Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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We digress here to a really important interview, and I would suggest an important national interview. If we assume that we have fractured politics, is it worse in France or Japan? I don't know, man. Okay, maybe New York City is a template for us. Joining us is someone who has the attention of all. within New York City.
Curtis Sliwa joins us now, candidate for mayor, always, always forever affiliated with the GOP and the Republican candidate. First of all, I look at any kind of polling and I'm sort of surprised that you're just sub 20%. Have you ever polled this high? Is this a normal polling?
I think at this point of the election cycle, yes, because they're just polling Republicans who are only 10% of the electorate. So we're talking independents that they don't poll. Sometimes they do, and I do incredibly well with them. Some moderate Democrats. And then remember, I have an independent line that nobody has factored in. Protect animals, no kill shelters, animal abusers in jail.
Very popular with women who rescue animals. Right. And actually, they're not heard from in the polls.
I look at the New York Times. They got fancy buttons I can press. I'm not a sophisticated Curtis like Paul Sweeney. But if I X Adams, they have a tab where I can take him out, and I do the math, Curtis Sliwa plus Andrew Cuomo, guess what? It doesn't equal Zoran Mondami, but it comes pretty close.
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Chapter 2: Who is Curtis Sliwa and what is his political platform?
Everybody knows he was the author of No Cash Bail, Raise the Age, He Wants to Close Rikers. He and Zoran Mandami, when it comes to law and order, are two peas in a pod. And then he talks about prostitution. Zoran is in favor of legalized prostitution. But the governor at the time, Cuomo, signed the legislation to enable people to go out into the streets and sell their bodies.
So I don't see any differentiation at all between Cuomo and Zoran Mandami.
What is your message to New York City residents these last days of the campaign?
I am the only candidate, GOP candidate, that wants to slash taxes. Corporate tax, income tax, especially the property tax, which a mayor does hold sway over. And the Citizens Budget Commission said I'm the only one who's talking about fiscal constraint. $118 billion budget for the city. And there are no cuts. Cuomo and Zoran would actually increase it.
I would take $10 billion right out of the Department of Education, which is all being spent on the bureaucracy, start cutting the Department of Buildings, and get fiscally reliant on people like Larry Kudlow, who's my advisor, George Pataki, who did that as governor, and then Rudy Giuliani, who is the best law and order mayor we've ever had in the city of New York. Now,
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Chapter 3: How does Curtis Sliwa view the current polling landscape?
Those are three titans.
This came up this weekend. I said, I got Sliwa Monday. They said, you got to ask him this question. Mayor Sliwa with the city council. Can you get along with the city council to get things done?
Well, the benefit of my life is that I spent 13 years raising two boys with Melinda Katz, who was a city council person for 12 years, head of land use. She's now the Queens Democratic D.A. She taught me how you get along with city council. How do you do that? It's called discretionary funds. You go into the district. They beat you up. You meet with the staff because the staff does all the work.
Remember, the elected officials.
It's the same with Bloomberg Surveillance Council.
Because the electeds are always dialing for dollars, shaking people down for political contributions. And then you say, I just want one vote from you. And I get you your discretionary funds. You're looking for a new park. You're looking for a new playground. You're looking for capital improvements.
Old-style politics.
A trade. I get one vote that I desperately need to show that there is dialogue, even with those who are considered liberal, progressive, democratic socialists of America. If you don't do that... No matter who the mayor is, you're not going to be able to get the city council in a majority way to back any of your initiatives.
You'll be impotent as Eric Adams is now because Adrian Adams, the speaker of the council, is the real mayor of the city of New York.
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Chapter 4: What are Sliwa's views on law and order compared to his opponents?
They're being perved on. They're afraid to go out at night. They can't afford taking yellow cabs, Ubers and Lyfts. And nobody is talking about what women have to go through in New York City. I know because my wife, who's an attorney, has explained it and has done my very first commercial about the plight of women being victims of random attacks. What random attacks?
This is being directed at women, and they're not being protected.
There's a lot of talk about financial support. What financial support do you have for the next 20-day dash to the election?
I have collected, actually, in the last three quarters, average donation $119, more matching funds than Zorhan Mandami, Cuomo, and Eric Adams combined. We're talking about donations from New York City residents. The others are getting their money from out of state.
I would take the money of the local New Yorker who obviously is putting their reputation on the line when I'm getting an eight to one match and I'm on TV and I'm in the neighborhoods and I have the money to run a campaign.
People want our news reporters want to know, are you even considering dropping out to shift this campaign?
You know what? Talk to the dropout king. Who dropped out against Karl McCaul running for governor? Andrew Cuomo. Who dropped out and fled to the Hamptons because he feared impeachment? Andrew Cuomo. Did Donald Trump flee to Mar-a-Lago because he feared impeachment? Did Donald Trump flee to Mar-a-Lago because he was a victim of lawfare by Alvin Bragg and Tish James?
No, he showed up in court each and every day. Cuomo is a coward. He's the only one who's ever dropped out.
Thank you for joining Bloomberg this morning. Curtis Sliwa, of course, mayoral candidate here. We hope to get all of the candidates in here as we dashed the first Tuesday of November.
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