https://newrepublic.com/article/47254/ten-things-you-didnt-know-about-kirsten-gillibrand

Ten Things You Didn't Know About Kirsten Gillibrand

By Eve Fairbanks

January 23, 2009

also from 2009, KG supports guns…what?

New York guv David Paterson is set to name Kirsten Gillibrand, a second-term congresswoman from upstate New York, to replace Hillary in the Senate. At first blush, Gillibrand seems merely a perfect Caroline Kennedy replacement: A woman with cash, but without all that baggage! (Roll Call called Gillibrand in 2007 "the most effective fundraiser of the House freshman class. Score!) But the spunky Gillibrand has forged a strong political persona in just one term in the House. Here's ten things you probably didn't know about Chuck Schumer's next junior Senator:

1. She "comes from a politically sophisticated family," writes the Almanac of American Politics. "[H]er father was an attorney and lobbyist with ties to George Pataki; her grandmother was a prominent Democratic activist in Albany who brought Gillibrand along with her on the campaign trail." One summer in college, she interned for Alfonse D'Amato.

2. She bucked House leadership by voting against both versions of the TARP bailout bill in the fall.

3. A big gun supporter, she's been given a 100% approval rating by the NRA – she's one of the extremely few Democrats on a federal level to win official NRA endorsement – and, this fall, she voted in favor of a controversial bill to repeal District of Columbia laws prohibiting the possession of semiautomatics.

4. A couple more mavericky votes: She was the only New York Democrat to support the May 2007 war-funding bill; the others voted against it because it did not contain a troop-withdrawal timetable. She also voted for H.R. 6304, the FISA Amendments Act, which extended immunity to telecoms that spied on U.S. citizens at the behest of the Bush administration.

5. During this year's campaign, she described her voting record as "one of the most conservative in the state" of New York.

6. Her district, while not overwhelmingly Republican – the Cook Political Report gives it a "partisan voting index" of R+3 – voted for George W. Bush twice.

7. She's crazy for constituent outreach, and has held dozens of "office hours" at grocery stores in her district. During her re-election campaign, even local Republican officials expressed awe at her "visibility."

8. She's one of a few representatives to disclose her daily schedule online, so reporters and constituents can see who's got access to her. She also posts her earmark requests.

9. Hill wags have chattered about a rift between the rising-star Gillibrand – who agitated hard for a coveted seat on Ways and Means – and Nancy Pelosi, although the women have denied there's any tension.

10. She has a child under one year old: a son, Henry, delivered this past May – just hours after Gillibrand sat through a marathon 13-hour Armed Services Committee hearing. Take that, Sarah Palin!

–Eve Fairbanks

>>1984847

blago

any anon ever figure this statement from Potus at Foxconn out?

8th wonder of the world?

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-foxconn-facility/

>>1985048

here

>eighth wonder of the world

To Foxconn and to Terry Gou, and to all of the amazing Wisconsin workers with us today and all over this state, I want to wish you good luck and congratulations on truly one of the Eighth Wonder — I think we can say this is — we can say the Eighth Wonder of the World. This is the Eighth Wonder of the World. But this is something so special. So I want to just congratulate you all. You’re very special people and a very special state.

>>1984818

>>1984922

james dolan looks like a good link so far, ties to Weinstein suit and Gilli's dad's lobbying donor to her older campaigns

https://www.si.com/nba/2017/12/06/knicks-owner-james-dolan-named-lawsuit-harvey-weinstein-sexual-assault

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/senator-designate-kirsten-gillibrand-tapped-dad-lobbyist-connections-article-1.422309

>>1985184

>forgot one

>>1985355

yes, yesterday/ another piece. did not know he was a UCLA professor…

Gillibrand went to UCLA.

wonder how long he attended.

Also Gillibrands Grandmother was Polly Noonan. following those crumbs I am trying to find the name of Peggy Noonan's mother. "peggy" is a nickname for Margaret. Like "Tina" is a nickname for Kristen G.

same hairstyle……can't find a name for Noonan's mother thus far. scrubbed from wiki.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/senator-designate-kirsten-gillibrand-tapped-dad-lobbyist-connections-article-1.422309

When she was chosen to fill Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Senate seat, Kirsten E. Gillibrand edged out the scions of two political families, the Kennedys and the Cuomos.

What many New Yorkers may not know is that Ms. Gillibrand herself hails from a dynasty of sorts.

Ms. Gillibrand’s political lineage is rooted in the position her grandmother, Dorothea Noonan, known as Polly, held in the legendary Albany Democratic machine that Daniel O’Connell controlled from 1921 until his death in 1977, and in Mrs. Noonan’s relationship with Mr. O’Connell’s surrogate, Mayor Erastus Corning 2nd of Albany.

Polly Noonan, who died in 2003 a few weeks shy of her 88th birthday, once dismissed her role, saying she was merely “a full-time grandmother.”

“I have no power,” she insisted.

Last week, Senator Gillibrand, who before her appointment was a Democratic congresswoman representing a district encircling Albany, described her grandmother as “my greatest political hero.”

Polly Noonan’s prime connection to politics was through Mayor Corning, the patrician great-grandson of the founder of the New York Central Railroad. After being carefully groomed by the machine, in 1941 he was Mr. O’Connell’s handpicked candidate for mayor, and he served four decades, until his death in 1983. Questioned during one of many investigations into the nexus between Albany government and politics, Mayor Corning acknowledged that, yes, of course, he knew Mr. O’Connell.

“And what is Mr. O’Connell’s position at this time in the County of Albany?” he was asked.

“He is a citizen,” Mayor Corning replied.

For decades, Mr. O’Connell was no less than Albany’s First Citizen, ruling the county from his perch as the Democratic county chairman by doling out patronage and reliably delivering votes. He was courted by local, state and national candidates.