Sliwa describes himself as a Republican candidate ''running for mayor of New York City to finally end the disastrous reign of de Blasio-Cuomo''. In the late 1970s, he founded the Guardian Angels, a nonprofit volunteer organization that began its anti-crime activities by patrolling the subways. Today, the group has chapters in 13 countries and over 100 cities, according to its website. Safety and refunding the police are central to the campaign of Sliwa, a radio host who still wears the Angels’ trademark red beret. He proposes adding 4,500 uniformed and 500 undercover officers to patrol the subways. He also calls for restoring "all budget cuts" to the NYPD and giving the department more money to combat gun violence. Sliwa is part of the Republican wing that does not support former President Donald Trump. In the first debate of the GOP candidates, he said he had never voted for Trump. The current Manhattan resident got involved in community work at an early age. At 14, he became known as a "neighborhood garbage collector" when he opened a recycling center in Brooklyn.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a podcast from wor Now the wr Saturday
Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Here's Larry MINTI.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Welcome to Saturday Morning. On this week's show, Republican Candida
Curtis Leewa is now in a statistical tie in the
race for mayor. Congratulations Curtis. That latest poll is really
eye opening. You've been saying from the beginning we had
you on a couple of months ago. You've been saying
from the beginning you can win this race, and this
(00:31):
poll proves it's true.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Not only that, but Larry, with a sitting mayor mired
in corruption involving his police command, a former police commissioner
charging him with running the police department as if it
were the Gambino crime family, this guy had the goal
to say that crime is down in the City of
(00:54):
New York. I'm in all three hundred and fifty neighborhood
says you know, Larry, I've yet to have one person
come up to me and say, oh, Curtis, you got
it wrong. I feel so much safer with Eric Adams
as the mayor, and because he's failed on the issue
of law and order and quality of life, which is
number three and four in the polls, has not provided
affordable housing and the cost.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Of living is skyrocketing.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
He's a failed mayor and that's why Jorhan Mondami has
risen from nowhere. Six months ago, Larry, nobody knew who'saw on.
Mondami was not even his neighbors. Now he's an international figure.
And I told you back then, follow the numbers. I
start with thirty percent of the vote. If I get
a few more percentage points, you, Larry, are talking to
(01:39):
the mayor of the City of New York.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
It will not be Eric Adams, it will not be Cormo.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
It is going to be a run between those that
support Mondami on the left and those in the middle
and the right who support Curtish Leeway.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Well, I really am polling for you, and I hope
that's true. I'd love to see you as the mayor
of New York City, and I think New York City
would be better for it. You know, we got a
couple of talkbacks that I want to play for you.
Everybody wants to help your campaign. You've got a lot
of supporters on this radio station. Here's the first one.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Larry, when you get Curtis on, you got to tell
Curtis listen man.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You look.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
He's great for the safety of the city, no doubt
about it. But I think that's more of a concern
for older people. He needs to reach out to younger voters.
He needs to bring some people on that can reach out.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
To younger voters.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
We can do this, Curtis, come on, baby, let's do this.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Larry's correct.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
In fact, if you look at my campaign team, it's
made up all of millennials and gen ziers. If you
look at the successful presidential campaign of Donald Trump, he
was able masterfully to bring on board a number of male,
mostly male, very few females, millennials and gen Zers, and
I believe that was the difference in him being able
(02:58):
to win the battleground states seven and the popular vote.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
So there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
All the millennials and the Gen Zas who are now
the majority of the population, they are the majority of
the voters.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I'm a baby boomer.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I know a lot of people don't want to hear
that the baby boomers have either fled to Florida or
they've gone to Heaven.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
We're not the majority anymore.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
They are, and there are plenty of your sons and
daughters and grandchildren who have common sense.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
We're getting them on board. They're not all in for
Zorn Mandami.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
But cautionary, Larry, stop attacking his religion, stop attacking his culture.
Stick to the issues, and you'll get the millennials, you'll
get the.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Gen Zas on our side.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
But all the other nonsense who should drop out stay
in his college transcript. All you do is make him
a martyr and a victim and get more of that
peer group to side with him.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
It's really fascinating, And I agree with what you just
said that you should stick to the issues. And I'll
tell you what. The billionaires in this city are sticking
to the issues. Because he was supposed to have a
meeting with them and they wouldn't even show up. Half
of them aren't even there, including Jamie Diamond. And then
he goes down to Washington to meet with Democrats and
only the crazy showed up to talk to him. Some
(04:12):
of the biggest Democrats in the state won't even endorse them.
