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Albany -- Is this a Senate race or country music? Cheating husbands. An out-of-wedlock child. Prison bars. Strong, independent women standing by their wayward men. The stuff of late nights, neon-lit jukeboxes and smoky roadhouses? Not quite. These women are Hillary Rodham Clinton and Jeanine Pirro, both lawyers and both with homes in a tony suburb north of New York City, and they're on a possible political collision course. Clinton is the former first lady seeking a second term as New York's junior Democratic senator, and just possibly eyeing a run for the White House in 2008. Pirro, a district...

When Jeanine Pirro announced her interest in running against Hillary Clinton, she reminded reporters who dismissed her chances: "I'm a fighter." But already Pirro appears to be unilaterally disarming - by issuing a promise not to fight back against a vicious series of personal attacks by Mrs. Clinton's media surrogates. "Republicans who want us to throw mud at [Hillary] will be disappointed," Pirro campaign manager Kieran Mahoney tells New York magazine, before stating flatly: "We won’t engage in negative attacks." Asked to certify the no-negative-campaign pledge with a formal promise, the Pirro insider responded: "Jeanine already has." Instead, Mahoney said,...

He thinks she’s “the protoypical model for a successful statewide Republican.” Despite that lost speech page at her Waldorf press conference, the Pirro campaign is off! Meet her brand manager, Kieran Mahoney, the former Pataki packager who previously ran her successful campaigns for Westchester D.A. Greg Sargent spoke with him. Pirro says Hillary Clinton treats her job as a stepping-stone to the White House. But isn’t her own run a means toward greater fame—or a Fox News gig?If she wanted a career in broadcast journalism, she could have it today. Pirro’s running to win. Many think the part-time-senator attack line...