If there’s one American celebrity who’s been the most burnt out lately, who is it? It’s probably none other than New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo.
The Democrat, who made a big splash in the 2020 New York State campaign against the Epidemic, is considered one of the favorites to represent the Democratic Party in the 2024 presidential election if Biden does not seek re-election.
However, the “hero” and Democratic Party “hopeful” has recently been accused by several women of sexual harassment.
The allegations of sexual harassment are not the biggest headache for Cuomo.
As I write this article (March 3), in addition to Vice President Kamala Harris, who has been called a spokesperson for women who have been sexually assaulted, who is still watching and “silent”, Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton and other Democratic Party leaders have spoken out, demanding a thorough investigation into the truth of the sexual harassment case against Cuomo and giving an answer to his accusers.
Even Andrew Cuomo’s own brother, CNN host Chris Cuomo, added fuel to his brother’s fire on his own show – in the face of criticism from all sides, especially the left-wing Americans who are CNN’s hard-core viewers, Chris Cuomo did not choose to remain silent or to speak out. Instead of choosing to remain silent or to “kill his brother”, Chris Cuomo publicly claimed on CNN: “I’m sorry, I can’t cover this (Andrew Cuomo’s sex scandal), he’s my brother.”
The U.S. left- and right-wing media have been “firing on all cylinders” over the Como sexual harassment story, with CNN reporting from the left and Fox News reporting from the right
However, the “kiss-and-tell” stash has not only angered its audience, but also brought no positive results to Andrew Cuomo himself, instead, the public has been riled up to direct their anger at the Cuomo Family.
From “hero” to “sexual harasser”? These two concepts are not enough to cover the entirety of Andrew Cuomo and his family.
In fact, if you look at the history of “political families” in the United States, it would be difficult to find a more complicated family than the Como family. “Italians,” “political events,” “mobsters,” or “mobsters who want to get rid of them.” …… is a series of “The Four Seas Brothers”, a series of numerous labels projected on the “King of New York” and his family, who have been in control of New York State for two generations.
I. “Italians”
Como family is one of the famous political families in the United States, but, compared with the real “political family” like the Kennedy family and the Bush family, the Como family’s background is much shallower.
Unlike JFK and Bush Sr. who had their fathers as their “base”, the Como family was a grocery store owner in Queens, New York City until two generations ago, and its “political family” identity really began with Andrew Como and Chris Como’s father, former New York State Governor Mario Como.
Mario Cuomo (Photo/Wikipedia)
Unlike JFK and George Bush Sr. who were “rich kids” + “official kids”, Mario Cuomo himself is an “inspirational model”.
As a descendant of Italian immigrants, Mario Como grew up in a small grocery store in Queens, New York, and earned enough money to pay for his college tuition and a wedding ring for his wife by playing baseball. After an injury forced him to end his baseball career, Mario Como was able to earn a bunch of scholarships through hard work and academic excellence, and eventually became an outstanding graduate of his alma mater, St. John’s University School of Law, and entered the legal profession… …
Seems like an inspiring story? Don’t worry, Comeau Sr.’s Life didn’t go so well.
As an outstanding graduate of St. John’s University School of Law, with a thick resume and a bunch of scholarships, Mario Como was rejected about …… fifty times in a row when he sought a job as a lawyer. The reason for this was not complicated, because “Como” was an Italian surname that was on the verge of proliferation.
I have already mentioned the discrimination against Italian-Americans in my article “The American Dream of the Century: Anti-Italianism, the Fathers and the History of Italian-Americans’ Artistic Turnaround”. “. Similar to the Time of the Oscar-winning film “Green Book,” Mario Cuomo was “looking for a job” in 1956, a time when discrimination against Italian-Americans was at its worst in the United States.
Of course, not all Italian-Americans were innocent, especially those in New York, who were more or less gang-related, and it didn’t seem too much to ask that the law firm that took legal issues most seriously turn away such an “Italian”. Not to mention, Mario Como graduated just a year after the most famous Italian gangland fight in New York history, when the “King of the New York Underground” and Italian-American gang leader Albert Anatasia was beaten to death in broad daylight (allegedly at the behest of another New York gang leader, Carlo Gambino ).
