When Kirsten Gillibrand was appointed Senator, I wrote a nice OP/Ed praising her as a blue dog Democrat in tune with upstate values and issues. I thought it was great when Newsday reported she slept with a gun under her bed.
She never thanked me for the piece that ran in Watertown and Syracuse. Now I know why.....
She was planning on repudiating her blue dog and embracing the "progressives." Meanwhile the party hierarchy and the unions are trashing her prospective opponent as out of touch with the middle class.
Harold Ford Junior is just too centrist for the progressives and Ms. Gillibrand has been more than accommodating in her effort to nail down the party nomination.
Senator Gillibrand looks to have all the muscle to win the nomination....but she no longer appears to be a blue dog.....
Gillibrand, MoveOn 'Hero'
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The sad thing is... the Republicans have no candidate.
That is, unless, you count Bruce Blakeman, who can't even get his upstate cities' names right.
Yup, she's just Chuckie's little girl. Doing what she is told and saying what she is allowed. What an extreme disappointment to those of us who thought we were getting a woman with a brain.
I would vote for Ford in a minute if given the chance. But I doubt the Donkeys will give me that chance.
I think it's more her being the junior senator and therefore having to "do what you're told" rather than any move leftward. People just don't change philosophically just becuz they change jobs. Should she be re-elected and "get some dust on her locker" she very well might return to her blue dog ways. Likely would. Or, maybe pull a Lieberman and go indie. In any case the Repubs got nuthin' and Ford keeps stepping on it. Is hers to lose.
She's just another fool on a downstate leash. Call it what it is. We thought she might be one of us. I guess we were the fools.
Folks: We're all hanging our collective hat on a machine that we all say we hate -- the more we gripe and whine vs. the more they grip and grin and haul in millions, the worse it will get.
You want change? You have to help make change ... Gillibrand is change: from bad to worse.
I can't figure out why the Dems are so afraid of a Primary for her?
Maybe they think she can't handle tough issues (war, torture, national defense, etc.) -- hell, she's already proven that she can't - so what's to lose?
Using all the ammo I have left
And there stands Dan, like a stone wall. He is absolutely right. But I have to say, the Dems don't want a primary because they LIKE fruitcakes and Chuckie types. They have learned nothing from people who have had enough government and taxes. People don't have any more money to hand over to bureaucrats and lawyers. They ain't happy. Gilllibrand is just another back slappin' worker screwin' politician who does and says everything Schmuck tells her to. She had a mind of her own when she started out. Now, you can hear her think by reading Chuck's lips. Very sad and disappointing for us. Dan, if we had a primary, anybody with some integrity would win.
The only way the Dem voters in NYS would be able to choose would be to have a Primary challenge to Gillibrand and that is only likely via a challenger with lots of money to mount a massive petition drive for a Sep Primary.
It’s for sure that when the NYS Dem establishment holds their convention in June to "bless" her that there is no way in hell that they would likely allot 25% to anyone that would trigger a Primary.
I have reached out to them twice recently but to date, not even an acknowledgment about my email.
So, unless a lot of money comes into play for a petition drive, there will be no primary and little Miss Prissy wins hands down without even trying hard, and again, the people get screwed ... Ironically, people still wonder why people like me get so riled up about trying to run and make any difference or change – simple: the system we have will not allow it – it protects itself. This Gillibrand free ride is a classic (and crappy) example.
Talk like that is why they won't listen to you, or return your calls.
To be a good party line man you have to shed all sense of integrity, like a Henessey. You're not measuring up, Dan.
I am a "good party" man, and I always have been, but I will not be silent or mum, publicly or otherwise when things need to be said.
I don't lockstep, fall in line and follow like a lemming over the cliff when I see shitty "leadership" or a lack of leadership. I leave that up to the lockstep, fall off the cliff GOP [smile].
A lot of folks can't spell leadership, let alone recongize it when they see it.
I may have never won an election, but I have led on tough issues for over 40 years of public service all over the world ... not bragging, just stating a fact.
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