politico.com - 1/19/2009
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The New York Daily News today carries an unusually clear message to the Governor of New York about the president-elect's preference:
"We can't follow the logic in his process," an Obama administration source said Sunday.
"We want Caroline. We won't indicate disappointment ...
nytimes.com - 1/23/2009
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nytimes.com —
Gov. David A. Paterson has selected Representative Kirsten
Gillibrand to fill New York’s empty U.S. Senate seat,
according to a person who spoke to the governor. >
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Paterson Picks Gillibrand for Senate
nypost.com - 1/27/2009
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ALBANY - Gov. Paterson yesterday insisted he had
no idea who did the slime job on Caroline
Kennedy - although the source of the information is about as close to him during the day as his wife is at night. He's a liar. The person responsible...
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PATERSON LYIN' KING OF STATE
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Paterson Notes Women, Hispanics Lack Representation
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... New York Gov. David Paterson (D) has dropped few clues on who he plans to select as U.S. senator, but he is noting that some groups lack representation in the upper chamber. Paterson, on CNN Monday, said that though he doesn't feel pressure to pick a woman to replace Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), he does consider the relatively low number of female senators to be a valid point. "I don't consider it pressure, but there were 17 women in the United States Senate, when the woman population is nearly 52 percent," he said. "And without Hillary, there would be 16. So I think ...
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