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The Fall of the Cuomo Dynasty

 


You will all be aware by now that New York State has a new Governor, and she is NOT a Cuomo.

I'm happy about this. It was time for Andrew Cuomo to go.

I would think this even if I were sure that all the charges against him could be dismissed in the way he likes to dismiss them: as an old-fashioned Italian man's tactile exuberance misunderstood.

I'm not at all sure they should be so dismissed, and I would like the legislature in Albany to proceed with a fact-finding impeachment and trial. Still: set all that aside for the nonce. 

Not long ago, I heard Cuomo call himself an "outsider." That did it for me. The political establishment doesn't like him. That, he was suggesting, is why he had gotten into such trouble.

The remark made me think of a trip he must have taken many times. After a meeting in Manhattan, Governor Cuomo the outsider asks his limo driver to take him home to Albany. The driver would likely cross the Hudson near Nyack. If so, during any such trip since 2017, he would have taken Governor Andrew Cuomo over the MARIO M. CUOMO BRIDGE. The one named for Daddy 

Sorry. A word like "outsider" is romantic and it can be subjective in application. But if you are the Governor of a great state, and the son of a man who was Governor of the same state, so that your surname is on large capital structures, then guess what ... YOU ARE AN INSIDER. 

Take a good look at yourself in a mirror and practice saying the words, "The establishment, c'est moi."  

The Cuomo family is often compared to the Kennedy family of Massachusetts, who haven't been "outsiders" since old Joe got appointed as the US ambassador to the Court of St James.  

The two families were in fact related for 15 years, the length of Andrew Cuomo's marriage to Kerry Kennedy, who was one of the 11 children of Robert and Ethel. She divorced him in 2005. 

If the Cuomo dynasty ever makes a comeback, that will occur at the hands of the three young women born to that Cuomo-Kennedy marriage: Mariah, Cara, and Michaela, all now in their 20s. The rise in politics of one or more members of that sisterhood would be a delightful spectacle for a dramatist. 

We could call the play ... Cuomolot. 


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