DWT: Kirsten Gillibrand Choice Exposes How Weak And Unqualified David Paterson Is To Be Governor

[FLAprogressive]

"In 2006 Blue America http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v61E0eLOrec">helped Kirsten Gillibrand defeat bumbling reactionary incumbent John Sweeney and she beat him-- in a Republican-leaning district (PVI-R+3)-- 117,799 (53%) to 104,157 (47%). http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2006/10/kirsten-gillibrand-ny-20-making-move.html">She presented herself to us as a grassroots progressive reformer but immediately upon taking her seat she joined the pro-business/anti-working family Blue Dogs and has amassed a http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?newsdate=1/4/2009&navigation=nextprior&category=REGION&storyID=726680&TextPage=2">sickeningly reactionary record since her election. Just looking at substantive issues that divided members of Congress along partisan lines, Gillibrand has been one of the members most likely to abandon the Democrats and vote with the GOP. Only http://www.progressivepunch.org/members.jsp?search=selectScore&chamber=House&scoreSort=lifetime_close">12 House Democrats have been worse than Gillibrand: Joe Donnelly (IN), Travis Childers (MS), Brad Ellsworth (IN), Heath Shuler (NC), Jason Altmire (PA), Chris Carney (PA), Dan Boren (OK), Harry Mitchell (AZ), Zack Space (OH), Gene Taylor (MS), Gabrielle Giffords (AZ), Collin Peterson (MN). Her record is actually worse than arch-reactionaries like Jim Marshall (GA), Henry Cuellar (TX), Mike McIntyre (NC), John Barrow (GA), Allen Boyd (FL) and Jim Matheson (UT), the Democrats who have done the most to help the Republican leadership build an effective conservative ruling coalition.

Pelosi has taken a http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/01/06/politics/politico/thecrypt/main4701336.shtml">dim view of Gillibrand's propensity to cross the aisle on key issues, even voting to keep the war in Iraq going and to allow Bush to put through his http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll437.xml">FISA policies, and for a moment it looked like Pelosi's antipathy would prevent Gillibrand from being able to push her bid for the New York Senate seat. Many of her colleagues have a http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17877.html">low opinion of her as well. In the end it didn't mean anything and http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/24/nyregion/24senator.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss">Gov. Paterson chose her. ..... "

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