Interview

Andrews:
If people judge me fairly and objectively, it shouldn't play an issue, because I'm a Democrat. And I'm proud of being able to help get Democrats elected. And I think that is a skill I'll be able to use when I get to Washington, to help the congress take back the majority. Because you have to win elections.

And when I was working with Eliot Spitzer, Hillary Clinton called Eliot Spitzer and says I need you to release Carl Andrews to be my deputy campaign manager. That's not a call to help Clarence Norman. That's a call because she wanted my, I believe and I hope, she wanted my skills in knowing the state and how to run campaigns.

When Billy Thompson called Eliot Spitzer and made the same request in 2001, and more importantly, I'll let you in on a little secret: When I worked for Eliot Spitzer on his campaign in '98, I was just hired to do Brooklyn...I ended up doing the whole state...once I got into the campaign, they saw my knowledge and my range. Remember, I used to work for Gail Schaffer, secretary of state in the Cuomo administration. So I knew people throughout the state.

[1:42]
I get people elected. I don't work for them when they get elected. I don’t' sit there and hold their hands. I can't sit by this particular candidate, that particular candidate, and say you do this, you do that, or you're going to be in trouble. That's not what I do. I get them elected.

[2:01]
Me:
But for the work you did statewide, according to the Jack Newfield articles I've been reading, you got paid a small amount of money for it. About $8,000 from what I've read. For statewide work that's very reasonable to say the least.

Andrews:
I think the fine print that Jack Newfield never put, and that Wayne Newfield [sic] never put in an article, and he knows it, is that every time I worked on a campaign, whatever I was paid was compensatory with my salary.

[3:11]
Another thing Newfield stories said, is that in five years I made $77,000. Do the arithmetic. Can you live off of that? And every election I take a leave of absence, an unpaid leave of absence.

[3:29]
But your work with the surrogate's court, with the Judge Feinberg, whose campaign you helped work on...

[3:45]
I've been filing out financial disclosures ever since I was 21, when I got elected to the school board. My life is public brother. Everything is public. Do the research. There is no money. Titles and no money. Hehehe.

[4:45]
And its upsetting that you guys read Maurice Gumbs stuff. Maurice Gumbs, a member of the school board with me. When I got off the school board, the school board was superseded twice by two different chancellors. He ran for office against Marty Markowitz. Ran for office against Clarence Norman. Lost. He's a frustrated individual. And you guys read his stuff and come and insult me by questioning me [about] stuff you read on the Internet by a crazy man. You can go on the Internet and read 'Kill all Jews and blacks and the Holocaust never took place' and you confront me with stuff he puts on his website as though it's gospel.

[5:30]
Me:
But there's other stuff Maurice Gumbs hasn't written, like the Inspector General's report on the Surrogate's Court, that was put out a little while ago.

Andrews:
What did he say about the auctioneer?...That receivership report I bet was from the year 1999 to present...I'm giving you a research project. I have financial disclosures brother.

[6:57]
The thing that disturbs me the most when people bring up the Clarence Norman, they talk about stuff Clarence Norman was convicted of. Right? Was Carl Andrews ever implicated in any of those convictions?

So when we talk about discrimination and Yassky not having a right to run, and I think that's discriminatory to say he does not have the right to run, one of the most worst forms of discrimination is guilt by association. I don't see you quoting me now. Guilt by association is the worst form of discrimination.