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Prior to ascending to the state's top post, Cuomo spent time at the federal level, serving as assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1993-1997 and as secretary of HUD from 1997-2001 under President Bill Clinton. Returning to the state level, Cuomo served as [[New York Attorney General]] from 2006-2010.<ref>[http://www.biography.com/people/andrew-cuomo-21024931 ''Biography.com,'' "Andrew Cuomo," accessed July 10, 2013]</ref>
Prior to ascending to the state's top post, Cuomo spent time at the federal level, serving as assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1993-1997 and as secretary of HUD from 1997-2001 under President Bill Clinton. Returning to the state level, Cuomo served as [[New York Attorney General]] from 2006-2010.<ref>[http://www.biography.com/people/andrew-cuomo-21024931 ''Biography.com,'' "Andrew Cuomo," accessed July 10, 2013]</ref>
As governor Cuomo has focused on LGBT rights, including the legalization of gay marriage, women's rights and economic stimulus. Known for his bipartisan approach to achieving his goals, Cuomo's first two years saw him popular statewide and across party lines. That appeal dipped in early 2013 following Cuomo's work to pass the nation's strictest gun-control laws. Following the law's passage, polling showed more of a traditional split between update and downstate as well as Republican and Democrat.<ref>[http://www.newsday.com/columnists/other-columnists/cuomo-s-bipartisan-appeal-drops-polls-show-1.5156930 ''Newsday,'' "Cuomo's bipartisan appeal drops, polls show," April 28, 2013]</ref><ref>[http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/11/new-york-poll-cuomo-popularity-falls/1980467/ ''USA Today,'' "Poll: N.Y. governor's popularity falls for 3rd month," March 11, 2013]</ref><ref>[http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/03/republicans_approval_of_andrew.html ''Syracuse,'' "Andrew Cuomo's popularity hits all-time low among Republican voters, Quinnipiac polls says," March 19, 2013]</ref>
As governor Cuomo has focused on LGBT rights, including the legalization of gay marriage, women's rights and economic stimulus. Known for his bipartisan approach to achieving his goals, Cuomo's first two years saw him popular statewide and across party lines. That appeal dipped in early 2013 following Cuomo's work to pass the nation's strictest gun-control laws. Following the law's passage, polling showed more of a traditional split between update and downstate as well as Republican and Democrat.<ref>[http://www.newsday.com/columnists/other-columnists/cuomo-s-bipartisan-appeal-drops-polls-show-1.5156930 ''Newsday,'' "Cuomo's bipartisan appeal drops, polls show," April 28, 2013]</ref><ref>[http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/11/new-york-poll-cuomo-popularity-falls/1980467/ ''USA Today,'' "Poll: N.Y. governor's popularity falls for 3rd month," March 11, 2013]</ref><ref>[http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/03/republicans_approval_of_andrew.html ''Syracuse,'' "Andrew Cuomo's popularity hits all-time low among Republican voters, Quinnipiac polls says," March 19, 2013]</ref>
Cuomo's father, Mario Cuomo, served as [[New York Governor]] from 1983-1994.<ref>[http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/02/06/like-father-like-son-the-story-of-political-bravery-about-mario-and-andrew-cuomo/ ''MSNBC,'' "Like father, like son: Mario and Andrew Cuomo and the story of political bravery," February 2, 2013]</ref>
Cuomo's father, Mario Cuomo, served as [[New York Governor]] from 1983-1994.<ref>[http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/02/06/like-father-like-son-the-story-of-political-bravery-about-mario-and-andrew-cuomo/ ''MSNBC,'' "Like father, like son: Mario and Andrew Cuomo and the story of political bravery," February 2, 2013]</ref>
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|Andrew Cuomo
|Governor of New York
|In office
|January 1, 2011 - Present
|Term ends
|Years in position
|David Paterson (D)
|Base salary
|Elections and appointments
|First elected
|November 2, 2010
|Next general
|November 4, 2014
|Campaign $
|Term limits
|Prior offices
|Attorney General of New York
|January 1, 2007-December 31, 2010
|U.S. Secretary of Housing and Development
|January 29, 1997-January 20, 2001
|High school
|Archbishop Molloy High School (1975)
|Fordham University (1979)
|Albany Law School (1982)
|Date of birth
|December 6, 1957
|Place of birth
|Queens, New York
|Roman Catholic
|Office website
|Personal website
|Campaign website
- 1 Biography
- 2 Political career
- 2.1 Governor of New York (2011-Present)
- 2.2 Attorney General of New York (2007-2010)
- 2.3 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (1993-2000)
- 3 Elections
- 4 Campaign donors
- 5 Personal
- 6 Recent news
- 7 See also
- 8 External links
- 9 References
An April 2013 list of the 100 most powerful players in Albany by the newspaper City and State ranked Cuomo as number one.[3]
Prior to ascending to the state's top post, Cuomo spent time at the federal level, serving as assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1993-1997 and as secretary of HUD from 1997-2001 under President Bill Clinton. Returning to the state level, Cuomo served as New York Attorney General from 2006-2010.[4]
As governor Cuomo has focused on LGBT rights, including the legalization of gay marriage, women's rights and economic stimulus. Known for his bipartisan approach to achieving his goals, Cuomo's first two years saw him popular statewide and across party lines. That appeal dipped in early 2013 following Cuomo's work to pass the nation's strictest gun-control laws. Following the law's passage, polling showed more of a traditional split between update and downstate as well as Republican and Democrat.[5][6][7]
Cuomo's father, Mario Cuomo, served as New York Governor from 1983-1994.[8]
Cuomo was born on December 6, 1957 in Queens, NY. He graduated from Archbishop Molloy High School, Fordham University, and Albany Law School. Cuomo was named a top aide to his father's inaugural campaign for Governor shortly after receiving his law degree. He then joined the Governor's staff as one of his father's top policy advisors, a position he filled on and off throughout the course of Mario Cuomo's twelve-year governorship.
Cuomo worked two years as a New York assistant district attorney and briefly for the law firm of Blutrich, Falcone & Miller. He became profoundly active in the issues of homelessness and state housing policy during the 1980s and 90s. This in turn spurred him on to create Housing Enterprise for the Less Privileged (HELP), a non-profit organization whose goal is to provide housing and the supportive services necessary for the homeless and people in need to become and remain self reliant. He was appointed Chairman of the New York City Homeless Commission during the administration of New York City Mayor David Dinkins, from 1990-1993.
- Graduated from Archbishop Molloy High School (1975)
- BA, Fordham University (1979)
- JD, Albany Law School (1982)
Political career
Governor of New York (2011-Present)
Cuomo was elected Governor of New York in 2010 and assumed office January 1, 2011.
