RYE BROOK, N.Y. – Andrew Cuomo accepted the Democratic nomination to run for governor with a fiery call to renew the party and reform state government, while Republicans started a high-volume attack calling him “Prince Andrew” and saying he let Albany slip into a “culture of corruption.”
Attorney General Cuomo accepts the nomination for governor yesterday during the Democratic Committee State Convention in Rye Brook.
AP / Mary Altaffer
Invoking the names of Democratic presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson and Bill Clinton along with New York governors Hugh Carey and Mario Cuomo, his father, Mr. Cuomo made a loud call to restore the Democratic party, which now controls all statewide offices and the Senate and Assembly majorities.
