Mario Cuomo Dead At 82 - First Italian Governor Of New York State

[Selene]

A man of contradictions who enjoyed Socratic arguments with himself, Mr. Cuomo seemed to disdain politics even as he embraced it. “What an ugly business this is,” he liked to say. Yet he reveled in it, proving himself an uncommonly skilled politician and sometimes a ruthless one.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/02/nyregion/mario-cuomo-new-york-governor-and-liberal-beacon-dies-at-82.html?emc=edit_na_20150101&nlid=53564225&_r=0

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[BaalChatzaf]

A man of contradictions who enjoyed Socratic arguments with himself, Mr. Cuomo seemed to disdain politics even as he embraced it. “What an ugly business this is,” he liked to say. Yet he reveled in it, proving himself an uncommonly skilled politician and sometimes a ruthless one.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/02/nyregion/mario-cuomo-new-york-governor-and-liberal-beacon-dies-at-82.html?emc=edit_na_20150101&nlid=53564225&_r=0

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Was he "connected"?

[Selene]

A man of contradictions who enjoyed Socratic arguments with himself, Mr. Cuomo seemed to disdain politics even as he embraced it. “What an ugly business this is,” he liked to say. Yet he reveled in it, proving himself an uncommonly skilled politician and sometimes a ruthless one.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/02/nyregion/mario-cuomo-new-york-governor-and-liberal-beacon-dies-at-82.html?emc=edit_na_20150101&nlid=53564225&_r=0

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Was he "connected"?

Bob:

Hmm, does that mean I can ask you about a Jewish stereotype?

At any rate, not that I am aware of. Came from humble roots in Queens. Pretty good ballplayer. Signed a contract with Pittsburgh minor league system as an outfielder.

However, as the "Hamlet on the Hudson" opined, "I couldn't hit a curve ball."

Extreme liberal. However, you could have an intelligent argument with him.

I personally rejected his approach to the infamous 108th Street project in Queens right near the World Fair site.

Forest Hills Diary

The Book of the Week is “Forest Hills Diary” by Mario Cuomo, published in 1974. In 1972, New York City Mayor John Lindsay chose Mario Cuomo to embark on a fact-finding mission to collect public opinion data on a proposed low-income housing project on 108th Street in Forest Hills near Corona, Queens, to consist of African American tenants, three towers of 24 stories each.

Now, I was part of the administration and a Community School Board member of one of the districts that abutted this abortion of marxist touchy feely stupidity.

There was much emotionally charged public debate due to the very nature of the undertaking (housing projects in general, have a bad reputation– for crime, for bringing down property values, etc.). Cuomo could have proposed reducing the planned apartment sizes to that of studios or 1 bedrooms– a compromise in order to push the project through. Regardless, he could not please anyone because Forest Hills residents were against the project altogether, while African Americans wanted apartments of at least 2 bedrooms.

This, by the way, was a perfect opportunity for the virgin Libertarian Party to provide a free market solution to this aggressive misuse of government power. However, there was no will to stand out at that point despite my prodings.

Cuomo was aware of the nexus between "government housing projects" and crime, both in the Bron

Another option was to make one of the three towers a “Mitchell-Lama” which would allow tax breaks, but reduce the number of low-income units, and reserve 40% of the units for the elderly. The reason for favoring the elderly was to minimize the public sentiment that the apartments would be crime-ridden. Cuomo visited projects in the Bronx and had seen this phenomenon himself.

The Jewish neighborhood of Crown Heights had gone downhill due to low-income housing. The African Americans with whom Cuomo spoke were against the project. One black leader admitted to him in confidence that a way to spur upward mobility among African Americans was to have a mix of middle-income and low-income tenants.

Even then there were folks within his camp that knew the effective path to take and he did not take it because of the "agenda."

http://educationanddeconstruction.com/?p=77

Good article.

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[Selene]

And it was the last housing project built in NY City, according to this:

Anonymous Nominator

Located in the hotly contested NYC Housing Development, built in 1975, and where Mario Cuomo launched his career. The Community House was created to bridge the differences between the existing primarily white Jewish community and the diverse NYC Housing residents.

