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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hour of programming on seven ten doubleoar. He's sponsored by
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County executive Rob Astorina on seven ten doublear Ah.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Maybe you're heading out to City Field see if the
Yankees can blow another one wearing those ridiculous caps. Can
you just stop it. I can't stand all these alternative
uniforms and caps and blah blah blah. What I love
about the Yankees is they just have their pinstripes. It's
its tradition. I know they do it here and there
and whatever. Anyway, Yankees are tumbling, and so are the Mets.
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So will zorn Mondami tumble. You got a race here,
a big race for mayor. And we're gonna talk to
Curtis Sliwa in just a moment. He's gonna get a
ton of pressure to drop out. It's already happening. So
I'll ask him that in a minute, and I'll take
your calls to see what you think about whether he
should or shouldn't stay in oneted hundred three to two
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one zero seven ten one eight hundred three to two
one zero seven ten here on the rob Astarino Show
on seven ten. Wr Hey, I hope you had a
great Fourth of July. Hopefully you have ten fingers. Still,
I'm not a fireworks guy. Just I don't know. I
never really liked the fireworks, even like the big shows.
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You wouldn't pay me enough to come into the city
to stay sweaty, shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of thousands
of people watching the fireworks just not my thing. I
had to do it when I was county executive. I
would go to Westchester at the Kentsico.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Damn.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
We would do it the night before and I'm like,
when is his end? I'm gonna get out of here anyway,
all right. So we got a big race from May
are coming up, a lot of pros and cons of
what to do. You got four candidates now gutting towards
the Democratic nominee, Zoron Mundami. I was in Rhode Island
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yesterday in the supermarket and I see some moron with
a Zoron T shirt. So this guy represents a movement
of the radicals, the crazies, who are going to be
gun ho at voting again in November. So how do
you get to the magic number and beat this guy
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when there's there's a lot of candidates buying for that vote. So,
Curtis Lee, what is the Republican nominee? Curtis and I
have known each other forever since two thousand and one
when we worked together, and you know, I certainly would
love to see him win, and he is with us
right now from Coney Island. Curtis, how many hot dogs
did you eat?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Did you?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Did you get anywhere close to Joey Chestnut? Seventy and
a half?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Now, I finished third in Sick Did you really?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
But I did?
Speaker 5 (03:03):
But I can't. I can't do that anymore. I'm retired
from competitive eating. I am underneath the Coney Island world
famous parachute as I talked to you.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I'll send you a picture after the interview.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
But I am working the crowd here while Eric Adams
is working the Hampton's crowd, the wealthy and the rich,
and Andrew Cuomo is hiding in the Hamptons as he
tries to determine what to do even though he's number
two in all the polls of late.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
So all right, you set it up, all right, you
got mayor Adams, who obviously has not pulled well like
for four years, but he is the mayor and the
it seems like the money folks who put a lot
of money into Andrew Cuomo now are kind of shifting
it to Adams as seeing he's the guy that they
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want to get behind that could win. You know, it's
been tough for you to raise money, you know, for
any Republican in New York City, to be fair, it's
tough unless you're a Bloomberg. But let's set up this
race now, because Mndamie walks in with probably a half
a million votes to start off, right, when you calculate
what it takes to win, what's the magic number? So
(04:16):
every campaign I've ever been in, we at the very
beginning realize what the turnout would be or what we predicted,
how many votes it would be to win the race.
What in your estimation, how many votes is it going
to take to win this race for anybody? How many votes?
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Well, first off, Rob, I don't believe that anybody is
going to drop out. I'm certainly not, nor will Cuomo.
I mean, I'm number three in the polls and Eric Adams.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Is way down.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
He is that not only last in the polls, but
he has the highest reported negativity rate, probably in the
history of electoral politics, sixty eight percent unfavorable rate. So
I believe, when all is said and with four people
in the race, that I can win this race. Since
I got twenty eight percent the last time against Eric Adams,
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I get thirty two percent, and I'm the next mayor
of the City of New York. Most of my votes
come from the outer boroughs, the residential areas which Erik
Adams has neglected. And as you know, Zorron wants to
tax a special increased tax in all white residential areas
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because he really wants to drive white people out of here.
So that will be to my advantage because that's where
I spent a lot of time stopping the migrant shelters,
the normal shelters, the lithium ion battery warehouses that they
are now deciding to build in the outer boroughs but
not Manhattan. And most importantly, the city of Yes that
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gives developers the right to come into a residential neighborhood
without having to go to a community board. A city
council person doesn't have any zoning restrictions and put up
apartment houses stories and basically push.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Out those who own one and two family homes.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
That's the strength of my support and it's what I
believe will be my pathway to victory. Eric Adams doesn't
have that, and Jucuomo doesn't have that, and certainly Zorhan
depends on the gen Zs and millennials.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
But I also have quite a few.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Gen zs and millennials because I don't malign them, I
don't make fun of them, I don't push them away
where eventually they will end up supporting Zoran and that
will be a detrimental issue in this election if we
do not have gen zs and millennials supporting our campaign.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
So Curtis Lee were that familiar voices with us right
now on seven to ten WR All right, so I'm
gonna be Devil's advocate. Just push back because I want
to give the full picture and I want you to
constantly refute what I say in order to get to
the victory. So when you ran four years ago, it
was a straight up one on one, right, so you
got twenty eight percent against against Adams, but that was
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Democrat vers Republican. This is a bigger field, so I'm
not saying it's a guarantee you're gonna walk in with
twenty eight percent, because now Adams or Cuomo or I
mean Walden's I guess really a non factor, but all
of them can can chew away some of the twenty
eight You got right, that is correct.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
But I really equated to your run against Andrew Cuomo
the governor in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I'll never forget that image when you and.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Chairman Cox, I think it was in Colorado, you were
at the Republican Governor's Association meeting and Chris Christie, the
Republican governor of New Jersey, turned you away and said
investing in your campaign would be a lost cause.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
And yet you gave Andrew Cuomo the run of his life.
He got more votes against Andrew Cuomo than anybody else had,
and you almost won Erie County. You barely lost that.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
And so you went a hell.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Of a race without the help of the establishment that
could have benefited you enormously, and that was Chris Christie,
who was supporting the Democrat incumbent, Andrew Cormbole.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I'm facing a lot of that right now.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah, you can tell you're right.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
People urging me to drop out, even though Eric Adams
is lasting the polls and has the highest negativity rates.
So I've learned a lot from your race there, and
in terms of what you had to do to run
a race in which a lot of the Republican national
establishment was not helping you at all.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
So the establishment, as you just said, they're going to start.
You know, Charlie Kirk just came out and said, sleeve
wis gotta drop out. You're gonna hear it from You're
gonna hear it from a lot of different people. You're
gonna hear it from Republicans. Have you when and if
it happens and Trump calls you and says or publicly
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sends out a truth social and says, I'm you know,
we got to stop this guy. So you can only
back Adams, and I'm asking Cuomo, I mean curtsly with
a dropout. Has first of all, has there been any
contact from the political team with Trump at the White
House to talk to you about anything.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
No.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
In fact, those rumors came from the mouth to Mayor
Eric Adams, who would address groups right after the unexpected loss.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Of Andrew Cuomo in the primary to Zorron.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
He went around, he spoke to groups, and actually the
groups would say, well, what are you going to do
with Slee wad you know?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
He's a Republican nominee.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
He didn't even have a primary, and he would look
them dead in the eye because he is a pathological
liar as we have seen over the years, and said, oh,
the Trump administration has offered him a job. He's already
going to accept it. He will soon use the declination
clause that is available with every campaign in which he
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can drop out.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
He will move to Washington.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
They'll take good care of Curtis Leewer, and then I
will be the replacement candidate on the Republican line. That
is a nonsense, that is a out and out live
any didn't come from Trump. In fact, just this past
week at the first meeting of the Advisory Council of
Homeland Security, in front of the chairwoman, Christine Nome, Rudy
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Giuliani's on it with Bo Diedel. They gave Rudy a
standing ovation. These are all Republicans. They said, oh, you
should be the mayor. But then Rudy said, well, I
wish I could. I'm just I can't do it anymore.
I'm supporting Curtis Sleewer, and Bo Didel said, I'm supporting
Curtish Leewer. So I think the Washington establishment is beginning
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to realize that there is blowback against Eric Adams. In fact,
Charlie Kirk, I'm surprised at him. On two occasions he
chastised Eric Adams publicly when he was Dibiden of Brooklyn,
welcoming in the migrants and of all crazy things he wanted.
As I'm on the beach here in Coney Island, remember
last year we had the lifeguard shortage and he wanted
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illegal aliens to be lifeguards.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Now how crazy was that?
Speaker 5 (11:11):
And Charlie Kirk coast did that, and so you can't
suddenly condemn the guy for being a mayor, which he
has been, and then all of a sudden embraced him,
because I think you under them, Rob. If Eric Adams
had been a halfway decent incumbent mayor on the Democratic line,
we wouldn't even know who Zoran was, only his constituents
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in Astoria and his neighbors. But by his failure, Eric
Adams this has polled actually pushed Zoran into international renown
and made him the odds on favorite to become the
next mayor of the City of New York. I will
tell you all over my dead body. I want to
stick to the issues with him.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Too.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Many of my colleagues are now attacking his religion, attacking
his culture. That's a really big mistake. You're just victimizing
him and making him a martyr. And then the told
controversy about his transcript to Columbia University. He filled it out,
he checked the box African American, Asian, he is Southeast
Asian and later on Yugandi. And I don't think anyone's
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telling a story here Rob that he didn't get accepted
to Columbia even though his father is a professor of
African studies.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
He had to end up going to Boden Up in Maine.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
And here's Eric Adams saying, oh, he took the place
of the deserving African American. Hey, Eric Adams, understand this.
