
And we know that that was his handwriting in the
edited version of the Health Commissioner's report that cleared him.
(03:07):
Everything he wrote was put into that report, and he
denied that he did that.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Not only that, he denied that he altered the death count,
along with his aide de camp, Melissa de Rose, who
actually admitted that to other Democratic leaders on a video
conference call in which he said, the reason we had
to change the figures is we thought that we would
get indicted by Jeff Sessions, who was in the US
Attorney of the United States and the first Trump administration.
(03:37):
So they've lied every consistent step of the way on this.
And although some people will say, well, this is the
boost he needs because a Democrat is going to run
against the Trump administration, that's their pathway to victory in
the Democratic primary. That's going to hurt him in the
general election. And I'm waiting. I'm waiting in the wings
since I don't have a Republican primary to use that again,
(04:00):
because Larry, it's not just going to be me versus Cuomo.
It's going to be five candidates who were in the
general election, four of whom are Democrats, be going to
eviserate one another. And I'm going to have a pathway
to victory because I start off even Cuomo admits with
thirty percent of the vote this time, if I get
it up to thirty five percent, Larry, you are talking
(04:22):
to the next mayor of New York City, and it's
right on time to get this city back on track.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Now you've convinced me of that. I keep bringing it
up all the time since you were in here and
we got to talk, Curtis. But it's a sad day
in New York when New Yorkers, when Democrats are so
inflicted with Trump derangement syndrome, they will go for a
man who caused the death of fifteen thousand in nursing homes.
It's really a sad day. But let's move off him
(04:48):
for a second and talk about one of the other candidates,
zorin Mom. Donnie is having a bad week because Politico
did a story about the fact that for four years
in a row he passed on a bill that just said, yes,
there was a Holocaust, and he refused to vote on
that bill. And now he's saying it's all political, that
(05:08):
it was a hit job, that he definitely believes the
Holocaust happen. He's not anti Semitic, But when you have
to start denying like that, you're losing Curtis.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Well, not with his constituency, Larry. See, that's the constituency
that's under the radar screen that I see out in
the streets. They tend to be forty five years old
and younger, a lot of them thirty and younger. And
to be honest with you, that is just going to
gin up them coming out to vote, because normally the
(05:42):
people who vote are people who are forty five years
of age and older. That's about seventy percent of your
normal vote. The rest of it, the thirty percent of
the vote, are those who are forty five years of
age and younger. He's got to get the younger people
out to vote if he's expected to win that Democratic
But Larry, I don't think he thinks he can win
(06:02):
the Democratic primary, although he's going to put his full
effort and all of his finances into it. He's going
to be in the general election as the Working Families
Party candidate because they hate Cuomo, and rightfully so. He
tried to destroy their third party. All he did was
strengthen it. When Centi and Nixon ran against him for governor,
he sought revenge. So he's going to take some of
(06:24):
the Democratic vote in the general election. Eric Adams will
take some of the vote on whatever he calls himself
now whatever his party line is, the Independent line, Cuomo,
a guy named Jim Walden who was an Independent, has
four different Democrats fighting for the same number of votes,
and then you have Curtis Lee Well basically taking the
high road to victory. Starting out with thirty percent of
(06:47):
the vote, and if I get five percent more moderate
Democrats and Independence, then I'm the next mayor of the
City of New York. And on day one we start
attacking the two most prominent issues to this campaign. Crime
and quality of life, which Eric Adams has failed to do.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
And you've been fighting crime your whole career, and I'm
glad you're running for mayor. You've always been a good
friend to me and I really appreciate it, and I
wish you luck, and I like that you're already counting
votes and I believe in you. It does seem like
you do have a path to victory. Curtis Lee, Will,
Republican candidate for New York Mayor. Thank you so much.
I appreciate you talking to us today. Curtis, we'll talk again.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Oh my pleasure. You just go to sleewoo for NYC
dot com to get all the information you need to
know about my campaign and to help it.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Thanks a lot, Curtis Lee. I'll tell you what. He
does have a path to victory, and he just laid
it out for you. I love that he's already counting votes.
I mean, no matter what issue you talk to him about,
he talks to you about his path to victory. And
that's extremely important to him because people have to believe
that he can win. If they don't, they'll discount him.
So believe there's some there's a method to that madness,
Let's get to the mayoral race. Curtis Leewa is the
Republican candidate for New York City mayor. And there's so
much going on that I know that Curtis is going
to have a field day with Good morning, Curtis. Thanks
for joining us.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Oh, my pleasure, my pleasure. The rain is falling. But
I'm getting ready to get out on the campaign. Tril.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Yeah, I see you out there all the time. I
follow you on social media, and man, are you working
hard to win this job. But it might be getting
a little bit easier for you considering the fact that
all these other candidates seem to be tripping over themselves.
