Caroline Kennedy Withdraws From Senate Bid After Learning She’s A Reject at Pat Dollard

Caroline Kennedy Withdraws From Senate Bid After Learning She’s A Reject

January 21st, 2009 (9) Posted By .

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Caroline Kennedy tonight withdrew her name from consideration to replace Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Senate after learning that Gov. David Paterson wasn’t going to choose her, The Post has learned.

Kennedy’s decision removes the highest-profile name in the ring to step into Clinton’s now-vacant seat, as she departs after getting confirmed today as President Obama’s Secretary of State.

Sources said the reason Paterson had decided not to tap the daughter of John F. Kennedy was her poor performances in media interviews and in in private sessions with various officials.

Aides to Kennedy couldn’t be reached for comment.

Paterson has said he is not yet sure who he will select, but plans to announce his pick by this weekend – and an announcement is expected either Friday or Saturday.

For the first time on Tuesday, shortly after Obama was inaugurated, Paterson acknowledged publicly that he is considering state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo for the slot.

Cuomo, who has soared in public polls over Kennedy in the past two weeks in popularity for the seat, has not said whether he’s interested in the job, but has not tamped down speculation that he’s making a play for it.

Kennedy’s entrance into the bidding for Clinton’s seat was intended to have the effect of clearing the field, and forcing other contenders to see her as the inevitable choice for the post once held by her uncle, Robert F. Kennedy.

Mayor Bloomberg privately backed her and publicly praised her abilities, and his top deputy, Kevin Sheekey, worked the phones aggressively on Kennedy’s behalf, and set her up with powerhouse consulting firm Knickerbocker SKD.

But her rollout received stiff criticism, as she ducked press questions during her first trip upstate, fared poorly in her initial round of media interviews – and several critics said she had a lack of a clear rationale for her candidacy.

The decision to appoint Clinton’s successor is solely Paterson’s, and he has offered conflicting comments about where he is in the process over the past few days – suggesting almost simultaneously that he’d made up his mind, and then that he hadn’t.

The surprise decision leaves a crowded field of about 15 people, mostly elected officials, vying to replace Clinton – including Long Island Rep. Steve Israel, Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi, upstate Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, Rep. Carolyn Maloney and teachers union head Randi Weingarten.

Kennedy’s brief foray into politics lasted just under a month, from the time she roiled New York politics shortly before Christmas to say she was interested in being picked for the seat to today.

Kennedy, who attended Obama’s inauguration on Tuesday, campaigned aggressively for the new president – and infuriated Clinton loyalists by dissing her during the primary races – and her relationship with him was often cited by her boosters as a value add if she had been picked.

Several sources said Obama was pulling for Kennedy as the pick, and Kennedy herself said the president had been “encouraging” about her making a play for it.

Clinton, meanwhile, was confirmed by the Senate today almost unanimously, in a vote of 94-2.

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sierrahome

…And here’s Don Pardo to tell you about your Lovely Parting Gifts!
0311inOHio (I didn’t drink the kool-Aid)

WTF? She is as qualified to be a US Senator as Barry is being POTUS… Perhaps if she had a different skin hue, a better chance she would have had.
http://tick-tick-booom.spaces.live.com ticticboom (Will Kill For The Constitution

Ted Kennedy may still be breathing, but he’s a dead man walking and everyone knows it.

Promises from any politician usually aren’t worth much to begin with, let alone from one with a foot already in the grave.

Much as I despise Cuomo (yet another example of the political class becoming a hereditary nobility, which we fought a revolution to abolish) he’s about the best guy who Patterson might pick.

You really don’t want Maloney or, God forbid, Weingarten in the Senate. Even union guys despise Weingarten. Course, most of them have kids in the shitholes she’s turned our schools into.

Maloney’s my Congress Critter. About all she does is bitch about how tough women have it. Well, women like her, anyway.

Women in other countries getting set on fire for having daughters instead of sons or have their throats cut because their fathers or husbands are afraid they might think for themselves doesn’t seem to bother her very much.
TedB

Soooo, if you can’t have it for nothing you won’t do it?

I wouldn’t hire her for ANYTHING!
TedB

It’s called parsing, but what the hell.

“Paterson had decided not to tap the daughter of John F. Kennedy”
Gmoney

M.I.L.F….AND THATS ABOUT IT! :gun: :gun: :gun: :gun:
silversurfer

Gmoney You’re either joking or you’re about 75 years old. That broad has the typical Kennedy girl looks which remind one of Skeletor. At least the California Kennedy has nice teeth. M.I.L.F.? Yeesh. Maybe after a quart of Jameson’s.
mike3481

Gmoney

MILF?
Dude, she’s a -2 on the MILF Babe Scale…

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Larry In NC

Kind of like saying, “You can’t fire me…I QUIT”