DU'ers...from different Time Zones...watch Matthews Tonight..Mario Cuomo

[KoKo]

in the first 20 minutes after Schuster's report! You won't be disappointed. Set your Tivo's or whatever! Believe those of us who watched it...it's worth it!

[KoKo]

1. ...

[H2O Man]

2. Looking forward

to it.

[KoKo]

3. Thanks....I know YOU KNOW...who he is....

:-)'s

[H2O Man]

4. I had the pleasure

of meeting with him a couple times when he was governor. He had been very progressive on Native American issues when he was lt. governor. He was a good and honest man. I remember getting a phone call at work from his attorney -- Mario Cuomo was that up front, that he wanted people to know what steps he was thinking of taking.

Though it is "old" now, his 1984 book (Diaries of Mario M. Cuomo: The Campaign for Governor; Random House) should be required reading for those interesting in working campaigns.

[KoKo]

6. I never could understand what it was about him

that Dems canned him. There were rumors... but it seemed his eloquent voice was silenced when Clinton ran. His son has had bumps along the way, also.

What I never could understand was that my very liberal Mother-in-law...total New Yorker...who always voted for the most LIBERAL DEMS...never could stand him. Her sons never got it and she refused to talk about politics...but she would tell us who she voted for. That's always puzzled me. For some reason she didn't like him as Governor...(although I lived up there then) and didn't have any fault with him...so who knows what the deal with him was that my MIL and Dem Establishment chose to throw him off the bus.

I thought he was incredible because he could make the most complicated issues understandable to EVERYONE! He has and had "A GIFT!" I have no idea why Matthews even had him on? But, I'm thankful to hear from him again!

[H2O Man]

7. Being the governor of NY

is one of the more difficult job to do well. There are the divided interests in regard to NYS vs upstate. I'm familiar with the rumors, and with parts of Albany's politics. My own opinion is that there were interests in the national party that didn't like him, because he didn't "rise above his principles," in the way so many politicians do.

[KoKo]

8. Did you mean...

"go below principles" rather than "rise above?" :shrug: Do you mean he didn't pander enough or pandered too little in Albany politics?

On Edit: My MIL was daughter of Irish Immigrant who worked as a seamstress when she came over. Her father escaped from Ireland (part of Sean Finn) and he got through in Canada. The Girls (my MIL was one of three girls born to an Irish Immigrant who was 40 years old when she had her first one) but the "girls" all got degrees from Hunter College and managed somehow with their Mother as a Seamstress and father as a janitor to get through the depression where they could afford to go back to Ireland where their mother got pneumonia and died. (I have family photos of "the girls" wearing coats with Fur and on the deck like Rockefellers of the Cruise Ship from the late 30's). My MIL was very Manhattan oriented although once she married her Navy Guy and had five sons and they moved to Hudson Valley NY but with his WWII and Korea service they moved around alot from East Cost to West Coast and she was alone with five boys through much of the war...being that when hubby came home a "new kid was hatched." (they loved each other very much}..she voted very liberal.

It's always been fascinating as a Southern Born "French/English/Irish...how things all work out...as to how folks meet each other, interact and have kids and where the kids go and how they vote...

[H2O Man]

10. "Rise above your principles"

is the code that bureaucrats and politicians use for "forget your values."

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. OK. Thanks!

:hi:

[KoKo]

9. Kick...because once Tucker's Over...you folks can Re-Watch Matthews!

:kick: