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 wor now the wr Saturday
Morning Show. Here's Larry Minty. Good morning and welcome to
Saturday Morning. Coming up on today's show, Republican candidate for
Mayor Curtis Lee was here to talk about his fight
to keep ion battery factories out of the outer boroughs
and why he has a real shot of being the
(00:22):
next mayor of New York. Curtis, where are you right now?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Larry?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I'm right outside with train station on the upper West Side,
ready to jump in the subway.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
You know that's my limbo. No gets down there. But
also since since we last.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Talked, I have qualified on an independent line, first ever
Protect Animals, which stands for no kill shelters and prosecuting
abuses of animals. First time it's ever been done in
any election cycle in the United States. So people have
two lines to vote for me on. If they can't
vote for me as a Republican, they can vote for
me on the independent Protect Animals sign.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
The election law in this city are so screwed up.
Everybody gets an independent line, everybody gets to run. The
primaries don't even matter anymore.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Curtis, that is correct, and I know everybody's getting call
tied up, and not what happens if Mondami somehow pulls
an upset against Cuomo and the Democratic primary, Larry wor audience,
it doesn't matter. In the general election, there will be
five of us. There will be Mondami, there will be Cuomo,
(01:29):
there will be Adams, there will be a guy nobody
really knows, Jim Walton, and then there will be me.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And I start out with thirty percent of the vote.
So just do the math.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
If you do the math, you can understand why Curtisy
was going to be the next mayor of New York City.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
You told me this a few months ago, and I thought, oh,
that's interesting. That's an interesting theory. It's playing out to
be absolutely true. And the great thing is you're skating through.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Oh yeah, because remember they're all Democrats, all four of
the others who will be in the general election of
registered Democrats. That means they're going to continue the blood
bat or cut each other up. Meantime, I'm the only
Republican and I can basically believe it or not, Larry
courtisly would take the high road in this campaign.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Wow, that would be Nobody would believe it. Nobody would
be able to believe that was you. At that point,
you will be able to help yourself.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Come on, Well, the interesting thing is I'm out there
in the outer Boroughs and I'm talking about all the
issues that are important to people in the Bronx, Brookland,
Queens and Staten Island.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Nobody's doing that. Notice how in that last Democratic.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Debate they will all ask what borow do you travel
to least? And they said Staten Island and then laughed
and giggled about it.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Because that's the way they view the outer boroughs.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
If it isn't Manhattan, if it isn't Manhattan centric, to them,
it doesn't count. I'm talking about the fact we're going
to have no more migrant shelters. We're going to cap
the number of shelters we have for Americans and manage
them well and eliminate the city yes, which is going
to lead to the destruction of residential housing in the
outer boroughs because of corporate developers and no lithium ion
(03:08):
battery warehouses. They have ninety of them schedule to be
built in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And Staten Island.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Not one of them larry On Park Avenue or Sutton
Place or Billionaires Row in Manhattan.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
That's what I love about your campaign, and I've been
following it very closely. I love about your campaign that
you're going after issues that are not talked about at
all in the debates, not talked about it all by
these candidates, but in the neighborhoods in Queens in Brooklyn
and Staten Island and the Bronx, they are extremely important,
including the ion battery factory, just for people who may
(03:43):
not be aware of what's going on because it's not
getting as much coverage it as should. Explain what's happening, Curtis.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
They are building these lithium ion battery warehouses to basically
store energy in the outer boroughs. They're doing it in Nassa,
on Suffic and other areas on the country.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
They've had forty explosions.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
And when these batteries explode, as you've seen in small
fires just in New York City with lithium ion battery
propelled the e bites and scooters and occasionally a Tesla
car with the A battery, it takes them hours to
put it out and you can't put it out with water.
Now imagine a hundred refrigerator sty sized batteries. When they
(04:26):
go up in smoke, and they do, it takes five
to six days for it to burn itself out.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
They don't know how to put these fires out.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
There'll be an eight square mile pluma hydrochloric acid. It'll
be a miniture noble, you'll have to evacuate. When you
come back, your property will be worthless. And God only
knows the health dangers that will accompany anybody who decides
to stay back. You're going to have basically many love canals.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
We lose them. Just then, those damn Democrats cut his phone.
