Word: cuomo
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...Silver, Peter Boyle, Paul Sorvino, Bianca Jagger, Joe Piscopo, Camryn Manheim, Mila Jovovich, Ray Liotta and half the cast of "The West Wing," who rushed over from the Warner Bros. set after taping their show. Real politicos on hand included Donna Shalala (how she loved the celebs!), Chris Cuomo, Bob Kerrey, Tom Harkin, Barbara Boxer, Lynda Bird Johnson and Chuck Robb, the Kennedys and a Lawford or two, as well as model Christie Brinkley, fresh from casting her vote to nominate Al Gore as part of the New York delegation. There were newsies/talk show hosts too, like Bill Maher...
...Andrew Cuomo, Mario's telegenic offspring and the HUD secretary in the Clinton administration, opened the evening by surveying Bender's multi-megabucks white manse and saying straight-faced that "this was actually a HUD home. This is the new affordable housing proposed by Clinton and Gore. We think, after this, that more neighborhoods will be open to public housing!" Actor William Baldwin, president of the Creative Coalition, was clearly gloating at the mass of celebrity-hood in attendance. "Smoke and mirrors, Tinseltown and Hollywood. We fooled 'em again," he said surveying the crowd. "Here were are using the resources...
...after two years in New York Governor Mario Cuomo's office, Russert's plans changed as he made the leap from politics to media...
...that Giuliani's likely replacement, Long Island Congressman Rick Lazio, is a tougher opponent than Rudy would have been. Lazio is no titan, but he is young, genial, ethnic, Roman Catholic, suburban and unknown to most voters--just like George Pataki was when he whupped a titan named Mario Cuomo in New York's 1994 gubernatorial race. "Hillary was better off against Rudy," says Hank Sheinkopf, a New York media consultant who worked for Clinton-Gore in 1996. "His high negatives balanced hers. Lazio doesn't have negatives--and if she attacks him before anyone figures...
...March to install new safety features in exchange for assurances that the company would be left out of a suit the Federal Government is considering against gunmakers. Worse, Street and his deputies aren't taking calls from top U.S. officials, apparently including Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Andrew Cuomo, who are trying to get him to drop Smith & Wesson from the suit. With the Administration calling on other gunmakers to cut similar deals, Street's recalcitrance is not helping...