Caroline Kennedy Leaks May Be Probed By New York Ethics Panel
ALBANY -- The state's top ethics panel is reviewing a request from three government watchdog groups to investigate the Paterson administration's leaks...
ALBANY -- The state's top ethics panel is reviewing a request from three government watchdog groups to investigate the Paterson administration's leaks...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
Talking to New York political observers these past few days, one gets the sense that the process of filling Hillary Clinton's Senate seat was somethin...
AP | MICHAEL GORMLEY | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics
ALBANY, N.Y. — Instantly opening a rift among New York Democrats, Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand _ a little-known, pro-gun Democrat from a rural Republ...
James Boyce | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics
A free ticket to the U.S. Senate should be given only to someone who is willing to earn it under a different circumstance, and I assure you, Senator Gillibrand is that sort of person.
Denis Campbell | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics
We are the poorer for Kennedy's decision, and I wonder how many worthy public servants never consider running because of this environment where every minor gaffe is exploited.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics
A bruised Kennedy did the right thing, the only thing that she could do when her head bumped against the realities of political life, she dropped out before she was dumped.
CBS | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics
In Washington for Barack Obama's inauguration, New York Governor David Paterson ended up talking about Hillary Clinton and the U.S. Senate seat she re...
Lloyd Garver | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics
What Blagojevich did is so shocking that it could make "Lincoln turn over in his grave." But Caroline getting the seat because of her zillion-dollar fund raising ability wouldn't do the same?
Michael Wolff | Posted 02.13.2009 | Politics
Caroline Kennedy is a woman. Some of the most oppressed people on earth are women named Kennedy. Ergo, appointing Caroline to the US Senate is striking a blow for women and humankind.
Martin Nolan | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics
The Empire State is a triumvirate uniting the House of Clinton, the House of Cuomo and the House of Paterson. Would reviving the Kennedy dynasty disturb this delicate ecological balance?
David Sirota | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics
The forces of money and power in New York are trying to replicate what their counterparts engineered here in Colorado.
Steve Clemons | Posted 01.26.2009 | Politics
Obama should stop this torment that is being prepared for Kennedy by offering her the Court of St. James, the U.S. Ambassadorship to Great Britain.
Al Giordano | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics
Caroline Kennedy's open support for marriage rights for gays and lesbians in an era when top liberal Democrats can't bring themselves to support it offers the best antidote to the Rick Warren blues yet.
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics
The notion that it would somehow be unfair to appoint Kennedy because she has not toiled in the House of Representatives for a decade should not be one that ordinary voters take seriously.
Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics
It's possible that I am being too sensitive about gender bias, but is the "experience" question raised more frequently for women than it is for men?
Chris Kelly | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics
One of them has a law degree from Columbia and has co-written two critically acclaimed books about the Bill of Rights. The other has a journalism degree from college in general and had a memorable conversation with Katie Couric.
Lawrence O'Donnell | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics
No one in New York politics knows more about the state than Liz Moynihan. And no one else can tell us what Pat Moynihan would think about who should be the next person to take his old seat in the Senate.
politico.com | Ben Smith | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics
Now she's really running. Caroline Kennedy, who began seeking Hillary Clinton's Senate seat in earnest today, placed a call this afternoon to Rev. ...
New York Times | DANNY HAKIM | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics