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.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Here's Larry MINTI, welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
To Saturday Morning. On this week's show, the Republican candidate
in the New York City election, Curtis Leewood joins us
to talk about the results and zurin Mom, Donnie, fresh
off a tough election night, Thank you so much for
joining us. Hope you're holding your head up high.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Oh absolutely, And thanks for all the airtime you provided
me during the campaign so I could flesh out the
issues other than just talk about the daily conversation, which
is you should drop out. And Larry, even if you
took every vote that I'd got in this election and
you had transferred it to Andrew Cmo, he still would
(00:47):
have lost. So how did that work out? How did
that work out that I should drop out and all
the votes would put him over the top, do the mass?
It never worked out.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah, even when you had the highighest poll numbers, if
you took that amount, And first of all, we should
point out not all of those votes were going to transfer.
They were Republican votes. Who would half of them never
would have voted for Andrew Cuomo. So even if you
took all of the votes. Let's just say, in some
kind of magic world, you could take all the votes
(01:18):
that you had with your highest numbers and give them
to Andrew Cuomo. It still wouldn't have been enough.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yep. And remember the masters of the universe weighed in
trump Elon Musk. Now a trillion are soon to be
a trillion. In other fact, there's other billionaires. And still
it wasn't going to turn into a Cuomo into the mayor.
He had too much baggage, he was too low, too hated.
But it is what it is. And now the people
(01:46):
must suffer because they didn't take the other alternative, which
was me, and now they must live with Joranmandami. So
I noticed the thea fright in hysteria in the beginning
of the flight. I'm leaving. Well, all of you can
leave if that's what you want to do, but I stay.
I fight for what I know is right. I improve,
I don't move, And like the scene from They Miss
(02:09):
at Abbels, I say to those who were willing to
join me to the barricades, to the barricades.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
That's really well said. Look, I know during this campaign
you suffered a lot of backstabbing, and some of it
was vicious. Some of the people that you considered your
friends stabbed you in the back. Others others like myself,
I did a commentary saying you should drop out, but
I did it at least with love. There were others
(02:37):
that I think that you counted on that really turned
on you, that must have hurt.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Oh. Absolutely. From the station that I broadcast from thirty
five years, it stood for always Broadcasting Curtis WABC, it
became always Fashion Curtis, from Sid in the Morning to
Greg Kelly to Dominic Carty. It wasn't just me in
opposition to me staying in the race. As you appointed out, Larry,
(03:04):
there's two ways to do it, but to get vicious
and personal and attack family members and then also be
responsible for the tidal wave of hate and craziness that
permeated the race so much so for the first time
in my life, I had to go out and get
armed guards for my wife. They were threatening my wife.
(03:26):
And I'm not saying people in particular, but people who
were off off there, off the edge to begin with,
were just pushed in that direction. So I had to
have armed guards. My wife had to have armed guards.
I had to make sure that my staff was protected
and volunteers, and it was really a stain on what
I had done in New York. I should be able
(03:49):
to just go on, continue to serve the people of
New York in different capacities. But instead I have people
who walk around acting like Joran Mondomius of Curtis Leeland. No,
it's the Democratic Party. It's the failure of Eric Adams
to not be able to do his fiduciary duty. He
(04:10):
was corrupt, He paid the way for Joan Mondami, and
then they revived what is a zombie politician Andrew Comos
to come and basically do battle in the Democratic primary.
