Posted on 01/22/2005 1:52:21 PM PST by COUNTrecount
Kennedy Tabloid Plea Falls on Deaf Ears
By MARC HUMBERT .c The Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to media: Don't make me tabloid fodder. Too late.
His plea appeared to fall on deaf ears almost immediately after The Associated Press reported on Monday that Kennedy was talking to top Democrats about running for state attorney general, a race that could pit him against his estranged brother-in-law, Andrew Cuomo.
Kennedy, an environmental lawyer, is a son of slain New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Cuomo, the former federal housing secretary, is the elder son of former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo.
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EXCUSE ME!!!!
I guess it would be too much to hope for that a Republican could win this position.
And the writer of the environmental policy pushed on CA by the new "R" governor. Like that R means anything.
I can't imagine he'd win with all his scandals. Wasn't he a heroin addict at one point?
Yep. While he worked in the District Attorney's office!
New York Times, January 18, 2005:He was arrested in 1983 in Rapid City, S.D., and charged with possession of heroin. He was sentenced to 800 hours of community service. After completing five months of drug treatment, he moved to the Hudson Valley to do his community service at an environmental law center and began a career as an advocate for environmental and antipollution causes.
I'm surprised he didn't go into anti-drug lobbying. As in free heroin and cocaine for everybody! Another bureacracy to "manage" it of course. Bigger government - another giveaway program - 'Rats would love it.
Wasn't possession of heroin in 1983 a felony in S.D.? I know he's a Kennedy and they don't get charged with the same thing an ordinary person would be charged with but it seems strange to me that this would be expunged from his record like a DUI and allow a convicted felon to become N.Y.'s highest law enforcement officer.
RFK jr served his "community service" time with what became the Hudson Riverkeepers. He has since built that into the Waterkeeper Alliance (eco terrorists), taken over the Hudson organization, and hired at least one more felon to assist in the leadership. Hiring that felon caused all of the other leadership to quit.
This is from a 1983 article in People:
Bobby then issued a statement, released by his uncle Sen. Edward Kennedy, admitting his drug troubles. “With the best medical help I can find, I am determined to beat this problem,” he said. On Thursday, more than four days after the airplane incident, Rapid City police charged Kennedy with possession of heroin (authorities said that slightly less than a gram was found in his bag), a felony punishable by up to two years in jail and a $2,000 fine.Despite the young Kennedys’ scrapes over the years--the car wrecks, the carousing, the marijuana busts, even younger brother David’s 1979 heroin problem--the news about Bobby was especially shocking. As much as any of the family’s new generation, he was heir apparent to the Kennedy legacy, the standard-bearer of their ‘60s social conscience. Interviews with friends and acquaintances across the country, however, reveal a different, frightening story.
In fact, there were two Bobby Kennedys. The public one was diversely talented. He worked as an assistant in the Manhattan office of District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, a family friend, with a splendid political career ahead of him. At 24, he had turned his 1976 undergraduate Harvard thesis into a well-publicized biography of maverick Alabama judge Frank Johnson, whom he admired for his courageous compassion (and who taught him to chew tobacco). His vigor and thirst for adventure had led him from the touch-football fields of Hickory Hill to white-water rafting on raging South American rivers, skiing the virgin powder of Andean mountains, appearing in an African wildlife documentary and learning the fine points of falconry.
The private Bobby, though, was a desperate young man, an adventurer who courted danger in other ways, some of them chemical. On source says he had become a “binger.” One night he might overindulge in alcohol. Another night, with another group of friends, it might he cocaine. Then it was Valium to round off the jagged edges. And increasingly it was heroin, which he would score on dangerous forays alone into nighttime Harlem.
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