November 3, 2025 • 8 mins
Curtis Sliwa joins Mendte in the Morning to talk about his run for Mayor as election day is just one day away.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, we as always, we are very proud to be
joined by the Republican candidate for Mayor of New York City,
Curtis Leewah. Curtis, I saw the new poll. You made
a big jump in the polls. Does that mean something.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
To you, Well, of course, we have momentum and the
favorabilities of that poll. They rated all Democrats and Republicans
at a national level. And guess who rated out of
fifty two percent the highest in the rating equal the
former President Barack Obama.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Curtis sliwa.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
When your favorables are high, that means people are likely
to vote for you. When your unfavorables are high, the
likelihood is they're not going to vote for you, because
that means they would never vote for you.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
And that's really what we're facing here.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Azoran has high favorables, Andrew Como has high unfavorables, and
now I have the highest favorable of all. And I've
hit the ground, the subways and streets this morning. I'll
be laying a wreath at the spot. On December twenty
second of two thy twenty four with Dobrina Kwalm, the
(01:13):
homeless woman from New Jersey was set ablaze by that
migrant on the f train platform of Coney Island, Stillwell Avenue.
Notice they don't want to talk about her, Larry, no
mention of her, no mention of dealing with subway crime.
It seems my two opponents, Zohanmandami and Andrew Cormill, have
an aversion to deal with subway crime and the ramifications
(01:35):
that it has on most New Yorkers.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
What would you do to get rid of the sanctuary
city policy. The mayor has limited authority on that. It's
the city council that would block you on that, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Well, no, you go to court.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
You have a thousand lawyers, corporation council who'll get paid well,
I mean really well by the tax payers. And all
they do is grow barnacles on their backs and they
take out their stamp settle, settle, settle. They never fight.
They're always in a defense position. And I would say, no, no, no,
(02:09):
We're gonna go proactively and start suing all the what
I call the nonprofit industrial complex out there. It wants
to keep the situation exactly as it is with homeless
and emotionally disturbed in the subways, many of them who
are veterans because there's a lot of money to be
made there. Larry a lot of money, and I'm gonna
(02:31):
cut that umbilical cord, challenge those contracts, the resulting kickbacks,
homeless shelters that are unsafe for the clients, unsafe for
the people who work there. And we've got to get
the mentally ill into the state run hospitals, the very hospitals.
At Andrew Cuomo when he fled because he feared impeachment
(02:51):
as governor, the beds were down from four thousand to
forty thousand. So when he became governor, we had forty
thousand beds to deal with the mentally hill when he
fled four thousand.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Because of his budget cuts. And you look outside.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
And you walk into the parks, and you ride the subways,
and there these people are incapable of helping themselves anyone else.
They're danger to themselves and everyone else. And that's what
I started dealing with day one. The lawsuits will come
and we've got a fight, fight, fight.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I'll tell you what, You've rejected all calls for you
to drop out of the race, and I respect that,
and I kind of understand it because of the talkbacks
we get. I want to play one for you, because
if you were to drop out, you'd be supporting, you'd
be disappointing people like this.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Person, Curtis Leva. We do for New York what Trump
did for the United States of America. Cuomo, we do
for New York what he's already done for New York.
He'd be the Newsome of the East Coast. Cuomo is
the spoiler. Get out, Cuomo, go home.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
How about that, Curtis, how do you respond to that?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Well, we know that Newsom is a fashionista. Andrew Cuomo
has fachia bruta. That's a word in Italian. He doesn't
have the face of a Newsom, but he has the
sane democratic principles that have destroyed the state of New
York the way Newsom has destroyed the state of California.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
She's absolutely correct. Look, we have a Republican party.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Our principles are different than the two Democrats who are running.
They're pro criminal. I am pro cop and I am
pro victim, and Larry my finishing words everywhere I go.
I always dropped the line we live in a city
where we lock up toothpaste and we don't lock up criminals. Now,
who's responsible Andrew cam Cuomo, Johann Mandami, Republicans, we back
(04:50):
to blue. We want to lock up criminals and make
them do the time for the crime they committed.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
It's a clear choice.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
You go down the democratic path, we will be fiscally dissolved.
People will flee, they will put the final nail in
our coffin. If per chance I should lose Larry, there's
always a chance. I will improve, not move. I will
fight for what I know is right. Republicans do not
show fear, fight hysterio that so many other citizens are.
(05:18):
I mean, if you're a zor on Eastta, if you're
a supporter of Johan Mandami, you feel empowered because you
have a whole generation of baby boomers who are quaking
in their boots. Whereas I take the approach of braveheart.
