Throne for a Loss
Caroline K. Schadenfreude is running into more than a little opposition to her ascendancy to the throne:
Even as Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo insisted he was staying out of the competition for New York’s soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat, a top Cuomo aide urged labor leaders and upstate officials to refrain from embracing Caroline Kennedy for the job, according to several people with direct knowledge of the conversations.
Two of the people, including a prominent upstate Democratic operative, said the Cuomo aide, Joseph Percoco, had suggested the upstate officials give Ms. Kennedy a cold reception and had questioned her credentials.
“He said, ‘Don’t you think it should be someone who understands upstate? Don’t you think it should be someone with experience? Shouldn’t it be somebody who knows New York better?’ ” said the operative, who spoke anonymously out of fear of antagonizing the attorney general. “They’ve been trying to feed people.”
When the Schnitzelbanks (nee Kennedy) go to war with the Medicis, they had better bring their food tasters with them.
Caroline Bouvier Kennedy hasn’t been known by that name for more than two decades, yet now all of a sudden she’s playing touch football on the Great Lawn in Central Park, driving under the influence, sleeping around, and all other familiar behaviors exhibited by her birth family.
If I’m Edwin Schlongboing, I’m insulted.
Carol said,
January 8, 2009 @ 11:13 am
Forget about it - she hasn’t bothered to use his name for anything beyond, apparently, social purposes. My library has all her “books” under “Kennedy” so we can just assume that Mr. Kennedy has gotten used to being ignored.