That was what was great about what he was just
talking about is he's talking about issues that are extremely important,
extremely important to the neighborhoods, that nobody's talking about on
the Democratic side, nobody. All they are talking about is money, money, money, money, money, money,
(05:18):
money for the city. What they're going to give way
for free. It seems to me that the Democratic Party
is running in Manhattan and Manhattan only that that's all
they care about, because all they talk about are Manhattan issues.
If you follow Curtis Leewa, and you should if you don't,
on social media, he is constantly out in the outer
(05:41):
boroughs and talking about things that no one else is
talking about. You heard him just a moment ago talking
about the city of Yes and how people are being
run out of their own neighborhoods by developers. You heard
him talking about the ion batteries. These are things. Did
you hear one mention of any of those topics any
of those topics in the Democratic primary? None? In the
(06:02):
debate none. All right, you're back. We just can be
lost your phone there for a second. Did you get
on the subway?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
No, no, no, no, I stay out of the subway
when I'm talking to you and your wor audience. Larry.
A guy actually inadvertently bumped me. I had to pick
him up. He was falling down. So we're back on track.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Ah, you're still out there saving lives. Look at that.
You know we have to wrap this up real quick.
Do you have a Do you have a closing message
for the voters?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah, don't get into a panic over this Democratic primary.
We still have a marathon. You want to find out
more about what I stand for, which is different than
any of the other candidates in the general erase race,
just go to sleewoop for nyced dot com.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
At sleiwoop for NYC dot com.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
And there is sanity in my campaign, whereas there is
complete insanity, chaos and corruption and everybody else's campaign. Let's
not continue to make the same mistakes. Let's find I
finally realized your vote for the New York City guy,
Curtis leew. I didn't live in Port Lee and I
didn't live in the Hampton site Cuomo.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Thanks a lot, Curtis Lee. We're Republican candidate for New
York City Mayor. This has been a podcast from wor
This is a podcast from wor now the wr Saturday
Morning Show. Here's Larry Minty. Good morning and welcome to
Saturday Morning. Coming up on today's show, Republican candidate for
Mayor Curtis Lee was here to talk about his fight
to keep ion battery factories out of the outer boroughs
and why he has a real shot of being the
(00:22):
next mayor of New York. Curtis, where are you right now?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Larry?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I'm right outside with train station on the upper West Side,
ready to jump in the subway.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
You know that's my limbo. No gets down there. But
also since since we last.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Talked, I have qualified on an independent line, first ever
Protect Animals, which stands for no kill shelters and prosecuting
abuses of animals. First time it's ever been done in
any election cycle in the United States. So people have
two lines to vote for me on. If they can't
vote for me as a Republican, they can vote for
me on the independent Protect Animals sign.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
The election law in this city are so screwed up.
Everybody gets an independent line, everybody gets to run. The
primaries don't even matter anymore.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Curtis, that is correct, and I know everybody's getting call
tied up, and not what happens if Mondami somehow pulls
an upset against Cuomo and the Democratic primary, Larry wor audience,
it doesn't matter. In the general election, there will be
five of us. There will be Mondami, there will be Cuomo,
(01:29):
there will be Adams, there will be a guy nobody
really knows, Jim Walton, and then there will be me.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
And I start out with thirty percent of the vote.
