Cuomo ‘The Contender’ Awaits Fate in New Biography: Hoelterhoff

Michael Shnayerson’s “The Contender” opens with a highly entertaining account of how Andrew Cuomo, Democratic governor of New York, convinced a few squirming senators from both sides of the aisle that they had been put on this earth in Albany in 2011 to pass a marriage equality bill.

Two previous votes had failed, so it’s quite an achievement, secured after 12 days of weeping, wrangling and handholding. The ditherer in the White House takes note and evolves his view to full acceptance.