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Growing Up Cuomo: Not Easy Being Mario's Kid

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 3/15/21

In 2014, as Andrew Cuomo sought re-election for the first time, the Inner Circle's script-committee chairman, Larry Sutton, picked out a short song for Mickey Carroll, a venerable member of the organization, as ex-Gov. Mario Cuomo making a pithy comment on his son.

He composed a parody that Mickey, who had covered the elder Cuomo as a reporter for both The Times and Newsday, sang, to the tune of "That's Amore": "Spoil the child, spare the rod and you raise a stunod/ That's my Andrew."

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