Gov. Cuomo went to a Queens church Sunday — where he repented for his personal mistakes and expressed gratitude for a "second chance" at political life.
Cuomo, the Democratic incumbent heavily favored to win re-election against GOP nominee Rob Astorino, let his guard down about his failed marriage and his political blunders.
The governor told congregants at the Greater Allen AME Church in Jamaica that he had "messed up."
He said he has never forgotten how he hit rock bottom before his political comeback — when he was elected state attorney general in 2006 and then governor in 2010.
He said he was grateful that the Rev. Floyd Flake, the former Queens congressman and the church's senior pastor, stood with him through the bad times.
"Right now things are going well. I'm the governor of the state of New York," Cuomo said. "It's not a bad job. I have a lot of friends, old friends. That was not always the case."
After serving as federal housing secretary in the Clinton administration, Cuomo ran in the Democratic primary for governor in 2002 against state Comptroller H. Carl McCall, New York's first black statewide elected official.
Cuomo's challenge to McCall infuriated leaders in the city's black political establishment. The move backfired and Cuomo was trounced and humiliated.
Shortly afterward, Cuomo suffered a second blow: an ugly divorce from wife Kerry Kennedy that became tabloid fodder as both sides took potshots.
"I went through some personal very tough times in my personal life. My marriage did not work and it was personally a very difficult time for me," Cuomo said.
"And there are very few things as useless in life as a failed politician . . . I was at the bottom, I was lower than low.
"I went to people and I said, 'Look, I know I messed up, I know I'm not the favorite in this situation, but I want a second chance and I need your help for that second chance and I'm asking you to give me a second chance.' "
The congregants warmly received Cuomo's remarks, which also focused on tackling discrimination, boosting jobs and wages, and improving education if elected to a second term.
Cuomo, who backed both universal pre-K and charter-school expansion, said, "The public education system is failing our young. And if you get failed out of the education system you will never catch up. And the truth is we have two education systems, and it's not public and it's not private. It's one for the rich and one for the poor."
Astorino later zinged Cuomo, saying, through a spokesman: "Andrew Cuomo shows up at an African-American church every four years and pretends he's been around. This governor has been invisible to New York's communities of color.''
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