Posted on 04/22/2021 4:03:15 AM PDT by sodpoodle
GOP mayoral candidate and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa stood outside NYPD’s headquarters in Lower Manhattan Monday and vowed to fully refund the police department’s budget and crack down on disruptive protests if elected.
“We’re going to refund the police,” he declared, surrounded by a clutch of retired NYPD officers at One Police Plaza. “Put that billion dollars back into the budget.”
Sliwa said he wants the department to be back at 38,000 police officers. There are currently about 35,000.
One way Sliwa has proposed increasing the NYPD’s ranks is by making Madison Square Garden and wealthy private universities pay their taxes.
“They’re going to have to pay,” he said.
“So the specificity of the plan is to use that special allotment of property tax and apply it to refunding the police, giving them back $1 billion that was taken out of their $6 billion budget.”
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Well,he’d certainly carry Staten Island. But I think that the rest of the city is too far gone to vote rationally.
No. Curtis Sliwa is an idiot who slammed Donald Trump everytime he had a chance on his radio station.
He is a stupid clown.
Too late Curtis. Leave town and let it die.
I agree. From the beginning he was a Trump hating POS who never passed up a chance to slam him.
I agree. From the beginning he was a Trump hating POS who never passed up a chance to slam him.
I have regular discussions regarding the precipitous decline of Blue cities and states. He claims that New York, where he used to live, is no worse than it was in the Eighties. That actually is saying a lot. New York, if current trends continue, is dying. Hello Detroit.
Then there’s the Ultimate Warrior. Yul Brenner.
I like him as a new Yorker.
That’s not saying much. I gladly shake his hand because he’s a good guy but he’s NOT a Republican.
Search my older posts and you’ll come across my argument that left wing states don’t produce right wing people. I call them “’but’ Republicans”. They believe in rights and freedoms... buuuuuut.. and you know where they are going.
Long long ago Sliwa and leftist lawyer Ron Kuby did a call-in radio show in the NYC/NJ market. Curtis and Kuby. Lots of fun exchanges!
Wish Curtis the best of luck but the REAL election is in June with the Democratic primary.
Baby daddy to the Democratic Queens Borough President as well, lol!
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