He’s the minister in the middle.
Within two hours on Thursday, Timothy Cardinal Dolan juggled back-to-back appearances with Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio, who have been battling all week over school issues.
While Dolan expressed full support for de Blasio’s plan to provide universal pre-K for all city 4-year-olds, he carefully sidestepped a question on whether he backed the mayor’s tax-the-rich proposal to pay for it.
Cuomo has said the state can pay for pre-K across New York without tax hikes.
“Listen, all I’m grateful for is that we’ve got leaders — Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo — who are passionate about this,” Dolan said after showing the mayor around a Catholic school pre-K program in The Bronx.
“How it’s going to be done, how it’s going to be funded, I leave it up to them.”
He said Catholic schools were ready take 1,700 pre-K students.
In lower Manhattan, Dolan and Cuomo attended a dedication of a new memorial at the Museum of Jewish Heritage dedicated to Gentiles who saved Jews during the Holocaust.