Facing the prospect of a cash-sucking primary, Kirsten Gillibrand is wasting no time, and has already established a 2010 committee for her (re-) election run, John Bresnahan reports. Independently, we’ve also learned that Gillibrand is talking to Hillary Clinton’s former New York regional finance director Dennis Cheng to spearhead her own fundraising operation, from a [...]
Gov. Paterson has chosen an upstate congresswoman with close ties to Hillary Clinton as the next U.S. Senator, the Daily News has learned. After two months of speculation and chaos, Paterson has settled on Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-Hudson) to fill the seat of Clinton, President Obama’s new secretary of state. Paterson is scheduled to make [...]
For someone whose name is reportedly low on the list to replace Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand is generating a lot of talk this week. The second-term congresswoman, who won a commanding victory in the majority-Republican 20th District in November, is one of a handful of state figures vying — at least [...]
Republican Sandy Treadwell has in recent weeks issued a series of challenges to Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, asking the first-term congresswoman to divest herself from campaign dollars linked to embattled U.S. Rep. Charlie Rangel and the failed financial firm Lehman Brothers. But Treadwell’s latest announcement involves his own wallet: If elected in the 20th Congressional District, [...]
