News Summary

• Curtis Sliwa has never held elected office, and did not graduate high school.
• His volunteer crime-fighting organization, the Guardian Angels, was on the front page of New York Magazine less than a year after he founded it in 1979.
• He has a tendency toward attention-grabbing stunts, from chugging a container of Morton’s salt on local television to bringing Bill De Blasio a cake topped with a raw ten-pound meatball to decry Columbus Day.