He didn't even get into Columbia. And probably you and
I both know, Rob, a lot of guys and gals
who've gotten into prestigious universities because of legacy, whether they
came from a prestigious Democratic family or Republican family, so
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knock it off.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Stick to the issues.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Defunding the police, wanting publicly supported supermarkets, wanting to raise
taxes on white homeowners. Those issues are what he's vulnerable on.
But if you attack his religion. We have a million
Muslims in New York City, many of them culturally would
never support him because they're very conservative. We've now driven
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them into the Zoran camp because he telled me in
the streets, the Pakistani's, the Bangladeshi's, those from Yemen. You
attack our religion, Curtis, we got to vote for our guy.
This is a horrible mistake that some people on our
side of the issue were making.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
So if Trump calls you and says, hey, would you
like to be ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo
or wherever, you would absolutely tell the President no, thank you.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Now, very respectfully, I'd say, mister President, I'm interested in
only one job, being the mayor of New York City,
because I'm the.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Only real New Yorker.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
I mean, look at Eric Adams, he still lives in
Fort Lee. You see Zoran, he went back and forth
from Uganda. He's an immigrant, and you see that your
former adversary, Andrew Como hasn't been in New York City
since nineteen ninety when he was driving around in his
failed campaign in his muscle cart. His gto he needed
a GPS system because he.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Didn't know his way around. Even queens with you always
claimed to be a queen's boy.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
So you know, look from your perspective. I and I
kind of went through this in the primary in twenty two, right,
you know, it was the establishment rallied around Lee Zelden,
and it was you know, before there was a convention
or we even had a chance to go around the state.
So I was I was running for governor, Andrew Giuliani
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was running for governor, and you know, so we were
like no, and Harry Wilson and We're like, wait a minute,
this isn't fair. And so I get what you're saying.
You're like, screw you, guys. I'm the Republican nominee period.
You know, I have a major party line. So I
totally understand your perspective. And I told people this as well.
Let me ask you why you didn't take the conservative life.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
I know, no, I've never been a conservative rob. They
haven't offered it. I haven't taken it. The other line
I have is the first ever in electoral history anywhere
in America protect Animals, which calls finocchial shelters and locking
up abuses of animals. And as you know, that resonates
with a lot of moderate Democrats and independence, especially women.
(15:23):
I respect the Conservatives, but there are some values that
I have that don't necessarily agree with their ideology.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
That wouldn't be fair for them to have me on
their line.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
They've always had candidates, if you remember, going back to
Rudy Giuliani, Michael Long was the chairman, and Rudy never
ran as a conservative. Michael Bloomberg never ran as a
conservative because Michael Long said, you have to be ideologically
a conservative for us.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
To have you on the line.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
And I think that that's appropriate because in some ways
I'm just not a conservative.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
You know.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
I've attended GBT two events. I was at the Stonewall Gathering,
as I am every year for Gay Pride. It doesn't
mean conservatives are opposed to lesbians engaged, but they have
some issues with that. I actually conducted the first gay
marriage in all of New York State in nineteen seventy
six when I was a Knight manager of McDonald's in
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the Bronx, and one of my crew people asked me
if I could say words at his marriage to his
young male friend, and I did so in the projects
of Soundview and it's sat with that's that's actually been
reporting on. So in some issues I agree with the Conservatives,
and other issues I have differences. They have their own
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candidate and Irene Strattaen, I wish you're the best, but
I have no ill will to the Conservatives and they
have no ill will towards me.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
All right, so let me let me ask you again
here we've got I mean, just looking at it again,
there's no way. There's no way, ma'am. Donny loses if
all of you guys stay in. Is that correct you think?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Or no?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I think right.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Now, if that's the case, if we look at the polls,
you're absolutely correct. But this concept that everybody's going to
rally round one candidate is just not going to happen.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
Now.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
You know, the leader of the pack, this billionaire who
lives up in Rockland County Aikman, right, Bill Ackman, Yeah,
bat Bill Ackman.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
You know he's going through what Elon Musk went through
when he learned that his child was transjatting there and
she renounced him and then oh man, he got he
had a midlife crisis over that. His daughter went to
Harvard and became a hardcore Marxist. So I get it.
Every other day he's like freaking out. But this is
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not an election cycle. Again, that's going to be determined
by the billionaires. Kazillionaires are millionaires. The two main issues,
no matter what poll you look at, is affordability and
cost of living, with crime and quality of life third
and fourth, and under Eric Adams, affordability has skyrocketed along
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with cost of living. Certainly Andrew Cuomo did nothing to
suggest that he.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Could lower it. I have a plan.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
You go to sliwad for nyced dot com. That's slee
Wad for NYC dot com.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
And when it.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Comes to public safety and quality of life, I think
everybody gives me credit for knowing what to do in
that regard.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I've dedicated my life to.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Doing that for forty six years as leader of the
Guardian Angels, both in the city and in thirteen countries
and one hundred and thirty cities.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
So I think.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
People have to understand Zoran is hitting on the issues
that are of most importance to everybody, affordability, cost of living,
and they continue to skyrocket. And if you don't address
those issues, he will. He's already measuring the Drakes and
Gracie Mansion to Eric Adams paid quoll poll that was
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just in the New York Post today. I mean, Rob,
how embarrassing is that you pay for a poll, you
put it out there, and the polster actually says, I
hate to tell you, Eric, I appreciate your generosity towards us,
but this poll indicates that Zoran is already measuring the
Drakes at Gracie Manchion.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah it look this is a sticky one because if
nothing happens, if everything stays the way it is, Mam
Domi wins because he's got the Democrat Working Families party line.
He's going to get Democrats are going to stick with
their party. He's going to be normalized. The media is
already doing it.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
You know.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
You turn on CNN and they're calling everybody a liar
for calling him a communist, or it's just it's just
the way it is right now. Cuomo, what do you
think Cuomo's game is here? He I think he's just
sitting back. He should have got off. I mean, he
was just you know, he was embarrassed. But I think
he's just hanging around hoping, ma'am, DOMI in plodes and
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then he's going to try to wake up sometime in
September or October and say I'm the only guy that
could beat this guy. Blah blah blah. You think that's
what he's doing or what's his game?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Now? No, let's look at the primary.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
And although Oroan did amazingly well with early voting.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Yeah, Como's votes were going to come.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
On election day, an act of God occurred one hundred
and two degree heat wave that the media had been
fanning the flames on for over a week. It's going
to be one hundred and two. His base is fifty
five plus. And I can tell you if it was
a normal election day, it may well have been that
Andrew Cmo would have won with the ranked choice voting
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because his vote would have turned out in mass.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
When it's one hundred and two degrees in the shade.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
The elderly can't, especially those that have high blood pressure,
that have had strokes, heart attacks, or infirm can barely
walk without the aid. You know, of an aid themselves,
a healthcare aid or a walker. I'm telling you, I
noticed a lot of people did not show up at
the pole, So I think if all things had been even,
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it would have been neck and neck.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
And if you're Andrew Cuomo and you're getting.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Attacked every day by the New York Post editorially, you're selfish.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
You should leave now.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Andrew is city back, saying I'm comfortably in second place.
I'm only six points behind Zoran. Eric Adams is in
last place. He's behind Curtis Leewa. Why should I drop out?
And if I were Andrew Cuomo, that would be my position.
It's Eric Adams who's created the situation that has allowed
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Zoran Mandami, who know that he knew to shoot to
the top because of his ineffectiveness. And let's face it,
when you're sixty eight percent negative writing, how do you
recover from that over four months? How do you undo
the mess you created over between and a half years.
And also the fact he's so unlikable person after person
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when asked, I just don't like Eric Adams. I don't
know how he could conceivably come back from that. Now
to Andrew Cuomo, he has unlikability.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
But he's been long.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Enough away from the process that a lot of people
have either forgotten him slapping fannies and killing granny or
have given him a pass on it.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Well, I think what we need to do is me you,
Eric Adams, I guess we can invite a quote. What
do you think?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Well, well, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Whether you like the Russell Crowe version of Gladiator or
Denzel version, how about Gladiators in the ring, because there
is no way you're getting the three of us together.
That would be like putting three scorps in a brandy glass.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Fun to watch.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
We hate one another.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
They hate me, yeah, and more importantly I hate them
for what they did to this city and state.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
And the other thing is.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
The people who were rating Eric Adams his his likability
unlikeability at sixty eight percent, Clomo at fifty five percent.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
I actually have.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
The best likability rating with people were saying, oh, we
love Curtis.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
You know he's done a great.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Job with the Guardian Angels.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
You know he's a true new Yorkers. Notice they say
true new Yorker, and then well, wait a second.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
If my likability rating is higher than both of them,
why am I being asked to drop out. If anything,
Eric Adams should be the person to drop out because
he has failed as.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Mayor and corrupt.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
I mean he's bringing back he's old, corrupt, Crony's publicly
this standing next them who they all should have been
in jail with Bobby Benendez if not. But Trump's sparing
them and he brings them back publicly and says they're
gonna work in the campaign. Rob you know this, uh uh,
this leopard is never gonna change its spots.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Curtis, I don't envy you. It's gonna be a tough
a tough fight. And unfortunately it's not a one on one.
