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...Wilder went home to Richmond last week to deliver the most surprising speech of his four-month presidential campaign. In his State of the Commonwealth address, he stunned legislators by announcing the end of his quest for the Democratic nomination. Wilder took a page from New York Governor Mario Cuomo's book, saying he had chosen to devote himself to "guiding Virginia through these difficult times . . . as my pledge and responsibilities demand...
...calls were made at around 5 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 6. "Bad news," one of Mario Cuomo's aides told George Friedman, the Democratic leader of the Bronx. "The Governor's out of it." Cracked Friedman: "Everybody knows that. Now tell me about his plans." Assured that the message was not about Cuomo's mental state and that the Governor really was pulling the plug on an incipient favorite-son presidential candidacy, Friedman and his Democratic machine colleagues across New York State were finally liberated to chart their own course. Five hours later a number of them, including Friedman...
...takes to enter New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation presidential primary on Feb. 18 is nerve and a $1,000 filing fee. Among the record 62 candidates who have rushed in where Mario Cuomo feared to tread...
...wake of Mario Cuomo's default, meanwhile, the six major Democratic candidates are looking to the Granite State as the first major showdown in what has suddenly become a wide-open scramble for their party's nomination. For now, the one clear winner is New Hampshire; after three years of dismal economic news, the locals can look forward to a quick-shot infusion of cash from the candidates and the hordes of journalists covering the contest. At least four of the Democrats will spend $530,000 apiece, the maximum allowed in the primary. On top of that, the Administration...
...Cuomo bowed out of the race...