‘Slapping Fannies And Killing Grannies’: Curtis Sliwa Unloads On Andrew Cuomo In NYC Mayor’s Race

Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee for New York City mayor, slammed the pockmarked political careers of his slate of Democratic opponents on Wednesday.

Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels subway patrol, is facing socialist Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, as well as current mayor Eric Adams and former governor Andrew Cuomo, both Democrats running as independents.

“Andrew Cuomo is a creep, slapping fannies and killing grannies,” Sliwa said Wednesday on Fox News, sparking plenty of amused responses on social media.

Sliwa: Eric Adams is damaged goods… Andrew Cuomo is a creep. Slapping fannies and killing grannies. Everybody likes Curtis Sliwa pic.twitter.com/Vm5KvORhLr

— Acyn (@Acyn) July 17, 2025

Cuomo resigned as governor in 2021 after investigators found he had sexually harassed at least 11 women. The former governor also faced fierce criticism for forcing nursing homes to accept patients from hospitals without testing them for COVID, a policy that was blamed for many nursing home deaths, which Cuomo’s administration then undercounted by as much as 50%, the New York attorney general found.

Sliwa also criticized the Big Apple’s current mayor.

“Eric Adams is damaged goods. Every day, a new case of corruption in the police department. They believe he’s corrupt,” Sliwa said.

Over the past two weeks, five lawsuits have cropped up claiming rampant corruption within the NYPD that was allegedly supported by the Adams administration. This week, a former NYPD commissioner filed a federal lawsuit against Adams, accusing him of running the police department like a “criminal enterprise.” Several prominent officials say they were pushed out after speaking up.

“Nobody would have known who Zohran Mamdani was until Eric Adams failed as the sitting mayor,” Sliwa said.

Mamdani has called himself a Democratic socialist and has proposed controversial and expensive policies like government-run grocery stores, free buses, free childcare, a rent freeze for more than two million New Yorkers who live in rent-subsidized housing, and deploying mental health professionals rather than cops in crises.

Meanwhile, Sliwa wants to beef up the NYPD with 7,000 more officers, make Madison Square Garden, Columbia University, and New York University pay their fair share of property taxes, which he says will bring in $843 million for taxpayers, and repeal Adams’ “City of Yes” zoning legislation, which he said is destroying residential neighborhoods in the outer boroughs.

“Everybody likes Curtis Sliwa. My favorable ratings are the highest in this election cycle,” Sliwa said.

Sliwa faces an uphill battle in the polls, but he is currently beating Adams and is statistically tied with Cuomo and Mamdani, according to one poll this week. Mamdani leads at 26%, with Cuomo at 23% and Sliwa at 22%, all within the margin of error. Adams trails at 13%, while 15% of voters remain undecided, according to the HarrisX poll.