Speak no ill of the dead.
Oh. I thought he was going to say it was because Coomo was a fake Indian who practiced law withoiut a license.
Because all the goddam Noo Yawk Leftist snowbirds are here!
I can hear Bob Grant now...
Reagan was the optimist while Cuomo played the pessimistic class warrior.
Reagan inspired people to work together to make things better and Cuomo inspired envy and jealousy.
Yeah? And I suppose there were no faces of despair in the cities you governed, eh, Mario?
As if he was a man of the people.
Liberals: it’s all about the hype (which turns out to be lies)
Cuomo was a heavyweight in politics. Comparing him to Warren is a joke.
If Warren goes on to any national success (which has eluded all left-wingers from Massachusetts), it’s only because the the nation has moved into a failed-state mode. Cuomo was a powerful governor and good speaker. Warren is a fraud 1/32nd Indian academic with zero real world experience. She’s Obama without the political charisma.
I hadn't paid much attention to MC after he left office, and I was not aware Clinton had offered him a Supreme Court nomination. I'm a bit skeptical that he could have been confirmed in the modern climate.
Perceptions can turn on little things. I once caught a part of Cuomo's radio show -- one of our local stations, for a period, tried for a bit of talk radio balance, as they already carried Limbaugh and Hannity, and experimented with liberal talkers as well. Some grungy reality story about New York City housing projects was in the news. This must have been during the Pataki and/or Giuliani years, because Cuomo was fairly hissing into the microphone about how "they" had warehoused the poor in such horrific conditions.
This was a truly infuriating comment, given that Cuomo had until recently been the governor, had held that post for 364 years (or did it just seem that long), and was a paladin of the liberal establishment that both built the public housing empire and turned it into a disaster. It was an opening for a useful conversation about, "Here is what we did, and why; this is what went wrong; here is what we learned." Instead, all the history was down the memory hole. All personal complicity was forgotten. And all the problems were the fault of the evil Republicans, presumably for not pouring even more money down the same black hole.
I should probably try to think better of him today, but frankly, it was very hard after that brief moment to ever again regard him as a serious figure.
Mario—this one was not super.
OXYMORON ALERT !!!
I mean real business, not payola, or graft, just a deal where ny got what they wanted and we got what we wanted and no one got greased.
He always made the meetings on time and we didn't waste any time and he wasn't looking for gifts and freebies.
He was running for gov at the time so maybe he was just keeping his bad habits out of sight, but I didn't get my crook/dar up during our meetings.
While I didn't and don't like his lefty politics, he was an honorable man during our business dealings. That's about as many good things that I can say about any lefty, communist, lib.
Buono Fortuna, Mario.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Ding Dong, the abortion Ken is dead. Now let this heretic explain to our Lord and Jesus why he advocated for the murder of so many children in this country. Or in the words of Desi Arnez “he got some big splainin’ to do”! He is THE PRIMARY REASON there are so many pro-abort Catholics in NYC. He told them all it was OK to be a catholic and still murder the unborn.
Mario Cuomo gave a speech full of nothing and will be forgotten.
Ronald Reagan will be remembered.
Sort of funny that yahoo didn’t have any headlines on this earlier. The only mention of his death was in their videos and it was number 40-something. Very telling.
Sam Donaldson must be in severe depression!!
So he gave this supposedly great speech, the result of which was his party's candidate losing 49 of 50 states. So what exactly are his great accomplishments?
He went on to his reward...
To wit, consider:
• Matilda Cuomo (ńee Raffa), Gov. Mario Cuomo’s wife, is the daughter of the late Mary Raffa (ńee Gitto). The Raffa family and the Gitto family have long lineages in Sicily, and extensive ties to the Sicilian Mafia. Sicilian mafioso Francesco Gitto, Mary Raffa’s nephew and Matilda’s first cousin, was murdered in the 1980s. His killers were never prosecuted. It’s known that Francesco Gitto owned a home in Sicily that housed a bustling and lucrative heroin refinery.
• Charles Raffa, Matilda’s father, arrived in the United States in 1927 penniless and left an estate of over $13 million at his death some 60 years later. Mr. Raffa’s hard work and business acumen may explain his success, as his defenders claim, but no one seems to want to explain why, late in life, he was nearly beaten to death on one of his properties. Mr. Raffa was unable to identify his attackers to police, who were rumored to be henchmen delivering a message over an arson dispute, and no one was ever prosecuted for a vicious crime against the father-in-law of the then sitting Governor of New York, and the father of a Long Island Assistant District Attorney. Mr. Raffa never fully recovered from the incident and died four years later at the age of 84. A bitter feud erupted among his children over the distribution of his estate.
• Attorney Mario Cuomo represented a group of junkyard owners who sued to protect their property from Shea Stadium developers when the stadium was in its planning stage. One of the junkyard owners was Joseph “Joey Narrows” Laratro, a capo in the Lucchese crime family. Cuomo won the case and said he never got paid for the work. Why would an attorney allow a client to avoid payment? Usually, attorneys sue for non-payment, and very, very rarely do they lose. Why didn’t Cuomo choose to sue if he never got compensated for legitimate work?
• Steven Bruno Raffa was an underboss for the Santo Trafficante, Jr. crime syndicate in Tampa and south Florida. His origins trace back to the same Raffa family in Sicily that produced Charles Raffa. Steven Raffa began his career in crime in the Lucchese crime family in New York.
• Gov. Mario Cuomo was asked by a reporter, on camera in front of the Javits Center in NYC in 1986, to comment on a Mafia trial then in the news. Gov. Cuomo said, “Mafia? That’s a word invented by people. It’s a lot of baloney.”
Taking the above into account, which undoubtedly is only a part of the story, is it really plausible to assert that Mario Cuomo had no mob ties? I think not.
Mario Cuomo made many boneheaded decisions in his day, from precipitously and unnecessarily shutting down the Shoreham Nuclear Plant to attempting to wreck eastern Long Island by building a bridge to Connecticut across the Long Island Sound. His rhetoric was often sappy, but, admittedly, sometimes eloquent, too. His decisions were roundly abysmal.
Andrew Cuomo recently made a decision about New York enterprise that well describes his attitude towards prosperity and jobs, and also the rigor of his inquiry into complex matters of science, much in the tradition of his father. On the basis of no compelling evidence, he banned fracking in New York State. When asked why he did it, he said his top scientific advisor told him he wouldn’t let his kids grow up near a fracking site, and the Governor said that was all he needed to hear.
It turns out the scientist has no kids, but whatever.