Yonkers Insider: 2023 Campaign Trail: CURTIS SLIWA, WABC RADIO TALK SHOW PERSONALITY LENDS SUPPORT TO MEARANTE YONKERS MAYORAL CAMPAIGN.

CURTIS SLIWA WABC RADIO TALK SHOW PERSONALITY AND GUARDIAN ANGELS FOUNDER TO LEND SUPPORT TO MERANTE CAMPAIGN FOR MAYOR OF YONKERS.

 

Yonkers NY (June 12, 2023)  Anthony Merante’s mayoral campaign will hold “The Road To Victory” fundraiser on Wednesday  June 21, 2023 from 7-9PM, VIP Meet & Greet at 6PM, at the Westchester Manor, 140 Saw Mill River Rd, Hastings-On-Hudson, NY 10706. Anthony’s special guest will be Curtis Sliwa. Mr. Sliwa, the popular, outspoken WABC radio talk show host, is best known as the founder of the Guardian Angels, a nonprofit organization for unarmed crime prevention. Sliwa was the Republican nominee, in 2021, for Mayor of New York City.  Curtis is backing Anthony Merante for Mayor of Yonkers.

 

Sliwa decided to get involved in the Yonkers mayoral race after reading the articles in the NY Post, LoHud and other NYC media  ( https://nypost.com/2023/05/21/yonkers-mayor-mike-spanos-brothers-run-lobbying-firm-with-biz-before-city/) about the rampant nepotism  and self-dealing of  the current Spano administration. Curtis admires Anthony Merante’s strength and leadership in calling out NYC’s Mayor Adams on his migrant transfer to Yonkers that left the Yonkers blind to any plan or details. Mr. Sliwa has also taken note of rising crime in Yonkers. Yonkers, like NYC, has been adversely impacted by the current bail bond laws that put criminals back on the street after arrest.

 

Sliwa formed an unarmed civilian group, the Guardian Angels, to combat violence and crime on the New York City Subway system when NYC was experiencing a crime wave. Curtis is fearless, outspoken and does not back down in fighting injustice. In fact, he continuously went after the Gambino crime family on his radio program. This angered John Gotti’s son so much that in 1992 he ordered a hit on Sliwa. Curtis was shot at point-blank range in the back of a New York taxicab. Federal prosecutors charged John A. Gotti (the son) with attempted murder and a raft of other charges.

 

Anthony Merante noted, “Our campaign team is very excited about having Curtis Sliwa’s support in freeing Yonkers from the 12-year grip of the powerful Spano family.  Anyone with the courage to take on the Gambino family will certainly be a valuable ally. Our campaign is about the fight to set Yonkers back on the right path. I’m committed to returning City Hall to commonsense governance with more substantive results like repairs to our crumbling infrastructure and less of the endless PR puffery spewed by the Spano administration.   My priorities will be to protect our residents’ quality of life, restore public service, fiscal responsibility, and be guided by principle rather than self-serving politics. It’s wrong for elected officials to enrich themselves or their families, or in any way profit, from their elected office.  The people of Yonkers deserve a mayor who will put them first.”