It’s the biggest political issue in the state, but Mayor de Blasio says he isn’t paying it any mind.
Hizzoner declined to weigh in on days of media coverage about Gov. Cuomo’s alleged interference with the anti-corruption Moreland Commission panel, saying he’s been too busy with other issues to keep up.
“It’s not something I know a lot about . . . I’m not following it because I have a lot of other things to do,” said the mayor, fresh off an eight-day family vacation in Italy that ended Sunday.
But the mayor did say the comparison of Cuomo to a Mafia don by his GOP rival, Rob Astorino, is “a horrible stereotype.
“I thought that was inappropriate in every way . . . a horrible invocation of a very horrible stereotype,” the mayor said in response to reporters’ questions at an unrelated Bronx press conference.
While claiming he didn’t know details of the case or its aftermath, de Blasio managed to zero in on GOP gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino’s comparison of Cuomo’s reported meddling to that of a Mafia boss making an offer you can’t refuse.