Transport Workers Union President John Samuelsen threatened on Monday to sue Republican mayoral hopeful Curtis Sliwa, the Guardian Angels founder and an animal rights activist, for “defamatory and false” comments the candidate at a Thursday rally.
In a Monday letter to Sliwa, obtained by amNewYork, Samuelson pointed to Sliwa’s remark at the rally that “there is money under the table to the TWU leadership” relating to New York City’s horse-drawn carriage industry. Samuelsen demanded in his letter that Sliwa “issue a written retraction of the statement and offer an apology to the members of the TWU whose leadership you have slandered and defamed.”
