Tag: "Kirsten Gillibrand"

Next Up for Gillibrand, Chair of the Senate Committee on Pole-Dancing?

| September 21, 2010 | Comments (1)

I bet when Kirsten Gillibrand learned she had been appointed to replace Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Senate, she has all sorts of visions about how it would be. She’d get to sit at the table with powerful veteran Democratic politicians as an equal, one of a powerful majority whose ideas for making America stronger [...]

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Republicans Can Take New York. It Starts with Senator Gilliland. (UPDATED)

Republicans Can Take New York. It Starts with Senator Gilliland. (UPDATED)

| January 25, 2009 | Comments (2)

I think I’m going to like this new Senator from New York. She knows what’s important. In the middle of her introductory speech, which was kind of important to her since she needed to make a good first impression (she’s not exactly a household name), she got a phone call. On the other end was [...]

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Paterson Throws Dem the Ol’ Knuckleball

| January 23, 2009 | Comments (1)

New York Replacement Governor David Paterson has finally decided who will fill Hillary Clinton’s vacant Senate seat and – surprise! – he didn’t go with the progressive neoptism choices of Caroline Kennedy or Andrew Cuomo. Instead, he picked Kirsten Gillibrand, a sitting one-term member of the House of Representatives. Gillibrand is not without her own [...]

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