Job creation ranking
In a June 2013 analysis by The Business Journals, which ranked 45 of the country's 50 governors by their job creation records, Cuomo was ranked number 18. The five governors omitted from the analysis all assumed office in 2013. The ranking was based on a comparison of the annual private sector growth rate in all 50 states using data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.[9][10]
Tax extensions
Promoting his 2013-14 budget, Cuomo and his 2014 re-election campaign launched television ads in late January 2013.[11] E.J. McMahon of the pro-market Empire State Center for New York Policy argued that Cuomo's claim in the ads that his budget did not impose any new taxes was technically true but disingenuous because the governor did call for extending two "temporary" taxes first imposed in 2009. Cuomo proposed extending the 2 percent assessment on electric, water, and gas utility bills for five years beyond its scheduled March 13, 2014, expiration date. Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R) and the Senate Republicans opposed the utility tax extension and held a February 5 press conference on the topic with representatives from the Business Council of New York State, the National Federation of Independent Businesses, the Manufacturers Association of Central New York (MACNY), the New York Farm Bureau, and AARP.[12] Cuomo also proposed extending a tax on households earning more than $10 million annually. Already statutorily limited to receiving only half of their tax deductions for their charitable giving, high-end taxpayers would see the temporary law limiting them to receiving only a quarter of their charitable giving deductions extended for three more years. The utility assessment tax brings in $509 million annually, and the charitable giving deduction limit brings in $140 million.[13]
Pension "smoothing"
As part of his 2013-14 budget, introduced on January 22, 2013, Cuomo proposed the Stable Rate Pension Contribution Option as a way for local governments to deal with rising pension plan costs.[14] Local governments which signed on for this plan would be able to reduce their present pension payments by as much as 43 percent and would then lock in that rate for 25 years. The savings now would be made up from the later payments, which would be made at the same level even though the fiscal situation will have improved. E.J. McMahon of the pro-market Empire State Center for New York Policy opposed Cuomo's plan, contending that "even under ideal economic and financial market conditions, it's likely to be a losing bet for employers — saving them less in the short-term than it would cost them in the long run."[15] Before the plan could become operational, New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, the lone trustee of New York's pension plan, would need to approve the option, but on February 5, he stated that he had concerns with the proposal.[16] The New York State Teachers' Retirement System, which is separate from the main pension plan and would need to approve the plan because of its effect on school districts, hired Cheiron to conduct an independent review of Cuomo's plan.[17]
Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare")
In December, 2012, Cuomo declined to enter New York into the federal health-exchange system established under the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as "Obamacare," in favor of setting up a state-based system.[18] New York is one of eighteen states - including Colorado, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Mexico, and Washington - that decided to create and run individual health-exchange systems by the December 14, 2012 deadline. The exchange is an online marketplace for citizens to purchase health insurance.[19][20]
Appointments office export
In October 2012, Cuomo announced his decision to move the New York state "appointments office" outside the executive branch, including nine people and the office's original budget of $700,000. His decision addressed what he considered to be a trend of deterioration in the recruitment standards of state agency and board positions, which he attributed to statutory constraints on salary raises for appointees and a counterproductive tradition of nepotistic-style hiring by internal recommendation: "In the old days, you'd wait for some county [political party] chair or some elected official to say, can you hire A, B, C or D," said Cuomo, elaborating on his aim to reverse the unsatisfactory reputation of the appointments office by introducing it to private sector meritocracy. The former executive chamber office of appointments, renamed the "Center for Recruitment and Public Service," was absorbed into the Office of General Services and managed by an appointments secretary. Cuomo appointed retired judge Leslie Leach, an aide from his years as attorney general, to the position prior to his announcement.[21] The Center for Recruitment and Public Service will deal primarily with appointed commissioners, state board members, and some "exempt" managerial positions, but not civil service posts.
Gun control
Following the December 14, 2012 school shooting in Newton, Connecticut, Gov. Cuomo sought to make gun control a major issue in 2013. To that end, one of the first things the Legislature did in its 2013 session was to pass a tougher assault weapons ban that included restrictions on ammunition and the sale of guns, as well as provisions to keep guns from the mentally ill who make threats. New York was the first state to pass new laws after the tragedy.[22]
Attorney General of New York (2007-2010)
Police surveillance by the Governor's Office
On July 23, 2007, Cuomo's office admonished the Spitzer administration for ordering the State Police to keep special records of Senate majority leader Joseph L. Bruno's whereabouts when he traveled with police escorts in New York City.[23] At the direction of top officials of the Spitzer administration, the New York State Police created documents meant to cause political damage to Bruno.[24] The governor's staff had stated they were responding to a Freedom of Information request from the Albany Times-Union in late June.[23]
A scathing 57-page report issued by the Attorney General's office concluded that Spitzer aides did not simply produce records, as the state Freedom of Information Law requires, but were instead engaged in planning and producing media coverage concerning Senator Bruno's travel on state aircraft before any FOIL request was made.[25][26] The investigation looked into both Bruno's travel and the senate leader's allegation that Spitzer used State Police to spy on him.[27] It also suggests that the governor's staff lied when they tried to explain what they had done and forced the State Police to go far beyond their normal procedures in documenting Mr. Bruno's whereabouts.[28]
The report cleared Bruno of any misuse of the state's air fleet, which had been alleged.[29][30][31][24] The report criticized Spitzer's office for using State Police resources to gather information about Bruno's travel and releasing the information to the media.[32]
New York Republican State Committee Chairman Joseph Mondello claimed that "Today's explosive report by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo validates the frightening charges that Governor Spitzer's administration abused the New York State Police and New York's F.O.I.L. laws in an attempt to set up Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno"[23] and that "This disturbing abuse of power by a Governor is unprecedented."[23] The findings of the report were endorsed by Spitzer's own Inspector General, Kristine Hamann.[23][30][31][27]
Spitzer responded at a July 23 press conference that "As governor, I am accountable for what goes on in the executive branch and I accept responsibility for the actions of my office"[23] and that his administration had "grossly mishandled"[23] the situation.[31] The Governor issued an apology to Senator Bruno and stated that "I apologized to Senator Bruno and I did so personally this morning […] In addition, I apologized to the men and women of the State Police, and to acting Superintendent Preston Felton personally for allowing this esteemed institution to be drawn into this matter."[23] Felton said he didn't realize he was part of a political scheme, and claimed in a written statement that "I have never, in my 26-year career with the state police, knowingly undertaken any such action and never would […] To the extent that circumstances previously not known to me have now given rise to that appearance, I am particularly saddened."[27]
Spitzer subsequently announced that he would indefinitely suspend his communications director, Darren Dopp, and reassign another top official.[33] When questioned about his promise to bring a new dawn of ethical responsibility to state politics, Spitzer responded by saying "I will not tolerate this behavior […] ethics and accountability must and will remain rigorous in my administration,"[24] and that "I have always stated that I want ethics and integrity to be the hallmarks of my administration. That is why I requested that the State Inspector General review the allegations with respect to my office, and that is why we have fully cooperated with both inquiries."[29] As of July 2007, Cuomo's office was considering recommending disciplinary action against the Governor's office.[25]
Student Loan Inquiry
In 2007, Cuomo was active in a high profile investigation into lending practices and anti-competitive relationships between student lenders and universities. Specifically, many universities steered student borrowers to "preferred lender" which resulted in those borrowers incurring higher interest rates. This has led to changes in lending policy at many major American universities. Many universities have also rebated millions of dollars in fees back to affected borrowers.[34][35]
The Safety of Facebook
As attorney general, Cuomo spoke out against Facebook, believing it was not safe enough for minors.[36]
"My office is concerned that Facebook's promise of a safe web site is not consistent with its performance in policing its site and responding to complaints," Cuomo stated on September 25, 2007. "Parents have a right to know what their children will encounter on a web site that is aggressively marketed as safe."
