For much of New York City’s business community, it’s hard to take Curtis Sliwa seriously.
He seems to sleep in his trademark red Guardian Angels beret.
His high-octane rants in a heavily accented outer-borough brogue can be distracting.
The largest sources of campaign cash barely know he’s running for mayor as the fat cat class courts Eric Adams, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and even the Marxist Zohran Mamdani, who upended the race by winning the Democratic primary.
Yet the last I checked, most Big Apple voters aren’t fat cats.
Sliwa, red beret and all, is within striking distance of frontrunners Mamdani and Cuomo, at 22%, and beating Adams handily in a four-man race, according to a recent Harris poll.
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