Cuomo was defeated by George Pataki in the 1994 Republican landslide that also unseated Texas GovernorAnn Richards, and brought a Republican majority to the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
Cuomo's elder son, Andrew Cuomo, was married to Kerry Kennedy, the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel.
Cuomo is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Attorney General of New York in 2006, and on May 30, 2006 captured Democratic Party's endorsement.
Mario Matthew Cuomo was born in Queens, New York, the son of Italian immigrants.
Cuomo's first political campaign was as the candidate for lieutenant governor on Howard Samuels's gubernatorial ticket (1974), but HughCarey won the primary.
MarioCuomo, an Italian-American, was born to Andrea and Immaculata Cuomo on June 15, 1932.
Cuomo married the former Matilda Raffa in 1954.
The Cuomos are parents of five children: Margaret I. Cuomo, MD, married to Howard Maier; Andrew Cuomo, married to Kerry Kennedy; Maria Cuomo, married to Kenneth Cole; Madeline Cuomo, married to Brian O'Donoghue; and Christopher Cuomo.
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Catholics, politics & abortion: my argument with Mario Cuomo.(Cover Story) - Commonweal - HighBeam Research(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
As a politician and public official, however, Cuomo said, he was not obliged to work for laws that reflected Catholic "dogmas," citing among other examples the fact that the bishops themselves no longer sought through laws to oblige non-Catholics to observe church teachings on birth control.
Even at the time of Cuomo's Notre Dame speech, polls showed that while most Americans supported the right to abortion, pluralities of various sizes believed that abortion should be restricted to the rare and so-called hard cases of rape, incest, and immediate physical harm to the mother.
Cuomo was hired to by a group of rag tag junkyard owners in Willets point to fight legendary Queens developing magnate Robert Moses, who wanted to sweep the place clean and make way for his 1964 World’s Fair.
Cuomo, a little known attorney, who had recently jettisoned his professional baseball dreams and settled on a law career, was an underdog of David and Goliath proportions.
In 1977, Cuomo was persuaded to run for mayor in a bitter election he lost to Ed Koch but in 1982, the tables turned and Cuomo beat Koch in a primary for governor.
Cuomo never even mentions the President's Council on Bioethics chaired by Professor Leon Kass of the University of Chicago, presumably because its advice isn't consistent with his own agenda.
Cuomo, you should remember, is known for his 1984 speech at the University of Notre Dame in which he argued that a Catholic who holds political office is not obligated to uphold Catholic convictions on issues like abortion -- at least when it comes to public policy.
Missing from Gov. Cuomo's speech -- and from his op-ed column in The New York Times, is any reference to the statesman's responsibility to use his influence to shape and form public policy toward goals that would uphold human dignity and human life.
It was this event that first placed the idea in Cuomo's head to write his book, the idea that Lincoln has something to teach America about democracy and liberty, and that now was a time desperate for such advice.
Cuomo insists he is not advancing a welfare state, just as Lincoln, a self-educated and self-made man, would not.
Cuomo says Lincoln would have abhorred Bush's preemption policy as one "leading to despotism." In his book, he cites part of an 1848 letter Lincoln wrote while he was in Congress opposing the Mexican War to illustrate Lincoln's feeling on such a policy:
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National Review: The emerging Cuomo question - Mario M. Cuomo(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Cuomo does things in broad daylight that George Washington could not get away with at 4 a.M. Cuomo has a peculiar self-image, imagining, somewhat romantically, that he is a kind of street tough.
Cuomo evidently thought that this was a brilliant political stratagem, but it certainly shows us something of the quality of Mr.
Cuomo's published journal about the campaign was surprisingly reflective, and surprisingly melancholy, laced with thoughts of possible impending death.
Cuomo co-edited that brings together for the first time all of Abraham Lincoln's speeches, writings, and conversations on the central theme of American political life; Diaries of MarioCuomo (1984), which describes his first campaign for Governor; and the Forest Hills Diary (1974), a description of the experiences that led him into public life.
Cuomo was elected New York State’s 52nd Governor in 1982 and won re-election in both 1986 and 1990, setting records for popularity in both contests.
Cuomo’s tenure, foreign investment in New York almost doubled and thousands of new export opportunities were created for New York firms.
It is twenty years since Cuomo delivered his famous speech at Notre Dame, in which he defined what has become the established rationale for prochoice Catholic politicians.
Cuomo sought to defend both his docility toward church teachings and his right-indeed, his duty-to act against them.