Cuomo cited an investigation by the Office of Attorney General which discovered "deficiencies that stand in contrast to the reassuring statements made on the web site and by company officials." This investigation found numerous occurrences of other users approaching undercover Facebook accounts for adult reasons, as well as lewd or pornographic Facebook groups that users under 18 were allowed to join.
ACORN endorsement
In the midst of his 2006 bid for New York Attorney General, Cuomo received the endorsement of ACORN. Former Executive Director Bertha Lewis praised him for "his outstanding record of results fighting for fair housing and fighting against predatory lenders."[37] In response to this commendation, Cuomo issued a statement that stated that he was "honored" and that he appreciated the strong words of recommendation from his 'good friend' Bertha Lewis, who, he said, was an 'inspiration' for him.
Cuomo was one of six state attorneys general, all of whom belonged to the Democratic Party, who received the highest rating, a letter grade of A+, from the June 2008 Survey and Scorecard report published by the liberal political organization, ACORN. The report was published in an effort to shine the spotlight on state attorneys general "leading the fight to protect homeowners from joining the flood of Americans losing their homes to foreclosure," according to the group.[38]
Mortgage crisis
As part of a probe into the mortgage industry, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo served subpoenas to both Freddie Mac (FRE) and Fannie Mae (FNM) on November 7, 2007, requesting the two companies retain an independent examiner to review mortgages and appraisals. He then promptly sued First American Corporation (FAF) and its eAppraiseIT unit for allegedly colluding with savings bank holding company, Washington Mutual; stock for the company sharply declined. CNBC's Jim Cramer labeled Cuomo a "communist" who "who wants to shut down the mortgage market."[39] About a month later, Washington Mutual Bank reorganized its home-loan division and closed 160 of its 336 home-loan offices, hemorrhaging nearly twenty-two percent of its staff. Nine months after that, Washington Mutual, Inc. and its subsidiaries filed for bankruptcy.
Cuomo faced criticism for a series of lawsuits and investigations surrounding a Florida based Savings and Loan Association institution in which he was accused of illegal, hostile take-over maneuvers among other things. This problem tapered off after Attorney General Janet Reno declined to initiate a full investigation. A spectrum of excuses and accusations were offered to explain this situation.
In tandem with the Florida S&L situation was criticism coming from Catherine Fitts, formerly HUD Assistant Secretary and FHA Administrator under Jack Kemp during the first Bush administration and HUD independent contractor under Henry Cisneros and Andrew Cuomo. Fitts essentially accused him of fraud and linked his name to HUD vendors who also provided him with lucrative benefits of various types.[40]
Shuck and jive
In the early stages of the 2008 Democratic presidential primary campaign, shortly after Hillary Clinton won the New Hampshire contest, Cuomo, a supporter of Clinton's, made a comment in reference to then-Senator Barack Obama that some perceived to be racially insensitive, if unintentionally so. The New York Attorney General, speaking on radio station WGDJ - Talk 1300 based in Albany, analyzed the primary race, saying, "It's not a TV crazed race. Frankly you can't buy your way into it. You can't shuck and jive at a press conference. All those moves you can make with the press don't work when you're in someone's living room."[41] Though Cuomo insisted after the program that the comment "was never about Obama in the first place,"[42] but rather the primary campaign in general, critics still believed the words were ill-spoken, if not downright inappropriate. The phrase 'shuck and jive' "refers to mischievous blacks behaving innocently in the presence of an authority figure, so as to lie and get out of trouble."[41]
On June 10, 2008, Cuomo announced that three major internet service providers (Verizon Communications, Time Warner Cable, and Sprint) would "shut down major sources of online child pornography" by no longer hosting many newsgroups associated with the worldwide distributed internet discussion system, Usenet. Time Warner Cable ceased offering Usenet altogether while Sprint no longer provides access to the alt.* hierarchy, and Verizon limiting its Usenet offerings to the Big 8 (comp.*, misc.*, news.*, rec.*, sci.*, soc.*, alt.*, and talk.* newsgroup hierarchies).[43] Internet critics argued that this was significant overreaching on the part of the New York Attorney General, noting that "Cuomo's office found only 88 newsgroups containing child porn, and there are more than 18,000 in the alt.* hierarchy alone."[44] Barry Steinhardt, director of the ACLU's technology and liberty program, compared the action to "taking a sledgehammer to an ant."[45]
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (1993-2000)
Cuomo was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1993 to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). At the end of Clinton's first term in office, Henry Cisneros resigned as Secretary of HUD following a three and a half year independent investigation that resulted in his indictment on eighteen counts of conspiracy, giving false statements and obstruction of justice. Cuomo succeeded Cisneros and remained in the position until the end of Clinton's administration in 2001. Twice during his tenure it was speculated that he would mount a campaign for the United States Senate, first in 1998 to challenge Senator Al D'Amato who was deemed too conservative by Congressional Democratic leadership and then in 2000 after the announcement by four-term Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan that he would be retiring; he ultimately deferred to First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in the run up to the Democratic primary election.
