  Real estate magnate and publisher Mort Zuckerman, the subject
of a profile in today's Politico, is meeting with New York
Republicans as he prepares himself for a Senate run. What do we
know about Citizen Mort?   The first hurdle facing Mort
Zuckerman in his path to the United States Senate is the fact
that he is a known Canadian. Zuckerman was born in Montreal, in
1937. (He did become an American citizen in 1977.)  Here is a
slightly charitable description of Mort's public persona,
courtesy a 1992 New York Times piece:   But while fellow press-
hungry would-be mogul Donald Trump was a gaudy vulgarian, Mort
had pretensions of class and sophistication. As a 1993 piece in
The Independent put it: "Instead of a tacky palace in Palm
Beach, there is the elegant house in East Hampton; instead of
Ivana, Gloria. Steinem, that is."  Yes, Mort was a swinging
bachelor in those days. Gloria Steinem was his most famous
squeeze, but he'd also been linked to Nora Ephron and Diane von
Furstenberg and Bianca Jagger and even Ar