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Radio Host Sliwa Says He'd Mull Run for Fossella's Seat
silive.com ^ | May 27, 2008 | om Wrobleski

Posted on 05/27/2008 5:15:33 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

If Staten Island Republicans can't find a candidate to replace GOP Rep. Vito Fossella in Congress, radio talk-show host Curtis Sliwa says he'd think about running.

"I'm sure that you will be able to find a well known or well qualified candidate, with a distinguished record of public service," Sliwa said in a letter to borough GOP chairman John Friscia today. "If however the party is unable to, if you think it would be of help, I might be willing to be considered as a possible candidate."

For the full text of Sliwa's letter, check out Tom Wrobleski's "Polit.bureau" blog.

The borough GOP has been struggling to find a candidate to run for Fossella's seat. State Sen. Andrew Lanza (R-Staten Island), the top candidate of many in the party, is still mulling the race over.


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: fossella; ny; ny14; ny2008; sliwa; statenisland; talkradio

1 posted on 05/27/2008 5:15:33 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I would love to this is guy in Congress.


2 posted on 05/27/2008 6:10:16 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Free ThinkerNY

No dice. Sliwa has an apartment in Manhattan and a house in the Poconos.


3 posted on 05/27/2008 6:10:16 PM PDT by Clemenza (Why do I Find Myself Attracted to Amy Winehouse?)
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To: Clemenza
No dice. Sliwa has an apartment in Manhattan and a house in the Poconos.
Figures.

PS. You can't fix Amy Winehouse, but you can get an infection trying.

4 posted on 05/27/2008 6:23:11 PM PDT by rmlew (Down with the ersatz immanentization of the eschaton known as Globalism.)
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To: rmlew

I have a fetish for disturbed Jewish girls from North London. Sue me!


5 posted on 05/27/2008 6:27:40 PM PDT by Clemenza (Why do I Find Myself Attracted to Amy Winehouse?)
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To: Clemenza

Dude... Man, that’s... just... I look at that and I.... just... I mean that’s not even... y’know... it’s... it’s... I just... I... dude.


6 posted on 05/27/2008 6:33:30 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Clemenza

You don’t HAVE to live in the district just the state. I wouldn’t give a damn where my congressman lived so long as he voted to my liking.


7 posted on 05/28/2008 1:21:41 AM PDT by Impy (Hey Media, where are the tears for Mary Jo Kopechne?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

This would be interesting.


8 posted on 05/28/2008 6:04:50 AM PDT by syriacus (30,000 US deaths in Korea in 2 1/2 years, because Truman first withdrew troops from Korea in 1949.)
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To: Clemenza; rmlew

He doesn’t have to live in the district to run. He needs to move into it if he should win before he is sworn in to take office.


9 posted on 05/28/2008 2:34:43 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: All; Free ThinkerNY

Too bad he’s pro-”choice,” at least last I heard.


10 posted on 06/01/2008 1:15:49 AM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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To: Sun

> Too bad he’s pro-”choice,” at least last I heard.

He and I talked about that last winter (our August). It would be inaccurate to describe him as “pro choice”.


11 posted on 06/14/2008 2:03:01 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: montag813

> I would love to this is guy in Congress.

He’d make a great Congressman, for sure.

I’d prefer to see him on a VP ticket of, say, Ollie North / Curtis Sliwa.

I had the privilege of Patrolling with Curtis in Auckland last year: he is the “real deal”. And when there was an assault in progress, he was the first man in, to break it up.


12 posted on 06/14/2008 2:08:12 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: DieHard the Hunter

“He and I talked about that last winter (our August). It would be inaccurate to describe him as “pro choice”.”

Maybe he changed his position. What is his position on the life issue?


13 posted on 06/14/2008 10:42:12 AM PDT by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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