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Overview
Current roleActivist
PartyRepublican
Political ideologyConservative Republican
Age72 years old (Mar 26, 1954)
GenderMale
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LocationNew York
BackgroundActivist
EducationBrooklyn Preparatory School (attended; expelled)
Notable personal detailsCurtis Anthony Sliwa is an American activist, politician, and talk radio host. He founded the Guardian Angels, a volunteer nonprofit focused on crime prevention and community safety, in 1979 and has served as its chief executive. He has been the Republican nominee for Mayor of New York City (2021 and 2025) and previously chaired the New York Reform Party (2016–2018).
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Positions
Economy & Taxes
Advocates lowering taxes and cutting spending to stimulate economic growth, including reducing the city corporate tax rate, property tax reform to provide relief for low- and middle-income residents, and targeted budget cuts to help fund tax reductions. Supports incentives for businesses (expanded PILOT programs) and other pro-growth measures to attract employers to the city.
Healthcare
Curtis Sliwa’s campaign materials emphasize protecting retirees’ Medicare benefits and increasing city-level mental-health outreach and services paired with police to connect people to care. He has not published a comprehensive citywide healthcare platform endorsing universal coverage, a public option, or major expansions of federal programs in the sources located.
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Immigration & Border
Curtis Sliwa supports tougher immigration enforcement focused on removing people with criminal records and has criticized New York City’s handling of the migrant crisis. He does not endorse broad regularization or expansive asylum protections and has said he parts ways with some Trump administration ICE tactics while backing deportation of criminals.
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
Curtis Sliwa has identified as pro-choice and supports abortion access. His public statements and candidate profiles describe him as pro-choice while positioning himself as ideologically moderate on some social issues. Specific policy limits or detailed proposals on gestational restrictions are not clearly stated in the cited sources.
Climate & Energy
Curtis Sliwa has opposed New York City’s Local Law 97 and proposes slowing or blocking its enforcement for building owners. His campaign plan calls for pausing and auditing some clean-energy implementation actions (for example, a pause and safety review for battery energy storage siting) and he has criticized aggressive building decarbonization mandates as harmful to condo and co-op owners. These positions indicate preference for slowing regulatory climate measures and prioritizing lower costs for residents over rapid decarbonization mandates.
Public Safety & Guns
The candidate prioritizes strengthening and fully funding the police to reduce gun violence, proposing restored NYPD budgets, more visible patrols, and restored anti‑gun enforcement teams. Campaign materials emphasize law-and-order responses to gun crime and reversing policies viewed as releasing dangerous offenders. There is no campaign evidence of support for sweeping new gun‑control measures such as an assault weapons ban or universal federal restrictions.
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