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Not familiar with this site but it's a good analysis.
http://www.ozy.com/politics-and-power/could-kirsten-gillibrand-finish-what-hillary-started/60258
Kirsten Gillibrands résumé looks a lot like Hillary Clintons: Democrat, lawyer, senator from New York. But lest you think that Gillibrand is just a baggage-free Hillary 2.0 for 2020, witness her recent forum appearance when asked about the man who defeated Clinton for the presidency. Has he kept any of these promises? No. Fuck no, the senator said.
Gillibrands four-letter Donald Trump taunt got her heaps of attention, and a good deal of scorn from the folks still trying to maintain some sense of decency in American politics (God bless em). It was also a sound bite for her recent #resist-friendly moves: endorsing a Medicare-for-all health system, opposing nearly all of Trumps nominees. It all smells like someone trying to bridge the Clinton and Bernie Sanders wings of the Democratic Party, but when asked about 2020, Gillibrand has said shes ruling it out as she runs for reelection in 2018. Still, things have a way of changing when the White House is involved.
In a little more than a decade in Congress, Gillibrand, 50, has blazed a path that few expected, proving herself a consummate politician willing both to work across the aisle and throw elbows when necessary. She has already racked up an impressive list of legislative successes, including the repeal of dont ask, dont tell. But unlike even Clinton, Gillibrand has expressly pinned her own political future to what might be the true, untapped power in American politics: women. (The senators office did not respond to requests for comment.)...
Gillibrands high-profile combat with the Department of Defense on the issue earned her praise, regular stints on cable television and made her a mentor and magnet for aspiring female leaders in her party, a role she has maintained while being at the forefront of other issues important to women, like campus violence and paid family medical leave. The mother of two young boys, who must often come with her to work, has also embraced another lesson she learned from Clinton: the power of patronage. Her Off the Sidelines PAC raised more than $6 million over the past two election cycles, and dished out much of it to fellow women candidates. Now when young women interested in politics ask me for my time, Gillibrand writes, I always try to say yes, because Hillary said yes to me.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)mcar
(42,278 posts)Nice to have such a deep bench.
Bad Thoughts
(2,514 posts)Beyond, of course, being Democrats.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)LuvLoogie
(6,925 posts)will finish Hillary's work. She's not done.
meow2u3
(24,759 posts)She won't take any shit off repukes--and the Toxic Tangerine--and she'll tell the sexist media to take their double standards and shove them up their collective asses! She will probably refuse to abide the treatment HRC got from the media.
Bring it, Kirsten!
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)She chose sexism from the right and the left, she chose Russian interference, she chose FBI interference, she chose the bullshit coming from so called progressives?
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)I like Kirsten and I would consider voting for herm maybe even donating to her if she ran but I would have to see that she a 'Democratic" platform, put together by only Democrats.
HarmonyRockets
(397 posts)by that?
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Heavens, fetch my smelling salts!
George II
(67,782 posts)StevieM
(10,500 posts)would make a great president in her own right.
I like the fact that Sen. Gillibrand voted against Christopher Wray the head the FBI. That goes for Elizabeth Warren too.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)The Polack MSgt
(13,182 posts)SunSeeker
(51,513 posts)HarmonyRockets
(397 posts)that voted against the $700 billion defense spending bill today. I think she's definitely running. She is setting herself up to be much to the left of Hillary though.