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Of all the people for Caroline Kennedy's people to piss off, probably pissing off Governor Paterson, who makes the final call on who gets Hillary Clinton's soon-to-be vacated Senate seat, is a bad idea. Yet the NY Times reports that he's not very happy:
The governor is frustrated and chagrined, the advisers said, because he believes that he extended Ms. Kennedy the chance to demonstrate her qualifications but that her operatives have exploited the opportunity to convey a sense that she is all but appointed already. He views this as an attempt to box him in, the advisers said.The article has a special shout-out to Mayor Bloomberg's aide Kevin Sheekey for raising Paterson's ire by reporting calling a labor leader and telling him/her to get on the Kennedy bandwagon "now."“You have people going around saying, ‘Oh yeah, it’s a done deal,’ ” said one of the advisers, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the selection process and did not want to anger the governor. “The quickest way to not get something you want is to step into somebody’s face.”
Speaking of Bloomberg: Assembly Leader Sheldon Silver isn't a fan of Kennedy's and made it clear he thinks the mayor is behind her Senate bid, "I think the undercurrent would be, if I were the governor, to see that she's being promoted by the mayor and by his deputy mayor. If I were the governor, I would look and question if this is the appointment I would want to make, if her first obligation would be to the mayor of the City of New York rather than to the governor."
And while Kennedy has "declined" to disclose her financials, the Daily News estimates her private wealth to be $100 million, which includes a 366-acre estate on Martha's Vineyard (from her mother), her share of her father's family trust (the one started by Joseph Kennedy), and her share of her brother's estate.
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With all that money she still makes her husband go to work every day? I'd divorce her if I was him. Who needs to be called Mr. Caroline Kennedy in front of his colleagues?
She's a wrinkly, older version of Veruca Salt.
How about Kennedy, the old MTV VJ? Can we find an office to appoint her to also?
i'm so sick of hearing about this woman. isn't there anyone else who can take this job?
I hope Paterson doesn't cave on this one. If she really wants the office, she can run for it in 2010. She has enough time to build her case with the electorate. The vibes that I get say if she can't have it this way,she wont go down in the trenches and fight for it.
Besides having the last name and family connection, is there a single thing that makes this woman qualified to be senator? Geez, we already have enough unqualified nepotistic schmucks in office already. Give us someone who actually knows laws and stuff and can relate to the common people who don't have 100 million in the bank.
Patterson has done enough for the Kennedys. He needlessly renamed a bridge after the dead carpetbagging one costing the taxpayers a princely sum.
He needs to think out of the box. How about Sheldon Silver? That would be one way to get rid of him.
It is a little hard to buy that Patterson's team is this dumb.
I'm not a pro-Kennedy partisan, but It is obvious that all the trashing of Kennedy is coming from the camp of rival hopeful Carolyn Maloney. Silver and Maloney have been tight allies for decades. Ackerman and Ferraro are outspoken in urging the Governor to pick Maloney and Maloney has also hired (ala Kennedy) a consulting team led by Bill Lynch to coordinate things.
If Patterson wants everyone to play nice while he takes time to think, he needs to send a strong message to camp Maloney that trashing Kennedy is counterproductive. Sheekey has a lot of baggage from being Bloomberg's man, but going after Kennedy to settle scores with him sounds like a way to buy a divisive primary fight - which the unelected Governor way doesn't need. Patterson needs to look to NY state's interests and his own by reigning in his staff and putting out the word that going negative is a disqualifying foul.
damn she's ugly
Tired of this rich bitch.
at number 7:
don't you find it odd that the expensive bridge renaming happens RIGHT before we see this whole fiasco? Good timing or something more? Blogoyavich should take lessons from the pros.
Attention Silver: A United States Senator's first and only obligation is to the people of his or her state and country, not to a mayor or a governor.