The two Italian-born mob bosses who influenced Mario Como’s job search, Albert Anastasia (top) and Carlo Gambino (bottom)
II. “The Mafia”
As a freshly graduated Italian “kid”, and in an era when the Italian mob was at its peak, it was not so hard to accept that Mario Como in 1956 was marked as an “Italian”. What was really hard for Mario Como and the Como family to accept were the “hats” associated with the “Mafia”.
It is not difficult to understand Mario Como’s hatred of the Mafia, not to mention the fact that when he was a child, he saw his Parents, who owned a grocery store, being blocked by the mob to collect protection money, but a young man from a small grocery store family, who was interviewed by fifty law firms in a row, just because of his Italian surname and the mob of Italian origin, was a difficult thing to accept. It seems that because of this unpleasant experience, Mario Como always refused to establish any connection with the Mafia.
Since his political career, Mario Como has tried to eliminate the negative impact of the word “Mafia” on himself and on all people of Italian origin by various actions. For example, he fought the mob with such ferocity that it was rumored that Mario Como had “mob skeletons” in his closet; “built the largest number of prisons in New York history” to house mobsters; and insisted that journalists not use the word “Mafia. “Mafia” because it “represents a stereotype of people of Italian descent” ……, etc. Mario Cuomo even refused for a long time to watch one of the greatest works in the history of Hollywood cinema, “The Godfather”.
But even so, in 1992, 36 years after the “50 rejections” incident, Mario Cuomo, who had served nine years as governor of New York, had done well in office, and had built up an unprecedented reputation within the Democratic Party, was presented with a “Mafia hoodlums” hat by his biggest rival in the Democratic Party, Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas, when he tried to run for the presidency.
The “hat” stung Cuomo so much that Clinton later tried to compensate Cuomo by nominating him as his vice president [17] and Supreme Court justice, but Cuomo refused to do so.
However, although Mario Cuomo was so aggressive in fighting the mob, clearing himself of any ties to the mob, and even nearly assassinated by the Sicilian mob, were he and his family really so innocent and unconnected to the Italian-born mob?
Not really.
Mario Como’s longtime political ally Bill Fogacci was a member of the Genoese mob, and Anthony Scotto, a “master racketeer” who belonged to the Gambino family, also contributed to poor Como’s campaign (he paid $50,000 in political contributions to Mario Como’s campaign in 1977).
Mario Cuomo’s mob allies, center left, Bill Fugach [22]; right, Anthony Scotto (Photo/WireImage, Newsday)
III. “The Revolt of JFK’s Son-in-Law”
The story of Andrew Cuomo, the “son of a father”, is far less fascinating than that of his father, who started with nothing and had a legendary career.
Although he claimed in an interview that “I am an independent person”, Andrew Cuomo’s life story is basically the “classic story” of how a second-generation American official relies on his father’s shade and soars all the way to the top, which is really tedious.
Unlike Mario Cuomo, who “played baseball to buy a wedding ring”, “finished law school on a scholarship” and “was rejected 50 times for a job”, Andrew Cuomo’s life was almost smooth and smooth.
In 1982, fresh out of law school, Andrew Cuomo was appointed by his father as a member of his gubernatorial campaign team, and after his father was elected governor of New York State, Andrew Cuomo was appointed by his father as his policy advisor.
Although Andrew Cuomo’s annual salary was only $1 when he was the state’s policy advisor, he seemed very “high-minded” on the issue of money, but the author, who is also a 25-year-old law graduate, really does not know what kind of consulting services the 25-year-old graduate can provide to the governor, who has worked his way up from the bottom and is a lawyer himself.
Even the “mafia scoundrel” incident, which broke Mario Cuomo’s heart, became a doorstop for Andrew Cuomo to rise to greatness.
