If NY Gov. Paterson appoints Caroline Kennedy to the US Senate, not only will she avoid an election (for now), but she will also dodge a requirement to file a 10-part, public report filled with details about her financial assets, credit card debt, mortgages, book deals, and any source of payments over $5,000 in the last three years. Theoretically, Caroline could disclose the usual information in a gesture of transparency; instead, she says
she will wait to comply with disclosure requirements until after she is chosen as senator, if she is chosen at all.
When word broke that Joe Biden's chief of staff
would replace the senator from Delaware when he becomes VP, nobody paid much attention, but that's not the case when it comes to seats recently warmed by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Today, news broke that Caroline Kennedy
indeed wants the soon-to-be-free seat once filled by her uncle Bobby, and now occupied by Hillary. After
wrestling with a decision to enter the public spotlight, Caroline appears ready to carry on the Kennedy dynasty.
While I'm dying to know
who's your favorite woman in power of 2008, a well-known female might soon jump from prominent to powerful. Rumor has it that New York Governor David Paterson has talked to Caroline Kennedy
about filling Hillary Clinton's Senate seat.
Caroline wouldn't be the first Kennedy to fill that seat — her uncle Robert F.
