Curtis Sliwa said he’d never return to 77 WABC after the station owner — John Catsimatidis — and hosts on the outlet backed his challengers in the NYC mayor race. Catsimatidis said that feeling isn’t mutual.
While appearing on Sid and Friends in the Morning with Sid Rosenberg, following Sliwa’s third-place finish in the election, Catsimatidis was asked if he would ever welcome Sliwa back to the station.
“I don’t have anything against Curtis,” Catsimatidis said. “Curtis is family. His son works here. Look, I’m sure when you work 20-hour days — and I’m sure that Curtis was working 20-hour days — he had a lot of emotional ups and downs.”
Catsimatidis added that, in his view, Curtis Sliwa should have dropped out of the race in an effort to ensure that Democrat Zohran Mamdani did not win the election. He said that those on “the extreme right” were “filling his mind with hot air” putting himself in a position where he didn’t feel as if he could remove himself from the race.
The comments from John Catsimatidis come after Curtis Sliwa vowed to never return to the station for what he labeled as disloyalty from those inside 77 WABC in the run-up to the election.
“I am directing my comments to everybody at WABC,” Sliwa said late last month. “They have said I’m selfish. Selfish? Are you out of your mind? … But that’s why you will never see me at the studios of WABC again, never, no matter how this election turns out … I feel personally offended by what my friends and colleagues, many of whom I trained at WABC, many of whom wouldn’t have a job at WABC without me, have done,” Sliwa concluded.
Those comments came after Catsimatidis, Sid Rosenberg, and Greg Kelly, among other 77 WABC staffers, called on Sliwa to step aside in the race to better the chances of Independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, who lost to Mamdani in the Democratic primary and also in the general election held on Tuesday.
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Domenic Carter was the biggest anti-Curtis voice, and Dom has turned into an egocentric boob.
100 percent correct. as if Dom has to tell us who will win . I noticed when sliwa supporters called in Dom would talk over them and then hang up on them after asking if they were crazy or some other slander. it was obnoxious and uncalled for.
I guess you know why.. he couldn’t get 8 percent now he’s under investigation.