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Political analyst William Schneider predicts that Democrats "won't stop talking about schemes until they come up with a theme and find someone who can make music." The only Democrat who can carry a tune is Mario Cuomo, but he is too liberal to pass the D.L.C. entrance exam, and since his inspiring "City on the Hill" speech at the 1984 convention, he has been reluctant to sing before a national audience. D.L.C. stalwarts like Bentsen, Al Gore and Robb have tin ears. Nunn's libretto -- defense and national-security policy -- seems increasingly irrelevant for a world rushing toward peace...
...fire off a letter last week to Louis Gerstner, chairman of RJR Nabisco, the cigarette maker's parent company, criticizing the use of a cartoon character in Camel ads. "Isn't this ad campaign an obvious attempt to lure children into smoking?" Green wrote. Meanwhile, New York Governor Mario Cuomo said he would back a bill to ban most cigarette-vending machines because they make state law prohibiting sales to minors "largely unenforceable...
...recycling bill is winding its way through Congress. California and Connecticut have recently passed laws requiring the use of recycled newsprint, and similar legislation has been proposed in at least a dozen other states. In New York the environment may be one of the few areas where Democrat Mario Cuomo proves vulnerable: activists consider him indifferent to the issue and specifically fault him for favoring trash incineration over recycling. Yet Cuomo too has proposed an environmental bond issue, mostly to acquire land in the Adirondacks. The $1.9 billion issue would be the biggest of its kind in the state...
...will and wallet that pollsters hear few specific criticisms about him in focus groups and telephone interviews. Michael Donilon, a Washington pollster who in December conducted 200 interviews on Bush , reports that abortion is the only issue that makes people feel "uneasy" about the President. New York Governor Mario Cuomo, a Democrat who praises Bush as "politically brilliant," adds, "He's saying all the right things, and he hasn't had to pay any price...
RELIGION: Is Mario Cuomo going to hell...