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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a podcast from wor Now the wr Saturday
Morning Show. Here's Larry MINTI, Welcome to Saturday Morning. On
this week's show, Curtis Lee is here to explain how,
even in the heavily democratic New York City, he can
be the first Republican mayor since Michael Bloomberg. Good morning, Curtis,
(00:21):
Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Oh, my pleasure, my pleasure. In the rain is falling,
But I'm getting ready to get out on the campaign. Tril.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah, I see you out there all the time. I
follow you on social media, and man, are you working
hard to win this job. But it might be getting
a little bit easier for you considering the fact that
all these other candidates seem to be tripping over themselves.
Let's talk about the investigation into Mario Cuomo now lying
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to Congress. He has an ad out today running on
the fact that he lied to Congress anything that has
to do with taking on Donald Trump. He wants to
get out there immediately. It's a strange campaign when you
do that.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, but it's his pathway to victory because, as you know,
he's facing a brutal Democratic primary with rank choice voting,
and even though he's ahead of the polls of all
of his Democratic throes. When you get into rank choice voting,
if they're disciplined, they can actually take him out by
the fifth round. But I don't think what people realize
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is Janine Piro, the former DA of Westchester who ran
against Andrew Como for Attorney General and loss as a
Republican candidate, featured on Fox News channel, was a bitter
critic of the way he handled the lockdown and pandemic,
and the way he shuddled those elderly who were diagnosed
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with COVID nineteen into long term nursing home care units
where that COVID spread like fire and caused the death
of fifteen thousand people. He would never acknowledge it, he
would never take responsibility for it. And so now the
Department of Justice has given that cast to their brand
new US attorney in Washington. DC hasn't gotten much attention
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in the press. Jinnine Piro, So, I think she's going
for his jugular on this. He wears it like a
badge of courage. Oh, this is law fair, This is
Donald Trump's administration coming at me. No, no, no, no, no,
Andrew Como, this has nothing to do with Republican or
Democratic interest. This has to do with the fact that
you are responsible for the death of fifteen thousand elderly people,
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lied before Congress, and tampered with one of the witnesses
who used to be part of your administration. So I
feel it's a perfect time to address this issue because
this is one of his many achilles heels, along with
no cash, bail, raise the age, and so many other things.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Yeah. No, absolutely, and he definitely lied to Congress. I
mean she has an easy case. That's the case, the
whole case of three counts of lying to Congress. And
we know that that was his handwriting in the edited
version of the Health Commissioner's report that cleared him. Everything
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he wrote was put into that report, and he denied
that he did that.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Not only that, he denied that he altered the death count,
along with his aide de camp, Melissa DeRosa, who actually
admitted that to other Democratic leaders on a video conference
call in which he said, the reason we had to
change the figures is we thought that we would get
indicted by Jeff Sessions, who was in the US Attorney
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of the United States and the first Trump administration. So
they lied every consistent step of the way on this.
And although some people will say, well, this is the
boost he needs because a Democrat is going to run
against the Trump administration, that's their pathway to victory in
the Democratic primary, that's going to hurt him in the
general election. And I'm I'm waiting in the wing since
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I don't have a Republican primary to use that against
sim Because Larry, it's not just going to be me
versus Cuomo. It's going to be five candidates who are
in the general election, four of whom are Democrats, be
going to eviscerate one another. And I'm going to have
a pathway to victory because I start off even Cuomo
admits with thirty percent of the vote this time, if
(04:23):
I get it up to thirty five percent, Larry, you
are talking to the next mayor of New York City,
and it's right on time to get this city back
on track.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Now you've convinced me of that. I keep bringing it
up all the time since you were in here and
we got to talk, Curtis. But it's a sad day
in New York when New Yorkers, when Democrats are so
inflicted with Trump derangement syndrome, they will go for a
man who caused the death of fifteen thousand in nursing homes.
It's really a sad day. But let's move off him
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for a second and talk about one of the other candidates,
zorin Mom. Donnie is having a bad week because Politico
did a story about the fact that for four years
in a row he passed on a bill that just said, yes,
there was a Holocaust, and he refused to vote on
that bill, And now he's saying it's all political, that
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it was a hit job, that he definitely believes the
Holocaust happened. He's not anti Semitic. But when you have
to start denying like that, you're losing Curtis Well, not.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
With his constituency, Larry. See, that's the constituency that's under
the radar screen that I see out in the streets.
They tend to be forty five years old and younger,
a lot of them thirty and younger, And to be
honest with you, that is just going to gin up
them coming out to vote because normally the people who
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vote are people who are forty five years of age
and older. That's about seventy percent of your normal vote.
The rest of it. The thirty percent of the vote
are those who are forty five years of age and younger.
He's got to get the younger people out to vote
if he's expected to win that Democratic primary. But Larry,
I don't think he thinks he can win the Democratic primary,
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although he's going to put his full leffort and all
of his finances into it. He's going to be in
the general election as the Working Families Party candidate because
they hate CMO and rightfully so, he tried to destroy
their third party. All he did was strengthen it. When
Cynthy and Nixon ran against him for governor, he sought revenge.
So he's going to take some of the Democratic vote
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in the general election. Eric Adams will take some of
the vote on whatever he calls himself now whatever his
party line is, the Independent line, CUOMO, a guy named
Jim Walden who is an Independent. As four different Democrats
fighting for the same number of votes, and then you
have Curtis Lee Well basically taking the high road to victory.
Starting out with thirty percent of the vote, and if
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I get five percent more moderate Democrats and Independence, then
I'm the next mayor of the City of New York
and on day one started attacking the two most prominent
issues of this campaign, crime and quality of life, which
Eric Adams has failed to do.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
And you've been fighting crime your whole career, and I'm
glad you're running for mayor. You've always been a good
friend to me, and I really appreciate it, and I
wish you luck, and I like that you're already counting votes,
and I believe in you. It does seem like you
do have a path to victory. Curtis Leewall, Republican candidate
for New York Mayor. Thank you so much. I appreciate
you talking to us today. Curtis, we'll talk again.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Oh my pleasure to just go to sliwa for NYC
dot com to get all the information you need to
know about my campaign and to help it.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Curtis leewa Republican candidate for mayor of New York City.
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