June 17, 2025 • 7 mins
Curtis Sliwa talks to Mendte in the Morning about the NYC Mayoral race and his path to victory with so many Democrats on the ballot.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, I'm very proud to talk to a friend of
mine who might just be the next mayor of New York.
Curtis leewa Republican candidate for mayor of New York City.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Curtis, where are you right now?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Larry?
Speaker 4 (00:12):
I'm right outside with train station on the Upper West Side,
ready to jump in the subway.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
You know that's my limo no jeems down there.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
But also since we since we last talked, I have
qualified on an independent line, first ever Protect Animals, which
stands for no kill shelters and prosecuting abuses of animals.
First time it's ever been done in any election cycle
in the United States.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
So people have two lines to vote for me on.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
If they can't vote for me as a Republican, they
can vote for me on the independent Protect Animals sign.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
The election laws in this city are so screwed up.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Everybody gets an independent line, everybody gets to run.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
The primaries don't even matter anymore.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Curtis, that is correct, And I know everybody's getting called
tied up in not what happens if Mondami somehow pulls
an upset against Cuomo and the Democratic primary, Larry wor audience,
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
In the general election, there will be five of us.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
There will be Mondami, there will be Cuomo, there will
be Adams, there will be a guy nobody really knows,
Jim Walton, and then there will be me and I
start out with thirty percent of the vote.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
So just do the math.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
If you do the math, you can understand why curtisly.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Was going to be the next mayor of New York ship.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
No. You told me this a few months ago, and
I thought, Oh, that's interesting. That's an interesting theory. It's
playing out to be absolutely true. And the great thing
is you're skating through. Nobody's going after you. They're all
eating each other. They're all attacking each other. And I
got a feeling until the first poll comes out and
(01:51):
shows you're either ahead or competitive, you're gonna keep skating
through without anybody going after you.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Oh yeah, because red.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
But they're all Democrats, Larry, all four of the others
who will be in the general election are registered Democrats.
That means they're going to continue the blood battle, cut
each other up, Adams, Coomo, Mundami, and this guy Walden. Meantime,
I'm the only Republican and I can basically believe it
(02:21):
or not, Larry curtisly would take the high road in
this campaign.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Wow, that would be nobody would believe it. Nobody would
be able to believe that was you. At that point,
you won't be able to help yourself. Come on, seriously,
you're not going to take the high road.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Well, the interesting thing is I'm out there in the
outer Boroughs and I'm talking about all the issues that
are important to people in the Bronx, Brookland, Queens and
Staten Island.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Nobody's doing that.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Notice how in that last Democratic debate they will all
ask what world do you travel to least? And they
said Staten Island and then laughed and giggled about it,
because that's the way they view the outer borough. If
it is a Manhattan, if it is a Manhattan centric
to them, it doesn't count. I'm talking about the fact
we're going to have no.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
More migrant shelters.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
We're going to cap the number of shelters we have
for Americans and manage them well and eliminate the City
of Yes, which is going to lead to the destruction
of residential housing in the outer boroughs because of the
corporate developers and no lithium ion battery warehouses. They have
ninety of them schedule to be built in the Bronx, Brooklyn,
(03:27):
Queens and Staten Island. Not one of them larry On
Park Avenue or Sutton Place or Billionaires a Row in Manhattan.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
That's what I love about your campaign, and I've been
following it very closely. I love about your campaign that
you're going after issues that are not talked about at
all in the debates, not talked about it all by
these candidates, but in the neighborhoods in Queens, in Brooklyn
and Staten Island and the Bronx, they are extremely important,
including the ion battery factory, just for people who may
(03:57):
not be aware of what's going on because it's not
getting as much coverage it as should. Explain what's happening, Curtis.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
They are building these lithium ion battery warehouses to basically
store energy in the outer boroughs. They're doing it in Nassa,
on Suffolk and other areas around the country. They've had
forty explosions and when these batteries explode, as you've seen
in small fires just in New York City with lithium
ion battery propelled the e bytes and scooters and occasionally
(04:30):
a Tesla car with the A battery. It takes them
hours to put it out, and you can't put it
out with water. Now, imagine a hundred refrigerator sty sized batteries.
