Bloomberg Thinks Gillibrand Is Way Hot

Vogue

In a new profile in Vogue, Kirsten Gillibrand is painted as an everywoman, equally comfortable talking about finance as she is about farming. Jonathan Van Meter compares the Senator to Hillary Clinton, who ten years ago won the same Senate seat with a similar "listening tour" of New York and spent her early days in the Senate "charming many of her Senate colleagues on the other side of the aisle with her intelligence, her tirelessness, and her deft ability to work the center of American politics." But none of that matters because did you see that slideshow? Gillibrand is pretty hot.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid already called her the "hottest member" of the Senate, and today Mayor Bloomberg gave his two cents on the leggy blond. He gushed to the Wall Street Journal, “I don’t think it’s appropriate for me to talk about people’s looks or dress, but Sen. Gillibrand at a black-tie event last night looked stunning, I think you could say...She’s a pleasure to sit next to and she certainly looked good." Easy there, Mike, your 12-year-old schoolgirl is showing.

Gillibrand recently lost 40 pounds by adhering to the "Gillibrand Diet," a combination of decaf coffee and squash games with Al Franken. But at a recent WNYC hosted dinner for the Empire State Pride Agenda she said "for this crowd, I'm sure you want to know how I did it." (Making sweeping generalizations about gay men and body image is always appropriate.) She then joked that she was on the "Pretend You're A Republican" diet, where whenever you see sweets or fats you act like a Senate Republican and "just say no." Check out the video below if you're not too worried about falling for the "stunning" senator.

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By Jaya Saxena in News on October 20, 2010 3:34 PM

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exnyer

Come on Bloomy........fess up, DADT is over.

dgeee

Senator Barbie goes to Washington.

just saying

Hardly. Gillibrand graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth and has a J.D. from UCLA School of Law. In addition, she is also fluent in Mandarin Chinese as a result of her studies in the Far East.

I actually worked for the same firm as Gillibrand a number of years ago, but what I remember most about her was her strong work ethic (rarely leaving the office before 7pm and often later) as well as her unfailing niceness to everybody regardless of position even when she was under a lot of work pressure. I'm sure that back then no one thought of her as being especially "hot." Of course, Gillibrand was attractive, but not really any more attractive than the other female associates.

Stewart

What I see is someone hedging her bets because she's unsure that she can will a popular election. She can always go on dancing with the stars.

I am embarrassed that in this day and age, we are fixated upon what a woman politician looks like, what she is wearing, what she is eating, and how much she weighs.

iago g.

Please, we all know the situation with Bloomberg...you think he goes to Bermuda for the golf?

ides_of_march

And Hillary is way ugly, so what?

Guess I'm just one of those strange people who doesn't care what a politician looks like, only where they stand on the issues.

bonu$baby

Very classy Senator Marie Antoinette. Posing for pictures in fancy designer clothes while your constituents are struggling to find a minimum wage job.

BDS=(Boycott.Divest.Sanction)

didn't you hear? her husband, Jonathan Gillibrand was making money shorting the market as the economy tanked.

Seriously I dont see how people believe the fantasy that these quasi-celebrities have anyones interest but their own at heart. If we replaced all of them with sock puppets we'd be better off.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/article/109442/congress-members-bet-on-fall-in-stocks

"Almost all the trades were in put options, which convey the right to sell a stock or other instrument at a given price until a given date. At least 34 times, Mr. Gillibrand bought puts on stocks of home builders, including Beazer Homes USA Inc. (NYSE: BZH - News, Hovnanian Enterprises Inc. (NYSE: HOV - News, Meritage Homes Corp. (NYSE: MTH - News and Ryland Group Inc. (NYSE: RYL - News. These were bets the builder stocks would fall; if they did, the puts' value would rise."

BDS=(Boycott.Divest.Sanction)

ugh. I loathe this woman. The way the media talks about her you'd hardly know that she can be kicked out of office come this Nov.

whats up with that?

How about a story about her opponent? Maybe something about the issues?

You can vote for someone else come Nov and 'purrty' Gillbrand, the heir apparent lap dog of Schummer could be sent back home. I hope that happens.

She was the first Senator to publically turn own Obama when he tried to force that "country" in mideast to define its borders.

JacqueMehoff

shut up bloombag, it wasn't that long ago when your girlfriend wanted to run against her. what happened to that?

eric

I think the vital question we should be asking in this election season is, "I could get up in it?" Kudos to all for bringing this important issue to light.

hotstepper

she looks good. she didn't look to shabs before. what's this gotta do with politics again?

nicemarmot

Her ginger baby in the slideshow is adorable. And considering how young he looks it's not surprising that she lost weight recently. Being preggo tends to make you chubbo.