Before he was governor, Mario Cuomo was a reluctant candidate for New York's mayor in 1977, and the defeat weighed heavily on
the rest of his political career.
Pulling off these «big tough brawny projects» would surely give Cuomo bragging rights for
the rest of his political career, Baruch's Birdsell said.
Not exact matches
They all belong to a
political elite whose attitudes and
careers are pretty different from those
of the
rest of us.»
What may be Washington's last hope
of stopping the slide from dismal to disastrous
rests on the reform course chosen by its mayor, Adrian Fenty, an African American Democrat who has staked his
political career and considerable ego on his pledge to improve the schools.