Posted on 01/24/2005 11:00:26 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj
January 24, 2005 at 22:51:26 PST
Kennedy Won't Run for NY Attorney General
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK (AP) - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental lawyer and son of slain New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, said he will not run for state attorney general, a move that takes him out of a race that could have pitted him against his estranged brother-in-law, Andrew Cuomo.
Kennedy, 51, told The New York Times in Tuesday editions that running for the office now held Eliot Spitzer by would have forced him to sacrifice significant time with his wife and children.
"I talked about it a lot with my wife, with my kids, my uncle and my brothers and sisters," he said. "It's funny, all the family members who had not been in political office urged me to run and the ones who had served in office urged me not to."
He told the newspaper that his decision had nothing to do with the possibility of running against Cuomo, housing secretary under President Clinton.
Kennedy is chief attorney for the environmental group Riverkeeper and has been a leading state environmental activist for more than two decades.
He has also been active in New York politics and briefly considered running for the Senate seat won by Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2000. At that time, as well, he said that family commitments kept him from making the bid.
Widely urged to run by political figures and others, Kennedy did say he would seek elected office at some point in the future.
"The kinds of hours I would put into this job would mean that I would never see my kids," he said. "But I feel certain that I will run for office once day."
However, he prefaced that desire with concern for his six children.
"But I think I need to wait a few years until my younger children get a little older."
*ping* NY (Kennedy) politics
RFK, Jr. drops out of State AG race.
RFK, Jr. must have some skeletons in his closet. No other reason for him to drop out.
Well, sheesh, they ALL have skeletons of one sort or another. You ain't a Kennedy until you've had a scandal or two. The problem with RFK, Jr., though, is more of ideology, this guy is a certifiable hard-lefty envirokook. If his dad were still alive, he'd probably cringe.
Hopefully his limo will hit a deer.....I know, that ain't nice.
Hey ! What did the deers ever do to you ?
The only thing that could be worse for a Kennedy was discovering they had ethics or high moral standards.
One Democrat loser out. Many Democrat losers remain. Undoubtedly, one of the remaining Democrat losers will win.
No Republican will become AG because, well, we really have no Republican with statewide name recognition capable of winning the AG race.
The wimp commie gives me the creeps.
It's too bad ex-AG Dennis Vacco blew it in '98. He could've kept Sue Spitzer from rising.
It would have been too much like work.
If you are talking about Kennedy's it's not a closet, its a warehouse.
Regards,
Or more likely, "Jr's." phones would be tapped, the FBI would have a 24/7 tail on him, and secret files would be amassed for future blackmail.
Wait.... I'm sorry. I must be thinking of a DIFFERANT Attorney General named RFK who did all that to MLK Jr. (semi-sarcasm off)
Why do they describe Andrew Cuomo as his "estranged brother-in-law"? Did Cuomo and his wife split up? Or are they merely saying that Cuomo and RFK, Jr. don't talk to each other?
There must be a Republican U.S. Attorney or *somebody* who could beat Cuomo in the AG election. Our candidate could hit Cuomo hard for his extreme liberal views, pointing out that NY needs an AG who will be tough on crime instead of coddling criminals. And it sure wouldn't hurt if independent ads reminded black voters how Cuomo defamed McCall during the run-up to the 2002 gubernatorial primary.
Blew it is right! Refused the conservative party nomination, even, which would have given him the margin of victory. What a disgrace, and a fellow Colgate alumnus to boot!
From what I understand, Cuomo's estranged wife had the sex drive of the male Kennedy members, and I doubt it would've been what either one would've wanted to come to the fore in a primary contest. If anything, that might've gotten Cuomo some sympathy votes.
Republicans have a credible candidate in Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan. I wouldn't rule out winning that race.
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