Sentences with phrase «against liberal icon»

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Demos worked on Pataki's 1998 re-election campaign — the one in which Pataki cruised to victory against his Democratic opponent, former NYC Council Speaker Peter Vallone, after coming from pretty much nowhere (the back bench of the state Senate) to oust liberal icon Mario Cuomo from the governor's office four years earlier.

The son of a liberal icon who has cast himself as a centrist, Cuomo has treated New York's financial services sector with kid gloves, quietly pushing through favorable policies and, a bit more loudly, holding the line against others» calls for tax increases.