{"id":193317,"date":"2008-12-24T22:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-25T03:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/24\/rumbles-against-kennedy-koronation\/"},"modified":"2008-12-24T22:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-25T03:36:00","slug":"rumbles-against-kennedy-koronation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/12\/24\/rumbles-against-kennedy-koronation\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumbles Against  Kennedy Koronation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears that as time goes on, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/24\/nyregion\/24kennedy.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">we are beginning to see real push-back against Caroline Kennedy&#8217;s appointment to the US Senate to replace Hillary Clinton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among the concerns:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That she is too close to Michael Bloomberg, who was a Republican until recently, and might support him running for a 3rd term as mayor.<\/li>\n<li>Governor Patterson feels that his openness to her presenting his case to him has been turned into a steamroller by her people.<\/li>\n<li>Moves by Kennedy&#8217;s people and Bloomberg&#8217;s people to announce a replacement immediately, even though Patterson has clearly stated that he will not announce an appointment until Clinton resigns to become Secretary of State.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Something to realize here is that whoever Patterson appoints, they are likely to face a spirited challenge in the general, and based on what I&#8217;ve seen so far, Kennedy is a weak campaigner.<\/p>\n<p>Truth be told, a lot of this comes down to Bloomberg, whose strident support for her is <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">not<\/span> helping with New York Democrats, and the fact that she&#8217;s really not making herself particularly available which has drawn Palin analogies from her opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Fair or not, in a post Palin world, she needs to do an interview to show that she has a real clue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it appears that as time goes on, we are beginning to see real push-back against Caroline Kennedy&#8217;s appointment to the US Senate to replace Hillary Clinton. Among the concerns: That she is too close to Michael Bloomberg, who was a Republican until recently, and might support him running for a 3rd term as mayor. &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-193317","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\/193317"}],"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=193317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}