They're reluctant to endorse them. I really believe Zurim Mamdani,
and I thought that was the most shocking thing in
this poll, by the way, how low he was compared
to other polls. I think Curtis he's losing support now.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
He's losing support.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
But Eric Adams is making his quest to become mayor
a lot easier with this corruption, with the fact that
the city has fallen into the abyss. Look around, walk
around the streets, the homeless, the emotionally disturbed, the empty storefronts.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
You can't blame that on Zoora Mandani.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
So what Eric Adams has to do is he's got
to determine and decide you're going to run this race.
You better admit to all the sins you've committed. Donald
Trump saved you, or you'd be in jail. Whitman and Cuomo,
who is now like the political zombie apologizing I should
have run a better race. You better start apologizing for
slapping fannies and killing.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Grannies because you'll never have a chance to be mayor.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
You'll never have a chance to be mayor until you
admit I've been slapping fannies and killing granny's and I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
That sounds like a bumper sticker. I have another caller.
And by the way, this one a lot of people
on talkback have said. And so it goes right to
your identity, right to your uniform. So you might have
even heard this before.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Please tell Curtis not to wear the beret anymore. I
love Curtis and I hope he's going to be our
next mayor, but please, no more beret. People don't identify
with the Guardian Angels anymore.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
What do you think of that?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
First off, I wear the beret because in forty six
years of history of the Guardian Angels serving New York
is sick have died in the line of duty, thirty
two have been seriously injured. And I have to tell
your caller respectfully. When I go into neighborhoods, the only
Republican they've ever seen is Abraham Lincoln on a five
dollar bill.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
They identify the beret.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
They accept me because of the service we've provided to
the inner city. You want to win this election, you
have to use everything available. I went to the wake
for Bernard krik and Patterson at the cathedral. Rudy Giuliani
did not recognize me without my beret. He passed me twice,
Voddo passed me three times. They're not recognized me without
(06:36):
the red beret. Because you have to take your red
beret off in church. Please, if the red beret is
the reason that you won't vote for me, and you
vote for a guy with a five thousand dollars customized
suit who's the mayor and Andrew Cmo smacking fannies and
killing granny's, that's your reason for not voting for me.
I'm going back into the subways where I campaign, where
(06:58):
people can identify me by that red right.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Curtis Leewa got a lot of fans on this station,
including the host, and we're all pulling for you. Hope
to talk to you again soon.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Oh, just go to sleiwok for NYC dot com and
you'll learn all about my campaign. Shlee Wocks for NYC
dot com.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Curtis Leewa, Republican candidate for New York City Mayor. This
has been a podcast from w o R
This is a podcast from wor Now the wr Saturday
Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Here's Larry MINTI.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Welcome to Saturday Morning. On this week's show, Republican Candida
Curtis Leewa is now in a statistical tie in the
race for mayor. Congratulations Curtis. That latest poll is really
eye opening. You've been saying from the beginning we had
you on a couple of months ago. You've been saying
from the beginning you can win this race, and this
(00:31):
poll proves it's true.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Not only that, but Larry, with a sitting mayor mired
in corruption involving his police command, a former police commissioner
charging him with running the police department as if it
were the Gambino crime family, this guy had the goal
to say that crime is down in the City of
(00:54):
New York. I'm in all three hundred and fifty neighborhood
says you know, Larry, I've yet to have one person
come up to me and say, oh, Curtis, you got
it wrong. I feel so much safer with Eric Adams
as the mayor, and because he's failed on the issue
of law and order and quality of life, which is
number three and four in the polls, has not provided
affordable housing and the cost.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Of living is skyrocketing.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
He's a failed mayor and that's why Jorhan Mondami has
risen from nowhere. Six months ago, Larry, nobody knew who'saw on.
Mondami was not even his neighbors. Now he's an international figure.
And I told you back then, follow the numbers. I
start with thirty percent of the vote. If I get
a few more percentage points, you, Larry, are talking to
(01:39):
the mayor of the City of New York.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
It will not be Eric Adams, it will not be Cormo.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
It is going to be a run between those that
support Mondami on the left and those in the middle
and the right who support Curtish Leeway.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Well, I really am polling for you, and I hope
that's true. I'd love to see you as the mayor
of New York City, and I think New York City
would be better for it. You know, we got a
couple of talkbacks that I want to play for you.
