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 67-year-old 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 wr uor Saturday Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Here's Larry Minty, Hello.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
And welcome to Saturday Morning. Coming up Republican candidate for
mayor Curtis Leewa, who has ten days to decide whether
or not he will drop out of the race for mayor. Now,
let's start with my earl candidate, Curtis Leewa, who we
talk to when the arrest of Tyler Robinson, the man
who is charged with assassinating Charlie Kirk, was taking place. Curtis,
(00:31):
good to see you, Thanks for coming in.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Oh my pleasure. You extended a microphone to me so
often here at wr so we can talk about what
has been the most interesting mayoral race ever internationally, nationally, regionally,
and obviously the most important part locally.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yeah, it's getting a whole lot of national attention before
we get to the mayor's race. And I know there's
a big deadline coming up in ten days that I
do want to talk to you about, but let's talk
about the big national story right now. They believe they
have their man now in Utah. What are your thoughts?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, clearly, as having been a victim of gunshots myself
for exercising my write free speech on the radio at
the time that John Gottisinia was on chial I ended
up getting shot five times with hollow point bullets. Very
lucky to survive. This issue of Charlie Kirk being assassinated
should send shockwaves through our country, which is best known
(01:27):
for free speech and democracy. And what he was doing
going from campus and campus and not just using his
bully pulpit, but having debates, forensic debates, always having a
challenger of note take him on the issues in front
of young people. This is what school is supposed to
be about, where you hear two different sides and then
you come to your own conclusions. And then to have
(01:49):
him assassinated simply because of his point of view, I
mean that is I mean, that's happened in our history
here in America in the sixties when I was growing up.
Remember JFKI sixty three and then RFK and then MLK
Junior in sixty eight. It happened Maya Kahani in nineteen
ninety not far from me in midtown rabbin in Israel.
(02:11):
Remember it's Prime minister. So we've had a series of
these situations and violence never resolves these kind of situations.
So I'll be actually a tending a visual for Charlie Kirk.
This isn't not political. He didn't have to be aligned
to him ideologically, but to try to stop this violence
because remember, it will replicate itself, all copycat effects. So
(02:33):
it's tonight right at Madison Square, bark Fifth Avenue and
twenty third Street, seven pm. Ste Final Forte of the
Young Republicans has asked me to speak. There'll be other
people there also, just to say, put aside your political differences.
We don't want anybody to be hurt in the process
of expousing their views. That's what America is known for.
(02:55):
But there have been spurts of violence in our history,
and that's why it's very important that people come together
at this moment of Charlie Kirk's loss.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
One last thing about this before I move on. There's
been a lot of people out there and there's been
some wild theories, and there's been some theories that make
sense about what motivated him. And more importantly, if he
acted alone. Do you think he acted alone?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I would think so, but from what I've known of
radical left wing groups, more than likely it's just a
hunch of mine Antifa, because Antifa actually goes to gun rangers.
They train in the summer of George Floyd. In twenty twenty,
I got my jaw broken in the streets of New
York City defending people when Bill Deblasio asked the police
(03:39):
to stand down on June first and June second. If
you remember when Plywood was going up all over the city,
starting with Macy's and then over almost every storefront, and
yet still the rampaging mobs came out at night by
Lives Matter and Antifa. They broke my jaw with a
claw hammer. And remember how Biden and also Gerald Nadler
was saying, it's just it's a concept, it's not a reality. No, No,
(04:02):
Antifa is real, and he seems to fit the profile.
But I could be completely wrong on this.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah, there's a nobody knows. We're going to know a
whole lot in twenty minutes. We're going to try to
take some of that live when the FBI have their
news conference from out in Utah. You got a big
deadline coming up. Yeah, it may not be a big
deadline for you because I think you've already made up
your mind. Oh yeah, yeah, And let's just explain ten days,
you got to decide whether you're going to drop out
of the race or not. That's the deadline.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, the President weighed in on this, and I had
always urged him publicly because I don't speak with the
President and he doesn't speak with me. Stay out of
the Mayro race. You got more important things to deal with,
peace between the Ukrainie and Russia, and peace and Gaza.
Because every day that war goes on between Hamas and
Israel is a good day for Johan Mandani. That's how
(04:49):
he's gotten a lot of his gen z and millennial support.
In fact, you saw the New York Times survey for
the first time New Yorkers were more sympathetic to the
Hamaskors of Palestinian course and the Israeli cause. And that's
reflected in people who are going to vote. And I
got to warn everybody out there, I'm a baby boomer
like a lot of you, but we are no longer
the majority, the majority of the population or millennials gen zs.
(05:13):
The majority of the voters are millennials and gen Zas.
