Sunday, Jan. 23, 2005

So Much For That Family Reunion

By Sora Song

Estranged brothers-in-law Andrew Cuomo and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may run against each other for attorney general of New York in 2006

NAME: Andrew Cuomo

OCCUPATION: Former federal Housing Secretary

FAMOUS DAD: Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo

PUBLIC HUMILIATION: Cuckolded by wife Kerry Kennedy, R.F.K. Jr.'s sister, in 2003

PET ISSUES: "Financial integrity, reforming state government, antidiscrimination, the environment."

ON R.F.K. JR.: "I don't think it's especially relevant."

NAME: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

OCCUPATION: Environmental lawyer and advocate

FAMOUS DAD: Slain U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy

PUBLIC HUMILIATION: Arrested for heroin possession in 1983

PET ISSUES: "A political system that has not permitted the discussion of environmental issues ... and the corrosive impact of corporate power on American democracy."

ON CUOMO: "It's irrelevant."