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Andrew Cuomo Puts Kibosh on Caroline Kennedy
Politics Daily —
The New York Times is reporting today that an aide to New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is working to undermine Caroline Kennedy's Senate bid. Apparently, Joseph Perocco has been working the phones to labor leaders and other power players in an attempt to raise doubts about Kennedy in advance of Governor David Patterson's decision on his appointment. ...
Kennedy for New York Senate
Jon Swift —
According to the New York Times, an aide to New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is questioning the credentials of Caroline Kennedy to replace Hillary Clinton as Senator from New York if she is confirmed as Secretary of State in the Obama Administration. Cuomo believes he is qualified to be New York's Senator because he was once married to a Kennedy. But that is not enough. New York's next Senator must actually be named Kennedy. The Kennedy name has a "special magic capital," as Maureen Dowd so poetically calls it. But there are other Kennedys who are just as qualified, if not more so, than Caroline. If we really ...
When two dynasties go to war …
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... Andrew Cuomo has tried to paint himself as above competing for an appointment to Hillary Clinton’s vacated seat in the Senate, but the New York Times reports that he’s far from disinterested. The scion of the Cuomo political dynasty wants to make sure that another dynasty’s heiress presumptive doesn’t build momentum towards gaining the seat for herself. Cuomo has started twisting arms in the unions to block Caroline Kennedy from the appointment: Even as Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo insisted he was staying out of the competition for New York’s soon-to-be-vacant Senate ...
Those Unresolved Senate Seats
DownWithTyranny! —
... Paterson has seemed far more interested in finding a good, balanced running mate for his own 2010 re-election than for the best person to represent New York in the Senate. If he wanted to put the best person in the Senate he would have decided on Rep. Jerrold Nadler and that would have been that. Instead, he decided to play the role of ringmaster in a creepy circus. He dredged up the extremely unaccomplished (but certainly nice enough) Caroline Kennedy, although there has been so much opposition inside political circles that the nomination seems to be ...
Paterson: No Cuomo Talk, I Need More Time
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... It is the prediction of many New York politicos that Paterson's mind is still not made up. The Governor is known for last-minute unpredictability. An aide to Cuomo has reportedly tried to slow down Kennedy's bid. But the idea that Cuomo could come in and take the Senate seat after Kennedy has campaigned so publicly for the post should be treated with some caution. One well-connected Democrat puts it bluntly: at this point, Cuomo can't afford to be seen as the guy who took the Senate away from a Kennedy. ...
Paterson: No Cuomo Talk, I Need More Time
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... It is the prediction of many New York politicos that Paterson's mind is still not made up. The Governor is known for last-minute unpredictability. An aide to Cuomo has reportedly tried to slow down Kennedy's bid. But the idea that Cuomo could come in and take the Senate seat after Kennedy has campaigned so publicly for the post should be treated with some caution. One well-connected Democrat puts it bluntly: at this point, Cuomo can't afford to be seen as the guy who took the Senate away from a Kennedy. ...