You got you got your left, your right behind you,
and it's it's not fun. I've been there. But I
wish you luck clearly and keep up the fight and
we'll see what happens. A lot of time to go,
A lot can happen, and you never know. Maybe maybe
Trump calls Eric Adams and says, hey, would you like
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to be the ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo
or wherever? So we'll see. But Curtis, go go have
fun there on Coney Island.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
I have a Nathan's hot dog in your name.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Just Mustard. That's it. None of that's our craft. Take
care of Curtis, Rob Curtis Leewa here on the rob
Astarino Show on seven ten w R. You heard it.
He ain't moving, he ain't moving. What do you think?
What do you think he should do? Honestly? One eight
hundred three two one zero seven ten. One eight hundred
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three two one zero seven ten. If it stays as is,
if he runs a competitive if he runs, if Eric
Adams runs, and even if Cuomo gets in, then you're
gonna meet ma'am Dommy as your mayor in in January.
That's It's just a numbers game, no other way it
can happen. One eight hundred three two one zero seven
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All right, we'll take your call from just a bit
one ee hundred and three two one zero seven ten.
You just heard from Kurt Sliwa. I'm sure he's still
listening to this show, so you can tell him exactly
what you think he should do. We'll continue in just
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a bit, all right, one hundred and three two one
zero seven ten. Curtis is still listening over there on
the boardwalk at Coney Island, so you're going to talk
directly to him. He wants to know what you're thinking,
so you have to tell us should he drop out,
should he stay? What's the deal here? One eight hundred
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You know, they were making the argument that Buffalo is
a prime example of how it could be one because
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and I remember this race very well in twenty twenty one,
this woman, India Walton. She was an outright socialist and
she ran a primary against Buffalo's mayor Byron Brown, who
I know, and she beat him. She beat him straight
up in a Democratic primary. She was a thirty nine
year old community activist, crazy as they come. And Byron
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Brown had been like a mainstay in Buffalo, four term
mayor running for reelection on a Democratic line in a
democratic city and he lost, and then he decided to
run a write in campaign in the general election and
he won. He beat her. So everyone's saying, oh, so
it could be done. Definitely, No, totally different, please, totally different.
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He won because Buffalo's a lot smaller. Democrats in Buffalo
tend to be not as crazy as they are here
in New York City. More of a union, you know,
more of a hard hat, more of a little more
moderate Democratic. There's just crazy is up there too. But
and it was one on one, it was him against her.
(30:04):
It wasn't a big field. There were no Republicans running,
so he got a lot of Republican crossover the business
community and Republican donors, big donors. Some of my donors
put money into Byron Brown's race and they pulled it off.
But again, that is not an example we can use,
even though the Wall Street Journal said, yes, there's a
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way to know, it's totally different. And Michael Goodwin, who
I really like, I think he was so way off
this week when he had a big column about Okay,
we got a rally around the guy we hate, but
that's Andrew Cuomo. No, we don't. Cuomo doesn't deserve anyone's
votes for his record. He destroyed New York City with
his policies and his signature on those bills. He is directly,
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directly responsible for all the bad stuff happening in New
York City. He should not be rewarded, nor should he
be revived. He was defeated. He is done. Now It's
up to either Curtis Leewa, Eric Adams, who is the
current mayor, or Jim Walden, who's like, you know, not
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even in the conversation, but to sit there and make
the case for Andrew Cuomo. I just I do not
understand why anyone would do that at this point. One
hundred and three two one zero seven ten. All right,
what do you think you got? Curtis on the boardwalk
in Coney Island listening? You tell him should he stay
or should he go? That's we should have hooked up
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that song. Should I stay or should I go?
Speaker 3 (31:37):
By?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
All right, let's go with Dean in Northvale, New Jersey. Hey, Dean,
how are you? Dean? How are you?
Speaker 8 (31:48):
I just wonderful?
Speaker 9 (31:49):
You know, Curtis, you can consider dropping out every time
I listen to the radio. Should never a million people
call in? And you know what they say? Curtis knows
the city and he's on at least too many thing.
Curtis is he can't be bought. Those are the two
guys Curtis knows. Every third one that that banana, whoever
(32:10):
he is, you can't vote. I don't know about the
third one for him.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
Are the primary people, the complete far left. He's not
the only people voting.
Speaker 9 (32:18):
One of those other two guys might win. But if
everybody sent it in twenty going to win.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
They're saying, Curtis knows, Curtis could do this.
Speaker 10 (32:25):
Curtis is the best one, but he's got to.
Speaker 9 (32:26):
Step out five dollars instead of in twenty five dollars.
He would have no problem. Can you imagine two million
people if they sent them twenty five bucks, that would
be it.
Speaker 11 (32:35):
He'd be in he'd be in New York.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
I know, but Dean, that's not happening. Two million people
aren't sending A million people aren't saying hardly, hardly anyone
sending money. That's the problem that Kurtis faces. Thanks for
the call. Let's go to Jim and Nutley, New Jersey. Hey, Jim,
how are you?
Speaker 10 (32:51):
I think Curtis should should definitely stay in. The one
thing he's going to worry about is all these people
telling them that telling everybody no, he can't win, he
can't win. So I'm worried about these people staying home
if they think Curtis can't win. But I think he.
I think he absolutely can win. So instead instead of
telling people he can't win, they should tell him go out,
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make sure you go out and vote for Curtis, and
that was kind of I was kind of disappointed because
I even heard both Beetle on Monday on Sid's show
trying to convince Curtis to drop out, and after Curtis
was talking to him, both changed his tune and then
then he said, no, he's gonna support him. Dominic Carter
always always says, oh, Curtis can't win, Curtis can't win.
(33:32):
He should be telling people vote for Curtis, well for Curtis.
So I mean, that's my take. I don't I don't
want Curtis to drop out.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
He did.
Speaker 10 (33:41):
He really deserves that.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Spot, all right, Jim say, yeah, you got it. Hey,
thanks for the call. I appreciate it. Rob Astorino seven
to ten w o R one hundred and three to two,
one zero seven ten. Curtis is listening. You talk to him.
Should he stay or should he go? Sondra in New Jersey, Hi, Sondra.
Speaker 11 (33:59):
Oh hello Curtis. Of course Curtis must stay in the race,
because I talk to many people and they all say
they want Curtis. But the problem is they're afraid, afraid
of what He would be the best mayor yet because
his heart is in it more than anybody else. He's
an honest man, never stole a penny in his wife.
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But the pot I love about Curtis, which is important
to me. We all have our dogs, and we all
have our cats, and we love them very much. And
when I'm in the city and I see these dogs
and they are strollers in the backpacks, he's are lucky,
lucky animals. But every dog that I see that's lucky,
there's an unlucky one about to be put to sleep. Now,
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no other mayor is gonna ever promise us no kill shelters.
But this man will. Aside from the prime that's gonna
go down and everything else that he's gonna do. The
animals are gonna live. They're gonna have a chance of
the second life. Will you have pets? I have pets,
and I know people just thought to realize that's important too.
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That's pets are our friends.
Speaker 8 (35:07):
Our best friends.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Oh no, look, I came home, Sandra. I came home
from Rhode Island from the beach yesterday early. I got
home at eight thirty. My wife is still up there,
my sister in law is up there. I left to
come home early to make sure that I was with
my two dogs. On the fourth of July because one
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of them I couldn't even find she was hiding under
a spare bed somewhere because of the fireworks. So I
love my I love my dogs. Curtis is going to
get very Curtis is going to get very few votes
on that line, unfortunately, but he will. And the thing
is this, it's a numbers game, period. It's a numbers game.
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Mamdami is walking in with his four hundred and twenty
or thirty thousand votes he got in the primary. He's
walking in with Brad Landers one hundred and ten thousand votes.
They're basically one and the same, They cross the doors,
the same kind of voter. So he's walking in with
about five hundred and fifty thousand. Historically it's seven hundred
to seven fifty that wins the mayor all race, but
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it could be less because he's got three other people
who are pac manning the rest of the votes. They're
eating into each other, and that that is the problem here.
One eight hundred and three to two one zero seven ten.
And you're gonna have Democrats stick with their line because
they've got TDS, and Mamdami is going to be attacked
by Trump and the Republicans, So he's gonna become the
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martyr and the you know, the media being the media,
they're gonna make this guy normal and he's not. So
you're gonna have Democrats to stick with their line too.
And when you have an eight to one advantage in
this city Democrat to Republican, I I you know, if
I'm mam Dami, he's like he's on the twenty third
mile on a head start against everybody else for a marathon.
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So it's sof but we'll see. Let's go to Ud
Russell and White Plains.
Speaker 7 (37:06):
Hey Russell, Hey Rob, I voted for Curtis in twenty
twenty one, and you know, I just want to know
is Curtis in it to win it? Is he in
it for the cloud? You know? And I want him
to stay in the race because I like Mandami. I
you know, I'm voted for Mondomi and I'll vote for
him again.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
And why tell me? Why? Tell me why? It's interesting?
It's interesting.
Speaker 7 (37:26):
I'll tell you why. And I voted for Trump twice
in a row.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
Not you brought up a good vote.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Hold one second, you brought up a very good point.
There are there are some trump Man Dommi crossover voters
because they both were talking about the same thing in
very different styles. But dude, we're kind of talking about
similar things. Go ahead, I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (37:46):
You know, I really like you as a pundit. Rob.