He failed, then he failed in the general, and we
know he's going to go back to the Hampton's and
hang out with his billionaire friends. Well, I continue to
(04:32):
try to improve New York City and lead the loyal
opposition to Jan Mondami.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I'll tell you what you got a national name. Two
weeks in a row, SNL has talked about you. What
did you think of their skits and what they did
last night on the Weekend Update.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Well, I love parodies and satire. I've done that my
whole life, So anytime that people provide a good way
for people to get a good laugh and try to
understand what's going on. I supported, Hey, it's flattering. Anytime
they would sort of point out who you are and
what you are, it's not going to be in the
(05:08):
most flattering way. But that's what comedy, satire and parodies
are and they love it. I can't get enough of
it my whole life. I've been doing parodies since satire
on TV and on the radio, So I give them
thumbs up for that.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, I'll tell you what. It's great to be impersonated
by Shane Gillis maybe the top comic in the country
right now. How do you think he did in the
debate impersonating you?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Oh, you'd did great. I just want Shane to wear
that red beret and come with me on the number
four train the Muggers Express and see if he's got
what it takes here. Glad.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, you know what My guess is, if you reach
out to him, he would do it.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Oh, you're right. There's a lot of people I have
to reach out to. I've been reaching out to obviously,
all the people who supported me from day one, who
put their lives aside to give me an opportunity to
save the city. But that's one of the many people
I'll be reaching out to. As you know, there's another
chapter in my life. I shouldn't have been alive all
the times that I've been in the er or the
(06:08):
ICU for a number of physical reasons. So I have
a lot to be grateful too, and most importantly to you, Larry,
to your staff, to the people at WR who were
always fair and square to me during a very tough campaign.
I just can't say that about the place that I
thought was family WABC. I will never return there. You
(06:31):
will never hear my voice there. I am old testament.
Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. I will
never forgive, I will never forget.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Well, listen, you are a hero to New York City.
You ran your campaign with nothing with but class. You
should hold your head up and I can hear from
your voice you are. You gave an exceptionable concession speech,
which is the way all concession speeches should be, and
they aren't always so, Curtis, I'm proud to know you
(06:58):
hold your head up high, and I can't wait to
hear and see the next chapter in your life.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Shit that Larry and again, we gotta save this city.
We know what Zoran is going to do. We gotta
stand and hit the barricades and fight for what we
know Israe.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Guardian Angels founder curtisly This has been a podcast from
wor
This is a podcast from wor Now the wr Saturday
Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Here's Larry MINTI, welcome.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
To Saturday Morning. On this week's show, the Republican candidate
in the New York City election, Curtis Leewood joins us
to talk about the results and zurin Mom, Donnie, fresh
off a tough election night, Thank you so much for
joining us. Hope you're holding your head up high.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Oh absolutely, And thanks for all the airtime you provided
me during the campaign so I could flesh out the
issues other than just talk about the daily conversation, which
is you should drop out. And Larry, even if you
took every vote that I'd got in this election and
you had transferred it to Andrew Cmo, he still would
(00:47):
have lost. So how did that work out? How did
that work out that I should drop out and all
the votes would put him over the top, do the mass?
It never worked out.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah, even when you had the highighest poll numbers, if
you took that amount, And first of all, we should
point out not all of those votes were going to transfer.
They were Republican votes. Who would half of them never
would have voted for Andrew Cuomo. So even if you
took all of the votes. Let's just say, in some
kind of magic world, you could take all the votes
(01:18):
that you had with your highest numbers and give them
to Andrew Cuomo. It still wouldn't have been enough.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yep. And remember the masters of the universe weighed in
trump Elon Musk. Now a trillion are soon to be
a trillion. In other fact, there's other billionaires. And still
it wasn't going to turn into a Cuomo into the mayor.
He had too much baggage, he was too low, too hated.
But it is what it is. And now the people
(01:46):
must suffer because they didn't take the other alternative, which
was me, and now they must live with Joranmandami. So
I noticed the thea fright in hysteria in the beginning
of the flight. I'm leaving. Well, all of you can
leave if that's what you want to do, but I stay.
