CAMPAIGN ’88 : Cuomo Plumbs the Stars
Not to be out of touch, New York Gov. Mario M. Cuomo peered into a baseball presented to him by Harlem schoolchildren and called it “an astrologer’s delight. . . .”
“It says there’s a Democratic President in your future,” Cuomo continued, eyeing the ball intently. “Wait, there’s another message in fine print: He’s either going to be white or he’s going to be black.”
Cuomo made his comments before signing a $150-million bill providing tax-exempt state bonds to rebuild and refinance 60-year-old North General Hospital, one of the nation’s largest private, minority-operated hospitals.
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