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New York Gov. Mario Cuomo spoke to the National Press Club in Washington recently. This is one of the most high-visibility forums for a politician aspiring to move from the local to the national stage. That is especially so when the politician is a member of the party not controlling the White House, and when the speech is delivered a mere 13 months before the New Hampshire presidential preference primary.To an overflow crowd he delivered a speech in which the most memorable moment was when he put tongue between his lips and made a wet, rude noise.

By the time Gov. Martin O'Malley left the Democratic convention last fall, he had schmoozed with party leaders from Iowa, spoken to potential donors and hosted swanky parties that kept delegates entertained into the next morning — efforts that heightened speculation about his ambitions beyond Maryland. But another governor on the short list of potential 2016 presidential candidates, New York's Andrew Cuomo, took an entirely different approach: He arrived in Charlotte two days late, spoke for 20 minutes to his state delegation and went home.

On February 20, 2008, ALFONSO "Al" R. CUOMO, beloved husband of Janet E. Cuomo (nee Greason); devoted father of Sharon Gardner and her husband Michael, Debi Maas and her husband Tony and the late Alan "Randy" Cuomo; loving grandfather of Drew Lombardo and his wife Dawn, and Caren, Laura and Michele Maas; dear great grandfather of Andrew and Brian Lombardo; also survived by many nieces and nephews. A Memorial Service will be held at St. Pauls Lutheran Church, Lutherville on Saturday at 11:00 AM. Interment private.

Talk about hitting the floor running, Jeff Zucker looks to have arrived at CNN this month in a flat-out sprint. It's hard not to be impressed by what he's already done: Started to make CNN suddenly seem a couple of decades younger. It's like watching an aggressive and skilled general manager rebuild a baseball team from the bottom up -- first adding younger but already tested major-league talent to the roster while releasing some one-time big names that were no longer productive.

Albany, N.Y.-- Playing tour guide, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo ducks through an unmarked door in his Capitol study into an executive chamber that must be the grandest in America.Lined with acres of sumptuous Philippine mahogaony and gilded leather, the ceremonial office is a breathtaking throwback to a time when New York truly was the Empire State."Who," Mr. Cuomo asks teasingly amid the splendor, "would want to be anything but governor?"Try Grover Cleveland, Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt, for starters.

New York -- MARIO CUOMO warned the nation that he would not run for president unless New York's massive budget crisis was resolved first. Those who thought he was merely playing games found out last week that he meant what he said.That's a welcome change from the usual political double talk and deniability. But there's no use pretending, as some Democrats are doing, that the party's chances for 1992 have not been hurt.Cuomo would have been the most commanding and articulate figure the Democrats could have put up -- and articulateness is one quality, among many, badly needed in the White House.

Clementina Cuomo, a homemaker and former Singer Sewing Machine Co. demonstrator, died of cancer Wednesday at her Towson home. She was 92. She was born Clementina Rescigno in Naples, Italy, where she was taught by nuns to do fancy embroidery and Madeira cut work, a skill she retained after moving to Little Italy in 1922. She was a graduate of St. Leo's Parochial School. Mrs. Cuomo became a sewing techniques demonstrator for the Singer Sewing Machine Co. and worked at its Lexington Street showroom in downtown Baltimore for many years.

Mario M. Cuomo, the Democratic governor of New York, is scheduled to address major local contributors to Jewish charities at a fund-raiser Monday evening in Pikesville.A spokeswoman for the Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore said yesterday that about 730 donors have pledged more than $1.25 million, enabling them to attend a dinner or reception for Mr. Cuomo at Chizuk Amuno Congregation on Stevenson Road.She said Mr. Cuomo is expected to discuss the impact of yesterday's elections on Jewish concerns, including Israel and the Middle East.

Are you going to win this thing by default, someone asked Paul E. Tsongas of Lowell, Mass.He smiled bitterly. ''It would not be worth winning that way,'replied the only admitted Democratic candidate for president.He had come to this paper to urge a serious view of his candidacy. Mr. Tsongas needs an opponent.The Democratic Party, late in the presidential game, is failing the American people. It is refusing to produce a nominee for president whom the people would find presidential in stature in the event they wanted to toss George Bush out.Sen.

Towson coach Randy Dase called freshman Ryan Cuomo his "money man" after yesterday's 1-0 overtime win against visiting Overlea in their 2A North Region semifinal soccer game.Cuomo cashed in five minutes into the extra session, after senior Ian Wildey deflected a 20-yard direct kick off a wall of Overlea players.The ball bounced straight up and back down toward Cuomo, whose split-second, 10-yard header froze keeper Jim Smedley (six saves) before settling into the net's lower corner to Smedley's right.

