Gillibrand 2016 FTW!!!!
I think she might be our woman.
Gillibrand would be 50, has the potential to be high profile from New York and has proven she can win in a Republican district (albeit with positions different than she's taken as a Senator). But she doesn't come across as very smart I have to say. I don't think I'm prejudiced against blondes as my reaction to listening to Kirsten is that she's no Hillary.Well, she
was way
ahead of both Hillary and Paulson on TARP last fall:
"Ms. Gillibrand’s opposition to the bailout bill seemed to be focused on its approach, rather than the idea of helping Wall Street firms. When she first voted against the bill, she made a statement saying that she recognized the need to recapitalize the banks but that, “if the federal government needs to intervene, then [it] should receive a fair equity stake in the company in order to protect the taxpayer.”
At the time of the votes, the bill was generally held up as a means to buy troubled assets from banks. That plan was later scrapped by the Treasury secretary at the time, Henry M. Paulson Jr., in favor of direct equity investments — which seem to be more along the lines of what Ms. Gillibrand had advocated."