Bobby Kennedy Jr. may test New York’s political waters

[CatWoman]

Bobby Kennedy Jr. is ready to run.

The Riverkeeper champion tells Oprah Winfrey in the February issue of her mag, O, that if Hillary Clinton runs for President, he’d be up for entering the race for her New York Senate seat.

Kennedy was 14 in 1968 when his father, Bobby Sr. (himself a senator from New York), was assassinated after winning California’s Democratic presidential primary. The younger Kennedy, one of 10 kids, overcame personal difficulty to become one of America’s great environmentalists.

The 52-year-old father of six tells Winfrey that he won’t run for the Senate or for governor now because “my friends are in those offices, and I’m not going to run against them.”

Kennedy, who worked during his 20s as an assistant district attorney, last year mulled a run

for state attorney general, a race won by his former brother-in-law Andrew Cuomo.

Kennedy also reveals he can’t watch Emilio Estevez’s incredible film on his dad’s assassination, “Bobby.” He admits that while his sister, human-rights activist Kerry Kennedy, managed a peek at the homage, “Most of my family won’t see it because parts of it are so painful — it’s just not worth it. But I’m very happy Emilio made the film.”

He has liked working on the foundation that cleaned up the Hudson River and championed other environmental causes, and enjoys spending time with his kids, ages 5 to 22. But now, with an administration that he says has made America “the most hated nation on Earth,” Kennedy might step up to the plate. “If Hillary left the Senate, I might run for that seat.”

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/489903p-412624c.html

[dailykoff]

1. Bobby in Moynihan's old seat would be perfect.

Hope he runs!

[NEOBuckeye]

2. I hope he goes for it

He would make an excellent candidate.