We fight, fight, fight, we never surrender, we never retreat,
and if we lose, we come back to battle again.
(05:38):
I'm not going anywhere. I'm staying. I was born in
New York. I'm the only real New.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
York and they try to kill me in New York.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I'll die in New York and I'll be buried in
New York, and I will fight for New York.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I don't know if you've heard the ads, but Andrew
Cuomo surprisingly is running ads on conservative stations. I know
he's running an ad here with suppose Republicans talking and
saying they're voting for Cuomo because it's the only way
to beat Mam Donnie, and that at the end of
the ad, the supposed Republicans say, a vote for Trump,
I mean to vote for Curtis Lee. Well, I got
(06:14):
I got you confused with Donald Trump for a second.
A vote for Curtis Lee was actually a vote for zorin,
Mam Donnie. How do you respond to these new ads?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Desperate people do desperate things, and that's what Clomo is.
He got beaten badly in a Democratic primary. He's reached
a plateau amongst Democrats, so now he wants to poach
Republicans and conservatives, the very ones that he told in
twenty fourteen when he was governor there is no room
in New York State for Republicans and conservatives. You need
(06:46):
to leave the state if your pro life, if you
believe in the Second Amendment. And then this is the
guy who repeated over and over America was never that great.
So if Republicans want to go against their basic principles.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Everyone has the right to choose whomever they want.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
But understand this is being done out of complete desperation
because Andrew Cmo has not gone out in campaign, He
has not pressed the flesh, he has not gone from
neighborhood to neighborhood. It is very controlled circumstances that he
enters and exits. You don't win a campaign that way.
You've got to be out there twenty hours a day.
(07:23):
And Andrew Clmo spends too much time in this suits
with his billionaire friends, with the insiders and the influencers,
who I've said over and over, Larry, they will not
pick the next mayor of the City of New York.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
The people will, and I trust the people.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Well, I'll tell you what. If you are going to win,
you got to get out that vote. So if you
support Curtis Lee, well calling into this show isn't enough.
You got to get out and vote tomorrow. Curtis. Thanks
so much, Good luck tomorrow, and.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Thank you to WR for being fair to Curtis Lee.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Or unlike the station that I left and I will
never walk in again, WABC would burn their bridges with me.
Especially to you, Larry. You've always had me on a
been fair and square.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Well, thank you for coming on, and good luck tomorrow.
Well, we as always, we are very proud to be
joined by the Republican candidate for Mayor of New York City,
Curtis Leewah. Curtis, I saw the new poll. You made
a big jump in the polls. Does that mean something.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
To you, Well, of course, we have momentum and the
favorabilities of that poll. They rated all Democrats and Republicans
at a national level. And guess who rated out of
fifty two percent the highest in the rating equal the
former President Barack Obama.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Curtis sliwa.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
When your favorables are high, that means people are likely
to vote for you. When your unfavorables are high, the
likelihood is they're not going to vote for you, because
that means they would never vote for you.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
And that's really what we're facing here.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Azoran has high favorables, Andrew Como has high unfavorables, and
now I have the highest favorable of all. And I've
hit the ground, the subways and streets this morning. I'll
be laying a wreath at the spot. On December twenty
second of two thy twenty four with Dobrina Kwalm, the
(01:13):
homeless woman from New Jersey was set ablaze by that
migrant on the f train platform of Coney Island, Stillwell Avenue.
Notice they don't want to talk about her, Larry, no
mention of her, no mention of dealing with subway crime.
It seems my two opponents, Zohanmandami and Andrew Cormill, have
an aversion to deal with subway crime and the ramifications
(01:35):
that it has on most New Yorkers.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
What would you do to get rid of the sanctuary
city policy. The mayor has limited authority on that. It's
the city council that would block you on that, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Well, no, you go to court.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
You have a thousand lawyers, corporation council who'll get paid well,
I mean really well by the tax payers. And all
they do is grow barnacles on their backs and they
take out their stamp settle, settle, settle. They never fight.
They're always in a defense position. And I would say, no, no, no,
(02:09):
We're gonna go proactively and start suing all the what
I call the nonprofit industrial complex out there. It wants
to keep the situation exactly as it is with homeless
and emotionally disturbed in the subways, many of them who
are veterans because there's a lot of money to be
made there. Larry a lot of money, and I'm gonna
(02:31):
cut that umbilical cord, challenge those contracts, the resulting kickbacks,
homeless shelters that are unsafe for the clients, unsafe for
the people who work there. And we've got to get
the mentally ill into the state run hospitals, the very hospitals.