When they go up in smoke and they do it
takes five to six days for it to burn itself out.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
They don't know how to put these fires out. There'll
be an.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Eight square mile pluma hydrochloric acid. It'll be a minichure Nobyle,
you'll have to evacuate. When you come back, your property
will be worthless. And God only knows the health dangers
that will accompany anybody who decides to stay back. You're
going to have basically many love canals all over.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
We lose them.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Just then those damn Democrats cut his phone.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
That was what was great.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
About what he was just talking about, is he's talking
about issues that are extremely important, extremely important to the
neighborhoods that nobody's talking about on the Democratic side, nobody.
All they're talking about is money, money, money, money, money, money,
money for the city.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
What they're going to give way for free.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
It seems to me that the Democratic Party is running
in Manhattan, and Manhattan only that that's all they care about,
because all they talk about are Manhattan issues. If you
follow Curtis Leewa, and you should if you don't, on
social media, he is constantly out in the outer burroughs
(06:01):
and talking about things that no one else is talking about.
You heard him just a moment ago talking about the
City of Yes and how people are being run out
of their own neighborhoods by developers. You heard them talking
about the ion batteries these are Did you hear one
mention of any of those topics, any of those topics
in the Democratic primary?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
None?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
In the debate none. All right, you're back. We just
can be lost your phone there for a second. Did
you get on the subway?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
No, no, no, no, I stay out of the subway
when I'm talking to you and your wor audience. Larry.
A guy actually inadvertently bumped me. I had to pick
him up he was falling down. So we're back on track.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Ah, you're still out there saving lives. Look at that.
You know we have to wrap this up real quick.
Do you have a closing message for the voters?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Yeah, don't get into a panic over this Democratic primary.
We still have a marathon.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
You want to find out.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
More about what I said and for which is different
than any of the other candidates in the general erase race.
Just go to Sleiwolf for NYC dot com at Sliwolf
for NYC dot com. And there is sanity in my campaign,
whereas there is complete insanity, chaos and corruption in everybody
else's campaign. Let's not continue to make the same mistakes.
(07:22):
Let's finally realize you vote for the New York City guy,
Curtis Sleewe. I didn't live in Portly and I didn't
live in the Hampton site Cuomo.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Thanks a lot, Curtis Leewill, Republican candidate for New York City.
There look forward to talking to you again.
Well, I'm very proud to talk to a friend of
mine who might just be the next mayor of New York.
Curtis leewa Republican candidate for mayor of New York City.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Curtis, where are you right now?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Larry?
Speaker 4 (00:12):
I'm right outside with train station on the Upper West Side,
ready to jump in the subway.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
You know that's my limo no jeems down there.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
But also since we since we last talked, I have
qualified on an independent line, first ever Protect Animals, which
stands for no kill shelters and prosecuting abuses of animals.
First time it's ever been done in any election cycle
in the United States.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
So people have two lines to vote for me on.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
If they can't vote for me as a Republican, they
can vote for me on the independent Protect Animals sign.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
The election laws in this city are so screwed up.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Everybody gets an independent line, everybody gets to run.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
The primaries don't even matter anymore.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Curtis, that is correct, And I know everybody's getting called
tied up in not what happens if Mondami somehow pulls
an upset against Cuomo and the Democratic primary, Larry wor audience,
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
In the general election, there will be five of us.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
There will be Mondami, there will be Cuomo, there will
be Adams, there will be a guy nobody really knows,
Jim Walton, and then there will be me and I
start out with thirty percent of the vote.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
So just do the math.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
If you do the math, you can understand why curtisly.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Was going to be the next mayor of New York ship.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
No. You told me this a few months ago, and
I thought, Oh, that's interesting. That's an interesting theory. It's
playing out to be absolutely true. And the great thing
is you're skating through. Nobody's going after you. They're all
eating each other. They're all attacking each other. And I
got a feeling until the first poll comes out and
(01:51):
shows you're either ahead or competitive, you're gonna keep skating
through without anybody going after you.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Oh yeah, because red.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
But they're all Democrats, Larry, all four of the others
who will be in the general election are registered Democrats.
