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NBC's Andrea Mitchell told us on Wednesday about the "rocky start" to Caroline Kennedy's bid to be appointed to Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate seat. Now ABC's Kate Snow and CBS' Jeff Greenfield enter the fray--and things look no smoother for the Kennedy scion. Snow told us the amazing fact that the woman who would represent the entire Empire State in the United States Senate had never before in her life been to Rochester until this week.
"She has the Kennedy name," ABC's Snow suggested, when mulling the qualifications for the job of a woman who styles herself "as a mother, as a lawyer, as an author, as an education advocate" yet has never been elected to anything. CBS' Greenfield pointed out that Kennedy's rival for the seat is Andrew Cuomo so Gov David Paterson now has to decide "which powerful political family does he alienate…a decision wrapped in nitroglycerine for the holidays." Greenfield was in fine sarcastic form as New York politics unspooled. After Hizzoner Michael Bloomberg of the Big Apple had praised Kennedy, a mayoral aide went to work for her. "The mayor says the aide was freelancing on his own. It is possible there is somebody who believes this."
Greenfield wondered when Kennedy would agree to sit down to a vetting interview with local reporters or, "say, yourself," addressing his anchor Katie Couric. "I got a very clear answer: 'We have not decided that.'" Couric would like the get: "Hopefully they will soon."
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