His presidential flirtation had ended very badly, with the governor claiming that budget gamesmanship by state senate Republicans was the reason he'd
left a plane idling on the runway instead of flying to New Hampshire to file primary petitions.
His father, Mario Cuomo, was dubbed «Hamlet on the Hudson» for flirting with presidential bids in 1988 and 1992, famously
leaving planes that would have taken him from Albany to New Hampshire
idling on the tarmac.