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To: SilentZ who wrote (449921)	1/22/2009 5:27:40 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575728

Gillibrand for Senate? NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell reported this morning that Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) has emerged as the front-runner for Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat after Caroline Kennedy dropped out of contention last night. Mitchell reported that Paterson had a conversation with Gillibrand Wednesday morning and that the New York governor has her on his short list of contenders for the seat. Gillibrand, a second-term congresswoman from upstate New York, has a résumé that would please the Clintons. She served as a special counsel for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (under Andrew Cuomo!) in former President Clinton’s administration, and helped raise money for Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaigns in New York. One of Gillibrand’s top political advisers in her first election was former Clinton strategist Howard Wolfson. Gillibrand would be a savvy political choice, as well. She has twice won election in one of the most Republican congressional districts in New York, handily defeating her GOP opponent with 62 percent of the vote last year. She has assiduously courted the local officials in her district, almost all of whom are Republican. She has a voting record that matches the moderate nature of her district. A member of the conservative Democratic Blue Dog Coalition, Gillibrand recently drew fire from a gun control group for her support of gun ownership rights. But if Paterson appointed Gillibrand, Democrats would risk losing the seat in a special election. The Democratic bench is not deep in the district, and a vacancy would provide Republicans with an early test of their competitiveness in the Obama era. politico.com