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...York Governor Mario Cuomo had only remembered Benjamin Disraeli's maxim "Never complain, never explain," he might have avoided some heavy fire from the National Rifle Association. In March, Cuomo offhandedly told a Los Angeles Times reporter that opposition to New York's new mandatory seat-belt law had mostly come from "N.R.A. hunters, who drink beer, don't vote and lie to their wives about where they were all weekend." When he saw his words in a Times story last month, the liberal Democratic Governor and possible presidential candidate realized that he had insulted a large, well-organized conservative...
...clear things up, the Governor broached the subject on his statewide monthly radio show. Cuomo also sent a long apology to then-N.R.A. President Howard Pollock, enclosing the Times piece, as well as a transcript of his radio remarks. "My response was inartful," Cuomo wrote, "and could leave a false impression of disrespect for the National Rifle Association." Boom! The N.R.A., which had not been aware of the gaffe, blasted the Governor in a national press release and vowed that its voice, in the form of about 200,000 members in New York State, would be heard...
...perks of being a taxman that you do not have to pay taxes? Some officials of New York's taxation and finance department, the state agency charged with hunting down tax evaders, seemed to think so. Only four weeks after Democratic Governor Mario Cuomo announced a get-tough program on tax cheating, a crime that Cuomo said costs his state about $1 billion a year, an internal investigation disclosed that at least 69 of the 5,100 employees of the agency had not filed state income tax forms for periods of as long as five years. In New York State...
...print.* Hundreds of new devotees write to Iacocca each week, more than 25,000 during the past five months, often beseeching him to run for President of the U.S. In Washington, House Speaker Tip O'Neill says that Iacocca, with Senator Gary Hart and New York Governor Mario Cuomo, is among the most plausible contenders for the 1988 Democratic nomination. During January and February alone, Iacocca was asked by 1,270 different groups to give speeches. Out on the street in any city, strangers approach to stare, to chat, to touch, as if he were a star or something...
...with Japanese imports. The plant, expected to roll out its first models in 1988, will employ 6,000. So far, 24 Governors, along with dozens of city officials and local business groups, have besought GM to award them the plant. Last week, for example, New York's Governor Mario Cuomo made a personal pilgrimage to GM's Technical Center in Warren, Mich., to present company officials with one of his state's bright orange-and-blue license plates, bearing the name SATURN...