Posted on 12/23/2008 10:07:37 PM PST by melt
ALBANY — Resistance is emerging among Democratic officials against Caroline Kennedy as she pursues Hillary Rodham Clinton’s seat in the United States Senate, with Gov. David A. Paterson bristling over suggestions that her selection is inevitable, according to his advisers, and other leading Democrats concerned that she is too beholden to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
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.
“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.”
The governor’s frustration follows reports last week that Kevin Sheekey, a top deputy to Mr. Bloomberg who has been advising Ms. Kennedy, had called a labor leader and told him that Ms. Kennedy was going to be senator, “so get on board now,” and that a member of Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s staff was helping Ms. Kennedy reach out to unions.
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Well, that's the only way Paterson's going to be able to determine proximity.
They want the “right” leftist Democrat.
The word is out, via Geraldine Ferraro, who feels Princess Caroline is not qualified for the job , that Sheldon Silver, the most powerful man in NY, is AGAINST her nomination. That makes it far from a done deal.
Princess Caroline has indeed been the heiress to the Kennedy fortune.
She inherited $5-10 million from Old Man Kennedy when she was born , then more when he died, more when Rose died, even more when JFK was assassinated, and even more when Jackie died. When JFK jr died, she inherited everything he ever had, and probably doubled her net worth. She is very,very rich.
She now wants to inherit the keys to the kingdom, and re=open Camelot. But the Kingmaker, Sheldon Silver, the most powerful man in NY politics, says “no way”.
NY Times is tossing her aside. Bye bye Caroline. Besides, Hillary doesn’t like Kennedys.
Leftist world is ‘backwards’ world.
They claim to fight for the poor and yet revere the rich
They fight for higher taxes and then dodge paying them
The almost always achieve the opposite of their stated goals. They want to save a bird or a snail somewhere and their fanaticism drives them to do some stupid crap that gets what they want to save killed.
Or they cause a different problem like the global food shortage with the ethanol disaster.
And they keep doing the same crap over and over and over regardless of outcome. In short they are irrational nut balls!!
LLS
The political rumor mill is saying that Ted Kennedy wants his seat to go to his wife.
Surely there are some Cuomo backers who will also get in the Gov.’s face.
NY can only be cleansed by a three-way Clinton-Kennedy-Cuomo fight to the end.
Well duh, I do believe most of the left is also worried about being near the “Kennedy Curse”.
Former, Current, Future? I thought that all Kennedy wives ever got were divorce settlements.
Current. She is an attorney (what a surprise) and is about thirty-forty years younger than Ted if memory serves.
In Hawaii on her knees
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