Gov Paterson Likely Will Name Caroline Kennedy to Replace Hillary Clinton as NY Senator

[SuperTrouper]

It is almost official. Gov. Paterson has discussed the NY State nomination with Majority Leader Harry Reid. It seems that the pressure to name CK as the new Senator is building steam as Hillary Clinton all but endorsed her by asking her supporters not to block her nomination, Bloomberg, Reid, likely Obama and major political leaders from the Democratic in New York and Washington. And today Caroline Kennedy expressed in Upstate New York that she would be "honored to replace Senator Clinton". So, Paterson is looking at the 2010 ticket when he runs for re-election and a ticket including Paterson-Kennedy is quite powerful in NY state and the fudraisers will drop tons of money for the Dem ticket if it includes Caroline.

[babylonsister]

1. Got a link or are you just speculatin'? nt

[WI_DEM]

2. link?

[SuperTrouper]

3. They just reported in MSNBC Caroline in Upstate and Harry Reid's conversation

with Paterson and Hillary's all-but-endorsement of CK

[ErinBerin84]

4. still, you might want to edit the title.

It's a bit misleading.

[SuperTrouper]

6. done

[Captain Hilts]

5. I hope she's got a map of upstate. She's never been there!

Good thing all the major cities are in a straight line, which Rochester a bit out of the way.

[ronnykmarshall]

9. Hillary really did well upstate.

She did her homework and got to know the issues that effected upstate NY.

Caroline can learn from Hillary.

[Captain Hilts]

10. Seeing her campaign for downticket candidates in Upstate while first lady is where NYDems...

got the idea to offer the post to her.

[HeraldSquare212]

20. She's still working on those 200,000 jobs she promised, too.

[whistler162]

8. She is here in Syracuse talking to local Democratic

politicians. Likely about support for her getting the Senate seat.

[Captain Hilts]

11. That's 'Seer-cuze' to Uticans. nt

[whistler162]

12. Utica???? Oh you mean the suburb of Rome!!!

never could remember its name.

:}

[Captain Hilts]

14. Utica, the Emerald of the Mohawk River Valley. Butt of jokes on "The Simpsons."

The NYT this morning makes fun of Utica on the op-ed page.

Oh, to be in Caffe Caruso on Bleecker Street right NOW.

[HeraldSquare212]

18. Apparently Dennis Miller did a joke about Utica at a show in Buffalo

He was playing a drunk Buffalo that just woke up with another city next to him in bed. He thinks to himself, Oh, no, not Rochester again! Then he looks over and screams, Oh my god I must have been drunk - it's Utica!

[Captain Hilts]

31. Rome, NY: Home site of the World Series of Bocce. nt

[Cha]

13. Heard it on the

local news, did ya?:) I saw her on my local news in Upstate New York last week and got really happy for some inexplicable reason.

[SuperTrouper]

16. I hope she goes to Binghamton, too. It is a nice Upstate city hoping to

recover after IBM left. But Syracuse is in my heart...went there for medical school.

[gauguin57]

17. I spent a lot of time in Binghamton as a kid ... visiting relatives.

Downtown is dead and sad. Everything's moved out to Vestal. And the recent flooding there didn't help any!

Yes, please, whoever the Senator is ... go to Binghamton ... they need help.

[SuperTrouper]

22. I love Binghamton. Still visit it and hope to buy a small country home in Newark Valley or Owego

visit that area, extremely beautiful landscape, rivers, and great people too.

[peace frog]

7. Here's hoping the report is true

Good choice, if so.

[mmonk]

15. Great.

[HeraldSquare212]

19. I will happily vote against her in any primary she runs in, and against Paterson.

This is absolutely ridiculous. If her last name were Smith no one would give her a second thought.

[Lucky 13]

21. self-delete

[SuperTrouper]

23. Oh oh, she is not runnig against Paterson, she will run with him in 2010.

[HeraldSquare212]

25. Right. And I'd vote against him in the primary, too.

[SuperTrouper]

28. why? I think that he is doing a good job. Is that you, Reverend Innis?

[HeraldSquare212]

30. For appointing Kennedy, if he does. I think a current NY elected official should be appointed.

Kennedy is under consideration only because of her name, and I don't want to be represented by a Senator who got the office because of who her father was.

[SuperTrouper]

32. So, then you would disqualify non-elected officials to Obama's cabinet?

such as Eric Holder, Susan Rice, Tim Geithner, Gen. James Jones, Gen. Eric Shinseki, Shaun Donovan, Lisa Jackson, Steven Chu, all non-elected.

[HeraldSquare212]

33. All Cabinet appointees.

[onenote]

24. if she wasn't appointed and challenged the appointee in the primary would you vote against her?

Just trying to figure out if your vote against her in a primary is based on her getting appointed or on your opposition to her being a senator.

[HeraldSquare212]

26. Being appointed. I doubt I'd vote for her if she ran, either.

I just don't see the compelling qualifications in her case. It's her name that's getting her a long look, nothing else.

[Thrill]

27. As soon as Reid endorsed, Obama apparently wants her to get it, and then Hillary

told her folks to back off criticizing Caroline, you knew Paterson was going to pick her. And she also got the backing of a popular upstate congresswoman.

Caroline is going to get it.

[SuperTrouper]

29. and she will be a fine Senator of the Empire State and bookmark this:

First Female US President in 2016 with a Vice-President from a Western state, say...Brian Schweitzer