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A Quinnipiac poll puts the blame on Caroline Kennedy for mishandling the Senate bid: The Staten Island Advance reveals, "49% of those polled felt she and her aides were to blame," compared to 15% who thought Governor Paterson messed it up and 12% who believe both Kennedy and Paterson screwed up. NY Magazine's cover story is about Kennedy follies: "The appointment was destined to be a mess—how could it not be? The cast of characters involved in choosing a new junior senator for New York included a lapsed priest, three of the country’s most bare-knuckled political dynasties, and an imperious mayor." (NY Mag writer Chris Smith adds that Kennedy ran up against the Times' city staff which had "grown a pair of balls" after covering Mayor Bloomberg's term limits challenge.) Now Paterson's staff is accused of leaking information about skeletons in Kennedy's closet, which apparently ended her Senate seat hunt; Paterson condemned the leaks, adding, "I don't think there's any public interest that's served by finding out why somebody chose to take a different course in their lives."
Poll: Caroline Kennedy Blew It
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Glad to see New yorkers are smarter than that. After the media 'splained to us that "nobody likes not-Caroline"and "Paterson made a mess" - people still remember how embarrassing the Princess show was and how it was her retiring out of the blue, then denying she did it, then dropping out yet again. How can Ted brand this as "the Governor's mess" is beyond me!
Before we start patting ourselves on the back for how smart we are, I'd just like to remind everybody that we elected Pataki three times for governor.
And it's "beyond me" that anybody could have read the Chris Smith article and suggest with a straight face that the entire senate appointment circus wasn't "the Governor's mess." The guy was managing (or rather mismanaging) Kennedy's campaign, going as far as sending her on an upstate listening tour while demanding that she not speak to the press, while at the same time the other side of his mouth was flapping away to people like Randi Weingarten and Liz Holtzman that they should be senator.
Paterson thinks he's too clever by half and it's gonna come back to bite him in the ass. He's a dick and a chump.
What do you read, the stars?
The press is very annoyed that they can't control Mr. Paterson. So we're going to hear a lot of baloney about how bad Paterson is, and how everyone hates him, all of it false.
Remember, you read it in the New York Times. So much for the veracity of any of it.
I agree—I think the public isn't as bothered by Paterson's process as the media is. I think the media is pretty annoyed at how Paterson was playing cat-and-mouse with them, so my guess is they are looking to punish him in some way. But if Paterson fails with the budget, he's got problems bigger than the media.
You're right, the public has lots of other things to worry about.
But the last thing the public wants is another governor who likes to play games and run his show in typically totally opaque NY fashion. It's not for nothing that NYU's Brennan Center for Justice brands NY state's legislature the most dysfunctional in the country.
I had high hopes for this guy, and he may yet come through for tenants -- we'll see if Urstadt gets repealed this term. But his budget was a total mess. Trying to balance it on the backs of NY middle class while refusing to discuss hiking marginal tax rates on NYers making $500,000+ isn't the progressive way to do it (right now, unlike states like CA and NJ, New Yorkers who make $40,000/year are taxed at the same 6.85% rate as those who make $4,500,000/year).
Just see how many newspapers will carry this piece of news.The media has an agenda too -
as Ted is on a warpath
I don't think Paterson was playing any unusual games. It was reasonable for him to take some time to consider the possible candidates. Everything would have gone smoothly had not the Kennedys and the media thrust themselves into the game. Given Caroline Kennedy's obvious distaste for political combat, I have to suspect the family put her up to it on the theory that the Royal Family deserved a Senate seat and Teddy was on the way out. As the mainstream media increasingly resemble supermarket tabloids they went wild with celebrity mania. So then Paterson had to figure out some way of dumping the totally unsuitable Caroline without seeming to do so willingly. This took some careful "fumbling". The press, of course, is livid; they had visions of presenting us with endless pictures of Senator Caroline on her pony. I thank God Paterson had the intestinal fortitude to resist this crap.
,i>It was reasonable for him to take some time to consider the possible candidates.
Yes indeed. And he finally selected the what -- the best possible candidate with all of two years experience in the House? If he had gone with an experienced pol with a track record, he would have gone with someone like Carolyn Maloney. Picking Gillibrand was an obviously political choice in a process overly-politicized by paterson himself.
Look, I think the whole Kennedy thing was bizarre from start to finish and it complicated matters. But Paterson seemed to revel in it, playing all the different actors one against the other. And now he's angered a lot of very powerful national Dems, and in-state Dems. As Schumer looks to be Gillibrand's meal ticket to the appointment, she's probably safe. People here may not like or accept it, but Paterson's blood's in the water. Jen Cheung's right, if he botches the budget he's toast.