Curtis Sliwa must quit and back Adams
I have been friendly with Curtis Sliwa since the early 1990s. I worked for the Mayoral candidate at the time, Rudy Giuliani and Curtis, directed the Guardian Angels, the volunteer crime fighters he founded when Ed Koch was mayor and supporting Rudy’s race on the republican line.
Quick advance over 30 years. Curtis presents himself as a republican candidate for the second time mayor; He lost, harvesting only 28% of the vote against Eric Adams in 2021. This time, Sliwa is against the socialist democrat Zohran Mamdani and the independent candidate, the outgoing candidate Adams in search of his second mandate.
Ironically, Sliwa must abandon this mayor’s race to help Adams collect funds and defeat Mamdani in the general elections. The 28% of Sliwa’s votes in 2021 could make a difference between a city managed by democratically and a city managed by a 33 -year -old state assembly which does not believe in the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish nation, but believes in the gifts paid by companies and 2% of the residential population of NYC.
Born in Canarsia in 1954, Sliwa is a proud and stubborn man with a considerable ego who deeply believes that Adams is corrupt and that he can beat Adams, Mamdani, unknown lawyer Jim Walden and Andrew Cuomo – who struck his buttocks stupidly and selfishly – to become the independent ball line of the city of the city Its buttocks after June for June of the city of the city line of the new line of the city of November after the Lignor in November after the goals but York
It will not be easy to convince Sliwa to abandon the race. Especially since its campaign staff believes that if it can add seven points to its 2021 percentage, Sliwa can gain in a crowded area with 35 to 36% of the vote. I told the Sliwa team that it was unlikely, but at least for the moment they are dug. The recent approval of Sliwa by the eminent Jewish leader Dov Hikind has only strengthened their certainty that the Orthodox voting block will put it above.
It’s not that eminent politicians and business is not trying to reason with Sliwa. Rumors are afraid that the Trump administration, to help Adams re -elect, will offer Sliwa a great job at DC and that the Bigwig Republican John Catsimatidis will leave Sliwa from his Wabc radio contract. None of these carrots reach Sliwa to abandon its quixotic campaign. Here are some sweeteners who could:
Sliwa abandons, approves Adams and is appointed deputy mayor for public security in a second Adams administration;
Bill Ackman, Ken Langone and other wealthy donors of the city generously finance the expansion of the Guardian Angels of Sliwa in the world and strengthen the original organization of “the organization of prevention of non -profit crime”. Other chapters operate at DC; New Orleans; Savannah; Seattle; La, San Diego, San Francisco, Fresno, Sacramento and Stockton, California; Chicago; Philadelphia; Boston; Springfield and Brockton, Mass.; Denver; Dallas; Houston; Orlando; Portland, Maine; Indianapolis; York, Pennsylvania; London; Toronto; Tokyo; Cape Town and Auckland.
The presence of more angels guardians in the streets and metros of the city would become its citizens in Sliwa more than if it was somehow elected mayor. Play your strength, Curtis.
Sliwa is a toughness. He and his colleagues guardian Angels have patrolled the city for almost 50 years with nothing other than their red berets and their skills in hand. In the 1970s, he led a McDonald’s in the hard -ray of Fordham Road in the Bronx and survived a 1992 tube allegedly ordered by John Gotti Jr.
But it also has a soft side. In 1998, Curtis came to dinner. As a gift, he brought a red beret the size of a baby for my newborn son, Benjamin “Beau”. My wife, Liz, served a lamb lamb and insisted that Curtis removes his omnipresent beret before entering the apartment. Rightly, the impression of the beret left a permanent “halo” of the guardian angels anchored in his crown. Liz then provided the headquarters of the Guardian Angels on the eighth avenue. Curtis is always grateful to Liz.
In July 2001, when I joined the Daily News as communications manager, Curtis attended our conference on sales in Puerto Rico as a guest lecturer and longtime friend of the newspaper; He had delivered the news as a child. I broke my leg two days earlier and I convert San Juan on crutches. On stage, Curtis called me a “warrior” in front of my new colleagues. I am always grateful to Curtis.
Liz and me – and our longtime New York colleagues – we are even more grateful to Sliwa if he abandons the race for the town hall for the good of our city.
Frydman is CEO of Source Communications LLC, a strategic and tactical consulting company in Manhattan.
