Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate for mayor of New York City, has said that he is looking to have a Christopher Columbus statue erected in Staten Island! Sliwa remarked at a campaign rally on Saturday, September 27, that Staten Island is the most Italian of all the boroughs of New York, yet has never had a statue of Columbus. Sliwa unfortunately doesn’t have a good chance of winning the mayoral race. However, it is excellent that such a high-profile political candidate has not only expressed his support of Columbus statues, but has actually called for the creation of a new one. Perhaps even if Sliwa loses the mayoral race, he will still be able to make the statue a reality. That is something that I would absolutely love to see.
Source: We The Italians