http://www.petitiononline.com/nysen/petition.html

Too funny, but not funny, ha ha! Right on the heels of the Illinois Governor’s senatorial auction, New York has it’s own raffle going on! I’ve been waiting for you’re input. As Obama stacks his White House team with Clinton political cronies, doin’ the ‘good ole boy’ pay back thing, you laid in wait! (Sarah Palin would be proud of your restraint, biding your time in the duck blind).

But a new duckling, flew out today (“Sweet Caroline”), and there you were with your verbal gun, not looking for a kill, but firing a reasoned warning shot across the bow, with a little help from your daughter-in-law to boot! The acorn doesn’t fall far from the tree and when those acorns meet they create a pretty solid start to a new, yet similar, tree! Madam Berkowsky’s comments raised the kind of issues that an old limb can support.

I don’t think they had too many flutists playing in the “Speakeasys” during Prohibition, it was the golden age of the yakkidy Jazz Sax! Benny Goodman played the clarinet, but Joe Kennedy supplied the booze and Anti-Semitism. Bootlegging was illegal and profitable: buy me a drink and I’ll do you a favor. It’s called corruption.

I wish I could be so idealistic to think that two generations later, it is easy to erase corruption and substitute virtue. But as Shannon so cogently put it, paraphrasing, “where are the words, much less the actions!”

Thanks for providing the link to Rep. Carolyn Maloney’s congressional website. I read words and I saw actions. I see a feminist who has continued the fight for womens’ rights and I’m sorry, boys, but the next junior senator from the state of New York, should be a woman, should be a feminist, should have a public record, should, in these tough times, be a bona fide mover and shaker. a campaigner who has fought for the trust of the citizens of this state in elections and won!

Governor Patterson, all the money and favors in the world from the rich and famous, will not win you the votes to retain a governorship that you have risen to, by hard work and yet, default, from one of those rich and powerful favor recipients who violated the public trust.

SNL aside, I think you are doing a good job (so far) at a very difficult time. You’ve been frank with us, your constituents, about who you are, the trials and tribulations you have overcome, what you’ve done and the values you hold dear. Hold true to that and, we the people, will vote and support you. Bend, succumb to others’ values and you will disappoint not only us, but yourself!

Please appoint Carolyn Maloney, the next junior senator from the great state of New York.

And then we have Carolyn Maloney who has worked on some crucial issues and has been out front for New Yorkers. And she has been doing this for years. How Governor Paterson can pass Carolyn Maloney over for Kennedy is beyond me. The National Organization for Women PAC has endorsed Carolyn Maloney. They did this after reviewing all of the potential nonminees. Also the Feminist Majority PAC has endorsed Carolyn Maloney.

Sure Kennedy is a bright woman, but she is riding on the coat tails of a myth and has not proven herself to New Yorkers. Her day will come, but she should wait her turn and not buy herself a seat at the table.

You raise another excellent point. Why is it that Carolyn Kennedy’s full name does not appear in the media? Do her handlers believe that her status as wife of a Jewish man could possibly hurt her chances of being appointed or not being warmly embraced by the voters of New York state?

The possibility of her appointment will indeed be a nostalgic one as her late uncle, Robert F Kennedy held the very same seat, but under very different circumstances.

I agree with a previous commenter who said that a special election be called in such circumstances so that the voters can hear the views on the issues from each candidate and decide for themselves who will represent the Empire State in the Senate.

Norman