Cuomo Seeking Job Once Held by Father
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Hoping to follow in his father’s footsteps, Andrew Cuomo filed papers to run in the Democratic primary for governor of New York. The current occupant is Gov. George Pataki, the Republican who ousted Cuomo’s father, Mario M. Cuomo, in 1994 and who has said he will likely run for a third term.
Cuomo, just completed four years as Housing and Urban Development secretary for President Clinton and has never run for elective office.
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