Before we begin let me, If i may, lay my cards out on the table. I'm Irish not Irish-American , Just Irish. I do not support either The Democratic Party or The Republican Party (GOP). My political positions are actual centrist social policy with a more heavily regulated form of our current economy which put's me left of the democrats on most issues. I am not a Socialist , Fascist (at least one would hope not) or a Neo Liberal. Given that please allow me to lay out my support for Mr Curtis Sliwa to stay in the New York 2025 Mayoral Race.
New York City is the largest city in The United States of America by wealth and by population it has a higher number of residence's then many countries and is the center of western capitalism. While it may seem like a very Democratic city it tends to have less then 10% of it's population vote for it's Mayor.
Furthermore New York City had a Republican as mayor from 1993 - 2013 (20 Years!) however what must be pointed out is that Staten Island has always voted republican from 1989 and has swung NYC republican on at least two of those elections.
So what are the options for this 2025 New York City Mayoral Election.
IN ORDER OF CURRENT POLLING
- Mr Zohran Mandani (Democratic Party)
- Mr Andrew Cuomo (Fight and Deliver Party)
- Mr Curtis Sliwa (Republican Party)
- Mr Eric Adams (Safe Streets, Affordable City Party) - STEPPED DOWN
- Mr Jim Walden (Integrity Party) - STEPPED DOWN
- Ms Irene Estrada (Conservative Party) (Polling Bellow 1%)
- Mr Joseph Hernandez (Quality of Life Party) (Polling Bellow 1%)
To cover the other candidates, As i said in my piece published in June 2025, Available here. Mr Zohran Mandani was the clear an obvious choice for the democratic party. While some have called him a socialist. He is not a socialist he is a Democratic Socialist which for everybody out there who don't understand political theory i remind you,
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM IS DIFFERENT FROM SOCIALISM.
To make a long analysis short :
- Mr Mandani stands out as the only candidate of the three Democratic Party members that has no corruption scandals.
- When asked does he support the concept of an ethnology-state or ethno-state he said "No" while fellow democratic party member Andrew Cuomo does and supports laws banning boycotts of such a state.
- Mr Mandani is also the only of the three without major sexual harassment allegations.
- Mr Mandani is the only democrat taking in large amounts of swing voters
That leaves two other candidates who must vote against basic Government intervention in the economy. Sliwa and Jim Walden
Jim Walden is a lawyer who represented a long list of clients including :
- Far Right Irish Fascist Conor McGregor who in 2018 broke into and assaulted fellow MMA Athletes on a bus. (Jim Walden has continued to celebrate Mr Mcgregor even after Mr McGregor was found Liable for Rape)
- A Banking Executive in 2010 after the Financial Crash
- A Maintenance Company for Harassment and Failure to Maintain Property
- A Tech Executive in a Stock Manipulation Case
- A Car Parts Company In A Price Fixing Scandal
- An Illegal Gambling Ring King Pin
- Tether long used by criminals when it was sued by customers
- Anti Bike lane lobby in New York (Twice)
- Illegal Position of a Gun for a Famous Celebrity
He has however also represented some less terrible clients
- Drafted Legislation to protect bodily autonomy for women in America outside NY
- Protected A Whistleblower into voting interference operations in the UK and USA
- Sued to stop employment discrimination of a minority group by a business
- Sued for persons illegally denied food stamps
- Protection For A Former Trump Staffer Who's Office Correctly Claimed The 2020 Presidential Election Was Lost By Donald Trump
Overall however Jim Walden has the stink of a Rapist Abuser multiple price fixing scandals and is at least in my opinion better then Eric Adams and Andrew Cuomo but inferior to Zohran Mandani and Curtis Sliwa
Cuomo is quite frankly a terrible candidate, very far left on economics for republicans while not being far enough left to solve the actually issues democrats care most about. On social policy Cuomo has scandals galore from covering up his admins mistakes when he was Governor to doing a light bit of financial fraud (all legal as far as we know) not to mention his questionable legal career and his sycophantic love of the middle eastern state of Israel that put's Adama's love of turkey to shame. With Cuomo going as far as to say that New York Under Him Would "Boycott" those not wanting to support companies profiting directly off of Israel's imperial conquest's .
In Comparison Sliwa with a few eccentric exceptions is a solid republican candidate with a left of trump campaign he represents most of the right wing of New York including many democratic voters.
Mr Curtis Sliwa is known best for replacing Hard-Right Leaning maga star Rush Limbaugh (who is now dead) on the radio and for beating up people in public (only sort of a joke) with his "Guardian Angels" A Non Governmental Patrol Unit. The Unit has been praised by the last two GOP mayors.
Mr Sliwa is a multi republican party runner for mayor of the city of New York. Unfortunately for Mr Sliwa he failed to win in the 2021 with him getting almost 313k votes, the second best result for a republican out of the last three failed attempts to retake the mayoralty.
Mr Sliwa's Chances of winning are incredibly slim with him currently polling bellow 20%, However he was poised to get more votes then Eric Adams the man who beat him to the mayoralty in 2021
While Mandani may be too far left for some, Cuomo is not the choice instead Sliwa actually is and this get's to my fundamental criticism.
Cuomo is still a democratic party member he would still effectively be a democrat and to say to the hundreds of thousands of New Yorker's "Na Na you have to vote for the democrat" is, despite the party name hugely anti-democratic. New York should have ranked choice voting in it's mayoralty or some other actually democratic system but as it stands if only two candidates must run then it must be The Republican Mr Sliwa vs The Democrat Mr Mandani NOT The Democrat Mr Cuomo vs The Democrat Mr Mandani.
If One Must, it must be Mr Cuomo that drops out not Mr Sliwa.
If Mr Cuomo was to win the election without Mr Sliwa or a different republican in the race i would describe the result as undemocratic and the election as illegitimate.