Larchmont mayor floats Senate bid against Gillibrand

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LARCHMONT — Republican village Mayor Liz Feld says she’s weighing a run for the U.S. Senate seat vacated this year by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Feld, 49, said Wednesday she’d decide “sooner rather than later” whether to run for the seat held by former Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, who was named senator in January after Clinton took her post in President Barack Obama’s administration.

“The ever-growing debt coming out of Washington is alarming,” Feld said in a statement. “Priority number one in this country has to be debt reduction and long-term tax relief. That will be the major focus of my campaign should I formally enter this race.”

Feld did not return calls seeking additional comment.

Bill O’Reilly, a spokesman for Feld, said in an e-mail that the Larchmont mayor would “stick with just the statement for now.”

Should she throw her hat into the race, Feld may face stiff competition. Gillibrand, a Democrat, is expected to seek to retain the seat in a state where her party holds a majority.

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