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No More Mister Nice Blog — CAROLINE KENNEDY -- DEMOCRAT OR BLOOMBERG-CRAT? So I'm watching the process of selecting a replacement senator for Hillary Clinton, a process now dominated by Caroline Kennedy, and what I'm seeing -- the domination of the process by a few powerful wheeler-dealers forcing their will on the governor -- is, I suppose, just business as usual ... but here in New York I would have liked to think that we'd at least be talking about Democratic wheeler-dealers. Not so, according to today's New York Times: When a powerful labor leader ...
The Early Word: The Kennedy 'Campaign'
The Caucus —
... , it is clear that Ms. Kennedy has supporters in high places. A top aide to Mayor Michael Bloomberg is one of the New York political operatives who have been making calls on Mrs. Kennedy’s behalf, The Times’s Michael Barbaro and Raymond Hernandez report. The Los Angeles Times’s Geraldine Baum and Mark Z. Barabak take a big picture look at the three high-powered families – ...
Behind Caroline
Ben Smith's Blog —
Glenn Thrush has a nice rundown of who's pushing Caroline Kennedy, leading with top advisers to Mayor Mike Bloomberg.
The reason this could be a P.R. challenge, as the Times points out, is the class thing:
“It appears to be another case of central casting by the city’s cognoscenti,” said a Democratic city councilman, John C. Liu. “It’s amazing how much it’s all about the upper crust.”
Hillary, recall, wasn't welcomed with open arms by all either. But you'd think that Caroline's rollout should get her a few more prominent endorsements soon, on top of the grief, to be worth ...
Bloomberg Aide Pushing Kennedy
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
The New York Times says Kevin Sheekey, a top aide to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is pushing hard for Caroline Kennedy to be appointed to the soon-to-be-vacant U.S. Senate seat in New York -- with the mayor's blessing. "The involvement has helped immediately elevate and coordinate the debut
of Ms. Kennedy, who lacked an experienced political staff of her own."
Your Thursday Caroline roundup
Politico Live's Blogs —
... The Times follows Maggie Haberman and Politico on the Sheekey-as-Rasputin story with a nifty class-rage angle focusing on the alliance of two powerful political Houses -- the Kennedys and the Bloombergs. ...
Daily Digest: On Blogosphere Imaging, SEC's XBRL, and "White-Collar Populism"
techPresident —
... married to the Times' still vanguard political journalism and its somewhat less vanguard political blogging. (Thanks Erica Sagrans) Tell Represent an address in central Brooklyn, for example, and out pops "Your Councilman David Yassky and your Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared in the article Mayor's Aide Pushes Hard for Kennedy." Yeah, we know it's beta, but location-specific RSS feeds would be a great addition. Represent is built using the Django open-source framework, which we'll take from Wired.com's Scott ...
Caroline Kennedy: Clinton Senate Replacement? (SLIDESHOW)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... As the Times notes, Bloomberg aides have apparently been actively pushing for Kennedy behind the scenes. On top labor leader said he received a call from top Bloomberg aide Kevin Sheekey saying that Kennedy was going to be the next senator from New York, "so get on board now." ...
Moving Parts
Rising Hegemon —
... withdrew from consideration for the seat. This was a nice bit of irony to set off this clusterfuck. Caroline Kennedy was owned by NY mayor Mike Bloomberg, who gave her a gig helping Cancellor, Joel Klein, raise private money for NYC schools. Bloomberg, with his "I'm a Democrat! No, I'm a Republican! No! I'm an Independent" opportunism and his fantasies of running for president interferes in EVERYTHING. His aide, the execrable Kevin Sheekey, pushed Kennedy hard, and pretty much alienated everyone in the process. David ...
