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Article: Andrew Cuomo Seeks NY Governor Bid
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- May 18, 2002
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ The echoes of the father are everywhere in Andrew
Cuomo's bid to become governor of New York, from the theme song to
the soaring rhetoric.
It has proved a blessing and a curse.
"Rocky" thunders from loudspeakers when Andrew Cuomo takes the stage,
the same anthem of the underdog that ushered Mario Cuomo into the
Democratic state convention in 1982.
The elder Cuomo proved the giant killer, first beating then-New York
City Mayor Edward I. Koch in a Democratic primary, and then besting
millionaire Republican businessman Lewis Lehrman to become New York'
s 52nd governor.
This year, the younger Cuomo is battling state Comptroller H. Carl ...