You're very honest. I'd like you more as a pundit
on TV. You're very teleganic. I like you better than
you were as a county executive. Be honest. But you know,
look look at what Curtis does. Don't listen to what
Curtis says. Curtis Sandra, Curtis can be deputy mayor for
animal affairs and still have his job on the radio.
Maybe I'll go to seven ten. But Curtis says, don't
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attack Mondamie's religion, don't attack his academic career. And that's
Curtis who blew it. He was admitted to Brown and
he blew that. So Curtis was an Ivy League person.
Think how he dodged a bullet there. We would never
had the Curtis. And then he's building the Republican Party.
He's rationalizing staying in the race, and he doesn't attack
the citizenship of Mondamie. You know that is crazy. They're
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just lifting up Mondammie. Trump lifted him up by doing
the things he does. And you know, Thomas Jefferson was
only thirty three when he wrote the Declaration of Independent
and I don't think Montdamie is quite the revolutionary that
Thomas Jefferson was.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
But hey, I appreciate to miss you up here. Thank you, Russell.
I appreciate the call. One hundred and three two one
zero seven ten, Spencer in Irvington, New York. There's an Irvington,
New Jersey, but he's in Irvington, New York, which is
in Westchester and Irvington unfortunately come like you know, Comyville.
But go ahead, Spencer. How are you hello?
Speaker 12 (39:05):
I think scourtis to stay in the race. Okay, I'm
I'm a wegstered Democrat, but if I lived in New
York City I would vote for him.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Good for you, all right, I appreciate the call, Spencer.
Thank you. Let's go to Christina in Manhattan. You're on
seven to ten. Wr Hey, Christina, Hi, can you hear me? Oh? Yeah,
I can hear you with that intro?
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Yes? Hello.
Speaker 13 (39:28):
Well my road goes to Curtis and the reason why
anybody's arguing and putting him down and saying get out
of the race, and blah blah blah. Is because there's
a twenty eight million dollar donation from Bloomberg to Cuomo
and the money is being spread around and people are
raking it in and they're trying to push a Curtis
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out of the race. I can see that. And people
want Curtis. They like Curtis, they know he'll be great
to get rid of the crime, to get rid of
all crap that Bloomberg shoved down our throats sake, and
justin pricing bake lanes that kill people. We want Curtis
and we will vote for him because people love him.
(40:12):
No matter what you say. The Democrat that just called
is ready to vote for Curtis.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
All right, Christine, I appreciate the call. Let's go to
ann and Staten Island. You're on the rob Astorino Show
in seven ten w R High End.
Speaker 11 (40:25):
Nice to speak to you, Rob.
Speaker 8 (40:27):
I love Curtis. I met him a few times. My
sister and my niece went to the Belvedere Statton Island.
They had dinner and they gave to him. I also
contributed a nice amount to him. And there is no
one more deserving to be the mayor. But Curtis. Curtis
goes down and the slums of the subway, He cleaned streets.
He does so much. He even was hurt at one time.
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How could anybody in their right mind not vote for
this man? If you elect Curtis, I know he'd reach
out to Juliani the best people. I think he should
keep this tissue right now. He seems good. But I
would vote for Courtis.
Speaker 11 (41:06):
I know people that are.
Speaker 8 (41:07):
I have the lawn sign of him.
Speaker 6 (41:10):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (41:10):
The thing is, I'm trying to find out how I
could do stuff to volunteer on Staten Island.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
And that's a good point. Thank you for the call.
So you can't just win by doing media. You can't
just win with an air attack, meaning what Cuomo thought
he could do and that has just spend a gazillion
dollars on TV.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
You need.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
The army and take it from me. Okay, unless you
have a good solid field operation, unless you have really volunteers,
because they're the ones who will go in rain and
snow and one hundred degree temperature and knock on doors
because they are with you. Okay, they're adamant that they
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want to get you involved and get you elected, and
they'll do anything you could get paid people, but they're
not never going to be as good, ma'am. Dommi had
a had tens of thousands according to his campaign, so
take it for what it's worth. He had tens of
thousands of volunteers who signed up because they believe in
this guy, and they knocked on millions of doors and
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they built up a huge list and they got out
their vote. So that's really formidable. And unless Curtis has that,
and I doubt he does, because the Republican Party doesn't
have a great, really great field operation in New York
City Mayor Adams, I don't know where his organization's coming from.
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Maybe some of the unions who have just jumped off
of Cuomo ship. And if Cuomo gets in it, who
is out there, you know, carrying the Cuomo flag. Nobody
the big check writers. Yeah, but you can see what
that got. It didn't get people in the streets knocking
on doors. So the man Doommie has a huge advantage
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because he's got the field ops, what we call the
GOTV get out the vote. He's got that. That is
tough to beat, especially now he's got the Democratic line
and the Working Families Line and at least a half
a million in his back pocket in votes. I gotta
take a quick break. I got some things to do,
and then we take the rest of your phone calls.
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Speaker 2 (44:57):
Got em money. I would puke after three hot dogs.
This guy ate seventy and a half. Oh, seventy and
a half hot dogs, disgusting. And the woman she had
thirty three. The female that's a lady. Huh hey, ma,
come on my I want you to meet my new lady.
She ate thirty three hot dogs. Oh this is like
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African American. That's what mom Dommie says he is. And
you know what, I uh, you're gonna find this to
be crazy. He is African American. He is, actually agree
with him. He his family they're from Uganda, that is
in Africa. So he is African American. Just because I
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don't know when this changed, but black Americans went from
black to African American. Well, not every black is from Africa.
You tell someone from Jamaica that they're African American, they
look at you and go, are you kidding me? I'm
not African American. I'm Jamaican. I'm Caribbean American. So this
whole thing about is an Egyptian African American. Yeah, from Africa.
(46:37):
So I mean, seriously, he's actually right on that. But
just because we twisted everything, no, I'll actually give him
that he is African American doesn't belong to just Al Sharpton.
Let me get in another call or to real quickly here,
uh Jezray and Brooklyn, Hey.
Speaker 6 (46:57):
Ray, I just want to say. I'm a Stone Curtis supporter,
and I don't understand why the big business or big
money believes that if Curtis stepped down, I will vote
for Eric Adams or Como. Hell no, I'm staying home.
Speaker 2 (47:15):
That's good, that's a good point. Yep, No, look, I
thanks for the call.
Speaker 3 (47:19):
Ray.
Speaker 2 (47:19):
I have found the biggest donors to be the biggest
fools when it comes to elections. They just they do
not understand how elections are won or lost. So you
want their money, You want them to write a million
dollars to a pack or something. But you know, they
all went with Cuomo. They read the tea leaves so wrong,
so wrong. Caroline and Long Island? Hi, how are you Caroline?
(47:45):
Where on Long Island are you? Yeah? You're on quick Hello?
How are you?
Speaker 3 (47:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (47:52):
So I used to okay, sorry about that. Yeah, I
used to live in Brooklyn back in the day. I
met some of the Guardian Angels when they would go
to Manhattan for you know, to work, and then at
nights to Brooklyn College. I'll never forget how comfortable I felt,
as a young woman in my twenties. Wanted to thank
Curtis for that, for that and I've already changed some
liberal minds in my neighborhood, not that they can vote,
but the ones that do live in the city. I've
changed some of their votes by just saying, look at online.
(48:14):
When Curtis used to be or whatever back in the
seventies and eighties, he gets very young of them with
his guardians, and they were so impressed with what they
saw that they said, you know, I could vote for him.
So I'm thinking, can he do a little bit I know,
you say, you know the media, but maybe something where
you can show what happened back in the seventies and
eighties when it was really disgusting, you know, which might
happen real soon.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
Calin, thank you for the call. I appreciate it. Yeah.
So all right, so at least with our listeners, Curtis
should stay in the race. He said he's gonna even
if Trump calls and offers him something, because the only
way you can get off now, and they could switch
something like crossing doors Adams to the Republican line if
Curtis got off is by him dying. I don't think
he plans on doing that, or moving out of the
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state and moving out of the city and that you know,
a job in DC would do that. But we'll see anyway,
back next Saturday, four pm, as I always am, and
Newsmax one to three on Saturdays and during the week
follow me on social. I appreciate you call. I really do.
(49:13):
Hope you had a great or listening on that transistor radio.
Curtis is listening on the boardwalk. I'll be back here
next Saturday. I hope you are too, Thanks again for listening. Everybody,
enjoy the rest of your holiday week. And you know what,
God bless America.
Speaker 1 (49:29):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Maybe you're heading out to City Field see if the
Yankees can blow another one wearing those ridiculous caps. Can
you just stop it. I can't stand all these alternative
uniforms and caps and blah blah blah. What I love
about the Yankees is they just have their pinstripes. It's
its tradition. I know they do it here and there
and whatever. Anyway, Yankees are tumbling, and so are the Mets.
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So will zorn Mondami tumble. You got a race here,
a big race for mayor. And we're gonna talk to
Curtis Sliwa in just a moment. He's gonna get a
ton of pressure to drop out. It's already happening. So
I'll ask him that in a minute, and I'll take
your calls to see what you think about whether he
should or shouldn't stay in oneted hundred three to two
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one zero seven ten one eight hundred three to two
one zero seven ten here on the rob Astarino Show
on seven ten. Wr Hey, I hope you had a
great Fourth of July. Hopefully you have ten fingers. Still,
I'm not a fireworks guy. Just I don't know. I
never really liked the fireworks, even like the big shows.