I reminded Cuomo that a human embryo can never turn out to be a cat or dog, which is why the church-wide discussion he wants would quickly prove moot.
And Cuomo suggested that Israeli leaders be told that "you have a responsibility to all of us (and) we are going to be more assertive in dealing with you....
Then again, given Cuomo's status as a Democratic Party hero -- and in light of the relatively positive press coverage he received during a 12-year tenure as governor that was long on rhetorical flourishes and short on tangible accomplishment -- the silence of New York's media lambs was to be expected.
But again, as was the case with his attempt at clarification in the Register, Cuomo did not disown any of the statements attributed to him in that first Register article, nor did he claim to have been misquoted or quoted out of context.
The son of an immigrant grocer, Cuomo attended St. John's Univ., was admitted to the New York bar in 1956, and attracted attention after successfully mediating (1972) a local housing dispute.
Cuomo was defeated by Republican George Pataki in the 1994 election.
His Diaries of Mario M. Cuomo (1984) concerns his gubernatorial race and Reason to Believe (1995) his thoughts on the state of the country.
Mario himself was preaching partly in a selfish effort to make us gape at what a great guy he was; at one point he even referred to himself as an "old failed politician," almost as if to invite cries of "you're not old!" and "you haven't failed!" from the crowd.
I think Cuomo was right to say that people need meaning in their lives, but I like to believe that meaning differs for each of us.
For I saw MarioCuomo smiling with the smile of the saved, and no matter how charming his words, I knew that he was pronouncing me damned.
Cuomo -- the veteran liberal Democrat who has been working in private practice since he was defeated a decade ago by Republican George Pataki -- said Tuesday morning at a Manhattan press conference that he already has begun talks with the Motion Picture Assn. of America's (MPAA) appeals board.
Beyond the appeals process, Cuomo said he "is committed to doing everything (he) possibly can to make sure as many Americans as possible see this film" and will make the talk-show and other media rounds on behalf of the documentary.
Cuomo added that he believes the film's subject matter is appropriate for younger viewers given the current state of the world.
Boston.com / News / Politics / Primaries / Massachusetts / Kerry picks up Mario Cuomo backing(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
With liberals often dominating Democraticprimaries in New York and elsewhere, the Cuomo endorsement was considered a major plum for the Kerry campaign.
Cuomo is a particularly influential Democrat in the New York City region -- he spent much of his life in Queens and now lives in Manhattan -- where about 70 percent of the votes comes from in statewide New YorkDemocraticprimaries.
Also endorsing Kerry was Andrew Cuomo, the former governor's elder son who ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2002.
National Review: Super Mario - performance of New York Governor Mario Cuomo - Cover Story(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
For all the high hopes, MarioCuomo has never gone farther than governor of New York; and soon he may be less than that.
MarioCuomo, almost presidential candidate, almost Supreme Court Justice, almost intellectual, and three-term governor of New York, might well lose his last bid for re-election, and not to some real comer, but to a Republican state legislator named George Pataki, a homunculus grown in a retort by Senator Alfonse D'Amato.
Cuomo's prominence is a testimony to the resonance of his rhetoric, at both the state and the national levels.
The Mystery of Mario Cuomo(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Perhaps Cuomo did not want to be president, certainly not as passionately as Bill Clinton and he thought that the inevitable primary battle would be divisive and Democrat-defeating.
Cuomo's keynote speech at the 1984 Democratic convention was the ultimate example of his magnificent oratory and convinced many that he would be an outstanding presidential prospect.
MarioCuomo is no one's vice president but he did replace Mary Ann Krupsak as New York's lieutenant governor and in that powerless post, prepared himself for his successful run for governor.
Mario M. Cuomo, former governor of New York, will present a lecture entitled “Quo Vadis?...Where is America Today and Where is it Headed?” at 4:30 p.m., on Thursday, October 9, 2003, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, on the Princeton University campus.
Cuomo began his career in private practice with the firm Corner, Weisbrod, Froeb & Charles.
Cuomo received a J.D. from St. John’s University School of Law in 1956, and a B.A. from St. John’s University in 1953.
This was the first time, in nearly 10 years, that Cuomo returned to the Capital Region and he said there's a good reason he stayed away as long as he did.
Cuomo fans came out in droves and tried to squeeze in a hand shake and for some, even a hug.
In it, Cuomo shared his thoughts on how the former president would address today's issues and the role of government.