■ After Georgia primary, but before Bill Clinton’s victories on Super Tuesday, Mario Cuomo predicted Clinton would emerge as definite Democratic nominee “within two weeks” and said that he, Cuomo, would campaign enthusiastically for him. “That personal stuff [referring to allegations of Gennifer Flowers] is not going to mean anything.” . . . George Bush and the Republican Party got a vote of confidence in the form of election odds offered (pre Super Tuesday) by Ladbroke’s, England’s largest bookie. Both the Republican Party and Bush himself enjoy 4 to 9 odds; the odds on Pat Buchanan are 33 to 1. Democratic Party stands at 13 to 8, with Clinton’s odds 5 to 2 and Paul Tsongas’s 6 to 1. Jerry Brown is a 100 to 1 shot.
■ Democratic ex-Mayor of New York Ed Koch came out with surprise support for re-election of Republican Senator Alfonse D’Amato, who faces a large field of opponents including Geraldine Ferraro. . . . Last month, incidentally, D’Amato tangled with Gov. Cuomo at convention of New York State Association of Towns. Cuomo, apparently angered by D’Amato’s reference to Change-NYs Counter-Budget, launched ad-hominem attack on Change-NYs founders, including his one-time opponent for governorship, Lew Lehrman. . . . In governors’ contests, Rhode Island first-termer Bruce Sundlun (D.), whose track record is mixed (he has cut state spending in the face of a serious fiscal crisis, but has raised taxes sharply), is favored for re-election unless liberal Republican former Rep. Claudine Schneider runs against him. Mrs. Schneider— who gave up her seat to challenge Sen. Claiborne Pell (D.) in disastrous 1990 midterm elections— has not so far declared. . . . Lenora Fulani, the aggressive black candidate of the way-out-left New Alliance Party, is attempting to block the appearance of Tsongas and Brown on New York primary ballot April 7. Miss Fulani (who ran for President before, in 1988, and who has ties to Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton) is mad at the Democrats because they refused to let her into their public debates in New Hampshire. She threatens to retaliate by keeping official Democratic candidates out of black and Hispanic areas.
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