{"id":193060,"date":"2009-01-23T18:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/23\/clinton-senate-replacement\/"},"modified":"2009-01-23T18:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T23:26:00","slug":"clinton-senate-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/23\/clinton-senate-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinton Senate Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Governor David Paterson has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/24\/nyregion\/24senator.html\">picked Kirsten Gillibrand to replace Hillary Clinton in the Senate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s a member of the Blue Dog caucus in the house (**blarf**), probably because she is in a Republican leaning district, but we have already seen some evidence of moderation, as she recently came out<sup>*<\/sup> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prideagenda.org\/tabid\/304\/default.aspx?c=368\">marriage equality and the repeal of DOMA and DADT<\/a>, so she is making nice with the gay community.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that she has thrown a few elbows, and because of this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/glennthrush\/0109\/Shes_not_Miss_Popularity.html?showall\">she is not particularly popular with other members of her delegation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, even if she moderates some of her views, I think that the fact that she has a 100% rating from the NRA, and that will antagonize many of the New York state Democrats, particularly Carolyn McCarthy, who is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/local\/ny-pocaro2312389719jan23,0,7454885.story\">already threatening an aggressive primary challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is not surprising.  Rep. McCarthy takes gun control <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">very<\/span> personally, as her husband was murdered, and her son gravely injured by the Long Island Rail Road killing spree of Colin Ferguson.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, let&#8217;s see how she does over the next year.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Pun not intended.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Governor David Paterson has picked Kirsten Gillibrand to replace Hillary Clinton in the Senate. She&#8217;s a member of the Blue Dog caucus in the house (**blarf**), probably because she is in a Republican leaning district, but we have already seen some evidence of moderation, as she recently came out* for marriage equality and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}