Michael
Dec 29th 2008, 11:14 AM
ALBANY — Resistance is emerging among Democratic officials against Caroline Kennedy as she pursues Hillary Rodham Clinton’s seat in the United States Senate, with Gov. David A. Paterson bristling over suggestions that her selection is inevitable, according to his advisers, and other leading Democrats concerned that she is too beholden to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
The governor is frustrated and chagrined, the advisers said, because he believes that he extended Ms. Kennedy the chance to demonstrate her qualifications but that her operatives have exploited the opportunity to convey a sense that she is all but appointed already. He views this as an attempt to box him in, the advisers said.
Source (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/nyregion/24kennedy.html?_r=2&ref=politics)
Does anyone actually like the idea of appointing Caroline Kennedy to Hillary's NY Senate seat?
Personally, I don't like the idea of appointing people to fill vacant seats to begin with. Representatives of the people ought to be elected by the people, not appointed by political elites.
Secondly, I don't like any of the Kennedy family and I am loathe to pay any respect to American aristocracy or dynastic politics.
I think appointing Kennedy is a bad policy choice and a bad political choice. If she's appointed to the spot, it will be [another] ugly day for American democracy.
The governor is frustrated and chagrined, the advisers said, because he believes that he extended Ms. Kennedy the chance to demonstrate her qualifications but that her operatives have exploited the opportunity to convey a sense that she is all but appointed already. He views this as an attempt to box him in, the advisers said.
Source (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/nyregion/24kennedy.html?_r=2&ref=politics)
Does anyone actually like the idea of appointing Caroline Kennedy to Hillary's NY Senate seat?
Personally, I don't like the idea of appointing people to fill vacant seats to begin with. Representatives of the people ought to be elected by the people, not appointed by political elites.
Secondly, I don't like any of the Kennedy family and I am loathe to pay any respect to American aristocracy or dynastic politics.
I think appointing Kennedy is a bad policy choice and a bad political choice. If she's appointed to the spot, it will be [another] ugly day for American democracy.