Who Will Replace Hillary In The Senate?

Nine months ago, when he was the lieutenant governor, David A. Paterson dreamed that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton would head to the White House and he would be tapped to fill her Senate seat.

Now Mr. Paterson, who became governor in March after Eliot Spitzer resigned, will be the one picking a replacement for Mrs. Clinton, who is said to be poised to become the next secretary of state.

On Friday night, just before delivering a speech to the N.A.A.C.P. in San Francisco, Mr. Paterson told reporters that 10 to 20 people had already contacted him about their interest in taking Mrs. Clinton's place. "I would say it's not a shy and retiring group of people who would like to serve in the Senate," he said, declining to name them. "It's almost distracting me from trying to close the very severe deficit of nearly $15 billion in New York."

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Comments

[longislandlol]

Hillary has been great- she really was heroic immediately after 9-11 and was always around- as a replacement- our Gov. has repeatedly stated in the Press- he sees no need to replace her with another woman- which means he is politically setting us up for Andrew Cuomo--

[TommyMcCarthy]

Love to see Caroline Kennedy in that spot (if she's intersted)
I've been an admirer for decades.........She's bright, articulate, practical

(not to mention that she is a genuine New Yorker, has a solid relationship w/ the president-elect, and has some solidly Dem./progressive creds in her DNA!

Truthfully, I'd prefer to see Hillary stay in the Senate and replace Harry-the-mild-and-mellow as Mjty. Leader.

What a killer point person for the Agenda eh?
tm

[sueno]

Anybody but Andrew Cuomo! his father was far better than he!
Not to mention, Cuomo used the "shuck and jive" comment
to say Obama was not qualified- what has he done?
Can we get a new face without long family-connected ties-
NO MORE CLINTON-LIKE legacies!

[newpotusplease]

Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

NY born and raised

woman

attorney

bright

and RFK jr should go to interior, or if not, the senate seat should be given to him

[WarriorLemming]

"Who Will Replace Hillary In The Senate?"

The devil might be too good for a Senate replacement considering what Hillary has been. After the Bosnia lie she told four times how can we trust her and be certain that she's telling the truth? And after voting with Bush & Co. on a preemptive strike on Iraq how will we be certain that such poor judegement won't be demonstrated again costing so many American and Iraqi lives to the tune of trillions & trillions of debt for our country? She is shameful and embarressing for this country and has no qualification for Secretary of State.

[happy1234]

I agree. 100% that Patterson shoudl go with the candidate who has the most chance of winning in 2010. We need to ensure that the Senate seat stays with the Democrat in 2010. There is always the possibility of Rudy Giuliani jumping in again to give another try and the canididate picked must ba ble to defeat him!!!

[truth2008]

I say go with the person who will be able to hold the seat in 2010, Gov. Patterson should select the person who polls better for the senate seat. We can't afford to lose a senate seat in2010. I suspect 911 Rudy G., will be throwing his hat into the ring, he's such an opportunist.

[likeicare]

How about Nita Lowrey (spelling?) -- the NY Congresswoman Hillary vaulted over, back in 2002 (or whenever it was that Hillary first ran for the Senate)? She seems like the most deserving one to get the nod.

[Mildmannered]

Bill Clinton -- to spearhead his wife's national healthcare initiative

[newpotusplease]

Schumer's would nix that idea

[YunekFlava]

SInce I believe it should be a female, only two names come to mind: Rep. Nydia Velasquez and Rep. Nita Lowery.

[scoootchover]

Bill should replace Hill and be he Jr. Sen. from NY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Yermammy]

Yea! And then she can cheat on him! Yea!

[Doofus]

Odds on favorite: Caroline Kennedy

[newpotusplease]

exactly

[Yermammy]

Why not Benedict Arnold? That would be consistent. A perfect replacement.

[Grunty1]

Lieberman is already in the Senate.

[Yermammy]

Yer right, I forgot. Damn.

[harriettubman]

Some other person from another state who looks around the country and decides to run in NY like Hillary did.

[Yermammy]

She was simply test marketing in New York for her ascendancy to the Throne. And then someone had to tell her we don't have a Parliament. Or Castles. Or dragons.

[AdV2k1]

I don't see why Bill Clinton would be a bad choice. This will keep him out of the way of Obama and Hillary and keep him busy and out of the way.

[Firenze]

Bill taking her vacant seat in the Senate would be almost too perfect an ending to their very public saga. Also, I do love the idea.

[TommyMcCarthy]

Bill's not going for that!