Cuomo has been rumored to be considering a run for President in 2016. A story in the New York Post on April 29, 2013, cited "a Cuomo administration insider" who said Cuomo would not run if Hillary Clinton does.[46] Cuomo dismissed the rumors, stating, "There is no truth to the assertion that I am talking presidential politics and strategy and what Hillary Clinton should do or shouldn't do or what I'm doing presidentially. The only discussions I'm having are how to help this state ... and to the extent that I'm focusing on politics, it's my race next year."[2]
That same week publisher HarperCollins announced they would be publishing Cuomo's autobiography, which is expected to be out in 2014.[47]
- See also: New York gubernatorial election, 2014
Cuomo is eligible to run for re-election as Governor of New York in 2014. While he has not officially declared, indications are that he will run.[1]
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Cuomo first ran for Governor of New York on a ticket with Robert Duffy in 2010. He defeated Carl P. Paladino (R), Warren Redlich (L), Howie Hawkins (G) and six other candidates in the general election on November 2, 2010.
|New York Governor/Lt. Governor, 2010
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|Andrew Cuomo/Robert Duffy
|Carl Paladino/Gregory Edwards
|Howie Hawkins/Gloria Mattera
|Rent is 2 Damn High
|Jimmy McMillan/No candidate
|Warren Redlich/Alden Link
|Kristin Davis/Tanya Gendelman
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|Election Results via New York State Board of Elections
Though it was expected that he would make a second attempt to run for Governor of New York, he decided against it after State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer entered the gubernatorial race in late-2004. Cuomo later declared his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for New York Attorney General, which he received in late-May 2006 after obtaining sixty-percent of party delegate votes. In spite of this majority vote of confidence, "each of the other four Democrats whose names were placed in nomination vowed to get on the Sept. 12 primary ballot by undertaking a statewide petitioning drive."[48] These candidates included former New York City public advocate Mark Green, former United States Attorney Denise O'Donnell, Charlie King, and Sean P. Maloney, a former aide to President Bill Clinton; King would drop out of the race just prior to the primary election and endorsed Cuomo. Cuomo easily won the Democratic primary contest, defeating his nearest opponent, Mark Green, by over twenty percent of the vote.[49] He went on to effortlessly best former Westchester District Attorney Jeanine Pirro in the general election, 58-40%, the closest statewide race that election cycle.[50]
|New York Attorney General, 2006
|Vote %
|Andrew Cuomo
|Jeanine Pirro
|Rachel Treichler
|Christopher B. Garvey
|Socialist Workers
|Martin Koppel
|Total Votes
|Election Results via New York Board of Elections
|2006 Race for Attorney General - Democratic Primary Election[49]
|Andrew Cuomo (D)
|Mark Green (D)
|Sean Patrick Maloney (D)
|Charles G. King (D)
|Total votes
In 2002, Cuomo ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination in the state's gubernatorial election. Despite rival Carl McCall being a favorite of the Democratic establishment, Cuomo's initial momentum heading into the campaign and his ability to lead both in terms of fundraising efforts as well as in the polls his prospects looked optimistic. The turning point in the campaign, however, came on April 17, 2002, when Cuomo criticized Republican incumbent George Pataki's conduct in the wake of the September 11 attacks. He remarked, "Pataki stood behind the leader. He held the leader's coat. He was a great assistant to the leader. But he was not a leader. Cream rises to the top, and Rudy Giuliani rose to the top."[51] His remarks were quickly derided and many Democratic officials began to widely distance themselves from his campaign. Cuomo withdrew his candidacy from consideration on the eve of the state convention, remarking that he stood little chance of garnering enough support to overtake the favored candidate, H. Carl McCall.[52] The late nature of his departure from the campaign resulted in his name being left on the ballot in both the primary and general election contests; he received only fourteen percent of the vote in the primary and sixteen-thousand votes out of a total of 2.2 million cast in the general election. McCall, who had received the nomination, was resoundly defeated by incumbent George Pataki.
Campaign donors
Comprehensive donor information for Cuomo is available dating back to 2002. Based on available campaign finance records, Cuomo raised a total of $78,672,226 during that time period. This information was last updated on May 21, 2013.[53]
Ballotpedia collects information on campaign donors for each year in which a candidate or incumbent is running for election. The following table offers a breakdown of Andrew Cuomo's donors each year.[54] Click [show] for more information.
|Andrew Cuomo's Campaign Contributions
Attorney General of New York
Governor of New York
|Total Raised
|Total Raised by Opponents
|$5,100,109 (Republican)
|$9,784,750 (Republican)
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|RFR Holding LLC
|Cablevision Systems Corporation
|New York State United Teachers
|Competitive Power Ventures Inc
|Leo J Hindery, Jr.
|Access Industries Holdings LLC
|Atticus Capital
|Alexander Rovt
|53 West 46 LLC
|Nixon Peabody LLP
|In-state donations
|Out-of-state donations
Cuomo is a 2000 recipient of the Freedom & Justice Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He was married to Kerry Kennedy, the seventh child of Robert F. Kennedy, for 13 years. They have three children together, Cara, Michaela and Mariah, and were divorced in 2003. He is now in a relationship with television cooking show host Sandra Lee.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 New York Times, "Cuomo's Re-election Machinery Is Already at Work," April 11, 2013
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Huffington Post, "Andrew Cuomo: Hillary Clinton Will Have No Bearing On 2016 Thinking," April 29, 2013
- ↑ City and State, "Albany Power 100 List – 10," April 23, 2013
- ↑ Biography.com, "Andrew Cuomo," accessed July 10, 2013
- ↑ Newsday, "Cuomo's bipartisan appeal drops, polls show," April 28, 2013
- ↑ USA Today, "Poll: N.Y. governor's popularity falls for 3rd month," accessed March 11, 2013
- ↑ Syracuse, "Andrew Cuomo's popularity hits all-time low among Republican voters, Quinnipiac polls says," March 19, 2013
- ↑ MSNBC, "Like father, like son: Mario and Andrew Cuomo and the story of political bravery," February 2, 2013
- ↑ The Business Journals, "Governors and jobs: How governors rank for job creation in their states," June 27, 2013
- ↑ The Business Journals, "How state governors rank on their job-growth record," June 27, 2013
- ↑ Tom Precious, The Buffalo News, "Cuomo taking to TV to sell his budget plan," January 23, 2013
- ↑ John A. DeFrancisco, press release, "Senate Republicans call on Governor Cuomo to remove utility tax surcharge extension from executive budget," February 5, 2013
- ↑ E.J. McMahon, Empire State Center for New York Policy, ""No new taxes"? Not so fast," January 31, 2013
- ↑ Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, "NY Rising: 2013-14 Executive Budget," January 22, 2013, p. 15
- ↑ E.J. McMahon, Albany Times Union, "A threat to pension solvency," January 29, 2013
- ↑ Joseph Spector, The Ithaca Journal, "DiNapoli raises concerns about Cuomo's pension plan," February 5, 2013
- ↑ Robert Steyer, Pensions & Investments, "NYSTRS taps Cheiron to analyze Gov. Cuomo pension proposal," February 14, 2013
- ↑ The New York Times, "Most states miss deadline to set up health exchange," December 14, 2012
- ↑ The New York Times, "Most states miss deadline to set up health exchange," December 14, 2012