Yvette Dilwarth

Created to ease tensions between the primarily white Jewish community and the incoming, diverse NYC Housing residents. This project was the last public housing complex built in NYC and became one of the few NYC Housing Cooperatives.

The key point is that it was a failure. Most inner city housing projects were absolute failures.

Think Cortland and the intentions behind its construction.

Roark loved the problem of scale and cost which had to be solved to build a public housing project.

Hell we should have been giving out copies of The Fountainhead at all the really hostile public hearings that were held.

http://www.placematters.net/node/1189

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[BaalChatzaf]

A man of contradictions who enjoyed Socratic arguments with himself, Mr. Cuomo seemed to disdain politics even as he embraced it. “What an ugly business this is,” he liked to say. Yet he reveled in it, proving himself an uncommonly skilled politician and sometimes a ruthless one.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/02/nyregion/mario-cuomo-new-york-governor-and-liberal-beacon-dies-at-82.html?emc=edit_na_20150101&nlid=53564225&_r=0

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Was he "connected"?

Bob:

Hmm, does that mean I can ask you about a Jewish stereotype?

Of course you can

[Selene]

Bob:

Hmm, does that mean I can ask you about a Jewish stereotype?

Of course you can

That was a trope.

You imply something and then do not say it, e.g., I could mention his arrest for soliciting an underage girl in Ohio, however, let's stick to the issues.

4.4 Tropes and Semantics

That language furnishes the trope theorist with solid reasons for thinking that there are tropes has been indicated by a number of trope theorists and it has also been forcefully argued, especially by Friederike Moltmann in a number of papers (see also Mertz 1996: 3–6). Taking Mulligan et al. 1984 as her point of departure, Moltmann argues that natural language contains a number of phenomena whose semantic treatment is best spelled out in terms of an ontology that includes tropes.

Nominalizations, first, may seem to point in the opposite direction. For, in the classical discussion of properties, the nominalization of predicates such as is wise into nouns fit to refer, has been taken to count in favor of universal realism. A sub-class of nominalizations—such as John's wisdom—can, however, be taken to speak in favor of the existence of tropes. This is the sort of nominalizations which, as Moltmann puts it, “introduce ‘new’ objects, but only partially characterize them” (2007: 363). That these sorts of nominalizations refer to tropes rather than to states of affairs, she argues, can be seen once we consider the vast range of adjectival modifiers they allow for, modifiers only tropes and not states of affairs can be the recipients of (see especially Moltmann 2009: 62–63; see also Moltmann 2003).

Bare demonstratives, next, especially as they occur in so-called identificational sentences, provide another reason for thinking that tropes exist (Moltmann 2013). In combination with the preposition like—as in Turquoise looks like that—they straightforwardly refer to tropes. But even in cases where they arguably do not refer to tropes, tropes nevertheless contribute to the semantics of sentences in which they figure. In particular, tropes contribute to the meaning of so-called identificational sentences like ‘This is Mary’ or ‘That is a beautiful woman’. These are no ordinary identity statements. What makes them stand out is the exceptional neutrality of the demonstratives in subject position. According to Moltmann, these sentences are best understood in such a way that the bare demonstratives that figure in them do not refer to individuals (like Mary), but rather to perceptual features (tropes) in the situation at hand (a view that depends on taking tropes as the objects of perception, see section 4.3). Identificational sentences, she claims, involve precisely the identification of a bearer of a trope via the denotation (if not reference) of a (perceptual) trope.

Comparatives—like John is happier than Mary—finally, are according to the received view, such that they refer to abstract objects that form a total ordering (so-called degrees). According to Moltmann, a better way to understand these sorts of sentences is with reference to tropes. John is happier than Mary should hence be understood as John's happiness exceeds Mary's happiness. This view is according to Moltmann preferable to the standard view, because tropes are easier to live with than “abstract, rarely explicit entities such as degrees or sets of degrees” (Moltmann 2009: 64)

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/tropes/