Let's talk about the investigation into Mario Cuomo now lying
(00:42):
to Congress. He has an ad out today running on
the fact that he lied to Congress. Anything that has
to do with taking on Donald Trump. He wants to
get out there immediately. It's a strange campaign when you
do that.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, but it's pathway to victory because, as you know,
he's facing a brutal Democratic primary with ranked choice voting,
and even though he's ahead of the polls of all
of his Democratic pros, when you get into rank choice voting,
if they're disciplined, they can actually take him out by
the fifth round. But I don't think what people realize
(01:21):
is Janine Piro, the former DA of Westchester who ran
against Andrew Pomo for Attorney General and loss as a
Republican candidate, featured on Fox News Channel, was a bitter
critic of the way he handled the lockdown and pandemic,
and the way he shuddled those elderly who were diagnosed
(01:42):
with COVID nineteen into long term nursing home care units,
where that COVID spread like fire and caused the death
of fifteen thousand people. He would never acknowledge it, he
would never take responsibility for it. And so now the
Department of Justice has given that to their brand new
US attorney in Washington, DC. Hasn't gotten much attention in
(02:05):
the press. Jinnine Piro, So I think she's going for
his jugular on this. He wears it like a badge
of courage. Oh, this is law fair, This is Donald
Trump's administration coming at me. No, no, no, no, no,
Andrew Como. This has nothing to do with Republican or
democratic interest. This has to do with the fact that
you are responsible for the death of fifteen thousand elderly people,
(02:29):
lied before Congress and tampered with one of the witnesses
who used to be part of your administration. So I
feel it's a perfect time to address this issue because
this is one of his many achilles heels, along with
no cash, fail raise the age, and so many other things.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah. No, absolutely, and he definitely lied to Congress. I
mean she has an easy case. That's the whole case.
The whole case are three counts of lying to Congress.
And we know that that was his handwriting in the
edited version of the Health Commissioner's report that cleared him.
(03:07):
Everything he wrote was put into that report, and he
denied that he did that.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Not only that, he denied that he altered the death count,
along with his aide de camp, Melissa de Rose, who
actually admitted that to other Democratic leaders on a video
conference call in which he said, the reason we had
to change the figures is we thought that we would
get indicted by Jeff Sessions, who was in the US
Attorney of the United States and the first Trump administration.
(03:37):
So they've lied every consistent step of the way on this.
And although some people will say, well, this is the
boost he needs because a Democrat is going to run
against the Trump administration, that's their pathway to victory in
the Democratic primary. That's going to hurt him in the
general election. And I'm waiting. I'm waiting in the wings
since I don't have a Republican primary to use that again,
(04:00):
because Larry, it's not just going to be me versus Cuomo.
It's going to be five candidates who were in the
general election, four of whom are Democrats, be going to
eviserate one another. And I'm going to have a pathway
to victory because I start off even Cuomo admits with
thirty percent of the vote this time, if I get
it up to thirty five percent, Larry, you are talking
(04:22):
to the next mayor of New York City, and it's
right on time to get this city back on track.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Now you've convinced me of that. I keep bringing it
up all the time since you were in here and
we got to talk, Curtis. But it's a sad day
in New York when New Yorkers, when Democrats are so
inflicted with Trump derangement syndrome, they will go for a
man who caused the death of fifteen thousand in nursing homes.
It's really a sad day. But let's move off him
(04:48):
for a second and talk about one of the other candidates,
zorin Mom. Donnie is having a bad week because Politico
did a story about the fact that for four years
in a row he passed on a bill that just said, yes,
there was a Holocaust, and he refused to vote on
that bill. And now he's saying it's all political, that
(05:08):
it was a hit job, that he definitely believes the
Holocaust happen. He's not anti Semitic, But when you have
to start denying like that, you're losing Curtis.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Well, not with his constituency, Larry. See, that's the constituency
that's under the radar screen that I see out in
the streets. They tend to be forty five years old
and younger, a lot of them thirty and younger. And
to be honest with you, that is just going to
gin up them coming out to vote, because normally the
(05:42):
people who vote are people who are forty five years
of age and older. That's about seventy percent of your
normal vote. The rest of it, the thirty percent of
the vote, are those who are forty five years of
age and younger. He's got to get the younger people
out to vote if he's expected to win that Democratic
But Larry, I don't think he thinks he can win
(06:02):
the Democratic primary, although he's going to put his full
effort and all of his finances into it. He's going
to be in the general election as the Working Families
Party candidate because they hate Cuomo, and rightfully so. He
tried to destroy their third party. All he did was
strengthen it. When Centi and Nixon ran against him for governor,
he sought revenge. So he's going to take some of
(06:24):
the Democratic vote in the general election. Eric Adams will
take some of the vote on whatever he calls himself
now whatever his party line is, the Independent line, Cuomo,
a guy named Jim Walden who was an Independent, has
four different Democrats fighting for the same number of votes,
and then you have Curtis Lee Well basically taking the
high road to victory. Starting out with thirty percent of
(06:47):
the vote, and if I get five percent more moderate
Democrats and Independence, then I'm the next mayor of the
City of New York. And on day one we start
attacking the two most prominent issues to this campaign. Crime
and quality of life, which Eric Adams has failed to do.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
And you've been fighting crime your whole career, and I'm
glad you're running for mayor. You've always been a good
friend to me and I really appreciate it, and I
wish you luck, and I like that you're already counting
votes and I believe in you. It does seem like
you do have a path to victory. Curtis Lee, Will,
Republican candidate for New York Mayor. Thank you so much.
I appreciate you talking to us today. Curtis, we'll talk again.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Oh my pleasure. You just go to sleewoo for NYC
dot com to get all the information you need to
know about my campaign and to help it.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Thanks a lot, Curtis Lee. I'll tell you what. He
does have a path to victory, and he just laid
it out for you. I love that he's already counting votes.
I mean, no matter what issue you talk to him about,
he talks to you about his path to victory. And
that's extremely important to him because people have to believe
that he can win. If they don't, they'll discount him.
So believe there's some there's a method to that madness,
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