Posted on 10/26/2011 2:18:26 PM PDT by bkopto
Talk of the Sound has learned that Chelsea Clinton may run for Congress next year.
Clinton has been approached by "the right people" in the New York Democratic Party, according to one source in Albany. While no decision has been made, Clinton is said to be "actively considering" a Congressional run from New York State in 2012.
Chelsea Clinton, 31, is the only child of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The discussions of running Chelsea Clinton for a house seat grew out of the redistricting plans currently underway in the New York State legislature in Albany.
The plan is to identify an open seat for Clinton in or around New York City where she currently resides with her husband, Marc Mezvinsky. While no specific district has been determined, New York City and Westchester are said to be the focus with New York's 18th District considered a strong possibility. The 18th encompasses much of Westchester County, just south of where her parents have maintained a home for the past 12 years.
Bill and Hillary Clinton have owned a home in New York's 19th Congressional District since 1999. The 19th is a swing district that went for Republican Nan Hayworth in 2010. The 18th District on the other hand is solidly Democratic. Barack Obama won the district in 2008 by 62% to 38%, John Kerry won in 2004 by 58% to 42%. Al Gore won the district 58% to 39%.
One senior Democrat, a former elected official in New York, told Talk of the Sound that Democrats involved in the discussions are excited, seeing Chelsea Clinton as an "automatic win" for the Democrats in 2012.
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My thoughts exactly, NY is dumb enough to vote for this clown.
Didn't she just get a $330,000 do-nothing job on some corporate board, even though she's still a grad student?
By her own account, when she saw the WTC towers crumbling in person, she thought of the Bush tax cuts.
She'll fit right in with the scumbag Democratic congress.
Now everybody puke:
Add to this impressive list of “accomplishments” she graduated from Stanford where she rarely attended classes, was a Rhodes Scholar where she majored in the study of drinking and partying to excess.
Chelsea has lived a full and acomplished life...have you?
The Clintons are the toenail fungus of politics.
Oh, no! First we had the Kennedy regime, then the Bush dynasty and now we have to put up with a Clinton Cadre!? Givre me a break!
What happened to Caroline Kennedy? I thought she wanted to be the next politician crowned by the NY Dem establishment.
Actually, while the Twin Towers were falling, her oh-so-honest mother said that Chelsea Dearest was jogging around the World Trade Center. Then the dopey daughter later said she was uptown watching it on tv.
But will she be billed as the smartest woman in America, or the second smartest?
She been struck hard by the Hillary ugly schtick.
Good GOD almighty is that one ugly girl.
Not Debbie Wasserman Schultz ugly,
But still run screaming in to the night scared ugly.
Another worthless human parasite who has accomplished nothing in life being elected to office where they can inflict their ignorance on the rest of us.
This democracy stuff is starting to suck.
I bet her daddy would be so proud (if he were still alive).
You nailed it. The idea that there are actual qualifications to be a politician has pretty much become a joke.
I smell ambition.
You nailed it. The idea that there are actual qualifications to be a politician has pretty much become a joke.
Chelsea flunked out of medical school?
Anyway, I agree she will probably go the way of Princess Caroline. Overprivilege lasts only so long. There are exceptions, like the Swimmer of Chappaquiddick.
So glad I don’t live in the Empire State. Too bad, I hear upstate is beautiful in the fall.
You sound like a potential campaign contributor.
Web is still alive.
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