NY's Gov Picks Conservative Dem for Hillary Seat, Enrages Libs

Evil Conservative Radio ^ | 23 January 2009 | EC

[nysuperdoodle]

Surprising pretty much everyone, NY Governor David Patterson is expected to announce today that he has selected upstate conservative Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand to fill the seat vacated by new Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, infuriating the Dems who had been aggressively lobbying behind the scenes for the patronage peach.

[Chode]

upstate gets some representation??? that alone will make them crazy, but an NRA endorsement, that will make RATheads explode for sure...

[squeegee boy]

She was a lawyer for big tobacco, her dad is a lobbyist at the state capitol, and she took some time off last summer during the collapse to have a second kid on the senate free health care program (just in case people actually found out about her and she lost in November). Her first election campaign was a big muckraking smear and her second was as well. Instead of actually saying she opposed the war in Iraq, her response was Obama-like saying she supported the troops. So now NY is without a congressman/woman and upstaters not equally represented in DC. Lose, lose ,lose situation.

[Bluegrass Conservative]

Thanks. I should have explained better though. I meant that the main people voting against him would come from upstate (at least in a general election). Isn’t that area typically more conservative and Republican leaning?

[b4its2late]

I guess that’s good for us upstate, assuming she stays that way in the Senate, I hope anyway. But she can always go left.

[b4its2late]

She'll be fundraising constantly for almost four years.

Don't all politicians do that all the time?

[TBP]

I meant that the main people voting against him would come from upstate (at least in a general election). Isn’t that area typically more conservative and Republican leaning?

[TBP]

She's not nearly as good looking as Sarah!

But she is cute.

[TBP]

She’s a liberal pro-abort. She was, however, less bad than any of the other candidates, given that Democrats run the stte. So it’s not a terrible pick.

[TBP]

I guess that’s good for us upstate, assuming she stays that way in the Senate, I hope anyway. But she can always go left.

Like Charles Goodell.

[Uri’el-2012]

In 2007 NARAL Pro-Choice America gave Representative Gillibrand a grade of 100.

Another good Roman Catholic who believes
in murdering millions of innocent babies.

[TBP]

I meant that the main people voting against him would come from upstate (at least in a general election). Isn’t that area typically more conservative and Republican leaning?

As much as anywhere in New York these days. The major Democrat areas are Greater New York, the Albany area, and Erie County. But they have enough votes to keep the state solidly blue.

[Chode]

yeah, i shoulda known...