(01:33):
You wouldn't pay me enough to come into the city
to stay sweaty, shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of thousands
of people watching the fireworks just not my thing. I
had to do it when I was county executive. I
would go to Westchester at the Kentsico.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Damn.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
We would do it the night before and I'm like,
when is his end? I'm gonna get out of here anyway,
all right. So we got a big race from May
are coming up, a lot of pros and cons of
what to do. You got four candidates now gutting towards
the Democratic nominee, Zoron Mundami. I was in Rhode Island
(02:13):
yesterday in the supermarket and I see some moron with
a Zoron T shirt. So this guy represents a movement
of the radicals, the crazies, who are going to be
gun ho at voting again in November. So how do
you get to the magic number and beat this guy
(02:33):
when there's there's a lot of candidates buying for that vote. So,
Curtis Lee, what is the Republican nominee? Curtis and I
have known each other forever since two thousand and one
when we worked together, and you know, I certainly would
love to see him win, and he is with us
right now from Coney Island. Curtis, how many hot dogs
did you eat?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Did you?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Did you get anywhere close to Joey Chestnut? Seventy and
a half?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Now, I finished third in Sick Did you really?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
But I did?
Speaker 5 (03:03):
But I can't. I can't do that anymore. I'm retired
from competitive eating. I am underneath the Coney Island world
famous parachute as I talked to you.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I'll send you a picture after the interview.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
But I am working the crowd here while Eric Adams
is working the Hampton's crowd, the wealthy and the rich,
and Andrew Cuomo is hiding in the Hamptons as he
tries to determine what to do even though he's number
two in all the polls of late.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
So all right, you set it up, all right, you
got mayor Adams, who obviously has not pulled well like
for four years, but he is the mayor and the
it seems like the money folks who put a lot
of money into Andrew Cuomo now are kind of shifting
it to Adams as seeing he's the guy that they
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want to get behind that could win. You know, it's
been tough for you to raise money, you know, for
any Republican in New York City, to be fair, it's
tough unless you're a Bloomberg. But let's set up this
race now, because Mndamie walks in with probably a half
a million votes to start off, right, when you calculate
what it takes to win, what's the magic number? So
(04:16):
every campaign I've ever been in, we at the very
beginning realize what the turnout would be or what we predicted,
how many votes it would be to win the race.
What in your estimation, how many votes is it going
to take to win this race for anybody? How many votes?
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Well, first off, Rob, I don't believe that anybody is
going to drop out. I'm certainly not, nor will Cuomo.
I mean, I'm number three in the polls and Eric Adams.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Is way down.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
He is that not only last in the polls, but
he has the highest reported negativity rate, probably in the
history of electoral politics, sixty eight percent unfavorable rate. So
I believe, when all is said and with four people
in the race, that I can win this race. Since
I got twenty eight percent the last time against Eric Adams,
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I get thirty two percent, and I'm the next mayor
of the City of New York. Most of my votes
come from the outer boroughs, the residential areas which Erik
Adams has neglected. And as you know, Zorron wants to
tax a special increased tax in all white residential areas
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because he really wants to drive white people out of here.
So that will be to my advantage because that's where
I spent a lot of time stopping the migrant shelters,
the normal shelters, the lithium ion battery warehouses that they
are now deciding to build in the outer boroughs but
not Manhattan. And most importantly, the city of Yes that
(05:48):
gives developers the right to come into a residential neighborhood
without having to go to a community board. A city
council person doesn't have any zoning restrictions and put up
apartment houses stories and basically push.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Out those who own one and two family homes.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
That's the strength of my support and it's what I
believe will be my pathway to victory. Eric Adams doesn't
have that, and Jucuomo doesn't have that, and certainly Zorhan
depends on the gen Zs and millennials.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
But I also have quite a few.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Gen zs and millennials because I don't malign them, I
don't make fun of them, I don't push them away
where eventually they will end up supporting Zoran and that
will be a detrimental issue in this election if we
do not have gen zs and millennials supporting our campaign.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
So Curtis Lee were that familiar voices with us right
now on seven to ten WR All right, so I'm
gonna be Devil's advocate. Just push back because I want
to give the full picture and I want you to
constantly refute what I say in order to get to
the victory. So when you ran four years ago, it
was a straight up one on one, right, so you
got twenty eight percent against against Adams, but that was
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Democrat vers Republican. This is a bigger field, so I'm
not saying it's a guarantee you're gonna walk in with
twenty eight percent, because now Adams or Cuomo or I
mean Walden's I guess really a non factor, but all
of them can can chew away some of the twenty
eight You got right, that is correct.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
But I really equated to your run against Andrew Cuomo
the governor in twenty fourteen.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
I'll never forget that image when you and.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Chairman Cox, I think it was in Colorado, you were
at the Republican Governor's Association meeting and Chris Christie, the
Republican governor of New Jersey, turned you away and said
investing in your campaign would be a lost cause.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
And yet you gave Andrew Cuomo the run of his life.
He got more votes against Andrew Cuomo than anybody else had,
and you almost won Erie County. You barely lost that.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
And so you went a hell.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Of a race without the help of the establishment that
could have benefited you enormously, and that was Chris Christie,
who was supporting the Democrat incumbent, Andrew Cormbole.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I'm facing a lot of that right now.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Yeah, you can tell you're right.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
People urging me to drop out, even though Eric Adams
is lasting the polls and has the highest negativity rates.
So I've learned a lot from your race there, and
in terms of what you had to do to run
a race in which a lot of the Republican national
establishment was not helping you at all.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
So the establishment, as you just said, they're going to start.
You know, Charlie Kirk just came out and said, sleeve
wis gotta drop out. You're gonna hear it from You're
gonna hear it from a lot of different people. You're
gonna hear it from Republicans. Have you when and if
it happens and Trump calls you and says or publicly
(08:57):
sends out a truth social and says, I'm you know,
we got to stop this guy. So you can only
back Adams, and I'm asking Cuomo, I mean curtsly with
a dropout. Has first of all, has there been any
contact from the political team with Trump at the White
House to talk to you about anything.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
No.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
In fact, those rumors came from the mouth to Mayor
Eric Adams, who would address groups right after the unexpected loss.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Of Andrew Cuomo in the primary to Zorron.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
He went around, he spoke to groups, and actually the
groups would say, well, what are you going to do
with Slee wad you know?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
He's a Republican nominee.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
He didn't even have a primary, and he would look
them dead in the eye because he is a pathological
liar as we have seen over the years, and said, oh,
the Trump administration has offered him a job. He's already
going to accept it. He will soon use the declination
clause that is available with every campaign in which he
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can drop out.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
He will move to Washington.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
They'll take good care of Curtis Leewer, and then I
will be the replacement candidate on the Republican line. That
is a nonsense, that is a out and out live
any didn't come from Trump. In fact, just this past
week at the first meeting of the Advisory Council of
Homeland Security, in front of the chairwoman, Christine Nome, Rudy
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Giuliani's on it with Bo Diedel. They gave Rudy a
standing ovation. These are all Republicans. They said, oh, you
should be the mayor. But then Rudy said, well, I
wish I could. I'm just I can't do it anymore.
I'm supporting Curtis Sleewer, and Bo Didel said, I'm supporting
Curtish Leewer. So I think the Washington establishment is beginning
(10:45):
to realize that there is blowback against Eric Adams. In fact,
Charlie Kirk, I'm surprised at him. On two occasions he
chastised Eric Adams publicly when he was Dibiden of Brooklyn,
welcoming in the migrants and of all crazy things he wanted.
As I'm on the beach here in Coney Island, remember
last year we had the lifeguard shortage and he wanted
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illegal aliens to be lifeguards.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Now how crazy was that?
Speaker 5 (11:11):
And Charlie Kirk coast did that, and so you can't
suddenly condemn the guy for being a mayor, which he
has been, and then all of a sudden embraced him,
because I think you under them, Rob. If Eric Adams
had been a halfway decent incumbent mayor on the Democratic line,
we wouldn't even know who Zoran was, only his constituents
(11:34):
in Astoria and his neighbors. But by his failure, Eric
Adams this has polled actually pushed Zoran into international renown
and made him the odds on favorite to become the
next mayor of the City of New York. I will
tell you all over my dead body. I want to
stick to the issues with him.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Too.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Many of my colleagues are now attacking his religion, attacking
his culture. That's a really big mistake. You're just victimizing
him and making him a martyr. And then the told
controversy about his transcript to Columbia University. He filled it out,
he checked the box African American, Asian, he is Southeast
Asian and later on Yugandi. And I don't think anyone's
(12:16):
telling a story here Rob that he didn't get accepted
to Columbia even though his father is a professor of
African studies.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
He had to end up going to Boden Up in Maine.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
And here's Eric Adams saying, oh, he took the place
of the deserving African American. Hey, Eric Adams, understand this.
He didn't even get into Columbia. And probably you and
I both know, Rob, a lot of guys and gals
who've gotten into prestigious universities because of legacy, whether they
came from a prestigious Democratic family or Republican family, so
(12:48):
knock it off.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Stick to the issues.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Defunding the police, wanting publicly supported supermarkets, wanting to raise
taxes on white homeowners. Those issues are what he's vulnerable on.
But if you attack his religion. We have a million
Muslims in New York City, many of them culturally would
never support him because they're very conservative. We've now driven
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them into the Zoran camp because he telled me in
the streets, the Pakistani's, the Bangladeshi's, those from Yemen. You
attack our religion, Curtis, we got to vote for our guy.