I fight for what I know is right. I improve,
I don't move, And like the scene from They Miss
(02:09):
at Abbels, I say to those who were willing to
join me to the barricades, to the barricades.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
That's really well said. Look, I know during this campaign
you suffered a lot of backstabbing, and some of it
was vicious. Some of the people that you considered your
friends stabbed you in the back. Others others like myself,
I did a commentary saying you should drop out, but
I did it at least with love. There were others
(02:37):
that I think that you counted on that really turned
on you, that must have hurt.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Oh. Absolutely. From the station that I broadcast from thirty
five years, it stood for always Broadcasting Curtis WABC, it
became always Fashion Curtis, from Sid in the Morning to
Greg Kelly to Dominic Carty. It wasn't just me in
opposition to me staying in the race. As you appointed out, Larry,
(03:04):
there's two ways to do it, but to get vicious
and personal and attack family members and then also be
responsible for the tidal wave of hate and craziness that
permeated the race so much so for the first time
in my life, I had to go out and get
armed guards for my wife. They were threatening my wife.
(03:26):
And I'm not saying people in particular, but people who
were off off there, off the edge to begin with,
were just pushed in that direction. So I had to
have armed guards. My wife had to have armed guards.
I had to make sure that my staff was protected
and volunteers, and it was really a stain on what
I had done in New York. I should be able
(03:49):
to just go on, continue to serve the people of
New York in different capacities. But instead I have people
who walk around acting like Joran Mondomius of Curtis Leeland. No,
it's the Democratic Party. It's the failure of Eric Adams
to not be able to do his fiduciary duty. He
(04:10):
was corrupt, He paid the way for Joan Mondami, and
then they revived what is a zombie politician Andrew Comos
to come and basically do battle in the Democratic primary.
He failed, then he failed in the general, and we
know he's going to go back to the Hampton's and
hang out with his billionaire friends. Well, I continue to
(04:32):
try to improve New York City and lead the loyal
opposition to Jan Mondami.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
I'll tell you what you got a national name. Two
weeks in a row, SNL has talked about you. What
did you think of their skits and what they did
last night on the Weekend Update.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Well, I love parodies and satire. I've done that my
whole life, So anytime that people provide a good way
for people to get a good laugh and try to
understand what's going on. I supported, Hey, it's flattering. Anytime
they would sort of point out who you are and
what you are, it's not going to be in the
(05:08):
most flattering way. But that's what comedy, satire and parodies
are and they love it. I can't get enough of
it my whole life. I've been doing parodies since satire
on TV and on the radio, So I give them
thumbs up for that.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah, I'll tell you what. It's great to be impersonated
by Shane Gillis maybe the top comic in the country
right now. How do you think he did in the
debate impersonating you?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Oh, you'd did great. I just want Shane to wear
that red beret and come with me on the number
four train the Muggers Express and see if he's got
what it takes here. Glad.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, you know what My guess is, if you reach
out to him, he would do it.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
Oh, you're right. There's a lot of people I have
to reach out to. I've been reaching out to obviously,
all the people who supported me from day one, who
put their lives aside to give me an opportunity to
save the city. But that's one of the many people
I'll be reaching out to. As you know, there's another
chapter in my life. I shouldn't have been alive all
the times that I've been in the er or the
(06:08):
ICU for a number of physical reasons. So I have
a lot to be grateful too, and most importantly to you, Larry,
to your staff, to the people at WR who were
always fair and square to me during a very tough campaign.
I just can't say that about the place that I
thought was family WABC. I will never return there. You
(06:31):
will never hear my voice there. I am old testament.
Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. I will
never forgive, I will never forget.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Well, listen, you are a hero to New York City.
You ran your campaign with nothing with but class. You
should hold your head up and I can hear from
your voice you are. You gave an exceptionable concession speech,
which is the way all concession speeches should be, and
they aren't always so, Curtis, I'm proud to know you
(06:58):
hold your head up high, and I can't wait to
hear and see the next chapter in your life.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Shit that Larry and again, we gotta save this city.
We know what Zoran is going to do. We gotta
stand and hit the barricades and fight for what we
know Israe.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Guardian Angels founder curtisly This has been a podcast from
wor
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