Brief NYT

interview with Mario Cuomo.

A couple of snips:

Q: As someone who served three terms as a governor, you must have some thoughts about what's happening in California.

A: It's too much democracy. In San Francisco and in the rest of California, there has been an instinct for a long time to get as close to the plebiscite as you can get, as close to 'We'll decide it for ourselves.' And I think Californians would tell you that every once in a while they've done something they're proud of this way, but more often than not they've discovered that they punished themselves by a rash judgment.

Q: That you could recall an executive is an odd and maybe scary concept.

A: Well, depending on how the executive feels about it when he's banished. The situation in California seems so bad that I'm not sure Gray Davis isn't secretly praying for banishment.

More at the link.