GRANNY KILLER CUOMO UPDATE: What Cuomo Missed Deadline to Run as Dem for State Office Says About His Political Future. “Cuomo’s choice to not seek statewide office as the long-standing member of the state’s Democratic political party that he is lends support to our main hypothesis about his true ambitions as a man who has access to $16+ million in his political campaign’s bank account. We think his true aim is to use that resource to influence the potential pool of jurors who will decide the multiple court cases he faces.”