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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She didn’t flunk out (as far as anyone has heard). She just couldn’t cut it and dropped out.
You should be permanently banned for that post.
I thought Vince F. was her daddy...?
But she did claim that as they crumbled her thoughts turned to the Bush tax cuts.
The fact that she made it up is probably even worse, because, even with forethought, she couldn't see how that revelation was both heartless and nonsensical.
“Quinn, they will never go away”, Larry Nichols.
Dear NYS. Whatever I did, I’m sorry and will never do it again.
Yes, and with her Debbie Wasserman-Schlutz hairdo, she’ll fit in even better.
Great, we finally get rid of the Kennedys, now this.
Neither actually. She entered Stanford and was going to major in chemistry in preparation for medical school but she switched majors to history early on. She never attended any medical school, but she did get a masters in Public Health from Columbia. That could be where the stories started.
I think expected to to be automagically be crowned to the ruling class because of her last name.
Don’t recall exactly what happened, don’t think she ever got momentum outside of NYC. Vaugely recall her getting grief about not knowing anything about Western NY (like that Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse are actually a part of the State).
Chelsea was not allowed to attend any classes of Prof. Eileen Wellstone while at Oxford. It seems the Professor, then a student, was assaulted by a serial groper in 1969.
You owe toenail fungus an apology.
Yep consider it a gift....Thanks Mom and Dad! She will run for Congress then maybe Mayor/Gov. of NY...eventually a White House run.
Her daddy Webb Hubbell would be so proud of her.
This is the state that has given us Jerry Nadler, Charlie Rangel, and Anthony Weiner. She should fit right in.
I think Caroline pulled out when it became apparent that she’d actually have to compete for the job.
Chelsea Clinton never got a Rhodes Scholarship. She was admitted to Oxford on the basis of her father’s connection to her college of choice.
Yep consider it a gift....Thanks Mom and Dad! She will run for Congress then maybe Mayor/Gov. of NY...eventually a White House run.
Will we ever be rid of this bunch of hicks from Arkansas and Illinois?
Ah sheesh! Is she going by the clinton or married name?
Guess we have to put up with ‘clinton clan’ like we did the ‘kennedys’.
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