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...unionized than Illinois," says Tim Russert, counselor to New York Governor Mario Cuomo. Says a Mondale campaign official: "New Yorkers are tougher, more cynical and not as taken by the idea of newness. Plus Hart's newness has been out there a while." New York City Mayor Ed Koch backs Mondale, as do Cuomo and 55 of 62 county chairmen. Unlike Illinois, New York does not allow independents and Republicans to vote in the Democratic primary, thus stripping Hart of his ability to reach outside the party. Says Hart's national cochairman, Theodore Sorensen: "It's tough...
Like many controversies in the Big Apple, this one quickly involved the ebullient, omniactive Mayor Edward Koch. Alfredo Viazzi, owner of Trattoria da Alfredo, a pocket-size Greenwich Village eating house, squealed to the press that hizzoner was a frequent brown-bagging customer. What is more, Viazzi dared the liquor authority to do something about it. After all, Viazzi said, "nobody is going to arrest the mayor. It's crazy. I've been letting my customers carry in their own wine for 12½ years and keeping everybody happy. Now they find an old dusty law and they...
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...also attacks politicians. He claims that Senator Edward Kennedy "rehearsed" his chilly handshake with Carter at the 1980 Democratic National Convention, and depicts former New York Governor Hugh Carey and New York City Mayor Edward Koch as "ingrates.. . hat in one hand, shiv in the other...