Andrew Cuomo

This illustration is for an article in the April 2009 issue of The Capitol titled, “Those who would succeed Andrew Cuomo begin to emerge.” Besides learning about the New York Attorney General and some New York State politics, I also learned that the “shoe thingy” is called a Brannock shoe measuring device.
When Cuomo ran for the office it was to succeed Eliot Spitzer. Spitzer was very effective and there was an ad floating around at the time of Cuomo’s run that showed him holding the shoe measuring device with a tag saying something like, “These are some big shoes to fill.”