An interesting moment during Thursday’s question-and-answer session came when Gov. Andrew Cuomo was asked why, unlike other marquee agenda items, he isn’t spreading the evangel of independent redistricting.

The governor last year went on a barnstorming tour of the state, pushing for budget reform, same-sex marriage, rent control laws, a tax cap and stronger ethics oversight.

But redistricting is just too darn complicated and tedious, Cuomo said in response to a good question from the AP’s Mike Gormley.

“It is a complicated topic,” Cuomo said. “It is very hard to communicate and it is, it’s not that they’re not receptive to it, I don’t think they believe it is on their top tier of priorities.”

And while polls showed same-sex marriage legalization wasn’t a hot-button topic for the majority of New Yorkers, Cuomo said people still had opinions on the matter.

“It wasn’t a top priority, but they had an opinion,” he said.

Cuomo and his cabinet are out touring the state right now to spread the news of the budget proposal, including a proposed Tier VI pension level. One could argue that while pensions aren’t necessarily advanced physics, it’s not exactly the easiest thing to digest.

The governor is, quite frankly, a gifted explainer of state government arcana. His introduction of a Powerpoint presentation during his State of the State addresses helps breakdown and provide specifics in what can normally be a boring speech loaded with platitudes — making it pretty curious that Cuomo wouldn’t deploy his talent on independent redistricting.

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