Well looks like Paterson is going to have to make his choice known sooner rather than later. With her heinous ascending to the diplomatic role in the State Dept. First, thank you Hillary for doing nothing for this state and simply using us as a stepping stone for your self serving legacy. What a waste of human debris she has been.



Suozzi? I met him and had a good discussion with him during the primary when he was running against Spitzer. I thought he would have made a better governor but Senator? All this will do is give another position to a downstate politician. We need representation and someone preferably from up here in no mans land.

I would still like to see Brian Higgins chosen. Once again he actually spends time in his district and although we disagree politically, Brian and I get along and he actually works to get things done.

    Thomas Suozzi. Suozzi is known nationally (to the extent he is known at all) as the guy who ran a quixotic primary challenge against Spitzer in 2006. With two years of hindsight, however, Suozzi, the Nassau County executive, looks better and better. Suozzi's geographic base (Long Island) is appealing for Democrats looking for a statewide winner, and Bill Cunningham, the top political aide to Paterson, is also extremely close to Suozzi.

The Next Senator From New York Is.... - The Fix
With Hilllary Rodham Clinton set to be announced as the next Secretary of State sometime soon after Thanksgiving, the race to replace her has already begun in earnest.

Senate seats in New York are a precious commodity with a powerful lineage -- Clinton, Robert F. Kennedy, etc. -- so every ambitious politician in the Empire State (literally) is being mentioned.

Ultimately, the choice lies with just one man -- Democratic Gov. David Paterson, who will fill the seat until a 2010 special election for the remaining two years of Clinton's term. Whoever wins in 2010 will have to stand for another election just two years later for a full six-year term.