Kirsten Gillibrand On Sports, Nicknames, And Pantsuits

Elle.com:

This time, my first interview with Gillibrand, in mid-May, ­begins in the least threatening way imaginable: looking at a ­photo album, offered by her press secretary, featuring the senator's two ­beguiling sons, five-year-old Theo and Henry, who will be ­celebrating his first birthday with his parents this evening. Sniffling from a cold she caught from her boys and curled up on the edge of a canary yellow sofa in the Senate office she inherited from Clinton, Gillibrand seems to revel in chattering about safe topics. All it takes, for example, is a simple reportorial question to reduce her to giggles: Have you figured out how to handle child care as you run statewide in New York?

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Comments

[JhNyc]

Gillibrand fans should enjoy her while they can. Very doubtful she'll survive the primary, nor will our current governor.

[SmallChange]

KG - just go away, I'll vote for that.

[BlackYowe]

Most people in Western NY like Kirsten Gillibrand as do I. The less she is like the stamped out New York City type politician the more I like it. We do not live in that world and no one from NYC has ever cared at all about Buffalo or Rochester or any turf west of Albany!

[JhNyc]

Upstate was not badly represented by Senators Moynihan and Clinton, but I am sure you are right that NYC and downstate receive more attention. Still, there are more votes to be had in the metro area.