SHORT TAKES : ‘Baloney,’ Cuomo Calls Report
Reports that the marriage of Andrew Cuomo and Kerry Kennedy was engineered to merge two political dynasties are “really a lot of baloney,” says the father of the groom, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo.
Comparing the Kennedys and Cuomos politically is like “comparing an elephant and a squirrel,” Cuomo said in a TV interview Monday.
“They are a profound institution politically,” Cuomo said of the Kennedy clan. “They’ve had a long line of successes and power and influence. We have one guy, who lost three times in the same year to Ed Koch, was a lousy candidate in ‘74, got lucky in ’82 and now I’m the governor.”
The real story, the governor said, was that “these are two, good solid kids who love one another and want to share things.”
All the rest “might be nice but it was really a lot of baloney,” he said on WNYW-TV’s “Good Day New York.”
The governor’s eldest son, who is 32, and the 30-year-old daughter of the late Robert F. Kennedy were married Saturday at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington.
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