{"id":4089,"date":"2009-01-27T06:05:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T11:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4089"},"modified":"2009-01-27T06:05:18","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T11:05:18","slug":"i-knew-there-was-a-reason-i-liked-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4089","title":{"rendered":"I Knew There Was A Reason I Liked Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Her fellow New York Democrats <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/politico\/20090123\/pl_politico\/17877\">don&#8217;t like Senator Gillibrand:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gillibrand, the newly appointed junior senator from New York, has never been shy about her political ambitions \u2014 or her willingness to vault over older, more experienced politicians.That aggressiveness and self-confidence has endeared her to the powerful politicians who share her impatience to get ahead \u2014 including Hillary Clinton, whose seat she\u2019ll take; David Paterson, who appointed her to it; and Chuck Schumer, who\u2019ll be the senior senator to her junior.<\/p>\n<p>But many of those who know Gillibrand best \u2014 Democratic members of the state\u2019s congressional delegation \u2014 weren\u2019t exactly high-fiving over the pick, and not just because several wanted the job themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody really likes her,\u201d sniped one New York City-area member, speaking on condition of anonymity.<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s smart and capable, but she&#8217;s rubbed people the wrong the way,\u201d said another.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think she&#8217;s going to get a serious primary in 2010,\u201d opined a longtime state Democratic operative who supports Gillibrand.<\/p>\n<p>Many members of the state\u2019s congressional delegation skipped Gillibrand\u2019s announcement in Albany, mostly citing other commitments.<\/p>\n<p>And one notable absentee was sending a message: Pro-gun-control Long Island Rep. Carolyn McCarthy says she\u2019ll run against Gillibrand to protest the new senator\u2019s pro-gun record and perfect NRA rating.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pro-gun?\u00a0 Perfect NRA score?<\/p>\n<p>I might just peel off a $20 to support her myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her fellow New York Democrats don&#8217;t like Senator Gillibrand: Gillibrand, the newly appointed junior senator from New York, has never been shy about her political ambitions \u2014 or her willingness to vault over older, more experienced politicians.That aggressiveness and self-confidence has endeared her to the powerful politicians who share her impatience to get ahead \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-10","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}