Problems involving taxes and a household employee surfaced during the vetting of Caroline Kennedy and derailed her candidacy for the Senate, a person close to Gov. David A. Paterson said on Thursday, in an account at odds with Ms. Kennedy’s own description of her reasons for withdrawing.
The account emerged 14 hours after Ms. Kennedy announced that she was taking her name out of contention for the Senate seat vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton, and as Mr. Paterson, according to two Democrats told of his thinking, was leaning toward selecting Representative Kirsten E. Gillibrand, an upstate lawmaker in her second term in Congress.
Hard feelings toward Ms. Kennedy were clearly building among the governor’s staff on Thursday, after a dramatic evening in which she was reported to be dropping out, then wavering, then ultimately, shortly after midnight on Thursday, issuing a statement ending her candidacy.
…and Caroline Kennedy’s qualifications were..?
A dead father, and a drunken and unindicted uncle are not qualifications for Senator. She accomplished exactly what? Please tell if you can.
She accomplished the same thing anyone whose last name is “Windsor” has. She can speak with almost the same clarity as one of them, too.
And accomplished only slightly less that a Senator whose initials are BHO has.
oops, that should be “FORMER Senator”
Unlike the Kennedys, the Windsors actually supported democracy’s success during World War II. Grandpa Joe wanted to sell out democracy to Hitler on a platter. Yes, the Windsors have a silver shovel in their mouths, but boy I’m not aware of any bodies that a handler had to cover up. Ted, can you speak to that?
Newspapers should stick to hard news and when tempted to sensationalize the trivial recall the fate of Weekly World News and National Enquirer.
#4, I’ve always been under the impression that once a judge, governor, or senator you get to keep that title until. Same with retired military officers.
While I think this is the right outcome, I do think that Caroline is not responsible for actions of her grandfather, uncles, and cousins. Her problem was she had no political qualifications of her own.
So why is it that our upper echelon doesn’t pay their taxes? Or follow the law when it comes to household help?
Thank-you, Katherine, indeed. And the problem is that in way too many places, having no qualifications does not seem to disqualify from one consideration.
she had no business trying for it in the first place; although if she were a ‘hot’ former beauty queen and right wing, rad conservatives would be all over the place making claims of her ‘qualifications’….
magnolia, how sad that even with your guy installed in the White House you still hang onto an irrational dislike of Sarah Palin, who is a sitting governor of two years’ experience. I note that the replacement for Kennedy, who will now become a Senator, is also a nice-looking forty-ish woman with two years’ experience in an elected position (U.S. Congress). She’s a Democrat. Is that the big difference?
RE: “Is that the big difference?”
Yep — it is. And the fact that Magnolia doesn’t like what Palin believes and stands for in the way of policy.