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He wears a red beret everywhere and once had 17 cats. Now he’s the wildcard of the NYC mayoral race

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By Edward-Isaac Dovere, CNN New York (CNN) — Curtis Sliwa’s preferred campaign mode is riding the subway. He boards trains in the back car, then chats and handshakes his way forward, one by one, through the riders that he leaves just with a business card about his candidacy. He asks everyone where they grew up. The responses are part minor celebrity sighting, part genuine affection. One man looked up from his book about the 1998 Yankees to say, …

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He wears a red beret everywhere and once had 17 cats. Now he’s the wildcard of the NYC mayoral race

The never-ending weirdness of this year’s New York City mayor’s race has Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa in a position to affect it. The founder of the Guardian Angels crime group is well known for his love of cats and his beret – and is eager to dispel doubts that he’s not serious enough.

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