Chris Cuomo is leaving ABC to join CNN, where he will have a "major role in a new CNN morning show," the cable channel announced Tuesday. Cuomo, who has served as co-anchor of "20/20" and chief law and justice correspondent for ABC, will also anchor and report on "major events" for CNN, Jeff Zucker, the channel's new president, said in making the announcement. “Chris is an accomplished anchor who is already an established name in morning television, as well as a widely respected investigative journalist,” Zucker said in a CNN release.

Shortly after the 1988 presidential election, pollsters asked Democrats whom they favored to be their party's nominee in 1992. The strongest candidates were Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Gov. Mario M. Cuomo of New York. The governor of Arkansas, Bill Clinton, didn't even register. Eight years ago, after another election, the pollsters tried again. The front-runners for the 2008 Democratic nomination, they found, were Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and John F. Kerry. The newly elected senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, wasn't on the list.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's coordinated legislative strategy to hold off a vote on homosexual marriage until he could corrupt Republican state Senators James Alesi, Roy McDonald, Stephen Saland, and Mark Grisanti needs further scrutiny by legal authorities. Governor Cuomo and his immoral pals effectively sold New Yorkers down the river by forcing through same-sex marriage, which most New Yorkers and Americans do not want. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn recently said the vote was typical of the "corrupt political process in New York state.

Given his role in New York's legalization of same-sex marriage, Andrew Cuomo might be the most celebrated governor in the United States at the moment. But watch out: Martin O'Malley, the governor of Maryland, has taken up his guitar to play with his band again, if only to show us he's not just a boring and cautious, middling politician with presidential ambitions. Here's how reporter John Wagner put it three days ago in The Washington Post: "Instead of seeing his music as a liability, many around him have come to view it as a healthy, humanizing outlet for O'Malley, who, if anything, has grown a little stiff since moving to Annapolis in 2007.

Last night, Jon Stewart deftly skewered the idea that Donald Trump's high poll numbers mean that Trump deserves more and more media coverage (even as he says more and more ridiculous stuff). See posts here and here .  Stewart rightly pointed out that Trump and the media have a reciprocal relationship in which the more crazy stuff Trump says the more he gets covered and the higher his poll numbers (and presumably the ratings) go.  "His poll numbers are high mostly because they keep putting him on television to spew the craziest s--- he can think of," Stewart said.  But Stewart's next point was his most salient: He pointed out that Trump's early polls are "completely and totally meaningless.

Owners of SafeNet Inc. to buy Aladdin Knowledge The owners of Belcamp-based SafeNet Inc., the information security company, said they will acquire Israeli firm Aladdin Knowledge Systems in a $160 million deal. Vector Capital, the equity firm that took SafeNet private in 2007, has offered to pay $11.50 a share for Aladdin, which specializes in authentication, software rights management and content security. SafeNet employs 1,200 people, including more than 200 in Maryland. Aladdin, which has its headquarters in Tel Aviv, has 400 employees, most of them in Germany and Israel.

WASHINGTON -- A dozen years ago in a debate with then-Lt. Gov. Mario Cuomo of New York, Republican gubernatorial nominee Lew Lehrman accused Cuomo of hiring a pollster to determine what issues were popular and then shaping his positions accordingly. Cuomo pounced on him, asking: "Like the death penalty?"It was well known at the time that Cuomo steadfastly opposed imposition of the death penalty in the face of public-opinion polls strongly favoring it. Cuomo narrowly beat Lehrman for the governorship in spite of his unpopular position on capital punishment.

WASHINGTON MARIO CUOMO is telling friends pressing him to seek the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination that his main concern now is whether he would have to resign as governor, "abandoning" New York in times of travail. Rep. Tom Downey of New York, who hitically it would be "more powerful if he left by the first of the year," thus making a clear statement of his commitment.Cuomo has been saying that he doesn't see how he could compete in the arduous presidential primaries and caucuses around the country while doing justice to his responsibilities in Albany.

On February 20, 2008, ALFONSO "Al" R. CUOMO, beloved husband of Janet E. Cuomo (nee Greason); devoted father of Sharon Gardner and her husband Michael, Debi Maas and her husband Tony and the late Alan "Randy" Cuomo; loving grandfather of Drew Lombardo and his wife Dawn, and Caren, Laura and Michele Maas; dear great grandfather of Andrew and Brian Lombardo; also survived by many nieces and nephews. A Memorial Service will be held at St. Pauls Lutheran Church, Lutherville on Saturday at 11:00 AM. Interment private.

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore is among 63 colleges that participated in a "deceptive" revenue-sharing scheme with a Florida student-loan marketing firm, New York's attorney general said yesterday. Under the partnerships, Clearwater, Fla.-based Student Financial Services Inc. paid universities and athletic departments for the right to use college mascots and trademarks in marketing federal-loan consolidations to students, said New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo. Campuses typically also received payments of $75 to $100 for each loan application processed.