Why Curtis Sliwa should never be anybody's candidate for Mayor of New York City.....

 

..... Least of all the Republicans and/or the Conservatives

Curtis Sliwa is not a supporter of the police  ---  in fact, he has recently advocated defunding a lot of police activities

Prior to the 2020 election for President, Curtis Sliwa announced that he was suffering from  >>>  "Trump Fatigue" and that even though he had recently registered as a Republican, Sliwa was uncertain whether would ever vote for Trump

Curtis Sliwa is a pathological hoaxer and liar,  who admittedly faked his 1980 kidnaping and admitted making five other major fabrications for the media attention  ---  it supposedly was to help the Guardian Angels survive its early years as a volunteer crime-fighting group  ---  but more likely, it was Sliwa's narcissistic personality disorder ---  Here's Sliwa's  explanation in his own words, admitting that a desire for constant media attention played a part in his deceptions:  "I was wrong, but we were in a sprint for survival....  We were just little people trying to get recognition for doing good work. In a sense it was like being Don Quixote....  [But, also, i]t became like an intoxicant, a narcotic." 

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Sliwa wants to defund certain police activities  ---  and divert those police funds to the Guardian Angels

Late in 2020 during an interview reported in the Daily News, radio personality and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa stated that, as part of his mayoral campaign platform,  he would  prioritize austerity amid the city’s current COVID-caused fiscal crisis, and that he would  >>> strip the New York City Police Department of some of its current responsibilities <<<   Sliwa said the NYPD shouldn’t be responding to any calls involving emotionally disturbed persons..... Instead he proposed that those responsibilities ought to be transferred to community groups like the Guardian Angels.  Talking more like Mayor Bill de Blasio than even de Blasio himself,  Curtis Sliwa said that  “Sometimes police arriving at the scene exacerbates it”.....

 

Sliwa the hoaxer:  He made false charges against three police officers.....

In a widely reported  LA Times interview in 1992,  Curtis Sliwa came clean and said that one of the worst of his fabrications was his 1980 claim that three New York City Transit Police Officers picked him up in a car, and then drove him around and threatened him in order to get SLiwa to stop the Guardian Angels' subway patrols.  Sliwa admitted  >>>  THAT NEVER HAPPENED <<<  admitting that he  “...  used creative license to manufacture the situation because  [he] needed to get the transit police off the Guardian Angels’ backs.....”

Later on, he would  back-track and continued to claim that he received those kinds of threats regularly from NYC Transit Police Officers.   

His first significant hoax involved his supposedly returning a wallet with $300 in it  to an elderly mugging victim.  According to Sliwa, that was dreamed up with help from his priest, who was trying to help the Guardian Angels get started.

According to the LA Time's interview,  Sliwa made several other false reports between 1978 and 1980.  Those included fabricated stories that the Guardian Angels thwarted subway muggings, that Sliwa had been beaten up fighting a rapist, and that someone painted “KKK” and “White Power” outside the the Guardian Angels' headquarters.  Sliwa admitted that the words were painted by some of  “... our own Guardian Angel members....”

Sliwa claims that he stopped making things up after the fake 1980 kidnaping incident,  when then-Bronx DA Mario Merola had sniffed out the phony story and had given Sliwa a stern warning.

Sliwa said he revealed his pattern of lies and hoaxes at the time of the LA Times interview,  because of a supposed recent brush with death. In 1992, he reported being shot five times by several unidentified gunmen as he sat in a taxicab on June 19  >>>  but even that story has changed over time, and key parts of it were contradicted by cooperating government witnesses for U.S. prosecutors  ---  who never would have prosecuted the crime based upon Sliwa's testimony alone, because of HIS inherent unreliability.

During the federal trial involving the 1992 shooting of Curtis Sliwa, serious doubt was cast on Mr. Sliwa's claim that he had given up his habit of outlandish self-promoting fabrications from the time of the LA Times' interview. When Sliwa was asked under oath about an assault, which Sliwa had alleged occurred in Washington, D.C., in August 1981, several months after the "last" fabricated incident to which Sliwa had previously admitted, and that there were no others,  Mr. Sliwa's sworn answer was that it sounded very much like the others he later admitted were fiction.  In the so-called Washington  D.C. incident, Sliwa said he he had been beaten by gang members, tied up and then dumped into the Potomac River.

Lastly, Curtis Sliwa is no kind of  real conservative or Republican

Falsely making charges against police officers  ---  advocating defunding the police and/or diverting their resources to community groups  ---  not being for Trump during the president's re-election campaign in 2020  >>>  DOES ANY OF THAT SOUND LIKE A REAL CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN TO YOU  ???