Everybody wants to help your campaign. You've got a lot
of supporters on this radio station. Here's the first one.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Larry, when you get Curtis on, you got to tell
Curtis listen man.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You look.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
He's great for the safety of the city, no doubt
about it. But I think that's more of a concern
for older people. He needs to reach out to younger voters.
He needs to bring some people on that can reach out.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
To younger voters.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
We can do this, Curtis, come on, baby, let's do this.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Larry's correct.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
In fact, if you look at my campaign team, it's
made up all of millennials and gen ziers. If you
look at the successful presidential campaign of Donald Trump, he
was able masterfully to bring on board a number of male,
mostly male, very few females, millennials and gen Zers, and
I believe that was the difference in him being able
(02:58):
to win the battleground states seven and the popular vote.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
So there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
All the millennials and the Gen Zas who are now
the majority of the population, they are the majority of
the voters.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
I'm a baby boomer.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I know a lot of people don't want to hear
that the baby boomers have either fled to Florida or
they've gone to Heaven.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
We're not the majority anymore.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
They are, and there are plenty of your sons and
daughters and grandchildren who have common sense.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
We're getting them on board. They're not all in for
Zorn Mandami.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
But cautionary, Larry, stop attacking his religion, stop attacking his culture.
Stick to the issues, and you'll get the millennials, you'll
get the.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Gen Zas on our side.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
But all the other nonsense who should drop out stay
in his college transcript. All you do is make him
a martyr and a victim and get more of that
peer group to side with him.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
It's really fascinating, And I agree with what you just
said that you should stick to the issues. And I'll
tell you what. The billionaires in this city are sticking
to the issues. Because he was supposed to have a
meeting with them and they wouldn't even show up. Half
of them aren't even there, including Jamie Diamond. And then
he goes down to Washington to meet with Democrats and
only the crazy showed up to talk to him. Some
(04:12):
of the biggest Democrats in the state won't even endorse them.
They're reluctant to endorse them. I really believe Zurim Mamdani,
and I thought that was the most shocking thing in
this poll, by the way, how low he was compared
to other polls. I think Curtis he's losing support now.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
He's losing support.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
But Eric Adams is making his quest to become mayor
a lot easier with this corruption, with the fact that
the city has fallen into the abyss. Look around, walk
around the streets, the homeless, the emotionally disturbed, the empty storefronts.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
You can't blame that on Zoora Mandani.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
So what Eric Adams has to do is he's got
to determine and decide you're going to run this race.
You better admit to all the sins you've committed. Donald
Trump saved you, or you'd be in jail. Whitman and Cuomo,
who is now like the political zombie apologizing I should
have run a better race. You better start apologizing for
slapping fannies and killing.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Grannies because you'll never have a chance to be mayor.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
You'll never have a chance to be mayor until you
admit I've been slapping fannies and killing granny's and I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
That sounds like a bumper sticker. I have another caller.
And by the way, this one a lot of people
on talkback have said. And so it goes right to
your identity, right to your uniform. So you might have
even heard this before.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Please tell Curtis not to wear the beret anymore. I
love Curtis and I hope he's going to be our
next mayor, but please, no more beret. People don't identify
with the Guardian Angels anymore.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
What do you think of that?
Speaker 3 (05:53):
First off, I wear the beret because in forty six
years of history of the Guardian Angels serving New York
is sick have died in the line of duty, thirty
two have been seriously injured. And I have to tell
your caller respectfully. When I go into neighborhoods, the only
Republican they've ever seen is Abraham Lincoln on a five
dollar bill.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
They identify the beret.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
They accept me because of the service we've provided to
the inner city. You want to win this election, you
have to use everything available. I went to the wake
for Bernard krik and Patterson at the cathedral. Rudy Giuliani
did not recognize me without my beret. He passed me twice,
Voddo passed me three times. They're not recognized me without
(06:36):
the red beret. Because you have to take your red
beret off in church. Please, if the red beret is
the reason that you won't vote for me, and you
vote for a guy with a five thousand dollars customized
suit who's the mayor and Andrew Cmo smacking fannies and
killing granny's, that's your reason for not voting for me.
I'm going back into the subways where I campaign, where
(06:58):
people can identify me by that red right.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Curtis Leewa got a lot of fans on this station,
including the host, and we're all pulling for you. Hope
to talk to you again soon.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Oh, just go to sleiwok for NYC dot com and
you'll learn all about my campaign. Shlee Wocks for NYC
dot com.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Curtis Leewa, Republican candidate for New York City Mayor. This
has been a podcast from w o R
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