This is a horrible mistake that some people on our
side of the issue were making.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
So if Trump calls you and says, hey, would you
like to be ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo
or wherever, you would absolutely tell the President no, thank you.
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Now, very respectfully, I'd say, mister President, I'm interested in
only one job, being the mayor of New York City,
because I'm the.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Only real New Yorker.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
I mean, look at Eric Adams, he still lives in
Fort Lee. You see Zoran, he went back and forth
from Uganda. He's an immigrant, and you see that your
former adversary, Andrew Como hasn't been in New York City
since nineteen ninety when he was driving around in his
failed campaign in his muscle cart. His gto he needed
a GPS system because he.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Didn't know his way around. Even queens with you always
claimed to be a queen's boy.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
So you know, look from your perspective. I and I
kind of went through this in the primary in twenty two, right,
you know, it was the establishment rallied around Lee Zelden,
and it was you know, before there was a convention
or we even had a chance to go around the state.
So I was I was running for governor, Andrew Giuliani
(14:38):
was running for governor, and you know, so we were
like no, and Harry Wilson and We're like, wait a minute,
this isn't fair. And so I get what you're saying.
You're like, screw you, guys. I'm the Republican nominee period.
You know, I have a major party line. So I
totally understand your perspective. And I told people this as well.
Let me ask you why you didn't take the conservative life.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
I know, no, I've never been a conservative rob. They
haven't offered it. I haven't taken it. The other line
I have is the first ever in electoral history anywhere
in America protect Animals, which calls finocchial shelters and locking
up abuses of animals. And as you know, that resonates
with a lot of moderate Democrats and independence, especially women.
(15:23):
I respect the Conservatives, but there are some values that
I have that don't necessarily agree with their ideology.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
That wouldn't be fair for them to have me on
their line.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
They've always had candidates, if you remember, going back to
Rudy Giuliani, Michael Long was the chairman, and Rudy never
ran as a conservative. Michael Bloomberg never ran as a
conservative because Michael Long said, you have to be ideologically
a conservative for us.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
To have you on the line.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
And I think that that's appropriate because in some ways
I'm just not a conservative.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
You know.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
I've attended GBT two events. I was at the Stonewall Gathering,
as I am every year for Gay Pride. It doesn't
mean conservatives are opposed to lesbians engaged, but they have
some issues with that. I actually conducted the first gay
marriage in all of New York State in nineteen seventy
six when I was a Knight manager of McDonald's in
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the Bronx, and one of my crew people asked me
if I could say words at his marriage to his
young male friend, and I did so in the projects
of Soundview and it's sat with that's that's actually been
reporting on. So in some issues I agree with the Conservatives,
and other issues I have differences. They have their own
(16:40):
candidate and Irene Strattaen, I wish you're the best, but
I have no ill will to the Conservatives and they
have no ill will towards me.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
All right, so let me let me ask you again
here we've got I mean, just looking at it again,
there's no way. There's no way, ma'am. Donny loses if
all of you guys stay in. Is that correct you think?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Or no?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I think right.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Now, if that's the case, if we look at the polls,
you're absolutely correct. But this concept that everybody's going to
rally round one candidate is just not going to happen.
Speaker 7 (17:15):
Now.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
You know, the leader of the pack, this billionaire who
lives up in Rockland County Aikman, right, Bill Ackman, Yeah,
bat Bill Ackman.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
You know he's going through what Elon Musk went through
when he learned that his child was transjatting there and
she renounced him and then oh man, he got he
had a midlife crisis over that. His daughter went to
Harvard and became a hardcore Marxist. So I get it.
Every other day he's like freaking out. But this is
(17:47):
not an election cycle. Again, that's going to be determined
by the billionaires. Kazillionaires are millionaires. The two main issues,
no matter what poll you look at, is affordability and
cost of living, with crime and quality of life third
and fourth, and under Eric Adams, affordability has skyrocketed along
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with cost of living. Certainly Andrew Cuomo did nothing to
suggest that he.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Could lower it. I have a plan.
Speaker 5 (18:17):
You go to sliwad for nyced dot com. That's slee
Wad for NYC dot com.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
And when it.
Speaker 5 (18:23):
Comes to public safety and quality of life, I think
everybody gives me credit for knowing what to do in
that regard.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
I've dedicated my life to.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Doing that for forty six years as leader of the
Guardian Angels, both in the city and in thirteen countries
and one hundred and thirty cities.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
So I think.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
People have to understand Zoran is hitting on the issues
that are of most importance to everybody, affordability, cost of living,
and they continue to skyrocket. And if you don't address
those issues, he will. He's already measuring the Drakes and
Gracie Mansion to Eric Adams paid quoll poll that was
(19:03):
just in the New York Post today. I mean, Rob,
how embarrassing is that you pay for a poll, you
put it out there, and the polster actually says, I
hate to tell you, Eric, I appreciate your generosity towards us,
but this poll indicates that Zoran is already measuring the
Drakes at Gracie Manchion.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah it look this is a sticky one because if
nothing happens, if everything stays the way it is, Mam
Domi wins because he's got the Democrat Working Families party line.
He's going to get Democrats are going to stick with
their party. He's going to be normalized. The media is
already doing it.
Speaker 6 (19:37):
You know.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
You turn on CNN and they're calling everybody a liar
for calling him a communist, or it's just it's just
the way it is right now. Cuomo, what do you
think Cuomo's game is here? He I think he's just
sitting back. He should have got off. I mean, he
was just you know, he was embarrassed. But I think
he's just hanging around hoping, ma'am, DOMI in plodes and
(20:01):
then he's going to try to wake up sometime in
September or October and say I'm the only guy that
could beat this guy. Blah blah blah. You think that's
what he's doing or what's his game?
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Now? No, let's look at the primary.
Speaker 5 (20:15):
And although Oroan did amazingly well with early voting.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
Yeah, Como's votes were going to come.
Speaker 5 (20:22):
On election day, an act of God occurred one hundred
and two degree heat wave that the media had been
fanning the flames on for over a week. It's going
to be one hundred and two. His base is fifty
five plus. And I can tell you if it was
a normal election day, it may well have been that
Andrew Cmo would have won with the ranked choice voting
(20:44):
because his vote would have turned out in mass.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
When it's one hundred and two degrees in the shade.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
The elderly can't, especially those that have high blood pressure,
that have had strokes, heart attacks, or infirm can barely
walk without the aid. You know, of an aid themselves,
a healthcare aid or a walker. I'm telling you, I
noticed a lot of people did not show up at
the pole, So I think if all things had been even,
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it would have been neck and neck.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
And if you're Andrew Cuomo and you're getting.
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Attacked every day by the New York Post editorially, you're selfish.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
You should leave now.
Speaker 5 (21:24):
Andrew is city back, saying I'm comfortably in second place.
I'm only six points behind Zoran. Eric Adams is in
last place. He's behind Curtis Leewa. Why should I drop out?
And if I were Andrew Cuomo, that would be my position.
It's Eric Adams who's created the situation that has allowed
(21:45):
Zoran Mandami, who know that he knew to shoot to
the top because of his ineffectiveness. And let's face it,
when you're sixty eight percent negative writing, how do you
recover from that over four months? How do you undo
the mess you created over between and a half years.
And also the fact he's so unlikable person after person
(22:08):
when asked, I just don't like Eric Adams. I don't
know how he could conceivably come back from that. Now
to Andrew Cuomo, he has unlikability.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
But he's been long.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Enough away from the process that a lot of people
have either forgotten him slapping fannies and killing granny or
have given him a pass on it.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Well, I think what we need to do is me you,
Eric Adams, I guess we can invite a quote. What
do you think?
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Well, well, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Whether you like the Russell Crowe version of Gladiator or
Denzel version, how about Gladiators in the ring, because there
is no way you're getting the three of us together.
That would be like putting three scorps in a brandy glass.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Fun to watch.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
We hate one another.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
They hate me, yeah, and more importantly I hate them
for what they did to this city and state.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
And the other thing is.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
The people who were rating Eric Adams his his likability
unlikeability at sixty eight percent, Clomo at fifty five percent.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
I actually have.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
The best likability rating with people were saying, oh, we
love Curtis.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
You know he's done a great.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
Job with the Guardian Angels.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
You know he's a true new Yorkers. Notice they say
true new Yorker, and then well, wait a second.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
If my likability rating is higher than both of them,
why am I being asked to drop out. If anything,
Eric Adams should be the person to drop out because
he has failed as.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Mayor and corrupt.
Speaker 5 (23:58):
I mean he's bringing back he's old, corrupt, Crony's publicly
this standing next them who they all should have been
in jail with Bobby Benendez if not. But Trump's sparing
them and he brings them back publicly and says they're
gonna work in the campaign. Rob you know this, uh uh,
this leopard is never gonna change its spots.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Curtis, I don't envy you. It's gonna be a tough
a tough fight. And unfortunately it's not a one on one.
You got you got your left, your right behind you,
and it's it's not fun. I've been there. But I
wish you luck clearly and keep up the fight and
we'll see what happens. A lot of time to go,
A lot can happen, and you never know. Maybe maybe
Trump calls Eric Adams and says, hey, would you like
(24:44):
to be the ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo
or wherever? So we'll see. But Curtis, go go have
fun there on Coney Island.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
I have a Nathan's hot dog in your name.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Just Mustard. That's it. None of that's our craft. Take
care of Curtis, Rob Curtis Leewa here on the rob
Astarino Show on seven ten w R. You heard it.
