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To: JDN who wrote (130344)	3/5/2001 4:54:57 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769667

Boy with all the loyalty that the clinton's have shown to others is it not shocking to see this happening. Let me see, I think I have a dead aaa battery. hmmmm can't get a shock out of it. But my aaa was a loyal battery for many new york minutes. McCall vs Cuomo a Conundrum for Hillary After making Hillary Clinton America's first first lady to win elective office, New York Democrats face another watershed election choice in 2002. Will they tap former governor Mario Cuomo's son Andrew or current state comptroller Carl McCall to battle two-term incumbent governor George Pataki? The choice could be particularly problematic for Sen. Clinton. She depended on black Democrats for her own electoral margin of victory. But Andrew Cuomo was Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in her husband's administration and is supposedly one of the Democratic Party's rising liberal stars. Thursday night, McCall, whose bid makes him the first African-American to seek New York's highest office, offered some insights into what could become a very nasty primary fight. In an interview with WABC Talk Radio's Steve Malzberg, McCall made it clear that his own moderate credentials weren't going to keep him from laying claim to the state's black vote. "My own community - and all of us have our own communities - has been the most faithful community in terms of supporting the Democratic Party," he told Malzberg. "So my community now says, 'Look, it's time for you to do this, you should to run for governor.' And, you know, they are expecting the Democratic Party, and people who represent that party, particularly the leadership, to support me." Harlem Democrat Charles Rangel, who first suggested that Hillary run for Senate in New York in 1999, has already weighed in on McCall. "Your problem is that your daddy wasn't governor," Malzberg quoted Rangel as saying - an extraordinary dig for any New York Democrat to make at junior Cuomo's expense. Another problem for Hillary: McCall didn't sound particularly timid when it came to the subject of her husband's controversial pardon of fugitive billionaire Marc Rich. "Some of [Bill Clinton's] moral judgments have been nothing to be proud of," he told Malzberg. "And this pardon, the best way to describe it, it's unpardonable." McCall said he wholeheartedly supports Congress' Pardongate investigations. "Let's look at this. Let's see if there's any criminality, if there were any payoffs." Cuomo Jr. has stayed on the sidelines during the Pardongate imbroglio and still leads in the polls by a substantial margin. But that may not be much help to the wife of "America's first black president," should she decide not to support Carl McCall. tom watson tosiwmee