Reply #14: That was the late comic Hugh Carey [View All]

[MrBenchley]

weighing in on GE's side when the corporation was angrily insisting PCB was not a carcinogen (it is).

Carey also became a figure of fun in New York due to his marriage to the "widow of a Greek tycoon" who turned out, after a little digging by the press, to be the thrice-divorced wife of an auto mechanic, plumber, and pizza parlor owner (three different guys) all of whom were alive and well. He amused New York voters by dyeing his hair Bozo-red during the romance; Jimmy Breslin discovered that his code name among his State Ppolice protective detail had been switched to "Howdy Doody."

To be fair, Carey did move quickly in the Love Canal crisis...