So just do the math.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
If you do the math, you can understand why Curtisy
was going to be the next mayor of New York City.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
You told me this a few months ago, and I thought, oh,
that's interesting. That's an interesting theory. It's playing out to
be absolutely true. And the great thing is you're skating through.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Oh yeah, because remember they're all Democrats, all four of
the others who will be in the general election of
registered Democrats. That means they're going to continue the blood
bat or cut each other up. Meantime, I'm the only
Republican and I can basically believe it or not, Larry
courtisly would take the high road in this campaign.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Wow, that would be Nobody would believe it. Nobody would
be able to believe that was you. At that point,
you will be able to help yourself.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Come on, Well, the interesting thing is I'm out there
in the outer Boroughs and I'm talking about all the
issues that are important to people in the Bronx, Brookland,
Queens and Staten Island.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Nobody's doing that. Notice how in that last Democratic.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Debate they will all ask what borow do you travel
to least? And they said Staten Island and then laughed
and giggled about it.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Because that's the way they view the outer boroughs.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
If it isn't Manhattan, if it isn't Manhattan centric, to them,
it doesn't count. I'm talking about the fact we're going
to have no more migrant shelters. We're going to cap
the number of shelters we have for Americans and manage
them well and eliminate the city yes, which is going
to lead to the destruction of residential housing in the
outer boroughs because of corporate developers and no lithium ion
(03:08):
battery warehouses. They have ninety of them schedule to be
built in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
And Staten Island.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Not one of them larry On Park Avenue or Sutton
Place or Billionaires Row in Manhattan.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
That's what I love about your campaign, and I've been
following it very closely. I love about your campaign that
you're going after issues that are not talked about at
all in the debates, not talked about it all by
these candidates, but in the neighborhoods in Queens in Brooklyn
and Staten Island and the Bronx, they are extremely important,
including the ion battery factory, just for people who may
(03:43):
not be aware of what's going on because it's not
getting as much coverage it as should. Explain what's happening, Curtis.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
They are building these lithium ion battery warehouses to basically
store energy in the outer boroughs. They're doing it in Nassa,
on Suffic and other areas on the country.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
They've had forty explosions.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
And when these batteries explode, as you've seen in small
fires just in New York City with lithium ion battery
propelled the e bites and scooters and occasionally a Tesla
car with the A battery, it takes them hours to
put it out and you can't put it out with water.
Now imagine a hundred refrigerator sty sized batteries. When they
(04:26):
go up in smoke, and they do, it takes five
to six days for it to burn itself out.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
They don't know how to put these fires out.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
There'll be an eight square mile pluma hydrochloric acid. It'll
be a miniture noble, you'll have to evacuate. When you
come back, your property will be worthless. And God only
knows the health dangers that will accompany anybody who decides
to stay back. You're going to have basically many love canals.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
We lose them. Just then, those damn Democrats cut his phone.
That was what was great about what he was just
talking about is he's talking about issues that are extremely important,
extremely important to the neighborhoods, that nobody's talking about on
the Democratic side, nobody. All they are talking about is money, money, money, money, money, money,
(05:18):
money for the city. What they're going to give way
for free. It seems to me that the Democratic Party
is running in Manhattan and Manhattan only that that's all
they care about, because all they talk about are Manhattan issues.
If you follow Curtis Leewa, and you should if you don't,
on social media, he is constantly out in the outer
(05:41):
boroughs and talking about things that no one else is
talking about. You heard him just a moment ago talking
about the city of Yes and how people are being
run out of their own neighborhoods by developers. You heard
him talking about the ion batteries. These are things. Did
you hear one mention of any of those topics any
of those topics in the Democratic primary? None? In the
(06:02):
debate none. All right, you're back. We just can be
lost your phone there for a second. Did you get
on the subway?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
No, no, no, no, I stay out of the subway
when I'm talking to you and your wor audience. Larry.
A guy actually inadvertently bumped me. I had to pick
him up. He was falling down. So we're back on track.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Ah, you're still out there saving lives. Look at that.
You know we have to wrap this up real quick.
Do you have a Do you have a closing message
for the voters?
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah, don't get into a panic over this Democratic primary.
We still have a marathon. You want to find out
more about what I stand for, which is different than
any of the other candidates in the general erase race,
just go to sleewoop for nyced dot com.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
At sleiwoop for NYC dot com.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
And there is sanity in my campaign, whereas there is
complete insanity, chaos and corruption and everybody else's campaign. Let's
not continue to make the same mistakes. Let's find I
finally realized your vote for the New York City guy,
Curtis leew. I didn't live in Port Lee and I
didn't live in the Hampton site Cuomo.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Thanks a lot, Curtis Lee. We're Republican candidate for New
York City Mayor. This has been a podcast from wor
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