Curtis Sliwa: Why would we defund those who defend us?
John Solomon Reports
John Solomon
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🗓️ 22 March 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Sliwa is running for mayor of NYC on a platform of “re-funding” the police, and restoring law and order in the city.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello America and welcome to a Monday edition of John Salomon reports. |
| 0:10.5 | Yes, we're tan rested, maybe wind burn from a beautiful spring weekend, at least here |
| 0:16.5 | on the east coast it was. |
| 0:18.4 | And now we got to get back to work. |
| 0:20.4 | Dig in our heels, break some news and try to give you guys the facts. |
| 0:25.2 | Today we have a really fun guess, I grew up in the shadows of New York City and Connecticut. |
| 0:30.7 | And as I was growing up and the New York crime prices of the late 1970s, early 1980s was |
| 0:36.8 | unfolding. |
| 0:38.3 | Curtis Sleeve was a person, everybody in New York knew he started the Guardian Angels. |
| 0:44.2 | He was faux and French in New York, police ultimately, a significant French in New York, |
| 0:49.0 | police. |
| 0:50.0 | But early on the police and the Democratic establishment in the city didn't know what |
| 0:54.1 | to make of him and his red cap angels. |
| 0:56.8 | But over time he helped bring attention to the issue of crime, particularly in the subways. |
| 1:04.2 | And now is launched a international movement. |
| 1:07.6 | The Guardian Angels are in so many cities, not only in America, but across the world. |
| 1:12.1 | I think they got five or six thousand members. |
| 1:14.5 | And after all that, after 30 years on radio as a popular talk show host, Curtis Sleeve |
| 1:20.2 | has decided to jump both feet into politics. He's running for mayor of New York City, the |
| 1:26.7 | primaries in June, the general elections in November. |
| 1:30.5 | It's a race worth watching. |
| 1:31.8 | And Curtis Sleeve has a lot of early momentum on the Republican side. |
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