- ↑ The Daily Times, "Governor Susana Martinez to tackle state-based health exchange," January 9, 2013
- ↑ Capitol Confidential, "Cuomo moves appointments office, knocks 'patronage'," October 22, 2012
- ↑ Seattle PI, "NY seals 1st state gun laws since Newtown massacre," January 15, 2013
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 23.4 23.5 23.6 23.7 Spitzer's Staff Misused Police, Report Finds by Danny Hakim, The New York Times, July 23, 2007
- ↑ 24.0 24.1 24.2 Cuomo: Spitzer aides used state police to try to damage Bruno by Cara Matthews, The Ithaca Journal, July 23, 2007
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 "With BC-NY--Bruno Flights" (Cuomo report excerpts) Newsday.com, July 23, 2007
- ↑ Cuomo criticizes Spitzer for using State Police to monitor Bruno by Tom Precious, The Buffalo News, July 23, 2007
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 Report: NY Governor's Office Leaked Data by Michael Gormley, The Guardian, July 23, 2007
- ↑ His Aura Faded Now, Spitzer Faces Bolder Enemies by Danny Hakim, The New York Times, July 23, 2007
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 Spitzer punishes aides after AG report by Melissa Mansfield, Newsday.com, July 23, 2007
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- ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2 Report: Governor's office compiled, leaked data on Bruno by Sally Goldenberg, Staten Island Advance, SILive.com, July 23, 2007
- ↑ http://www.nysun.com/article/58958 by Jacob Gershman, New York Sun, July 24, 2007
- ↑ AG report faults Spitzer aides in Bruno scheme by Jay Jochnowitz, Albany Times-Union, July 23, 2007
- ↑ Cuomo: School loan corruption widespread USA Today
- ↑ The First Casualty by Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Education, May 15, 2007
- ↑ Ars Technica article: "NY Attorney General: Facebook not 'safe' enough for minors"
- ↑ Room Eight "ACORN Endorses Andrew Cuomo for Attorney General" 29 May, 2006
- ↑ ACORN "Attorneys General Take Action: Real Leadership in Fighting Foreclosures" June 2008
- ↑ Business and Media Institute "CNBC's Cramer: New York AG Cuomo a 'Communist'" 7 Nov. 2007
- ↑ Unanswered Questions about Andrew Cuomo by Catherine Austin Fitts, FromTheWilderness.com
- ↑ 41.0 41.1 Huffington Post "Hillary Supporter Cuomo: Obama Tried To "Shuck And Jive" With Media" 10 Jan. 2008
- ↑ Politico, "Dept. of word choice" 10 Jan. 2008
- ↑ Slashdot "Submission: Verizon will cut off entire alt.* Usenet hierarchy" 15 June, 2008
- ↑ NewTeeVee "ISPs Shut Down Usenet to Save Children — and Cash" 11 June, 2008
- ↑ CNET News "N.Y. attorney general forces ISPs to curb Usenet access" 10 June, 2008
- ↑ New York Post, "If Hillary is running for prez, I'm out," April 29, 2013
- ↑ Yahoo! News, "N.Y. Governor Andrew Cuomo signs deal for 2014 book," April 30, 2013
- ↑ New York Times "Cuomo Wins Democrats' Backing in Primary Race for Attorney General" 31 May, 2006
- ↑ 49.0 49.1 New York State Board of Elections - 2006 Primary Election Results
- ↑ New York State Board of Elections - 2006 General Election Results
- ↑ National Review Online "Where the Son Doesn't Follow" 4 Sept. 2002
- ↑ CNN "Let a political connection be your umbrella?" 6 Sept. 2002
- ↑ Follow the Money, "Career fundraising for Andrew Cuomo," accessed May 21, 2013
- ↑ Follow the Money.org, "Home," accessed February 17, 2015
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It's a noticeable problem even if you don't know the statistics. But the statistics about obesity in Lenoir County — the most recent figures indicate 32 percent of adults and 26 percent of children ages 2 to 11 fall into that category — made this a health issue that caught the eye of a number of county agencies individually.
The 2012 community health assessment — a survey undertaken by the county health department every three years — identified obesity as a top health threat.
Lenoir Memorial Hospital, a partner in the assessment, confronted obesity in its ongoing programs to curb the incidence of diabetes and heart disease.
Concerned about nutrition, the Lenoir County Cooperative Extension Service was looking for a way to get fresh food into school cafeterias.
A pair of doctoral candidates sought out project ideas for their childhood obesity and health studies in Lenoir County.
One of them, Linden Thayer, pursuing doctoral studies in public health at the University of North Carolina, hosted a photo project with Lenoir County students that ran through March. While in Kinston, she noticed a spectrum of agencies wanted to affect change in Lenoir County's obesity rate — via youth.
"I was a catalyst to bring all these folks together in the same room who'd express separate interest in kids and obesity," Thayer said in a telephone interview this week. "Somewhere in there, the task force kicked off."
The Lenoir County Obesity Task Force — an alliance of county agencies working through the public school system — wants to combat childhood obesity through better nutrition. Working since January, it has launched two projects — a gardening program at Contentnea Savannah K-8 and a nutrition education program at Southeast Elementary — that are working independently toward the goal of growing healthier children.
"We were concerned about changing the nutrition and exercise in schools," said J. Mac Daughety, a county commissioner and chair of the task force.
Both programs are early in their development and some key details — how to measure their effectiveness, for instance, or how to ensure the funding needed to sustain them and others the task force hopes to spread through the school system — are yet to be worked out. The task force sees itself as a source of ideas and, as representatives of public agencies, a resource for implementation.
"What we do as a task force is introduce a concept," Daughety said. "So far we've had great success. It's better to take it one piece at a time."
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For instance, the gardening project — dubbed Project DIG, for Discover, Investigate and Grow — looked like it would work best at Contentnea-Savannah, the only K-8 school in the system. The idea was presented to CSS principal Frances Herring last spring.
"She embraced the project," Daughety said. "They took what we offered as a template."
In 16 raised beds sitting outside the K-5 wing of the school, lettuce, broccoli and cauliflower grow. A large row garden on the middle school side of the building has been plowed and the soil tested in anticipation of spring planting. Some of the raised beds were built as part of an Eagle Scout project; others, by a parent volunteer. The compost in them was donated by the Lenoir County Master Gardeners. The plants were donated by a nursery in Seven Springs. The row garden was plowed by a farmer who lives nearby.
The school system funds the position of Project DIG coordinator, but the program itself depends on grants, donations and volunteers.
"The task force actually has no funds," Lenoir County Schools Superintendent Steve Mazingo, a member, said, "but what you have is, sitting around the table, people who have all these resources that bring those to the table."
At Southeast Elementary, Lenoir Memorial Hospital is underwriting the Fuel for Success initiative, which introduces both students and parents to the essentials of good nutrition.
"Because we prioritized obesity as one of the issues, then we're very interested in working in a number of different ways to that on our action plans," Constance Hingle, the hospital's director of community programming, said. "One of them is to work with Southeast Elementary and the youth obesity task force to try to improve the health and wellness of our school children."
Lenoir Memorial also adds a physical activity portion to the task force through its connection with a Project Fit America partnership, a relationship that designed to bring fitness equipment and exercise classes to Southeast.