After unsuccessfully inviting Mario Cuomo to serve as vice president and supreme court justice, Clinton was still unwilling to give up the great influence of Mario Cuomo, the “Hamlet of Hudson”. Andrew Cuomo, who at the time was still serving on the New York City Homeless Commission, where his main job was to distribute medication, vocational training and provide small shelters for the homeless, was promoted to Deputy Secretary of the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Not surprisingly, four years later, Andrew Cuomo was promoted to Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), achieving one of the brightest “Gold medals” of his life and laying a solid foundation for his subsequent run for Governor of New York at the federal level.
Andrew Cuomo as Federal Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (Photo/Wikipedia)
If there is any interesting highlight in Andrew Cuomo’s dull life, it is probably his rebellion against the Kennedy family’s “family tradition” as the “Kennedy son-in-law”. The “Kennedy son-in-law” rebelled against the “family tradition” of the Kennedy family.
Unlike his parents’ school love, Andrew Cuomo married eight years after he left school, to Kerry Kennedy, the niece of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy and daughter of former U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
Andrew Cuomo and Kerry Kennedy (Photo credit: Bettmann/CORBIS)
Many Americans believe that Cuomo’s Marriage to Kennedy was an outright political marriage, and Andrew Cuomo’s many post-marriage demeanors seem to bear this out.
For example, Kerry Kennedy did not drop the “Kennedy” from her name after her marriage, but changed it to Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, which is an unbelievable thing in Western countries where it is as normal as eating and drinking water for a wife to take her husband’s name. Mountbatten-Windsor) can enjoy the same treatment, and even such as Margaret Thatcher (formerly Margaret Roberts), Angela Merkel (formerly Angela Casnall), Nancy Pelosi (formerly Nancy de Alessandro) and other female political powerhouse, also after marriage, completely erased the ancestral surname and crowned the husband’s surname.
In addition, Andrew Cuomo and Kerry Kennedy’s three children were given the surname “Kennedy Cuomo”. This was seen as a sign that Andrew Cuomo wanted to maximize the political use of the surname “Kennedy”.
However, the political marriage of Andrew Cuomo and Kerry Kennedy has some “highlights”, that is, Cuomo “bravely” rejected the “good tradition” of the Kennedy family “to break up and still be friends “The “good tradition” of the Kennedy family.
According to Vanity Fair magazine [25], the Kennedys have been so “hospitable” that all of the Kennedys’ exes, including those who have had substantial relationships, can continue to surround the Kennedys after they marry. “You can be friends even after you break up.”
Andrew Cuomo is the first son-in-law in the history of the Kennedy family who dared to say no to this “family tradition” of the Kennedy family, which means that Kerry Kennedy can not have any ex-boyfriends around after marriage, even those who have been identified by the Kennedy family as “relatives This means that Kerry Kennedy can’t have any ex-boyfriends around her after her marriage, even those who have been recognized as “family” by the Kennedy family.
Comeau’s “dictatorship” has exacerbated the tensions he has been having with the Kennedys and is considered one of the major reasons for the dissolution of his marriage to Kerry Kennedy.
As to why Andrew Cuomo was so determined to let his wife and ex-boyfriends break up even at the risk of offending his father-in-law’s family, many people at the time thought that this came from Andrew Cuomo’s “traditional feelings” as an Italian man. However, this speculation was soon hit by Andrew Cuomo himself – after divorcing Kerry Kennedy, Andrew Cuomo quickly began dating Food show host Sandra Lee, and the two broke up in 2019, but still “maintain a close relationship “
It seems that Andrew Cuomo’s war against Kerry Kennedy’s ex-boyfriends and even the Kennedy family may not be a traditional sentiment of any Italian man, but purely a case of “only allowing the state officials to set fire to the people not to light the lamp”.
Andrew Cuomo and Sandra Lee (Photo/Observer)
Andrew Cuomo’s relationship with the mob is much worse than his old man’s. If Mario Como’s mob network is limited to a few traditional Italian mobsters, Andrew Como has “mob friends everywhere.
At the end of 2020, Andrew Cuomo’s best friend, New York local union leader James Cahill, was “caught in the crossfire”. This man, a long-time friend and political ally of Andrew Cuomo, had close ties with the Gambino family (Italian mob), the Coonan family (Irish mob) and even the new Serbian mob boss, Miletta Mirjanic!
