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How N.Y. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand Fended Off All Comers
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyNEW YORK – Not so long ago political analysts and insiders in New York political circles saw Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand as easy pickings. She was an upstate two-term congresswoman from a rural and conservative district appointed to fill the seat vacated by Hillary Clinton after Caroline Kennedy, the sentimental favorite, withdrew from consideration during the messy, two-month process. From the moment Gillibrand took the job in Jan. 2009, she was under attack -- ignored, criticized or dismissed by all sides and political parties. Even after serving a few months, most New Yorkers still ...
Harold Ford Decides Not to Run for Senate in New York
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyHarold Ford Jr., the former congressman from Tennessee, will not take on New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in this year's Democratic primary, several sources reported Monday. "After giving it considerable thought and talking it over with his wife, he reached the conclusion that he would not be running, although he said he would like to remain active in the Democratic Party here," New York City Assemblyman Vito Lopez told the New York Post. Since early January, Ford, 39, a Merrill Lynch executive, had been gauging support for a possible primary challenge to Gillibrand, who was appointed to ...
Cuomo Challenge to Paterson Wouldn't Be Racially Divisive
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyBack in 2002, Andrew Cuomo, now New York's attorney general, provoked anger among black leaders when he challenged former Comptroller Carl McCall, the first African-American to win a statewide job, for the Democratic nomination for governor. But if Gov. David Paterson, also an African-American, goes through with his vow to seek re-election, the expected challenge from Cuomo would not be seen as racially divisive, according to a Quinnipiac University poll conducted Jan. 27-Feb. 1. As with other polls, the Quinnipiac survey shows Cuomo easily beating Paterson with a lead that now stands at 55 ...
Massachusetts' Senate Upset Prompts Shivers Among New York Democrats
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyForty-five percent of New York Democrats say they are very worried or worried that "like in Massachusetts" their party's candidate would lose the Senate seat at stake in November to a Republican, according to a Marist Institute poll conducted Jan. 25-27. Fifty-five percent are not very worried or not worried at all. "The Massachusetts race caught the eye of many New York Democrats," says Marist's Lee Miringoff. "Many are worried but not panicking." Fifty-one percent of the state's overall electorate say it doesn't make a difference whether it is represented by a Democrat or Republican, while ...
New State, Same Audacity: Harold Ford Weighs Gillibrand Challenge in NY
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyOne summer morning in 2004, the phone was ringing as I approached my desk at USA TODAY. It was an aide to then-Rep. Harold Ford Jr., asking where I had gotten the "documentation" for stating in a story that Ford's keynote address to the 2000 Democratic Convention was not memorable. A few minutes later, the congressman himself called. His opening line: "I hear you think my speech sucked." I was stunned into momentary silence, but his tone was friendly enough and the call was not out of character. Nearly two years before that, after all, the young Tennessean had mounted an audacious -- make ...
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