Gov: ‘Anti-Semitic Cyn’ ad news to me

Gov. Cuomo gave the “I know nothing” defense when asked about a state Democratic Party mailer implying rival Cynthia Nixon is anti-Semitic.

“I didn’t know about the mailer,” Cuomo said Sunday following the backlash over a state party ad sent to predominantly Jewish neighborhoods that said Nixon was “silent on the rise of anti-Semitism.”

He added that party officials “better figure out how this happened and make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

Nixon said she was upset by the charge, as her elder children with her ex-husband are Jewish.

“I am very alarmed by the rise of anti-Semitism. I am frightened for my children,” she said at a press briefing in Brooklyn.

In the wake of the outrage over the mailer, believed to be part of a $136,000 Democratic campaign to boost Cuomo before Thursday’s primary, party executive director Geoff Berman offered to try to undo the damage.

He said the party would issue another mailer saying it was wrong about Nixon.

But the former “Sex and the City” star was unimpressed.

“I wonder if it will be on Friday, September 14. It is a little late,” Nixon said.

She also called Cuomo’s claim of ignorance “patently absurd.”

“I categorically don’t believe” that the governor didn’t know about the content of the mailer,” she said.

The furor over the mailer caused City Comptroller Scott Stringer, who supports Cuomo, to call for Berman’s head, tweeting Sunday night, “Last thought before sundown: Berman must resign.”