Rep. Carolyn Maloney has previously been operating in the future conditional tense of “intending” to do this and “vowing” to do that, but the New York Daily News today reports that she’s gone so far as to set a definite date when she “will” announce her candidacy against Kirsten Gillibrand in the Democratic primary.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney has decided to take on Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in the 2010 Democratic primary, refusing to bow to party leaders who want her to stay out, the Daily News has learned.
“She’s definitely decided to run,” said a senior Maloney adviser, speaking on condition of anonymity. “She’s in it.”
Maloney, a congresswoman since 1993 for Manhattan’s East Side and a slice of Queens, will make an official announcement in two weeks, the adviser said.
New York’s NY1 confirms, via Maloney senior adviser Paul Blank, that Maloney “has decided to” pull the trigger.
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Into her own foot.
This is so stupid. Such a huge waste of money. If Gillibrand had come into the Senate, voting Center-right I would be all for this. However she has been as Liberal as we could hope for. Add in that shes young and amazing with fundraising, I see zero reason to primary her.
We were able to avoid things like this, Ohio-SEN, PA-SEN and others in past years but it appears out luck has run out.
being anything more than an expensive waste of time.
That said, unlike a lot of primary challenges, I don’t think this is likely to damage Gillibrand in ways that would hurt her in the general, since Maloney is going to be coming at her from the left, something no Republican is going to do.
And I’m enjoying all the angst from the Gillibrand flacks here at the Gillibrand Project.
Other than that, I don’t see an upside. If Maloney was going to challenge Gillibrand from the left, then I would say fine, have at it. But she isn’t.
When are we going to get a statement out of potential candidate DavidNYC? Has he set a date for when he’s announcing his intentions for NY-14?