"It's just a really good fit," said Hengel, who is one of about 15 members on the task force.
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By connecting various funding resources to nutrition-related projects, the task force hopes ultimately to see a system-wide impact in the schools.
Pam Smith, director of nutrition for school system, has submitted a grant application for better equipment in cafeterias. The refrigeration systems have limited storage for fresh foods.
The county extension service has representatives in the group because it wants to decrease obesity through healthier food. It will serve as the agricultural component to the group.
"It all fits with what we're doing," Director Tammy Kelly said. "We brought to the table the agricultural facet to get healthy food in school."
That's easier said than done because of federal and state regulations concerning cafeteria food. Produce provided by farmers to cafeterias have to be certified as GAP (for Good Agricultural Practices), a process that can cost a farmer $1,000 a crop, Kelly said.
"I think we could take advantage of more local foods … if we could find a way around the GAP certification issue," Mazingo said.
The anti-obesity initiative is expected to expand a school at a time. Ideally, the task force wants each program to take flight and become self-sustaining before it moves to the next school.
"It may take more than one year to gather that research to see if there's an impact," Mazingo said. "We're in this for the long haul."
He said the task force will collaborate with Thayer to track the effects of Project DIG as early as year's end. Daughety said tracking will be more effective over the next five years, which is why the group started with young children.
"We're doing K-5 and K-8 to change the health habits, nutrition and exercise at a very early age," Daughety said. "We're hoping they will carry this forward in their life cycle."
Health agencies associated with the task force figure they can start looking at children's weight and physical behaviors when they start kindergarten and see how they change over the years.
The committee planned for Thayer to track the body mass index, fruit and vegetable consumption and physical activities of students — at least at Contentnea Savannah.
"It's still in the works," said Thayer.
The group is scheduled to meet Nov. 28 to discuss the evaluation process.
"We're not just trying to do a couple of things that we think might be fun and work," Mazingo said. "We're really trying to see if over some long period of time we can significantly impact what's happening."
No expected timetable has been established by the task force, but members across the board are anticipating noticeable results in body mass index and nutritional improvements in children by time they reach eighth grade if they start now.
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Whats with all the pink spots painted around IQ?
Whats with all the pink spots painted around IQ?
It has to do with the redesigning they are doing to the course. I heard that things were going to start on this very soon
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IQ is going to be redesigned very soon. MSD and the EPA has a plan to restore some wetlands and improve drainage in the park and the parking lot will be expanded. Work will probably start in Sep. and will be completed in about 2-3mos. I have the plans and can display them at the next meeting or at the NABC CV Open. The plan is that the Allstars Club will "adopt" IQ while the LDGC "adopts" CV. I will have the opportunity to have some input on the IQ design, and I expect that members of both clubs will work together on work days at both courses. It is important for both clubs to work together for the overall good of the sport. As you can tell, we have been concentrating our recent efforts on CV and the Fun Farm, getting ready for the tournament. I am going to try this weekend sometime to trim grass around the ditches and other areas on the course to dress it up a little. How do you like the benches on the holes at CV? Thank the scouts for their hard work, we have more projects in mind so stay tuned.
So, is it going to still be rec friendly or hard like CV where its not rec friendly at all
i heard it was going to be very easy, in keeping with the spirit of iroquois
I have seen the markings on the ground, too, but I have been wondering how the whole course is going to end up. Does anyone have a "blueprint" (for lack of ability to come up with a better word) that can show us what the new course is going to look like in comparison to how it looks now?
I'm a professional 120-foot putter, as long as I'm at Iroquois and as long as I'm on hole 14.
I can tell you from walking most of what is marked that it is pretty much a 100% change. All of the holes on the hill in the back are going sideways instead of up and down. From what i can tell most of the temp holes used during the All Stars tournament are there. Looks like it is going to be a tad bit harder to get your 2's but you can still get them. Your just gonna have to learn new shots, and there is nothing wrong with that. It will only make you a better player!
I wonder how the changes at the course will affect the GLO tournament Oct. 3rd and the Great Pumpkin Bowl Oct. 24th. I believe both tournaments are scheduled to be held at Iroquois.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves. Carl Sagan
I was just talking to John Allgeier earlier today and he made it sound like it's still gonna take some time before they can get a course layout that Metro Parks can agree with. Apparently the parks department has one idea in which lots of holes cross each other and they have like 5 holes going back and forth sideways across the hill where 6, 7, 10, and 12 are. Apparently the Allstars have a better idea that they have to get approved before they can get moving. John said he'd keep us updated here on the boards about when they need help to start rebuilding the course and everything.
I'm a professional 120-foot putter, as long as I'm at Iroquois and as long as I'm on hole 14.
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VANCEBORO – As the starting lineups took to the court Wednesday in the second round of the 3A state playoffs, there was one glaring difference – Hunt was big, really big.
The visitors then proceeded to knock down their first five 3-point attempts, two by 6-foot-9 center Daniel Westbrook, but the Eagles still led 19-15 after one quarter.
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"Coach G (Goehring) told us to just go out here and play our game," Cuthbertson said.
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Where Cuthbertson was on fire early, guard Demetres Abrams was late.
Abrams scored 25 points in the game, 15 in the fourth and final quarter.
"Demetres and I feed off each other and if he's scoring the way he was tonight, I just let him score and get the rebound in case he misses," Cuthbertson said.
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"We challenged the guys at halftime, absolutely we did," West Craven coach Bryan Goehring said.
"They turned up the defensive intensity in the second half and our seniors did not want to lose tonight. It wasn't just Josh and Demetres, but Javier Monk and Andrew Reid too."
Tyrone Brown continued his solid play, scoring 10 points, including a thunderous alley-oop from Abrams that nearly lifted the roof off Lorenzo Jones Gymnasium.
"My coaches and teammates just inspired me to play hard and hold nothing back," Brown said.
"I'm just excited to still be playing and we know it will get tougher. We have to play every game like it's a state championship game."
After the game, West Craven learned that it will have one more home game, due to county rival Havelock upsetting second-seeded Triton in Erwin.
"It's always very tough playing a team for a fourth time," Goehring said.
"We know each other inside and out and I expect we'll have a sold out crowd so it will be a crazy atmosphere."
The fourth edition of West Craven – Havelock will take place in Vanceboro Friday upon conclusion of the Eagles' girls' contest with Rocky Mount.
West Craven (74) – Josh Cuthbertson 33, Demetres Abrams 25, Tyrone Brown 10, Javier Monk 4, Alkeim Harley 2.
Hunt (61) – Kennan Tabron 22, Daniel Westbrook 18, Travon Davis 11, Dwanya Sutton 6, Justin Jefferson 2, Isaiah White 2.
