Donna Fournier Cuomo is an American politician who represented the 14th Essex district in the Massachusetts House of Representatives

Massachusetts House of Representatives

The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from single-member electoral districts across the Commonwealth. Representatives serve two-year terms...

 from 1993–1999. She later served as the deputy director of the Department of Public Safety's programs division.

Cuomo was briefly a Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 2002

Massachusetts gubernatorial election, 2002

The Massachusetts gubernatorial election of 2002 was held on November 5, 2002. Businessman Mitt Romney was elected to a four-year term, to be served from January 2, 2003 until January 4, 2007. Every four years, Massachusetts holds state-wide elections for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney...

. She announced her candidacy on April 2, 2002 and dropped out of the race the next day.

Personal life

Cuomo is the sister of Joseph Fournier, who was murdered by Willie Horton

Willie Horton

William R. "Willie" Horton is an American convicted felon who, while serving a life sentence for murder, without the possibility of parole, was the beneficiary of a Massachusetts weekend furlough program...

 and two other men in 1974. She appeared in an anti-Michael Dukakis

Michael Dukakis

Michael Stanley Dukakis served as the 65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts from 1975–1979 and from 1983–1991, and was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1988. He was born to Greek immigrants in Brookline, Massachusetts, also the birthplace of John F. Kennedy, and was the longest serving...

 ad during the 1988 presidential election

United States presidential election, 1988

The United States presidential election of 1988 featured no incumbent president, as President Ronald Reagan was unable to seek re-election after serving the maximum two terms allowed by the Twenty-second Amendment. Reagan's Vice President, George H. W. Bush, won the Republican nomination, while the...

.

Cuomo escaped from the World Trade Center

World Trade Center

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 during the September 11 attacks.