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.