Just The News: “Yes! Yes! I’m taking the fight to the Democrats!” Curtis Sliwa shouted, fist pumping in the air, to begin a recent interview on “Just the News AM.”
Hours before, the Guardian Angels founder had won the Republican nomination for mayor of New York.
Sporting his iconic red beret, Sliwa spoke colorfully about the city’s current mayor, Bill de Blasio, who he says has “taken a Miley Cyrus wrecking ball to the city that we so love.”
Winning the mayoral contest in New York City is a steep uphill climb for any Republican. Sliwa, however, believes that he has forged unique bonds in the city that will allow him to make inroads with voting blocs that do not typically vote red.
“I’ve been working in neighborhoods where the only Republican some people have seen is Abraham Lincoln on the $5 bill,” he quipped.
“Projects, tenements, urban areas. I’m accepted there. I have street cred,” he said. Sliwa spent years, and much of his primary campaign, touring hot beds of NYC homelessness and doling out help to New Yorkers in need on subway lines along dangerous routes. more
NYC needs a Guardian Angel.
I’d love to see him win. He’d raise the hair of every leftist in NY, just before they dropped dead of heart failure.
He knows the streets of New York, unlike the current mayor or the other candidates.
I almost got hit by a car in NYC crossing the street to shake Curtis’ hand. He was really sweet and stopped traffic for me to meet him. It was one of the few times I was ‘girly fan’. He’s cool. 🙂