That means they're going to continue the blood battle, cut
each other up, Adams, Coomo, Mundami, and this guy Walden. Meantime,
I'm the only Republican and I can basically believe it
(02:21):
or not, Larry curtisly would take the high road in
this campaign.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Wow, that would be nobody would believe it. Nobody would
be able to believe that was you. At that point,
you won't be able to help yourself. Come on, seriously,
you're not going to take the high road.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Well, the interesting thing is I'm out there in the
outer Boroughs and I'm talking about all the issues that
are important to people in the Bronx, Brookland, Queens and
Staten Island.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
Nobody's doing that.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
Notice how in that last Democratic debate they will all
ask what world do you travel to least? And they
said Staten Island and then laughed and giggled about it,
because that's the way they view the outer borough. If
it is a Manhattan, if it is a Manhattan centric
to them, it doesn't count. I'm talking about the fact
we're going to have no.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
More migrant shelters.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
We're going to cap the number of shelters we have
for Americans and manage them well and eliminate the City
of Yes, which is going to lead to the destruction
of residential housing in the outer boroughs because of the
corporate developers and no lithium ion battery warehouses. They have
ninety of them schedule to be built in the Bronx, Brooklyn,
(03:27):
Queens and Staten Island. Not one of them larry On
Park Avenue or Sutton Place or Billionaires a Row in Manhattan.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
That's what I love about your campaign, and I've been
following it very closely. I love about your campaign that
you're going after issues that are not talked about at
all in the debates, not talked about it all by
these candidates, but in the neighborhoods in Queens, in Brooklyn
and Staten Island and the Bronx, they are extremely important,
including the ion battery factory, just for people who may
(03:57):
not be aware of what's going on because it's not
getting as much coverage it as should. Explain what's happening, Curtis.
Speaker 4 (04:05):
They are building these lithium ion battery warehouses to basically
store energy in the outer boroughs. They're doing it in Nassa,
on Suffolk and other areas around the country. They've had
forty explosions and when these batteries explode, as you've seen
in small fires just in New York City with lithium
ion battery propelled the e bytes and scooters and occasionally
(04:30):
a Tesla car with the A battery. It takes them
hours to put it out, and you can't put it
out with water. Now, imagine a hundred refrigerator sty sized batteries.
When they go up in smoke and they do it
takes five to six days for it to burn itself out.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
They don't know how to put these fires out. There'll
be an.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Eight square mile pluma hydrochloric acid. It'll be a minichure Nobyle,
you'll have to evacuate. When you come back, your property
will be worthless. And God only knows the health dangers
that will accompany anybody who decides to stay back. You're
going to have basically many love canals all over.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
We lose them.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Just then those damn Democrats cut his phone.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
That was what was great.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
About what he was just talking about, is he's talking
about issues that are extremely important, extremely important to the
neighborhoods that nobody's talking about on the Democratic side, nobody.
All they're talking about is money, money, money, money, money, money,
money for the city.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
What they're going to give way for free.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
It seems to me that the Democratic Party is running
in Manhattan, and Manhattan only that that's all they care about,
because all they talk about are Manhattan issues. If you
follow Curtis Leewa, and you should if you don't, on
social media, he is constantly out in the outer burroughs
(06:01):
and talking about things that no one else is talking about.
You heard him just a moment ago talking about the
City of Yes and how people are being run out
of their own neighborhoods by developers. You heard them talking
about the ion batteries these are Did you hear one
mention of any of those topics, any of those topics
in the Democratic primary?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
None?
Speaker 1 (06:22):
In the debate none. All right, you're back. We just
can be lost your phone there for a second. Did
you get on the subway?
Speaker 4 (06:31):
No, no, no, no, I stay out of the subway
when I'm talking to you and your wor audience. Larry.
A guy actually inadvertently bumped me. I had to pick
him up he was falling down. So we're back on track.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Ah, you're still out there saving lives. Look at that.
You know we have to wrap this up real quick.
Do you have a closing message for the voters?
Speaker 4 (06:51):
Yeah, don't get into a panic over this Democratic primary.
We still have a marathon.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
You want to find out.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
More about what I said and for which is different
than any of the other candidates in the general erase race.
Just go to Sleiwolf for NYC dot com at Sliwolf
for NYC dot com. And there is sanity in my campaign,
whereas there is complete insanity, chaos and corruption in everybody
else's campaign. Let's not continue to make the same mistakes.
(07:22):
Let's finally realize you vote for the New York City guy,
Curtis Sleewe. I didn't live in Portly and I didn't
live in the Hampton site Cuomo.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Thanks a lot, Curtis Leewill, Republican candidate for New York City.
There look forward to talking to you again.
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