Tuesday’s event also helped give Cuomo a prominent spot on the Democrats’ small bench for future presidential bids. Already, polls and some pundits are talking about the New Yorker running for the office that his father famously chose to eschew.
“President Clinton’s support is critical for anyone seeking higher office,” Sheinkopf said.
Analysis: Clinton, Cuomo give each other a hand
By MICHAEL GORMLEY AP
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — It was just the sort of photo op President Barack Obama didn’t need: a former Democratic president who ushered in prosperity and surpluses and a current Democratic governor announcing job growth.
But there it was Tuesday in the warm embrace at center stage, the clubby chit-chat away from microphones as former President Bill Clinton and his protege, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, made clear in Albany everything that isn’t being done in Washington.
“It’s not helpful for President Obama to have an ex-president and a Democratic governor talking about creating jobs when he can’t,” said Hank Sheinkopf, a top political strategist who worked for Clinton.
The event was the kickoff of the New York Open for Business conference. It should have been just the latest effort by a governor to make political theater of a campaign goal to revive the economy upstate, an ideal that has escaped every governor since the Catskills drew the nation’s top comics and Niagara Falls drew the nation’s honeymooners from the 1920s through 1960s.
“If you listen closely to the slogan we use here, you may hear echoes of the slogan you used,” Cuomo told Clinton. “We say, `In New York, it’s the economy, stupid.'”
“We are following the state version of that playbook,” Cuomo said, stealing the battering ram Clinton used in 1992 over President George H.W. Bush to return a Democrat to the White House for the first time in 12 years.
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