Remembering the Nuanced Mario Cuomo

Commentary
By Gary Kopycinski

Former Governor of New York Mario Cuomo died on January 1, 2015, just six hours after his son, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, was sworn into his second term.

New York Times reporter Adam Nagourney wrote a comprehensive piece remembering Cuomo, including this:

[Cuomo] was similarly resolute when he defied his church in 1984 by flying to the University of Notre Dame to proclaim that Roman Catholic politicians who personally opposed…