NY: billionaire businessman running as a Republican
NEW YORK (77WABC ) owner John Catsimatidis, CEO and Chairman of Red Apple Group, told 77WABC‘s Bernie and Sid In The Morning Show that “we’re very close to deciding” on whether he will make a second run for Mayor of NYC on the Republican Line. He added “I love this city and I want to be able to help it, but I have to resolve things with my company and I have to resolve things with my family, ” before making a final decision.
He said a lot of Democrats in NYC are being influenced by the so-called Progressives, which Catsimatidis does not call Progressives rather “regressive’s.” He said they’re taking the city back twenty, thirty years “to a time we don’t want to live in,” where crimes were rampant with riots as well as car and store break-ins.
Catsimatidis said, “We want to go back to (being) the best city in the world, an international city that can create jobs.” He is calling for changes to bail reform laws and for law and order, allowing police to do their jobs. He said “we’re handcuffing the police instead of handcuffing the criminals.”
A total of 41 candidates are vying in the June 22nd Primary for NYC Mayor.
The 72-year-old Catsimatidis ran in the 2013 NYC Mayoral primary. He lost the Republican line to Joseph J. Lhota, receiving 24,864 votes to Lhota’s 32,236 votes. Catsimatidis did carry the borough of Staten Island.
“Cats at Night” hosted by John Catsimatidis is heard on 77WABC weekday evenings from 5 PM to 6 PM.
The Cats Roundtable is heard every Sunday at 8:30 a.m. John Catsimatidis mixes common sense thinking while exploring the truth and telling both sides of the story.
