Suffolk county legislator Jon Cooper is setting up an exploratory committee to raise money for a possible run against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in 2010. The list of potential opponents for Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand just got longer. With polls showing nearly half of New Yorkers still not familiar enough with Ms. Gillibrand to have any opinion [...]
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand went on the defensive Sunday about her about-face on gun control. “In my previous district, we didn’t have gang violence, and we didn’t have the gun violence that we have throughout New York,” said the Albany-area resident whom Gov.Paterson tapped to finish Hillary Clinton’s Senate term. As a congresswoman, Gillibrand was a [...]
Kirsten Gillibrand gets a vote in the U.S. Senate, but Republicans are hoping to invalidate her ballot in the race that will decide her replacement in the House of Representatives. Poll watchers for Republican congressional candidate Jim Tedisco challenged Gillibrand’s absentee ballot when it showed up in the queue during counting in Columbia County. The [...]
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand announced Monday that her campaign raised $2.3 million in the two months since her appointment as she touted the “progressive values” that she said will be a focus of her election effort in 2010. Gillibrand, an upstate Democrat whom Gov. David A. Paterson appointed on Jan. 23 to fill Hillary Rodham Clinton‘s [...]
When U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand disclosed that she kept two rifles under her bed to protect her home in Hudson, N.Y., upstate and downstate residents had starkly different reactions. In communities on Long Island and elsewhere in the metropolitan region with significant gun crime, the revelation provoked surprise and even derision. But in parts of [...]
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand made her turnaround on a key gun-control issue official this week: She signed a letter seeking repeal of the NRA-backed Tiahrt Amendments, even though she sought to make them permanent just last June. The letter, made public yesterday, asks Attorney General Eric Holder for his support for the repeal of Tiahrt, an [...]
Bill Clinton is lending his star power to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, agreeing to headline a fundraiser for the newly appointed junior senator from New York on March 11. In an e-mail invitation sent out today, the Gillibrand for Senate campaign committee announced the former president will headline the fundraiser at a location to be determined [...]
In her first 10 full days as New York’s newest senator, Kirsten Gillibrand has compiled the voting record of a Democratic team player, especially on the economic recovery package, signaling a shift from her maverick reputation in the House. Gillibrand was poised to vote with her fellow Democrats for the proposed compromise stimulus package hammered [...]
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy isn’t the only New York Democrat named Carolyn to consider a primary challenge to newly crowned Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. NBC New York is reporting that Rep. Carolyn Maloney is also weighing a campaign, and Maloney isn’t disputing it. “There are many things,” Maloney told the station. “Many things are under consideration.” Maloney [...]
As an upstate congresswoman, Kirsten Gillibrand opposed a path to citizenship for immigrants here illegally. She also supported financial penalties for so-called sanctuary cities like New York, which don’t enforce immigration laws and even favored federal legislation to deputize local police officers to enforce immigration laws. A little more than a week into her new [...]
