Reply #7: Pirro quits NY Senate Race to run for Atty General

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/22/nyregion/22pirro.html

Clever Jeanine...she makes her announcement in the thick of the NYC-transit strike media storm when no one is really paying attention. So she will emerge a fresh, clean and shiny new AG candidate after it's all blown over.

Funny, how this news was buried on... PAGE TEN! (tee hee- just kidding)

Jeanine F. Pirro, whose campaign to unseat United States Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was in upheaval almost from the start, said yesterday that she would abandon the race and would instead run for attorney general of New York.

Ms. Pirro, the longtime Westchester County district attorney, announced her decision in a four-paragraph statement that her campaign released to reporters in the middle of the afternoon, a move that seemed calculated to garner as little attention as possible, coming as it did during the New York City transit strike.

In the statement, Ms. Pirro made no mention of the troubles that plagued her Senate campaign, including her own public gaffes, a chorus of criticism from fellow Republicans and an anemic fund-raising start. Instead, she argued that her background made her a more suitable candidate for attorney general.

"I have concluded that my head and my heart remain in law enforcement, and that my public service should continue to be in that arena," she said.