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Gov. Chris Gregoire speaks in her office in Olympia in early December. Gregoire's legacy is not exactly what she had planned -- a devastating recession forced her to use all her skills as a negotiator and to rethink her goals.
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Governor Chris Gregoire says farewell after addressing the Department of Labor & Industries in Olympia, Dec. 4, 2012.
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Sen. Maria Cantwell, Christine Gregoire and Sen. Patty Murray join hands on stage at the Washington state Democratic Party on election night November 2, 2004 in Seattle. Eventually Gregoire was elected, and the trio became the first three women in a state to hold the top three elected positions.
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Gov. Chris Gregoire laughs during the beginning of a meeting with Attorney General Rob McKenna (right) in her office in Olympia, Dec. 4, 2012.
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For Halloween in 2005, Gov. Chris Gregoire dressed as Willy Wonka from "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."
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Gov. Chris Gregoire speaks with Everett mayor Ray Stephanson following a press conference in Everett in 2005. Officials announced the Naval Station Everett was not on the Defense Departments list of base closures.
She'd come to take a bow and thank them, the hundreds of employees seated in the room and watching on closed-circuit television, for their efforts in her eight years in office.
Before departing, an employee asked the question on everyone's mind: What's next? Are you going to work for President Barack Obama?
"I do find it fascinating," she began as her lips formed a smile, "that the coverage so far is that I'm on the short list for U.S. trade representative, ambassador to Canada, head of the Department of Commerce, the (U.S.) attorney general and head of the (Department of) Interior. Somehow that strikes me as saying I'm not well qualified for any one thing."
Laughter filled the room as Gregoire, never much for joke telling, successfully delivered this punch line.
Gregoire said beforehand she's not out looking for a job and hasn't been contacted by anyone in the Obama Administration. Right now, she anticipates getting a few improvement projects done on her Olympia home and doting over her first grandchild, a girl, born last month.
If the president did phone with an employment offer, the lifelong public servant figures it will be hard to turn down.
"Would you say, 'No, I'm busy'?"
Taking stock
Gregoire, Washington's 22nd governor and its second woman at the post, will leave behind a complicated legacy.
Historic events -- a 2004 election victory many residents thought she stole and the signing this year of a law legalizing gay marriage many voters tried to repeal -- serve as bookends for her tenure.
In between, there were a rash of special sessions to deal with budget deficits and a lack of serious administration scandals save the departure of a philandering Department of Corrections secretary. On her watch, four failing Steel Electric-class state ferries were yanked from service days before Thanksgiving in 2007 and Washington came up empty in the "Race to the Top" competition for federal aid for public schools in 2010.
There were natural disasters like the 2007 flooding of I-5 in Chehalis and a trove of human tragedy, including the slaying of four Lakewood police officers and the murder of Monroe corrections officer Jayme Biendl. And there were the military funerals of Washington residents killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
She will be credited for brokering deals many thought improbable if not impossible. Her first came in 2005 with a last-ditch rescue of the multi-billion dollar transportation improvement package and its 9.5-cent gas tax increase when it appeared all but dead in the state House.
In the ensuing years, her tenacity and talent in negotiating helped end decades of fighting over use of water from the Columbia River, averted a longshoremen strike at ports throughout the state, powered down the TransAlta coal plant, reformed the state's workers compensation system and, earlier this year, secured and preserved a budget deal between weary lawmakers in the midst of an all-night session.
"She's a great negotiator," said House Minority Leader Rep. Richard DeBolt, R-Chehalis. "History will show her to be a person who could bring the different sides together to get a deal done."
What most may recall of Gregoire's two terms is how the economy's boom and bust forced her onto a political course she never envisioned.
Soon after settling in, state tax collections soared to a record high, driven by an unprecedented surge in home sales.
Gregoire invested in public schools, colleges, health care, social services and environmental programs.
She teamed with majority Democrats in the House and Senate to fund voter-approved initiatives for teacher pay increases and shrinking class sizes. She pushed through a new Department of Early Learning and the Puget Sound Partnership. She seemed to be trying to check everything off the wish list of Democratic lawmakers.
In 2008, the economy ground to a halt. In the fall, the stock market crashed and the housing bubble burst. She won re-election then spent much of the second term undoing what she did in her first.
She proposed budgets she said she hated because they required her to pare programs, cut spending and lay off workers in nearly every corner of state government. She broke her pledge not to raise taxes to generate revenue for safety net programs. While she said they would be temporary, she is now suggesting lawmakers continue some of them to pay for underfunded public schools.
Along the way, Gregoire became just about the most conservative Democrat in the Capitol, to the pleasure of Republicans and frustration of her allies in education, health care and social services.
Critics who blasted her for overspending in the good times, didn't relent much when the cuts began.
"Go ahead and criticize," she said. "Over 50 percent of the money was spent on education. They were some of the best budgets higher ed had ever seen. We started the Department of Early Learning. The rest of the money was spent on corrections, all kids having health care and (fighting) child abuse neglect. Do I regret that? No."
That's not to say Gregoire is leaving office with a sense of accomplishment. She's not.
"It wasn't my agenda. I got totally distracted from what I set out to do," she said. "I hope history will reflect that I saw us through the worst times -- the worst recession since the Great Depression -- and that I did it with my head and my heart and I kept my values intact."
A rough beginning
Gregoire had little time to fashion an agenda before getting the keys to the governor's mansion.
The Nov. 2, 2004 election for Washington's governor was one for the history books involving three ballot counts and a court case. Republican Dino Rossi, a former state senator, won the initial two counts only to watch Gregoire, the state's three-term attorney general, emerge as the victor Dec. 30 following a hand count of nearly 3 million ballots.
She arrived to find a caustic environment enveloping the Capitol. Signs reading "Not my governor" could be seen in offices and talks of a re-vote persisted.
On the second day of the 2005 session, Republicans in the state House and Senate tried unsuccessfully to delay Gregoire's seating until a court could consider a legal challenge of the election.
The next day, Jan. 12, Gregoire delivered her inaugural address to a joint session of the two chambers. Some GOP members wouldn't go on the floor. Others did but then turned their backs on her as she spoke.
"Applauding today would be like a cow celebrating the good chow at the feed lot -- you know the slaughter's coming," Rep. Doug Ericksen, R-Ferndale, said then. Ericksen, who was House Republican floor leader, now serves in the state Senate.
Gregoire called it a grueling experience but she determined not to let the tension make her tentative.
"It's a mind thing. I wouldn't wish it on anybody," she said. "I figured if I'm here for four months or four years I'm going to do what I think is right, and went for it."
Republicans who didn't welcome her in 2005 came to respect her as one they could trust to be straightforward and fair.
"While I don't agree politically with everything Gov. Gregoire did, personally she is a very nice person," said Rep. Mike Armstrong, R-Wenatchee, who worked closely with her on transportation issues. "She worked hard for the state. I think Gregoire can leave office with her head held high."
