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Your Thursday Caroline roundup
Politico Live's Blogs —
... Wayne Barrett reports on a "well-informed rumor" that "Rahm Emanuel has such a need to fill senate seats he's now calling David Paterson instead of Rod Blagojevich" -- presumably on behalf of Caroline. ...
Remainders: Blueblood
Ben Smith's Blog —
(AP)
Wayne Barrett casts the Bloomberg-Kennedy operation as a conspiracy of bluebloods.
Dennis Blair is likely to get DNI.
Andy Stern is positively ecstatic over Obama's labor secretary pick.
Sustainable transportation leaders are less than thrilled with his transportation secretary pick.
Environmentalists too.
The new head of NOAA will be an Oregon State Univ. professor and a critic of the agency.
Kirk nails down USTR.
NBC names Chuck Todd its new Chief White House ...
No More Mister Nice Blog — ... I resent the fact that the movement to put Caroline Kennedy into the Senate is more connected to Mike Bloomberg than, apparently, the Democratic Party. Wayne Barrett, who's been reporting on local politics for The Village Voice for a million years, reinforces what I've been thinking -- and says that, yes, this could help keep a Democrat out of City Hall (for the fifth straight election): ...
Is Caroline Kennedy the Best NY Democrats Can Do?
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... For another, the Village Voice reports that she seems to have backed Mike Bloomberg for Mayor — and Bloomberg is now a very strong advocate for her Senatorial candidacy. If she winds up in the Senate, she’s not likely to render much help in the effort to send a Democratic Mayor back to Gracie Mansion in 2009, either. Given her lack of enthusiasm for Democratic candidates, how much support are party leaders like to muster for her? ...
Caroline Kennedy: Sometimes a Democrat
Open Left - Front Page —
This is irritating.
[Kennedy] didn't support a Democrat in 2005. Fernando Ferrer, the Democratic candidate and first Latino ever nominated for citywide office, says she didn't support him. And one source recalls seeing her at a Women for Bloomberg event, though Stu Loeser, the mayor's press secretary, says she was not a member of the group.
Isay runs a consulting firm that literally feasts on its ties to Bloomberg. His clients include the Partnership for New York City, the NYC Cultural Institutions Group, NYC & Co., Forest City Ratner, Primary Care Development ...
the best New York government money can buy
Firedoglake —
... If you don't follow New York politics, you might think that it's unusual for the powers that be to try and hand someone high office. Not so much. One of the other candidates for Senator Clinton's seat, Mr. Suozzi (also the scion of a Democratic dynasty) ...
Al Giordano: The Populist Case for Caroline Kennedy
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Some have tried to belittle this work (as they have with everything else Caroline Kennedy has done) citing a recent blog post by reporter Wayne Barrett that claims her work wasn't all that much. Wayne's a fine reporter, but those that cite him don't seem that familiar with his Modus Operandi: He works up the very best and strongest critique of every politician in New York. It's worthy work. But the most he could "get" on Kennedy was the suggestion that others have exaggerated her accomplishments, hardly the stuff of scandal and hardly unique to any politician and her or his ...
