Rethug ex-spouse of McCARTNEY's squeeze is lining up to run for GILLIBRAND's seat

[UTUSN]

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Shevell ex eyes Kirsten seat

Bruce Blakeman, the Republican ex-husband of Nancy Shevell, is considering a run for Kirsten Gillibrand's US Senate seat, Page Six has learned.

Port Authority Commissioner Blakeman, who split with Shevell before she began dating Paul McCartney, was spotted with Conservative Party chairman Mike Long last week at Fresco by Scotto where they were overheard "trying to hammer out a path for Bruce to run for Senate" in 2010. ....

With Rudy Giuliani now looking unlikely to run against Gillibrand, several other Republicans are suddenly interested in her seat, including former Gov. George Pataki and Larchmont Mayor Liz Feld.

Gillibrand, the relatively unknown upstater picked by Gov. Paterson to fill out the rest of Hillary Clinton's term, is also exposed to primary challengers from within her own party, possibly including Thomas Suozzi, Bill Thompson, Steve Levy, Jon Cooper, and even Eliot Spitzer.

A Democratic party insider told us, "Because Gillibrand is vulnerable, a lot of people are seeing an opportunity to run for her seat. But the difficulty is fundraising, so the candidates will have to announce their intentions by January in order to start raising money."

Our insider continued, "Blakeman doesn't have the best track record -- he lost the campaign for New York State Comptroller in 1998 -- but the backing of Long and the Conservative party is important. It helped Pataki oust Cuomo in 1994."

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[Smarmie Doofus]

1. "Larchmont Mayor Liz Feld"?

Someone is pulling someone's leg.

[UTUSN]

2. Explain for us non-locals, please? Thanks!1 n/t

[Smarmie Doofus]

4. Sorry. I mean: obscure in the extreme.

Larchmont: tiny upper-middle class burgh just north of the city that doesn't even have it's own HS. ( uses Mamaroneck's, which is only slightly bigger.)

Unless she's concealing a Nobel Prize for discovering a cure for aging/heart attacks/ world hunger/ or existential malaise... I'd say the GOP is scraping the very bottom of the barrel.

Or..... she's got good publicists and high hopes ( the more likely scenario, now that I think of it.).

[Dennis Donovan]

3. He's Brad Blakeman's brother...

MSNBC watchers are familiar with Brad - he's second to Ron Christie in repig vileness: