Curtis Sliwa’s controversial candidacy: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa’s run for mayor of New York City.
Finally: Curtis Sliwa is getting some consideration (“Sliwa: I have a path,” July 20).
Charles Gasparino adopted Sliwa for fairly some time, and Gasparino is aware of New Yorkers.
Sliwa is aware of the issues of New York; he walked the streets late at night time and manned the subways.
Our present candidates experience the subway with a crew of reporters for one or two stops.
As far as his signature beret, Zohran Mamdani campaigned at first in what seemed like pajamas.
Maria Musolino
Staten Island
I don’t see why Sliwa has to “kiss the ring” of Kathy Wylde.
Judging by the quantity of empty storefronts, I don’t suppose her NYC Partnership is doing a lot to help native companies.
Plus, she appears to belong to the group that thinks playing and marijuana revenues are the way in which to shore up town’s funds.
I’ll vote for Sliwa, significantly, as a result of he appears intent on maintaining NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch.
But, I’ve some advice, Curtis: Lose the beret now and don’t go to the polls in November cradling one of your cats — it makes you look bizarre and unserious.
Ilene Heller
Manhattan
Sliwa is as certified to be mayor as I’m to be pope — and I’m not Catholic.
He has by no means labored as a beat cop or a detective monitoring down thugs.
Instead, he devoted his life to a glorified neighborhood watch affiliation.
He by no means served within the navy, however adopted the beret, a image of elite troops.
It seems like an attempt to applicable the status of the navy.
Sliwa by no means launched a business, employed scads of people and constructed it into a powerhouse.
Does anybody on Wall Street, in state and native authorities or the police unions take him severely?
Yet he vows to remain within the race.
His sole accomplishment might be splitting the vote and electing Mamdani.
Scott Reeves
Manhattan
Curtis Sliwa is someone who the people of this metropolis can trust.
He is down to earth and cares about New Yorkers.
New Yorkers proceed to maneuver out of town as a result of of high crime, high rent and high taxes, and Sliwa will work tirelessly to scale back all of these issues.
He will work with our great NYPD and FDNY to improve working circumstances and salaries for New York City’s bravest.
He will work exhausting to additional improve our public college system for our lecturers, principals and college students, so that folks won’t pull their kids out of faculties.
Sliwa is the correct particular person for the job of mayor, so let’s show him help.
John Amato
Fresh Meadows
There is unquestionably a path for Sliwa to win the mayoral election. What he wants most is money.
He additionally wants Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Adams and Jim Walden to remain within the race and break up the vote.
Tom Gagan
Mount Vernon
Sliwa refuses to desert his robust white outer-borough look and goes strutting round sporting his Guardian Angel outfit, replete with purple beret and jacket.
That image doesn’t appeal to the overwhelming majority of New Yorkers.
Democratic candidates will thrash Sliwa.
Dennis Middlebrooks
Brooklyn
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The pickings are slim for the New York City mayoral election, however Sliwa actually deserves a shot.
Cuomo and Adams have failed monitor information.
Mamdani, an avowed socialist and anti-capitalist, will perpetuate additional distress.
Meanwhile, Sliwa has actually put his life on the road for New Yorkers and earned our trust.
Peter Cooper
Bronxville
Sliwa is a Republican, which places him behind the eight-ball within the mayoral race.
However, he has been patrolling the streets and defending New Yorkers for over 40 years.
He is aware of the dangerous locations higher than the police themselves.
He wasn’t accountable for any of the deaths during COVID, or the money we laid out to accommodate 1000’s of illegals, and he actually doesn’t have Marxist convictions like Zohran Mamdani.
Dan Liberati
White Plains
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