That's how the President can have an impact on this election,
because if he would bring peace to Gaza, which he
has the potential to do. That would take a major
campaign plank right away from Zohamandami. He doesn't want to
talk about local issues. He wants to run against Donald Trump.
(05:34):
He wants to talk about the Palestinian course, anything to
distract because on the local issues, especially crime and public safety,
he's extraordinarily weak. That's his achilles heel and that's what
I constantly go at him at. But every day that
the press and the candidates talk about who should drop
out is another good day for Zora Mondami because he
(05:55):
doesn't have to talk about issues.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, I get it all, but you have a tough
road to ho don't you. First of all, you're Republican,
and so people aren't gonna like you right away because
you're a Republican. It seems like Eric Adams may either
drop out of the race, but he's going to be
a non factor, so they're not going to split the
vote like you hope they would.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
What is your path to victory? Well with Eric Adams,
I get vertigo. I mean every other day it's a drama, soap, opera, novella. Please,
for your own supporters, stay in or get out. You know,
he's probably loving every second of this. But again another
great day for Zara Mandami. Because nobody's talking about the issues.
I'm in it. When the ten days ends, I'll be
(06:33):
opening up my third headquarters and the flat Push section
of Brooklyn. I've opened them up in Brownsfield, Brooklyn. No,
no Republican ever had Brownsfield, Brooklyn, Howard Beach, bay Ridge, Bronx.
I don't see Cuomo opening up any headquarters and sid
I mean, that's it. But in the case of Eric Adams,
his his campaign has collapsed to do what do you want?
(06:56):
But I have also the independent line protect Animals, and
that calls for no kill shelters and for putting animal
abuses in jail, and that resonates with a lot of
women who might never vote for me as a Republican,
but they say, I'm going to vote for you because
nobody else is talking animal rights issues except for critical
Lee and his wife Nancy, who was featured in our
(07:17):
first commercials.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Great. She was wonderful. You should have her out in
front more. Not only that, notice I didn't say a
word in the bole a miracle, yep, exactly. That's the
best part of being Aslee was my wife Nancy she
was wonderful she could do voice over work, that she
has a great voice. She does, Thanks so much, courteously,
(07:39):
come back again anytime you want.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
We'd love to have you. We're pulling for you. Thank
you so much, my pleasure, thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Though this has been a podcast from wo R
This is a podcast from wr uor Saturday Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Here's Larry Minty, Hello.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
And welcome to Saturday Morning. Coming up Republican candidate for
mayor Curtis Leewa, who has ten days to decide whether
or not he will drop out of the race for mayor. Now,
let's start with my earl candidate, Curtis Leewa, who we
talk to when the arrest of Tyler Robinson, the man
who is charged with assassinating Charlie Kirk, was taking place. Curtis,
(00:31):
good to see you, Thanks for coming in.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Oh my pleasure. You extended a microphone to me so
often here at wr so we can talk about what
has been the most interesting mayoral race ever internationally, nationally, regionally,
and obviously the most important part locally.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yeah, it's getting a whole lot of national attention before
we get to the mayor's race. And I know there's
a big deadline coming up in ten days that I
do want to talk to you about, but let's talk
about the big national story right now. They believe they
have their man now in Utah. What are your thoughts?
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, clearly, as having been a victim of gunshots myself
for exercising my write free speech on the radio at
the time that John Gottisinia was on chial I ended
up getting shot five times with hollow point bullets. Very
lucky to survive. This issue of Charlie Kirk being assassinated
should send shockwaves through our country, which is best known
(01:27):
for free speech and democracy. And what he was doing
going from campus and campus and not just using his
bully pulpit, but having debates, forensic debates, always having a
challenger of note take him on the issues in front
of young people. This is what school is supposed to
be about, where you hear two different sides and then
you come to your own conclusions. And then to have
(01:49):
him assassinated simply because of his point of view, I
mean that is I mean, that's happened in our history
here in America in the sixties when I was growing up.
Remember JFKI sixty three and then RFK and then MLK
Junior in sixty eight. It happened Maya Kahani in nineteen
ninety not far from me in midtown rabbin in Israel.
(02:11):
Remember it's Prime minister. So we've had a series of
these situations and violence never resolves these kind of situations.
So I'll be actually a tending a visual for Charlie Kirk.
This isn't not political. He didn't have to be aligned
to him ideologically, but to try to stop this violence
because remember, it will replicate itself, all copycat effects. So
(02:33):
it's tonight right at Madison Square, bark Fifth Avenue and
twenty third Street, seven pm. Ste Final Forte of the
Young Republicans has asked me to speak. There'll be other
people there also, just to say, put aside your political differences.
