NYC Press Breaks News: Mario Cuomo Dead At 82

Just before 8pmEST, Time Warner’s NY1 local cable news station and the New York Daily News reported that former New York governor Mario Cuomo had died at 82, citing sources close to the Cuomo family.

CNN broke the story nationally at 8:15pmEST citing Cuomo’s son, CNN “New Day” co-host Chris Cuomo, as their source.

Cuomo served three terms as governor of New York, from 1982 to 1993. In the New York Times obituary, Adam Nagourney writes that Cuomo

commanded the attention of the country with a compelling public presence, a forceful defense of liberalism and his exhaustive ruminations about whether to run for president.

Nagourney also cites Cuomo as the leading voice challenging the Reagan era:

In an era when liberal thought was increasingly discredited, Mr. Cuomo, a man of large intellect and often unrestrained personality, celebrated it, challenging Ronald Reagan at the height of his presidency with an expansive and affirmative view of government and a message of compassion, tinged by the Roman Catholicism that was central to Mr. Cuomo’s identity.

Cuomo’s keynote address before the 1984 Democratic Convention remains one of the broadcast era’s greatest espousals of liberalism: “Mr. President, you ought to know that this nation is more a ‘tale of two cities’ than it is just a ‘shining city on a hill.’ ”

Earlier today, his son, Governor Andrew Cuomo, spoke of him following his second term inauguration in New York City:

“As my father said so well, we are the family of New York, he called it, a collection of the most daring, bold, accepting people from every country on the globe,” Mr. Cuomo said, adding, “And we will lead the nation by our example once again.”

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