Andrew Cuomo: “He [Mario Cuomo] created over 500,000 jobs.”

“I worked to bring Amazon to bring manufacturing companies, to bring companies from Israel here to bring yogurt manufacturing upstate to help the dairy farmers sell the milk to the yogurt companies. Because you want to create jobs, you want to create opportunity. He [Mario Cuomo] created over 500,000 jobs. He had so many firsts. He appointed the first woman, first black and first Hispanic to the Court of Appeals, all firsts.” (00:22–10:25)

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