By COLlive reporter
Does he stand a chance?
Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels anti-crime group, announced his candidacy for Mayor of New York City in a race that has already been crowded.
But he is running as a Republican. If it wins, he will be the first Republican to hold that position in 16 years.
Sliwa, who quit his radio talk show to run for office, stated that he will work to restore order in the city crackdown on rising crime.
During his announcement, he expressed his steadfast support for the New York Police Departement whom he says turned “impotent” following the Defund the Police movement that slashed its funds and public support.
Wearing his signature red beret, Sliwa slammed the current leadership of the city and state. He said Mayor Bill de Blasio was the “worst mayor” of his life and called on Governor Andrew Cuomo to resign.
His law-and-order appeal arrives after a year in which shootings in the city surged and New Yorkers flooded streets to protest police brutality, the New York Daily News reported.
Sliwa has been a familiar face in the Crown Heights neighborhood and a welcome figure in the local Jewish community for years.
During the Crown Heights Riots in 1991 when blacks attacked Jewish residents, Sliwa and his volunteers patrolled the streets. They were recently back following a string of anti-Jewish attacks.
“We have to refund the police — not defund, even in tough fiscal times,” Sliwa told the Daily News on Monday. “I know what over-the-top police tactics can do. But I also know we have to have police. It’s a balance.”
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We need more people like him in this world
He sure would be better for the Jews than DeBlasio has been.
Y’all need to calm down, this dude is a waste of space.
your mom is a waste of space
He may be tough on crime but he will not be good for jews Andrew yang is better
Don’t be fooled by his I will do this and that. He talks about giving money that isn’t there. Yes the federal government is bailing us out but that is to keep the budget from going in the red. We still have a long ways to go to recover this city.
Eric Adams has served OUR district as State Senator and has a track record of working with ALL communities. Just for starters, he had donated bullet proof vests from Shmira and Shomrim and recently donated 2 ambulances to hatzala. Actions speak louder than w o r d s.
Yang wants communism, starting with guaranteed income.
He for sure won’t be worse than DiBlasio. I don’t understand how Yang would be better. All the Dems running, including Yang are ultra-liberals. Curtis has already shown his concern for the Jewish community. Yang has no record or relationship in the past to us. If you like what’s happened to NY under DiBlasio, just vote for any of the Dems running. You’ll get more of what you’ve had under DiBlasio.
that the commenter above you had redefined “Judaism” as liberalism and the Democratic party, just as our Reform and Conservative brothers and sisters have been doing for decades.
But he will not garner the votes over a democrat. This town is probably 90 % democrat so your vote will be wasted. Lets look at the top democrats and see who will best help our city go forward in regards to recovery and public safety. Personally I think the best choice would be Eric Adams. As a former Police Captain, he understands policing. As a Senator and Borough President he has done the job of of an elected official for years and has the management experience needed. Please do the research and make your vote count.
He was a Republican, yet still was elected and re-elected in this “probably 90% democrat” city. At least, unlike people in other Democrat-mismanaged cities, New Yorkers occasionally wise up, rather than continuously voting for the same corrupt pro-crime party.
is that when commenters like the one above you talk about someone being “good for the Jews,” what they mean is “good for the Democrat party.” Somehow, certain people, usually those with a weak commitment to Yiddishkeit, have managed to convince themselves that the party of FDR (he of the refusal to allow Jews into the country in the 1930s), and currently the party whose leaders seek the support of the likes of Farrakhan and Sharpton and Omar and the rest of that ilk, is good for Jews.
We need to defund the police, vote in democratic liberals!
Of course he will win. But with all the election fraud going on he doesn’t stand a chance. Those machines got to go. Paper ballots only. And counted by independent non-partisan people, (no Zuckerberg goons)
We don’t have elections anymore.
The winner is chosen in advance.
Your ballot doesn’t count when it is scanned and then sent to be manipulated and switched at will by the political hacks running the elections. Election integrity now!