Curtis Sliwa, NYC’s Republican wild card, chats to Crikey

Republican New York mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa has responded in a variety of colorful ways to suggestions that former Democratic governor Andrew Cuomo should drop out of the race so he can compete head-to-head with Democratic Socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani.

“Men died fighting for the right to vote, and not for billionaires, landed gentry or the professional political class to choose the next mayor,” Sliwa said. announced at a press conference in September.

He told me in October that the “only way” he would drop out was if I got hit by a Mack truck and I turned into a speed bump and they couldn’t save me in the ICU.