YNN’s intrepid Bill Carey covered AG Andrew Cuomo in Syracuse today and asked him to address the apparent hypocrisy in his acceptance of the state Independence Party line and refusal (for now) of the Working Families Party line when both remain under investigation.

“How do you resolve that issue for yourself?” Carey inquired.

“You don’t Bill until you have the facts,” Cuomo responded.

“Just to make this more complicated – this will be a whole Trivial Pursuit question at some point in life – I am seeking the nomination and I have the designation of the Democratic Party. And I have been nominated by the Independence Party. And then there is the Working Families Party.”

“There is an investigation into the Working Families Party. I have said let’s see what happens with that investigation. And if anything comes from that investigation. We have the summer. A final decision has to be made, So let’s see what happens with the investigation.”

The Independence Party, in my opinion, there was an investigation about a person in the party, and not about the party itself. Those are the facts. It’s not an investigation I am doing, I don’t have any inside information into it. So, it was a different situation then the Working Families Party. That investigation is still ongoing. So, you make a decision when you have the facts.”


When he announced the indictment of “a person in the party” – GOP operative John Haggerty, who isn’t really “in the party” at all, but was actually a “volunteer” for Mayor Bloomberg’s campaign who was hired by the Independence Party – Manhattan DA Cy Vance said his probe is continuing and refused to say the party isn’t a target.

However, as Cuomo acknowledged during a radio interview with The Post’s Fred Dicker earlier this week, he’s pretty much stuck with the Indys now that he has accepted them, since the only way for him to get off their line would be to run for a judgeship, die or move out of state.

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