He ain't moving, he ain't moving. What do you think?
What do you think he should do? Honestly? One eight
hundred three two one zero seven ten. One eight hundred
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three two one zero seven ten. If it stays as is,
if he runs a competitive if he runs, if Eric
Adams runs, and even if Cuomo gets in, then you're
gonna meet ma'am Dommy as your mayor in in January.
That's It's just a numbers game, no other way it
can happen. One eight hundred three two one zero seven
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what you think he should do. We'll continue in just
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a bit, all right, one hundred and three two one
zero seven ten. Curtis is still listening over there on
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so you have to tell us should he drop out,
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You know, they were making the argument that Buffalo is
a prime example of how it could be one because
(28:57):
and I remember this race very well in twenty twenty one,
this woman, India Walton. She was an outright socialist and
she ran a primary against Buffalo's mayor Byron Brown, who
I know, and she beat him. She beat him straight
up in a Democratic primary. She was a thirty nine
year old community activist, crazy as they come. And Byron
(29:18):
Brown had been like a mainstay in Buffalo, four term
mayor running for reelection on a Democratic line in a
democratic city and he lost, and then he decided to
run a write in campaign in the general election and
he won. He beat her. So everyone's saying, oh, so
it could be done. Definitely, No, totally different, please, totally different.
(29:43):
He won because Buffalo's a lot smaller. Democrats in Buffalo
tend to be not as crazy as they are here
in New York City. More of a union, you know,
more of a hard hat, more of a little more
moderate Democratic. There's just crazy is up there too. But
and it was one on one, it was him against her.
(30:04):
It wasn't a big field. There were no Republicans running,
so he got a lot of Republican crossover the business
community and Republican donors, big donors. Some of my donors
put money into Byron Brown's race and they pulled it off.
But again, that is not an example we can use,
even though the Wall Street Journal said, yes, there's a
(30:27):
way to know, it's totally different. And Michael Goodwin, who
I really like, I think he was so way off
this week when he had a big column about Okay,
we got a rally around the guy we hate, but
that's Andrew Cuomo. No, we don't. Cuomo doesn't deserve anyone's
votes for his record. He destroyed New York City with
his policies and his signature on those bills. He is directly,
(30:51):
directly responsible for all the bad stuff happening in New
York City. He should not be rewarded, nor should he
be revived. He was defeated. He is done. Now It's
up to either Curtis Leewa, Eric Adams, who is the
current mayor, or Jim Walden, who's like, you know, not
(31:13):
even in the conversation, but to sit there and make
the case for Andrew Cuomo. I just I do not
understand why anyone would do that at this point. One
hundred and three two one zero seven ten. All right,
what do you think you got? Curtis on the boardwalk
in Coney Island listening? You tell him should he stay
or should he go? That's we should have hooked up
(31:35):
that song. Should I stay or should I go?
Speaker 3 (31:37):
By?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
All right, let's go with Dean in Northvale, New Jersey. Hey, Dean,
how are you? Dean? How are you?
Speaker 8 (31:48):
I just wonderful?
Speaker 9 (31:49):
You know, Curtis, you can consider dropping out every time
I listen to the radio. Should never a million people
call in? And you know what they say? Curtis knows
the city and he's on at least too many thing.
Curtis is he can't be bought. Those are the two
guys Curtis knows. Every third one that that banana, whoever
(32:10):
he is, you can't vote. I don't know about the
third one for him.
Speaker 6 (32:13):
Are the primary people, the complete far left. He's not
the only people voting.
Speaker 9 (32:18):
One of those other two guys might win. But if
everybody sent it in twenty going to win.
Speaker 6 (32:23):
They're saying, Curtis knows, Curtis could do this.
Speaker 10 (32:25):
Curtis is the best one, but he's got to.
Speaker 9 (32:26):
Step out five dollars instead of in twenty five dollars.
He would have no problem. Can you imagine two million
people if they sent them twenty five bucks, that would
be it.
Speaker 11 (32:35):
He'd be in he'd be in New York.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
I know, but Dean, that's not happening. Two million people
aren't sending A million people aren't saying hardly, hardly anyone
sending money. That's the problem that Kurtis faces. Thanks for
the call. Let's go to Jim and Nutley, New Jersey. Hey, Jim,
how are you?
Speaker 10 (32:51):
I think Curtis should should definitely stay in. The one
thing he's going to worry about is all these people
telling them that telling everybody no, he can't win, he
can't win. So I'm worried about these people staying home
if they think Curtis can't win. But I think he.
I think he absolutely can win. So instead instead of
telling people he can't win, they should tell him go out,
(33:11):
make sure you go out and vote for Curtis, and
that was kind of I was kind of disappointed because
I even heard both Beetle on Monday on Sid's show
trying to convince Curtis to drop out, and after Curtis
was talking to him, both changed his tune and then
then he said, no, he's gonna support him. Dominic Carter
always always says, oh, Curtis can't win, Curtis can't win.
(33:32):
He should be telling people vote for Curtis, well for Curtis.
So I mean, that's my take. I don't I don't
want Curtis to drop out.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
He did.
Speaker 10 (33:41):
He really deserves that.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
Spot, all right, Jim say, yeah, you got it. Hey,
thanks for the call. I appreciate it. Rob Astorino seven
to ten w o R one hundred and three to two,
one zero seven ten. Curtis is listening. You talk to him.
Should he stay or should he go? Sondra in New Jersey, Hi, Sondra.
Speaker 11 (33:59):
Oh hello Curtis. Of course Curtis must stay in the race,
because I talk to many people and they all say
they want Curtis. But the problem is they're afraid, afraid
of what He would be the best mayor yet because
his heart is in it more than anybody else. He's
an honest man, never stole a penny in his wife.
(34:21):
But the pot I love about Curtis, which is important
to me. We all have our dogs, and we all
have our cats, and we love them very much. And
when I'm in the city and I see these dogs
and they are strollers in the backpacks, he's are lucky,
lucky animals. But every dog that I see that's lucky,
there's an unlucky one about to be put to sleep. Now,
(34:44):
no other mayor is gonna ever promise us no kill shelters.
But this man will. Aside from the prime that's gonna
go down and everything else that he's gonna do. The
animals are gonna live. They're gonna have a chance of
the second life. Will you have pets? I have pets,
and I know people just thought to realize that's important too.
(35:05):
That's pets are our friends.
Speaker 8 (35:07):
Our best friends.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
Oh no, look, I came home, Sandra. I came home
from Rhode Island from the beach yesterday early. I got
home at eight thirty. My wife is still up there,
my sister in law is up there. I left to
come home early to make sure that I was with
my two dogs. On the fourth of July because one
(35:28):
of them I couldn't even find she was hiding under
a spare bed somewhere because of the fireworks. So I
love my I love my dogs. Curtis is going to
get very Curtis is going to get very few votes
on that line, unfortunately, but he will. And the thing
is this, it's a numbers game, period. It's a numbers game.
(35:51):
Mamdami is walking in with his four hundred and twenty
or thirty thousand votes he got in the primary. He's
walking in with Brad Landers one hundred and ten thousand votes.
They're basically one and the same, They cross the doors,
the same kind of voter. So he's walking in with
about five hundred and fifty thousand. Historically it's seven hundred
to seven fifty that wins the mayor all race, but
(36:16):
it could be less because he's got three other people
who are pac manning the rest of the votes. They're
eating into each other, and that that is the problem here.
One eight hundred and three to two one zero seven ten.
And you're gonna have Democrats stick with their line because
they've got TDS, and Mamdami is going to be attacked
by Trump and the Republicans, So he's gonna become the
(36:37):
martyr and the you know, the media being the media,
they're gonna make this guy normal and he's not. So
you're gonna have Democrats to stick with their line too.
And when you have an eight to one advantage in
this city Democrat to Republican, I I you know, if
I'm mam Dami, he's like he's on the twenty third
mile on a head start against everybody else for a marathon.
(37:00):
So it's sof but we'll see. Let's go to Ud
Russell and White Plains.
Speaker 7 (37:06):
Hey Russell, Hey Rob, I voted for Curtis in twenty
twenty one, and you know, I just want to know
is Curtis in it to win it? Is he in
it for the cloud? You know? And I want him
to stay in the race because I like Mandami. I
you know, I'm voted for Mondomi and I'll vote for
him again.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
And why tell me? Why? Tell me why? It's interesting?
It's interesting.
Speaker 7 (37:26):
I'll tell you why. And I voted for Trump twice
in a row.
Speaker 3 (37:29):
Not you brought up a good vote.
Speaker 2 (37:32):
Hold one second, you brought up a very good point.
There are there are some trump Man Dommi crossover voters
because they both were talking about the same thing in
very different styles. But dude, we're kind of talking about
similar things. Go ahead, I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (37:46):
You know, I really like you as a pundit. Rob.
You're very honest. I'd like you more as a pundit
on TV. You're very teleganic. I like you better than
you were as a county executive. Be honest. But you know,
look look at what Curtis does. Don't listen to what
Curtis says. Curtis Sandra, Curtis can be deputy mayor for
animal affairs and still have his job on the radio.
Maybe I'll go to seven ten. But Curtis says, don't
(38:08):
attack Mondamie's religion, don't attack his academic career. And that's
Curtis who blew it. He was admitted to Brown and
he blew that. So Curtis was an Ivy League person.
Think how he dodged a bullet there. We would never
had the Curtis. And then he's building the Republican Party.