A call to serve
Chris O'Grady was born in 1947 in Auburn and raised by a single mom who worked as a short-order cook.
A product of public schools, she earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Washington, attended law school at Gonzaga University then, inspired by the words of President John F. Kennedy, chose government service as a vocation.
"She believed in public service. It became part of her marrow," said Victor Moore, her first budget director and now executive director of the Washington State Investment Board. "She made me feel like what I was doing had value."
She worked for Republican Attorney General Slade Gorton then accepted an appointment as director of the Department of Ecology under Democratic Gov. Booth Gardner.
In 1992, she won the first of her three elections as the state's attorney general.
Midway through her second term, in 1997, she made her mark by taking a lead role in negotiating the $206 billion settlement between 46 states and major tobacco companies.
In 2003, she launched her campaign for governor. Soon after she learned she had breast cancer. She underwent surgery and remained in the race, which she won.
Gregoire, who often referred to herself as a "recovering lawyer," entered office with a pile of policy initiatives she wanted to pursue.
She proved intense and indefatigable in doing so the next eight years, according to her closest aides.
"I don't know any person that I've worked with who was more prepared for virtually everything. She did more homework than anybody I've ever seen," said Marty Brown, a senior adviser and now executive director of the state Board of Community and Technical Colleges.
Staff couldn't come unprepared to a meeting. To do so put them at risk of a stern glare they deemed the "The Look."
"I don't yell. Apparently I have some way with how I look at you with my eyebrows. They tell me when I do this they know, 'Uh oh,'" Gregoire said.
One thing Gregoire needed to learn -- and never quite mastered -- was how to meld her directness with the nuanced politics going on inside each of the four caucuses.
DeBolt came to appreciate Gregoire's style.
"She was the kind of governor that didn't stand on formality. She'd come to my office, sit down and say we need to talk," he said. "It took a long time to build a relationship. She's a friend. I'm going to miss her."
Solution-oriented by design, she could become flummoxed when lawmakers locked up on a subject and wouldn't move.
It happened in the push for a University of Washington branch campus in Snohomish County. She felt momentum growing behind a campus until the area's lawmakers and civic leaders couldn't agree where to build it and even hired consultants to undermine each other.
"I learned a lesson there. If the community can't unite, this place won't move," Gregoire said.
While Gregoire rarely shed her lawyerly demeanor in public, she loved a practical joke.
In a softball game pitting the governor's staff against those in the budget office, Gregoire began arguing with Moore, then head-butted him in the chest, knocking him to the ground.
Players on both sides gaped in horror until Gregoire and Moore couldn't keep a straight face at their prank.
"She really has a hilarious sense of humor," said retiring state Sen. Margarita Prentice, D-Renton. "She doesn't come across to the public that way. They never got to really know her."
An incomplete legacy
In her inaugural address in 2005, Gregoire said elected officials "have a special obligation to leave an even larger legacy of opportunity, prosperity and optimism" when they're done serving.
Nearly eight years later, she's unsure she's going to live up to those words.
"I could have said that at the end of the first term. I don't know if I can say that at the end of the second term," she said. "I feel there are a lot of reasons to be optimistic but, boy, it's hard after you've been through the worst recession in history to say this is a more optimistic time. We've seen ourselves through it and if Congress doesn't screw up, we're on our way."
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Recounting her way to victory
The Nov. 2, 2004 election for Washington's governor was one for the history books, involving three ballot counts and a court case. Republican Dino Rossi, a former state senator, won the initial two counts over Gregoire, a Democrat, and Ruth Bennett, a Libertarian. But Gregoire, the state's three-term attorney general, emerged as the victor Dec. 30 following a hand count of nearly 3 million ballots.
Here's a reminder of how the leader board changed with each count.
Nov. 2, 2004 -- initial tally of ballots
•Dino Rossi 1,371,414
•Christine Gregoire 1,371,153
•Ruth Bennett 63,346
Nov. 29 -- results from machine recount
•Dino Rossi 1,372,484
•Christine Gregoire 1,372,442
•Ruth Bennett 63,415
Dec. 30 -- official certified results following hand recount
•Christine Gregoire 1,373,361
•Dino Rossi 1,373,232
•Ruth Bennett 63,465
June 6, 2005 -- final results following actions by Chelan County Superior Court Judge John Bridges.
•Christine Gregoire 1,373,361
•Dino Rossi 1,373,228
•Ruth Bennett 63,464
Source: Secretary of State's office
The journey to gay marriage
Gov. Chris Gregoire says signing the law allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry is one of her proudest moments. It didn't come easy for her nor did it come quickly to her desk. Rather, Washington enacted a series of laws regarding gays and lesbians preceding this year's historic change in policy.
Here is what happened in Gregoire's tenure:
Jan. 31, 2006 -- Law signed banning discrimination based on sexual orientation.
April 21, 2007 -- Law signed legalizing and recognizing same-sex domestic partnerships registered with the state.
March 12, 2008 -- Law signed expanding rights of registered domestic partnerships.
May 18, 2009 -- Law signed granting domestic partnerships same rights and privileges under state law as married heterosexual couples with the exception of marriage.
Nov. 3, 2009 -- Voters approve Referendum 71, upholding the so-called "everything but marriage" law.
Feb. 13, 2012 -- Gregoire signs law legalizing marriage for same-sex couples.
Nov. 6 -- Voters approve Referendum 74 upholding the law.
Dec. 9 -- Gay and lesbian couples marry in ceremonies around the state.
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CINCINNATI – Matt Honchel drove in three runs in a 2-for-4 performance for the Miami baseball team, but Cincinnati scored eight unanswered runs to top the RedHawks 8-7 on Tuesday.
MU drops to 10-16 after its sixth-straight setback.
Miami's first four batters of the evening reached base to start the game. Steve Sada and Dan Walsh singled to start things off and John Crummy's single scored Sada to open the scoring. Gary Russo ripped a line drive to center that went off the glove of Ian Happ and plated two more runs to put the Red and White on top 3-0.
Honchel put the RedHawks on top 5-0 in the third inning when he sliced a line drive to left field with two runners aboard. Walsh and Russo, who singled and walked earlier in the frame, came around to score.
Charles Zubrod settled into a groove on the mound, retiring eight in a row until hitting Russell Clark with two down in the bottom of the fourth. Tommy Ricciardi erased him on the very next pitch by gunning Clark out at first base to end the frame.
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Zubrod worked the first 5.1 innings, carrying a shutout into the sixth. The senior did not factor in the decision and allowed five runs (four earned) on four hits while striking out three batters and walking three more. Schwartz (1-4) came within two outs of notching a nine-out save, which would have been the first of his career. He struck out two batters and allowed two runs on two hits in 2.1 innings of work.
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