Joseph Spector

Albany Bureau Chief

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo stayed clear Tuesday of the fight over whether Donald Trump's name should come off a state park in the Hudson Valley.

"Oh, I don’t know. I don’t get into signage," Cuomo responded to a reporter's question after a rally for a $15 minimum wage outside the Capitol.

Cuomo has ramped up his criticism of Trump, the GOP presidential frontrunner, as a supporter of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.

"They don’t understand what made America great in the first place and that was the acceptance of people, of everyone, everywhere," Cuomo said at a rally last week. "We come from the exact opposite school and our message is the exact opposite. We don’t want to fan the flames and make it negative; we want to make it positive."

But Cuomo didn't weigh in on whether Trump's name should come off the state park along the Taconic Parkway between Westchester and Putnam counties.

A decade-old deal created the Donald J. Trump State Park because he donated 436 acres of land in exchange for having his name "prominently displayed" at the property's entrances, documents showed.

With Trump's controversial presidential run, at least 20 Democratic lawmakers have signed on to a bill requiring the state to strip the property of Trump's name, pointing to his comments about Muslims, Mexicans and women. Trump has indicated he would fight any attempt to drop his name.

“It is time the state of New York sends a message to Donald Trump that his hate speech is not welcome in our great state,” Assemblyman Charles Lavine, D-Nassau County, said in a statement in December. “I am confident that the governor will take our letters into consideration. If he is unable to act, then we are prepared to move forward with this legislation.”

It didn't seem like Cuomo was prepared to act on their request.

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