Posted on 06/21/2021 2:49:50 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
The top GOP candidate in Tuesday's closely watched New York City mayoral primary is Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa –whose decades-long, get-tough-on-crime platform appears to be getting little traction with crime-worried voters in the largely liberal city.
Sliwa started what eventually became the red-beret wearing Angles brigade in 1977, in an effort to rid the city's subway system of crime.
Now, despite crime being up roughly 22% in NYC, compared to this time last year, Sliwa is still far behind in the polls – in a so-called "ranked-choice" election in which the top four candidates, regardless of party, advance. (Shootings are up 73% over the same period, according to recent New York Police Department statistic.)
The 67-year Sliwa is running on "refunding the police" platform that includes calling for 5,000 more police officers to protect residents in the city's five boroughs, according to The New York Times....
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I wouldn’t visit if it was all paid for.
Sliwa is a clown
If he’s our clown!
Sliwa has more balls than brains. I do admire him for a lot of the personal risks he took back in the 70s and 80s, but like many in Hollywood, he seems to have confused his celebrity with intellect.
Adams WAS GOP while Rudy was Mayor. Then switched. Doesn’t know who he is(like Bloomberg). Yang? A walking whoopee cushion. Sliwa-I’d cream my pants if he won but Rudy could not get elected in this climate. Garcia-lose some weight senorita.
Sliwa knows the City inside out & he cares about it. When he loses to a democrat, the City will continue to go downhill. NYC votes for democrats.
That is true overall. He has been inclined to publicity stunts in the past. But he's a cool fellow, smart, mostly good. He would be pro police but at the same time know how to keep them in line.
NYC votes for democrats.
Gottdangz they want that Yang as mayor and then president after that.
Sliwa keeps saying he hates Trump, but Rudy supports him for mayor anyway. Mike Flynn supports Sliwa’s opponent. If I lived there, his anti-Trump talk would turn me off from voting for him.
That sucks, and yet it’s not surprising. Sliwa has gone a bit alien since illegal alien sympathizing Hispanics now comprise a large portion of the Angels. He has sent details specifically to protect illegal alien Mexicans in places like Staten Island. Besides that he certainly does not want to offend marxist New York City voters by endorsing MAGA.
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