Cuomo hasn't condemned bigoted attacks on Mamdani. In 1977 race, his father took another approach

NEW YORK (AP) — In 1977, at the tail end of another bruising battle for New York City mayor, Mario Cuomo publicly spoke up against bigoted remarks leveled at his opponent. Almost 50 years later, his son is taking a different approach.

Back then, Andrew Cuomo was a 19-year-old adviser to his father, who would later become the state's governor but at the time was losing the mayor's race against the Democratic nominee, Ed Koch.

A few weeks before the election, posters appeared in some neighborhoods referencing Koch’s long-rumored sexuality with the slogan: “Vote for Cuomo, Not the Homo.”

This time around, it’s Andrew Cuomo’s backers disparaging Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani, who would be the city’s first Muslim mayor, as an Islamic extremist.

But Cuomo has done little to discourage th