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"                      <p class=\"imgtitle\">Cuomo</p>           NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo easily defeated Republican Carl Paladino to become the state's next governor.<br /><br />Cuomo was projected the winner by The Associated Press shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday over the Buffalo real estate developer in what could be considered a nasty gubernatorial race.<br /><br />The heavily favored Cuomo will take the office his father, Mario Cuomo, occupied for three terms, from 1983-1994.<br /><br />Cuomo ran a relatively quiet and cautious campaign compared to Paladino, who committed a series of gaffes, including assailing a New York Post editor for the newspaper's coverage of the daughter he fathered a decade ago with another woman, threatening the man if he sent any more \"goons\" to her house. Read more <a href=\"http://www.legalnewsline.com/news/228949-paladino-threatens-post-editor\" class=\"copy\">here</a>.<br /><br />Among Paladino's other campaign blunders: forwarding racist and sexually offensive e-mails and anti-gay rants, and alleging his opponent had cheated on his ex-wife.<br /><br />Cuomo, a graduate of Fordham University in the Bronx and Albany Law School, is the father of three daughters, Mariah, Cara and Michaela.<br /><br /><em>From Legal Newsline: Reach Jessica Karmasek by e-mail at jessica@legalnewsline.com.</em>"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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