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...after eight months in the Oval Office, Bush tops even Ronald Reagan in popularity (70% approval), a reversal of fortune that has plunged the out party into another of its periodic identity crises. Last week, in an orgy of finger pointing, party stalwarts from New York Governor Mario Cuomo to national chairman Ron Brown asked, in effect, Where are the Democrats...
Taxpayers who relaxed when they read George Bush's lips now have something else to fret about: Michael Dukakis, Mario Cuomo, Jim Thompson and other Governors are mouthing a different message. Their states face deficits or pressing needs, and, unlike the Federal Government, they are barred from deliberately shelling out more than they take in. Unless they sharply slice spending, they will be unable to echo the President's "no new taxes" pledge. / To cover their budget gaps, 23 states are considering or have already adopted tax hikes...
...revenue are so-called sin taxes on smoking and drinking. Confronting a deficit of as much as $300 million in Massachusetts, Dukakis has proposed tobacco- and alcohol-tax increases as well as a phased 10 cents rise in the gasoline tax, to 21 cents. New York's Cuomo last week reached agreement with legislators on $1 billion in extra revenue, raising the tax on a pack of cigarettes from 21 cents to 33 cents and on an average bottle of liquor from 81 cents to $1.05, and imposing a host of license and fee increases. Even the cost of dying...
...fellow prisoners, she was put to death that November. It was commonly believed that failing to execute the woman would have had dire political consequences for Hunt in the race he lost anyway. When Ed Koch ran for mayor of New York City in the Democratic primary against Mario Cuomo in 1977, the cutting issue was the death penalty. Even though the mayor of a city has nothing to do with the administration of justice, Koch whipped up passions over the electric-chair issue as part of his toughness campaign and easily claimed city hall...
When he returned to the U.S., he became Whitney Young's protege at the Urban League, where he ran a job-training program. At night he attended law school at St. John's University. There he forged a bond with a teacher the other students considered intimidating, Mario Cuomo. "We had an instant rapport," says Brown. Cuomo, who endorsed Brown's candidacy early on, agrees. When Vernon Jordan took over the Urban League in 1971, he persuaded Brown to move to Washington to take over the organization's office there...