New York Democrat Governor Paterson will appoint Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand to replace Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Senate:
As one source noted, "in politics you never know," but based on the information they have heard and shared with PIX News, Governor Paterson is poised to name Kirsten Gillibrand as New York's next Senator at a noon news conference Friday in Albany.
Gillibrand serves as U.S. Representative to New York's Twentieth Congressional District, which stretches across the upstate counties of Saratoga, Dutchess, Columbia, Rensselaer, Washington, Warren, Delaware, Greene, Essex and Otsego.
After Caroline Kennedy withdrew from consideration for Hillary vacant Senate seat, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo was considered the frontrunner to get the appointment. But appointing Cuomo would lead to a political battle because Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and the legislature would have to approve Cuomo as Attorney General.
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