Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa, in a fiery radio present look on WABC Wednesday morning, disavowed the station, saying he would by no means return, and shut down any thought of becoming a member of Andrew Cuomo’s potential mayoral administration.
“Remember that scene in ‘Braveheart? Mel Gibson at the end, when the executioner was impaling him?” Sliwa, who sometimes has a present on the station, requested host Sid Rosenberg.
“If all of a sudden, the executioner would’ve stopped, and I was on that gurney, and said, ‘Hey, you can work for Mayor Andrew Cuomo,’ I would say, ‘Finish the job. Impale me.’”
Regardless of polling in the back of the three-man pack, Sliwa has captured the main target of these making an attempt to cease Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani from successful the Nov. 4 election. Mamdani, polls persistently present, is working with a double-digit lead over Cuomo.
Sliwa has been going through calls from reasonable and conservative New Yorkers to drop out of the race as a way to give Cuomo, who’s operating as an impartial, the very best shot at Metropolis Corridor. Just lately, longtime allies like Rosenberg and John Catsimatidis have joined the refrain.
On Tuesday, Cuomo stated he can be open to providing Sliwa a job in his attainable administration as an incentive for dropping out of the race.
Sliwa stated he felt “personally offended” by a few of these calls coming from his personal folks at WABC, Catsimatidis’ radio station.
“You will never see me ever in the studios of WABC again, never, no matter how this election turns out,” he stated on WABC’s conservative present Sid & Associates. “I cannot go out there every day and have to try to defend WABC, which is now ganging up on me in every conceivable way.”
At a press convention Wednesday afternoon, Catsimatidis stated he had no dialog about Sliwa, who’s been on depart from his common present to run for mayor, about quitting.
He famous Sliwa has a 30-year handshake contract with the station, and he stated Sliwa has threatened to go away earlier than however not adopted by: “People say a lot of things when they’re upset,” he stated.
“I can guarantee you 100% we never threatened Curtis with his job, we would never do that,” Catsimatidis stated, including that some folks instructed him to threaten to fireside Sliwa due to his refusal to get out of the race.
In his look, Sliwa additionally slammed the ex-governor for his gentle public marketing campaign schedule.
“Cuomo is on WABC all the time now, while I’m out on the campaign trail, pinching babies, shaking hands,” Sliwa stated. “He’s become the radio guy; now I’m the politician.”
Cuomo has made his plea to conservative listeners of WABC twice prior to now week.
With Chris Sommerfeldt
