Great news: RFK jr may be running for elected office

[ArtVandaley]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&ncid=536&e=5&u=/ap/20050118/ap_on_el_st_lo/kennedy_attorney_general

RFK Jr. Eyeing Attorney General's Race

Tue Jan 18, 9:14 AM ET Politics - AP


By MARC HUMBERT, Associated Press Writer

ALBANY, N.Y. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has talked to top state Democrats about a possible run for New York attorney general in what could turn into a race against his estranged brother-in-law — Andrew Cuomo, according to people familiar with those conversations
Among those consulted by Kennedy, an environmental lawyer and son of slain New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, are Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites) and current Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, said the people familiar with the talks. They spoke only on condition of anonymity.
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[mattclearing]

1. Great. Better avoid air travel. n/t

[genius]

13. His office also said he was getting calls asking him to run for DNC chair

and governor. He's going to be looking at the options more seriously this week according to his office.

[mattclearing]

14. I'm all for it, but God knows when Kennedys run, bad things happen to them

eom

[Wisc Badger]

17. According to a piece

I read on ABC News "The Note" the Dems in NY want to leave the GOv race wide open to Spitzer, no contested primary.

That is why there seems to be a line developing at the AG office (next highest profile job opening).

Kennedy v Cumo, should be worth a look see.

[cali]

2. I like RFK Jr.

He does a fine job advocating for environmental causes, but I don't think he's a good candidate for elective office. He's got quantities of dirt in his background that will be dug up and flung around. And it's real dirt, not made up stuff. In addition, he has problems with his voice that render him an ineffective speaker.

[pbartch]

3. gossip.......rumor.........

you wanna put some links to your comments??

[cali]

4. not gossip.

I was there. Yes, I realize anyone can make this claim, and you're under no obligation to accept my word for it. I used to go out with his brother David, spent a summer living at Hickory Hill and then lived in Cambridge. D was at Harvard. Bobby and Joe were in Cambridge a lot. Joe had an apartment near Fresh Pond. But even if I didn't know this personally, it's pretty common knowledge. Google it.

[Zensea]

5. I really like RFK Jr., and would vote for him myself But --

I think that if he runs for attorney general he better have a real good way of addressing his heroin usage when he was younger. That is not gossip or innuendo.

edit-- I decided to look up what he has said in the past & I think this is a good start "By 1983, Bobby had become a successful young lawyer, and a serious heroin addict. “Bobby had this kind of arrogance that he could manage everything,” says Leamer. “He could manage being the true bearer of his family's legacy and living a kind of fairly wanton life with drugs and alcohol."

The delusion ended that year when Bobby was busted with heroin on a plane in South Dakota. The next year, his younger brother David died in Florida from a drug overdose.

“I’ll say this. Everyone’s given something to overcome. My addiction was a gift because I learned a lot about myself,” says Bobby. “I felt like I'd squandered a lot of the things that I'd been given, and that somehow, I had to turn those 10 wasted years into something good.”

From http://election.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/18/48hours/main607225.shtml

[NeoTraitors]

6. Seems to me that RFK JR has

some real problems. Plus I thought the Att Gen of NY now was really going after the 9/11 stuff. Bobby Jr should stick with being an environmental leader and not seek elective office. Whatever happened to Teds son who was a young congressman?

[ArtVandaley]

7. Perhaps that would be too tough to overcome

I DO think Joe should run for Governor of Massachusetts though, get that asshole Romney out of there.

[Zensea]

8. current Atty. General will run for governor, most likely

That's why people are putting out feelers.
Spitzer is going to run against Pataki and has a good chance of winning.

[ArtVandaley]

18. Already announced that he will

Spitzer kicks ass

[Blue_In_AK]

9. Past addictions didn't seem to hurt ** n/t

[Lavender Brown]

10. But* is a Republican

Therefore, his past is irelevant. When a Democrat runs for something, they bring out things you did or may have done in the third grade.

[coffeenap]

16. Yes, and he has been born again. That clears everything...n/t

[MsUSA]

11. I loved Mario Cuomo, is Andrew a good candidate? What are

some of his issues??

[Zero Gravitas]

12. Not good news

What this country does NOT need is powerful political families where generation after generation gain power simply because of their wealth & connections. I don't care how talented an individual may be its just not worth it to establish a de facto aristocracy. Just look at Bush! He's only where he is because of family wealth and political connections going back to his grandfather. We have the most disastrous president in our history because of this sort of aristocratic cronyism.

No individual or family is indispensable. Lets find good candidates who don't come to national attention because of who their father, uncle or grandfather was.

[robbedvoter]

15. Agree. Mark Green is my man.