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Featuring: Curtis Sliwa, Conservative | Radio Talk Show Host, Former Candidate, Mayor of New York City

The moment they walk out the door, snitches get stitches and end up in ditches. You're mine. And now you got to go back into the same class. It's like the correctional department mostly. Now. The correctional offices are women of color, right? More than 50% black and Hispanic. You go on a Rikers island, which is on Mondame, and Andrew Cuomo, you know, they just wanted to close, close, close, and they never been there. (30:33–30:38)

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Asserts that more than 50% of correctional officers are women of color, specifically black and Hispanic.

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“Eric Adams gave $7 billion to migrants, people we didn't even know.”
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“2/3 of [fourth graders] cannot read, write or do math at grade level.”
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“Governor Cuomo, $60 million in handouts to the sexual harassment victims in his administration.”
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“The Grubhub delivery guys with the app make more money than an EMT.”
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“It was supposed to offset the billion dollars that we lose in fair evasion.”
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“They [billionaires] offered me $10 million with Jeeves, stretch limo, chauffeur, no show job.”
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“There were no cops at night on the subways because of major cutbacks.”
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“I'm the only candidate to actually campaign in the subway.”
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“We've never asked for a nickel, dime a penny from government or even from the public.”
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“When I ran against Eric Adams In 2021, did I not tell you there would be chaos and corruption with Eric Adams.”
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“Eric [Adams] got the same offer.”
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“Eric Adams, who I knew over 40 years.”
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“He [Eric Adams] probably spiced it up. Oh, he's taken care of. Trust me. He's not in jail where he belongs.”
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“If Eric had done a halfway decent job, it would have been round two.”
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“There were no transit police because of the cutbacks.”
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“Bill de Blasio took a billion dollars out of the budget and eliminated that homeless outreach area January 1, 2026.”
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“I believe in no kill shelters.”
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“I actually have an independent line called Protect Animals First Ever.”
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“The billionaires are not going to determine who the next mayor of New York City is.”
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“I wouldn't take the payout from the billionaires to drop out.”
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“The Department of Education, $41 billion. That's 1/3 of the budget.”
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“We have a growing population, an aging population.”
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“People want to stay in their homes, but they need professional home health care aides.”
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“We have so many young men and women who maybe academically can't cut it, but if we had more vocational training.”
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“There's always a plan of crime. Somebody is always targeting somebody.”
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“The people who are working, trying to raise their families and living the American dream, we need to leave them alone.”
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“The new generation, most of them, are not going to do those jobs [in the fields, picking the crops, packing the crops in the…”
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“You cannot depend on these polls.”
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“I have Republicans, independents, two and a half times the number of voters of Republicans, because that's the growing number of registered…”
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“The public housing projects, which are falling apart as we speak.”
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“Trump has already said, I'm cutting the NYCHA budget.”
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“Our cops are being recruited away. Other civil servants are being recruited away.”
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“They no longer have insurance. That means they're very tepid in terms of getting involved.”
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“Right behind city hall, you have tweet courthouse. This is where the bureaucrats actually occupy offices. Many of them no show jobs.”
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“They have 13 deputy chancellors, 50 department heads.”
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“They make 268,000 plus with benefits.”
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“We are facing a catastrophe. When you're a populist Republican, you're saying, hey, we gotta live within our means.”
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“Medicaid cuts have been devastating to us in the city.”
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“Adams talked a lot about [food choices] cuz he benefited from that. I do know personally he was in dire circumstances medically.”
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“Go to the inner city where I spend most of my time, the choices are meager if almost non existent.”
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“These people are ending up going into the hospital at younger and younger ages and that costs us a lot of money.”
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“With a $41 billion budget, teachers are still reaching into their pocket and buying supplies.”
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“Working class people are crippled by congestion pricing. It's nothing more than another tax.”
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“In New York City, you get taxed from the cradle to the grave.”
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“The city of yes...will allow a developer to come in with a bulldozer and a wrecking ball.”
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“I'm not dropping out. They tried to bribe me to drop out. Now they threaten to kill me and my wife.”
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“There's no job offer from Trump.”
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“They've tried to bribe me. They threatened to kill me and my wife.”
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“Go to sliwa4nyc.com that's sliwa4nyc.Com and you can see all of the programs. What I would do for the first hundred days when I'm sworn into…”
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