Mario Cuomo in Giuliani: Flawed or Flawless?

On Government Reform: Permitted ballot question on State Island secession from NYC

Former NYC Mayor David Dinkins: If Mario Cuomo and the speaker of the Assembly at that time [1993], Mel Miller, had not permitted the Staten Island secession issue to have been on the ballot, you would not have gotten the turnout you got in Staten Island, and Rudy came out of Staten Island forty thousand votes ahead of me. Well, if the margin is fifty, sixty, or seventy thousand, Staten Island alone made the difference. And Rudy was by no means perfect, but they ran a good race and they won. Some people said if it hadn't been for Crown Heights, I might have won--that it made a difference. I don't agree. I have responses, but, obviously, they didn't mean too much to the general media and the public at the time. All that notwithstanding, the margin was very, very thin. Source: Giuliani: Flawed or Flawless, by D. & G. Strober, p. 97 Jan 16, 2007

On Principles & Values: Endorsed by Rudy Giuliani across party lines

On October 24, 1994, Mayor Giuliani stunned and infuriated his fellow Republicans by endorsing the incumbent governor of New York, Mario Cuomo, a Democrat, who was seeking an unprecedented fourth term, instead of his own party's candidate, a relatively unknown but highly competent Westchester County state senator name George Pataki. Source: Giuliani: Flawed or Flawless, by D. & G. Strober, p.162 Jan 16, 2007

The above quotations are from Giuliani: Flawed or Flawless? The Oral Biography by Deborah & Gerald Strober. Click here for main summary page. Click here for a profile of Mario Cuomo. Click here for Mario Cuomo on all issues.
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