We don't want anybody to be hurt in the process
of expousing their views. That's what America is known for.
(02:55):
But there have been spurts of violence in our history,
and that's why it's very important that people come together
at this moment of Charlie Kirk's loss.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
One last thing about this before I move on. There's
been a lot of people out there and there's been
some wild theories, and there's been some theories that make
sense about what motivated him. And more importantly, if he
acted alone. Do you think he acted alone?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I would think so, but from what I've known of
radical left wing groups, more than likely it's just a
hunch of mine Antifa, because Antifa actually goes to gun rangers.
They train in the summer of George Floyd. In twenty twenty,
I got my jaw broken in the streets of New
York City defending people when Bill Deblasio asked the police
(03:39):
to stand down on June first and June second. If
you remember when Plywood was going up all over the city,
starting with Macy's and then over almost every storefront, and
yet still the rampaging mobs came out at night by
Lives Matter and Antifa. They broke my jaw with a
claw hammer. And remember how Biden and also Gerald Nadler
was saying, it's just it's a concept, it's not a reality. No, No,
(04:02):
Antifa is real, and he seems to fit the profile.
But I could be completely wrong on this.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah, there's a nobody knows. We're going to know a
whole lot in twenty minutes. We're going to try to
take some of that live when the FBI have their
news conference from out in Utah. You got a big
deadline coming up. Yeah, it may not be a big
deadline for you because I think you've already made up
your mind. Oh yeah, yeah, And let's just explain ten days,
you got to decide whether you're going to drop out
of the race or not. That's the deadline.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Yeah, the President weighed in on this, and I had
always urged him publicly because I don't speak with the
President and he doesn't speak with me. Stay out of
the Mayro race. You got more important things to deal with,
peace between the Ukrainie and Russia, and peace and Gaza.
Because every day that war goes on between Hamas and
Israel is a good day for Johan Mandani. That's how
(04:49):
he's gotten a lot of his gen z and millennial support.
In fact, you saw the New York Times survey for
the first time New Yorkers were more sympathetic to the
Hamaskors of Palestinian course and the Israeli cause. And that's
reflected in people who are going to vote. And I
got to warn everybody out there, I'm a baby boomer
like a lot of you, but we are no longer
the majority, the majority of the population or millennials gen zs.
(05:13):
The majority of the voters are millennials and gen Zas.
That's how the President can have an impact on this election,
because if he would bring peace to Gaza, which he
has the potential to do. That would take a major
campaign plank right away from Zohamandami. He doesn't want to
talk about local issues. He wants to run against Donald Trump.
(05:34):
He wants to talk about the Palestinian course, anything to
distract because on the local issues, especially crime and public safety,
he's extraordinarily weak. That's his achilles heel and that's what
I constantly go at him at. But every day that
the press and the candidates talk about who should drop
out is another good day for Zora Mondami because he
(05:55):
doesn't have to talk about issues.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, I get it all, but you have a tough
road to ho don't you. First of all, you're Republican,
and so people aren't gonna like you right away because
you're a Republican. It seems like Eric Adams may either
drop out of the race, but he's going to be
a non factor, so they're not going to split the
vote like you hope they would.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
What is your path to victory? Well with Eric Adams,
I get vertigo. I mean every other day it's a drama, soap, opera, novella. Please,
for your own supporters, stay in or get out. You know,
he's probably loving every second of this. But again another
great day for Zara Mandami. Because nobody's talking about the issues.
I'm in it. When the ten days ends, I'll be
(06:33):
opening up my third headquarters and the flat Push section
of Brooklyn. I've opened them up in Brownsfield, Brooklyn. No,
no Republican ever had Brownsfield, Brooklyn, Howard Beach, bay Ridge, Bronx.
I don't see Cuomo opening up any headquarters and sid
I mean, that's it. But in the case of Eric Adams,
his his campaign has collapsed to do what do you want?
(06:56):
But I have also the independent line protect Animals, and
that calls for no kill shelters and for putting animal
abuses in jail, and that resonates with a lot of
women who might never vote for me as a Republican,
but they say, I'm going to vote for you because
nobody else is talking animal rights issues except for critical
Lee and his wife Nancy, who was featured in our
(07:17):
first commercials.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Great. She was wonderful. You should have her out in
front more. Not only that, notice I didn't say a
word in the bole a miracle, yep, exactly. That's the
best part of being Aslee was my wife Nancy she
was wonderful she could do voice over work, that she
has a great voice. She does, Thanks so much, courteously,
(07:39):
come back again anytime you want.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
We'd love to have you. We're pulling for you. Thank
you so much, my pleasure, thank you.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Though this has been a podcast from wo R
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