James Cahill and Andrew Cuomo embrace
IV. “Children who do not love their father’s shade”
However, Andrew Cuomo, the “son of his father”, is actually a complete and utter alternative in his family.
Unlike Andrew Cuomo, who used his “father’s shade” to the extreme, the other four children of the Cuomo family did not jump upward on Mario Cuomo’s “giant shoulders”. On the contrary, with the exception of Madeleine Comeau, who married early, the other three “Comeaux” inherited Mario Comeau’s traditional Italian-American spirit of enterprise and struggle (rather than his political legacy) and made their own “fortunes”.
In the Como family, in addition to Andrew Como, the most “notorious” career is of course the “pro-delegate” CNN host Chris Como.
Chris Cuomo’s early experience is somewhat similar to his older brother’s. After receiving his undergraduate and J.D. degrees from Yale University and Fordham University, and being admitted to practice law, it seemed logical that Chris Cuomo’s life trajectory should enter the “lawyer-politics” “road”. “The next Jeb Bush.
However, Chris Cuomo did not take this “normal path”, but chose to become an investigative journalist. During his career in the media industry, Chris Cuomo has hosted and reported on the Tyler Clemens school bullying case, the BMW “Engine Gate” incident, the University of Virginia shooting, the Hurricane Katrina disaster, the Minneapolis bridge collapse and a series of other major events.
I don’t know if he thinks that as the son of Mario Cuomo, the difficulties he faced in his practice are still not big enough, but Chris Cuomo even thought of raising the difficulty level for himself. Not only did he go to Iraq to get first-hand information and get hit by a roadside bomb, but Chris Cuomo, the “son of Mario Cuomo, the old Democrat,” started his media career with Fox News, a right-wing media outlet that would not stop until it disgusted the Democrats!
Chris Cuomo, who was hit by a roadside bomb while traveling to Iraq (Photo/Newday)
With such a “self-inflicted” experience, it is understandable that Chris Cuomo was furious when he was dubbed “Fredo” by a journalist who criticized him.
In the eyes of the world, Chris Cuomo’s public outburst was an attempt to clear himself of any possible ties to the Italian mob and to dispel the stereotype of Italian descent. The company’s main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers. Michael”.
In addition to Chris Cuomo, the two daughters of the Cuomo family did not take advantage of their father’s “huge back”, but embarked on the traditional “American Dream” path, relying on learning and research to open up their own business.
Margaret Comeau, the eldest daughter of the Comeau family, is a doctor who has long been dedicated to the diagnosis and research of cancer, AIDS and other “incurable diseases” and has published the best-selling book “A World Without Cancer”; while the second daughter, Maria Comeau, is a documentary filmmaker whose documentary “The Invisible War” was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Feature Film. The second daughter, Maria Como, is a documentary filmmaker whose documentary The Invisible War was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
The work of the two “Comeau daughters”, A World Without Cancer (left) and The Invisible War (right)
V. Conclusion
As of the date of this article, the sexual harassment of Andrew Cuomo has not yet subsided, and the entire Cuomo family, including Chris Cuomo, has not yet spoken out about it.
However, just from the perspective of his upbringing, it is not surprising that Andrew Cuomo, a wealthy young man who spent the first half of his life “saying no” and without any setbacks, was able to make a series of interviews that clearly implied sexual harassment by power bullying.
The behavior of Chris Cuomo and the entire Cuomo family in not expressing their views on this is not difficult to understand, after all, as traditional Italian-Americans who struggled on their own or even deliberately made it more difficult, the other members of the Cuomo family really did not give up their own hard-fought career, for the “firstborn” who absorbed all the blessings of his father The other members of the Como family have no reason to give up their own hard-fought careers and force themselves on behalf of the “firstborn” who has absorbed all of his father’s blessings.
The history of the Como family’s “four brothers”, like the history of modern Italian-American struggle in the United States, is full of two sides, one is a respectable personal struggle, the other is in the shelter of the father’s shade to do whatever they want, and finally at a specific time to merge and exchange, creating a “kissing The final exchange of ideas at a particular time creates a comedic effect of “kissing and hiding”.
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