ALBANY—At a Brooklyn Democratic Party dinner last night, Governor Andrew Cuomo praised Hillary Clinton’s choice to locate her campaign headquarters in the borough, calling Brooklyn “the heart and soul of the Democratic party” and the springboard for what he hoped would be a Democratic takeover of Congress in 2016.
“I love all the county chairs, but Brooklyn plays a special role always,” Cuomo said in his brief address, after praising former state Democratic party chairman and state comptroller H. Carl McCall, who Cuomo said had been the “guiding force” for state Democrats while “the Democratic Party was alone for a long 12 years when we had George Pataki as governor.”
Cuomo ran against McCall for the Democratic nomination in 2002, but withdrew before the primary, and McCall subsequently lost to Pataki in the general election.
“Brooklyn is going to play a special role in this country as the headquarters for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign,” Cuomo said last night. “And Hillary knew what she was doing because in many ways Brooklyn has always represented the heart and soul of the Democratic party.
“It’s at the foot of the Statue of Liberty. It says come one, come all. Brooklyn is all about diversity, it’s about black and white and brown, all together all religions. And it stands for the premise that we invite everyone in, because we believe we can forge one from many.”
“And Brooklyn was never about, bring me your rich. Brooklyn was, bring me those people who want to work together to be part of the family of New York,” he said, invoking the famous phrase of his father, former governor Mario Cuomo, who died earlier this year.
“That’s Brooklyn,” he said. “It is, in many ways, the test tube of the Democratic party.”
“And that’s why Hillary’s going to be here in Brooklyn, and we respect that and we look forward to Brooklyn being the home of a national Democratic wave next year that goes across this state … that gives the president a Congress that can actually get past gridlock and get to a functioning situation like we’ve been doing in Albany.”
An attendee provided tape of Cuomo’s speech to Capital. Cuomo’s appearance at the dinner was not included on his public schedule.
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