At Andrew Cuomo when he fled because he feared impeachment
(02:51):
as governor, the beds were down from four thousand to
forty thousand. So when he became governor, we had forty
thousand beds to deal with the mentally hill when he
fled four thousand.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Because of his budget cuts. And you look outside.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
And you walk into the parks, and you ride the subways,
and there these people are incapable of helping themselves anyone else.
They're danger to themselves and everyone else. And that's what
I started dealing with day one. The lawsuits will come
and we've got a fight, fight, fight.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I'll tell you what, You've rejected all calls for you
to drop out of the race, and I respect that,
and I kind of understand it because of the talkbacks
we get. I want to play one for you, because
if you were to drop out, you'd be supporting, you'd
be disappointing people like this.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Person, Curtis Leva. We do for New York what Trump
did for the United States of America. Cuomo, we do
for New York what he's already done for New York.
He'd be the Newsome of the East Coast. Cuomo is
the spoiler. Get out, Cuomo, go home.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
How about that, Curtis, how do you respond to that?
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Well, we know that Newsom is a fashionista. Andrew Cuomo
has fachia bruta. That's a word in Italian. He doesn't
have the face of a Newsom, but he has the
sane democratic principles that have destroyed the state of New
York the way Newsom has destroyed the state of California.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
She's absolutely correct. Look, we have a Republican party.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Our principles are different than the two Democrats who are running.
They're pro criminal. I am pro cop and I am
pro victim, and Larry my finishing words everywhere I go.
I always dropped the line we live in a city
where we lock up toothpaste and we don't lock up criminals. Now,
who's responsible Andrew cam Cuomo, Johann Mandami, Republicans, we back
(04:50):
to blue. We want to lock up criminals and make
them do the time for the crime they committed.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
It's a clear choice.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
You go down the democratic path, we will be fiscally dissolved.
People will flee, they will put the final nail in
our coffin. If per chance I should lose Larry, there's
always a chance. I will improve, not move. I will
fight for what I know is right. Republicans do not
show fear, fight hysterio that so many other citizens are.
(05:18):
I mean, if you're a zor on Eastta, if you're
a supporter of Johan Mandami, you feel empowered because you
have a whole generation of baby boomers who are quaking
in their boots. Whereas I take the approach of braveheart.
We fight, fight, fight, we never surrender, we never retreat,
and if we lose, we come back to battle again.
(05:38):
I'm not going anywhere. I'm staying. I was born in
New York. I'm the only real New.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
York and they try to kill me in New York.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
I'll die in New York and I'll be buried in
New York, and I will fight for New York.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
I don't know if you've heard the ads, but Andrew
Cuomo surprisingly is running ads on conservative stations. I know
he's running an ad here with suppose Republicans talking and
saying they're voting for Cuomo because it's the only way
to beat Mam Donnie, and that at the end of
the ad, the supposed Republicans say, a vote for Trump,
I mean to vote for Curtis Lee. Well, I got
(06:14):
I got you confused with Donald Trump for a second.
A vote for Curtis Lee was actually a vote for zorin,
Mam Donnie. How do you respond to these new ads?
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Desperate people do desperate things, and that's what Clomo is.
He got beaten badly in a Democratic primary. He's reached
a plateau amongst Democrats, so now he wants to poach
Republicans and conservatives, the very ones that he told in
twenty fourteen when he was governor there is no room
in New York State for Republicans and conservatives. You need
(06:46):
to leave the state if your pro life, if you
believe in the Second Amendment. And then this is the
guy who repeated over and over America was never that great.
So if Republicans want to go against their basic principles.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Everyone has the right to choose whomever they want.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
But understand this is being done out of complete desperation
because Andrew Cmo has not gone out in campaign, He
has not pressed the flesh, he has not gone from
neighborhood to neighborhood. It is very controlled circumstances that he
enters and exits. You don't win a campaign that way.
You've got to be out there twenty hours a day.
(07:23):
And Andrew Clmo spends too much time in this suits
with his billionaire friends, with the insiders and the influencers,
who I've said over and over, Larry, they will not
pick the next mayor of the City of New York.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
The people will, and I trust the people.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Well, I'll tell you what. If you are going to win,
you got to get out that vote. So if you
support Curtis Lee, well calling into this show isn't enough.
You got to get out and vote tomorrow. Curtis. Thanks
so much, Good luck tomorrow, and.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Thank you to WR for being fair to Curtis Lee.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Or unlike the station that I left and I will
never walk in again, WABC would burn their bridges with me.
Especially to you, Larry. You've always had me on a
been fair and square.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Well, thank you for coming on, and good luck tomorrow.
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