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.

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