{"id":609154,"date":"2021-08-02T20:05:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T00:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=609154"},"modified":"2021-08-02T20:05:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T00:05:25","slug":"republican-candidate-for-nyc-mayor-progressives-have-continually-destroyed-the-city-and-quality-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-candidate-for-nyc-mayor-progressives-have-continually-destroyed-the-city-and-quality-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Candidate For NYC Mayor: Progressives Have Continually Destroyed The City And Quality Of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublican-candidate-for-nyc-mayor-progressives-have-continually-destroyed-the-city-and-quality-of-life%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=609154&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-02-at-5.40.32-PM-scaled-e1627941067996.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa slammed current leadership in New York City during an interview with Fox Business, arguing that progressives are \u201cdestroying the quality of life\u201d in the Big Apple.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Joe Biden said to cities in distress, like New York City, with high crime rates, high gang activity and high gun violence, you could take $350 billion from the $1.9 trillion stimulus package that was passed by the House and the Senate and side my president, Joe Biden, and use it specifically to hire police officers,\u201d Sliwa told \u201cMornings with Maria\u201d host Maria Bartiromo.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.9393939393939\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It\u2019s not too late to Save Our City. We MUST:<br \/>1. Beef up <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NYPD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NYPD<\/a> Gang Unit<br \/>2. Increase NYPD\u2019s Active Gang List<br \/>3. Create witness protection program<br \/>4. Earmark money for informants <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Queens?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Queens<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NYC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NYC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GunViolence?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GunViolence<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/safety?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#safety<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CurtisSliwa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CurtisSliwa<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SliwaForMayor?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SliwaForMayor<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QxWrbF0u9E\">pic.twitter.com\/QxWrbF0u9E<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curtis Sliwa for NYC Mayor (@CurtisSliwa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisSliwa\/status\/1421928938343915522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhat did Bill de Blasio, our mayor, listless mayor, detached mayor do? He said no to President Joe Biden not once, but twice. And none of our other local officials stepped up and filled the void,\u201d the Republican candidate claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Sliwa also said that, if elected, he would impose a new property tax in order to hire more police officers. \u201cYou cannot have an economic recovery and economic revival if people are afraid to come to work, afraid to visit New York City, afraid as tourists to spend their money here,\u201d he explained. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/23\/democrats-wokeism-immigration-crime-gop-political-strategy-midterms-eric-adams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Go After The Guns\u2019: Eric Adams Reacts To NYC Shooting That Left 10 Injured)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition to Sliwa, <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Mayoral_election_in_New_York,_New_York_(2021)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">several have filed to run<\/a>&nbsp;in the mayoral election, including Democrat Eric Adams. The election will take place on Nov. 2.<\/p>\n<p>New York saw a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/12\/bronx-new-york-teen-fatally-shot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">spike in crime<\/a> at the beginning of last year, which continued to worsen throughout the pandemic. Murder <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/29\/new-york-city-defund-the-police-murder-increase-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">surged in 2020<\/a>, with some New York cops claiming that the \u2018Defund the Police\u2019 movement is to blame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa slammed current leadership in New York City during an interview with Fox Business, arguing that progressives are \u201cdestroying the quality of life\u201d in the Big &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}