The American Spectator

Bill Clinton and the Cuomo family. You’ll recall that back in 1992, Clinton was forced to apologize to then-Gov. Mario Cuomo for comments he made about the governor’s Italian ethnicity in taped conversations between Clinton and Ms. Gennifer Flowers . /p>

Clinton attempted to make right by giving Cuomo’s son a job in his administration as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Andrew Cuomo repaid that generosity by largely ignoring Clinton during his tenure at HUD, making sure the Cuomo name was always first on press releases and burying the administration name deep in promotional material. “It was always about Andy and the job he was doing, he never gave Clinton credit,” says a former HUD staffer under Cuomo.

Now Clinton is getting some payback. While he has publicly attempted to stay above the fray in the primary battle between Andrew Cuomo and state comptroller Carl McCall, Clinton aides say that behind the scenes Clinton has been giving McCall’s campaign advice on how to take Cuomo down.

“McCall is still trailing and with the Cuomo name and state political machine he’s an underdog,” says a current Clinton staffer. “I think the president relishes and relates to McCall’s situation and wants to help.”

McCall and his staff are said to have visited Clinton on several occasions at his Harlem offices for meetings and strategy sessions.

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