SHEL SHOCKER - BEWARE CAROLINE, HE WARNS GOV

New York Post ^ | December 24 2008 | FREDRIC U. DICKER

[Mr_Moonlight]

ALBANY - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver yesterday strongly suggested that Gov. Paterson reject Caroline Kennedy as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's replacement - because she might be more loyal to Mayor Bloomberg than to the governor.

"If I were the governor, I would look and question whether this is the appointment I'd want to make, where her first obligation might be to the mayor of the City of New York, rather than to the governor who would be appointing her," Silver said.

He told Albany's Talk 1300-AM that he had no doubt that Bloomberg, a Democrat-turned-Republican-turned-independent who twice defeated Democrats while running as a Republican, was the main Force behind Kennedy's efforts to become a senator.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Last week I read where they consider this Robert Kennedy’s seat and feel it is a right of the Kennedy family to take it back. No lack of hubris in the Kennedy clan.

[fieldmarshaldj]

And a Senator is not supposed to be “loyal” to some other elected official (and in this case, some thug or hack). They’re supposed to be loyal to the Constitution and then the people (in that order).

[SunkenCiv]

"If I were the governor, I would look and question whether this is the appointment I'd want to make, where her first obligation might be to the mayor of the City of New York, rather than to the governor who would be appointing her," Silver said.

I guess no one mentioned to Silver that a senator's first obligation is to the United States of America; the second obligation is to the citizens of the state repped by the senator.