He's rationalizing staying in the race, and he doesn't attack
the citizenship of Mondamie. You know that is crazy. They're
(38:30):
just lifting up Mondammie. Trump lifted him up by doing
the things he does. And you know, Thomas Jefferson was
only thirty three when he wrote the Declaration of Independent
and I don't think Montdamie is quite the revolutionary that
Thomas Jefferson was.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
But hey, I appreciate to miss you up here. Thank you, Russell.
I appreciate the call. One hundred and three two one
zero seven ten, Spencer in Irvington, New York. There's an Irvington,
New Jersey, but he's in Irvington, New York, which is
in Westchester and Irvington unfortunately come like you know, Comyville.
But go ahead, Spencer. How are you hello?
Speaker 12 (39:05):
I think scourtis to stay in the race. Okay, I'm
I'm a wegstered Democrat, but if I lived in New
York City I would vote for him.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Good for you, all right, I appreciate the call, Spencer.
Thank you. Let's go to Christina in Manhattan. You're on
seven to ten. Wr Hey, Christina, Hi, can you hear me? Oh? Yeah,
I can hear you with that intro?
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Yes? Hello.
Speaker 13 (39:28):
Well my road goes to Curtis and the reason why
anybody's arguing and putting him down and saying get out
of the race, and blah blah blah. Is because there's
a twenty eight million dollar donation from Bloomberg to Cuomo
and the money is being spread around and people are
raking it in and they're trying to push a Curtis
(39:50):
out of the race. I can see that. And people
want Curtis. They like Curtis, they know he'll be great
to get rid of the crime, to get rid of
all crap that Bloomberg shoved down our throats sake, and
justin pricing bake lanes that kill people. We want Curtis
and we will vote for him because people love him.
(40:12):
No matter what you say. The Democrat that just called
is ready to vote for Curtis.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
All right, Christine, I appreciate the call. Let's go to
ann and Staten Island. You're on the rob Astorino Show
in seven ten w R High End.
Speaker 11 (40:25):
Nice to speak to you, Rob.
Speaker 8 (40:27):
I love Curtis. I met him a few times. My
sister and my niece went to the Belvedere Statton Island.
They had dinner and they gave to him. I also
contributed a nice amount to him. And there is no
one more deserving to be the mayor. But Curtis. Curtis
goes down and the slums of the subway, He cleaned streets.
He does so much. He even was hurt at one time.
(40:50):
How could anybody in their right mind not vote for
this man? If you elect Curtis, I know he'd reach
out to Juliani the best people. I think he should
keep this tissue right now. He seems good. But I
would vote for Courtis.
Speaker 11 (41:06):
I know people that are.
Speaker 8 (41:07):
I have the lawn sign of him.
Speaker 6 (41:10):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (41:10):
The thing is, I'm trying to find out how I
could do stuff to volunteer on Staten Island.
Speaker 2 (41:17):
And that's a good point. Thank you for the call.
So you can't just win by doing media. You can't
just win with an air attack, meaning what Cuomo thought
he could do and that has just spend a gazillion
dollars on TV.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
You need.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
The army and take it from me. Okay, unless you
have a good solid field operation, unless you have really volunteers,
because they're the ones who will go in rain and
snow and one hundred degree temperature and knock on doors
because they are with you. Okay, they're adamant that they
(41:57):
want to get you involved and get you elected, and
they'll do anything you could get paid people, but they're
not never going to be as good, ma'am. Dommi had
a had tens of thousands according to his campaign, so
take it for what it's worth. He had tens of
thousands of volunteers who signed up because they believe in
this guy, and they knocked on millions of doors and
(42:21):
they built up a huge list and they got out
their vote. So that's really formidable. And unless Curtis has that,
and I doubt he does, because the Republican Party doesn't
have a great, really great field operation in New York
City Mayor Adams, I don't know where his organization's coming from.
(42:42):
Maybe some of the unions who have just jumped off
of Cuomo ship. And if Cuomo gets in it, who
is out there, you know, carrying the Cuomo flag. Nobody
the big check writers. Yeah, but you can see what
that got. It didn't get people in the streets knocking
on doors. So the man Doommie has a huge advantage
(43:04):
because he's got the field ops, what we call the
GOTV get out the vote. He's got that. That is
tough to beat, especially now he's got the Democratic line
and the Working Families Line and at least a half
a million in his back pocket in votes. I gotta
take a quick break. I got some things to do,
and then we take the rest of your phone calls.
(43:25):
But I do want to mention a G. Williams painting.
Oh my god, I gotta do them.
Speaker 3 (43:29):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
Get Bruce Boom in it Williams paint, a G.
Speaker 1 (43:36):
Williams painting, the Williams just.
Speaker 5 (43:40):
To do the job right.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
I need a second hour. I can't get through all
these phone calls. A G. Williams Painting. They are the
best at what they do, third generation. If it's time
to paint your house inside or out, or your business,
then really you gotta call a G. Williams Painting. They
are terrific. They've got expert craftsmen. They'll do that repairs.
They uh look, I mean you want to go to
(44:04):
a cheap contractor you want to get out an old
yellowspae yellow Pages, go ahead, guarantee you gonna call a G.
Williams to fix up their mess. So do it, do
it right the first time. They're licensed and they're insured.
They're really good. They're in a Westchester County business Hall
of Theme, so go to Agwilliams Painting dot com. Agwilliams
Painting dot com. By the way, if your neighbor's house
(44:26):
or garage is like falling apart of this horrible because
it needs to be painted, maybe like this weekend at
the barbecue, you could say, hey, Joe A. G. Williams,
you know you should get a free estimate paint up
your house. All right, we'll be right back. One of
one hundred three two, one zero seven ten will take
your calls. Curtis is still listening Williams paint A G.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
Williams painting.
Speaker 2 (44:52):
The people.
Speaker 6 (44:54):
To do the job right.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
Got em money. I would puke after three hot dogs.
This guy ate seventy and a half. Oh, seventy and
a half hot dogs, disgusting. And the woman she had
thirty three. The female that's a lady. Huh hey, ma,
come on my I want you to meet my new lady.
She ate thirty three hot dogs. Oh this is like
(45:20):
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(45:47):
African American. That's what mom Dommie says he is. And
you know what, I uh, you're gonna find this to
be crazy. He is African American. He is, actually agree
with him. He his family they're from Uganda, that is
in Africa. So he is African American. Just because I
(46:12):
don't know when this changed, but black Americans went from
black to African American. Well, not every black is from Africa.
You tell someone from Jamaica that they're African American, they
look at you and go, are you kidding me? I'm
not African American. I'm Jamaican. I'm Caribbean American. So this
whole thing about is an Egyptian African American. Yeah, from Africa.
(46:37):
So I mean, seriously, he's actually right on that. But
just because we twisted everything, no, I'll actually give him
that he is African American doesn't belong to just Al Sharpton.
Let me get in another call or to real quickly here,
uh Jezray and Brooklyn, Hey.
Speaker 6 (46:57):
Ray, I just want to say. I'm a Stone Curtis supporter,
and I don't understand why the big business or big
money believes that if Curtis stepped down, I will vote
for Eric Adams or Como. Hell no, I'm staying home.
Speaker 2 (47:15):
That's good, that's a good point. Yep, No, look, I
thanks for the call.
Speaker 3 (47:19):
Ray.
Speaker 2 (47:19):
I have found the biggest donors to be the biggest
fools when it comes to elections. They just they do
not understand how elections are won or lost. So you
want their money, You want them to write a million
dollars to a pack or something. But you know, they
all went with Cuomo. They read the tea leaves so wrong,
so wrong. Caroline and Long Island? Hi, how are you Caroline?
(47:45):
Where on Long Island are you? Yeah? You're on quick Hello?
How are you?
Speaker 3 (47:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (47:52):
So I used to okay, sorry about that. Yeah, I
used to live in Brooklyn back in the day. I
met some of the Guardian Angels when they would go
to Manhattan for you know, to work, and then at
nights to Brooklyn College. I'll never forget how comfortable I felt,
as a young woman in my twenties. Wanted to thank
Curtis for that, for that and I've already changed some
liberal minds in my neighborhood, not that they can vote,
but the ones that do live in the city. I've
changed some of their votes by just saying, look at online.
(48:14):
When Curtis used to be or whatever back in the
seventies and eighties, he gets very young of them with
his guardians, and they were so impressed with what they
saw that they said, you know, I could vote for him.
So I'm thinking, can he do a little bit I know,
you say, you know the media, but maybe something where
you can show what happened back in the seventies and
eighties when it was really disgusting, you know, which might
happen real soon.
Speaker 2 (48:32):
Calin, thank you for the call. I appreciate it. Yeah.
So all right, so at least with our listeners, Curtis
should stay in the race. He said he's gonna even
if Trump calls and offers him something, because the only
way you can get off now, and they could switch
something like crossing doors Adams to the Republican line if
Curtis got off is by him dying. I don't think
he plans on doing that, or moving out of the
(48:52):
state and moving out of the city and that you know,
a job in DC would do that. But we'll see anyway,
back next Saturday, four pm, as I always am, and
Newsmax one to three on Saturdays and during the week
follow me on social. I appreciate you call. I really do.
(49:13):
Hope you had a great or listening on that transistor radio.
Curtis is listening on the boardwalk. I'll be back here
next Saturday. I hope you are too, Thanks again for listening. Everybody,
enjoy the rest of your holiday week. And you know what,
God bless America.
Speaker 1 (49:29):
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