to be working with bob sullivan his storied poster but officially on the official side was working in the statistics office, with dick story, a former reporter in new york city martyan, to have tim russert walk into the room. we all died because tim russert just walked into the room. i can remember in 1986 when i was elected to the state assembly, how support i mario cuomo was to me as a young man recommending me to travel around the world with acypl, to come here to washington to get my feet wet as well, to get that washington sense. i remember being on the second floor in 1988 in the blue room, it's known as the blue room where the governor would give his budgets, anticipating his delving into, diving into the 1988 presidential elections, only to have my heart broken when mario cuomo said he would not run in that election. mario cuomo was tough, yet had one of the biggest hearts i have ever come to know. he had also gone to law school, my uncle walter, and there was an intimacy between the crowleys and the cuomo family in queens family politics one that exists to this day with his son andrew as governor and my family as well. mario cuomo always did the right thi