Caroline Seldom Voted Over Last 20 Yrs
From the New York Daily News:
Records show Caroline Kennedy failed to cast her vote many times since 1988
By ERIN EINHORN and DAVID SALTONSTALL
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERSDecember 19th 2008
Caroline Kennedy wants to be the next senator from New York, but her voting record is already spotty, the Daily News has found.
City Board of Elections records show Kennedy has failed to vote in many elections since she registered in the city in 1988 – including votes for the Senate seat she hopes to fill and numerous Democratic faceoffs for mayor.
"It doesn’t speak to a deep-felt commitment to the electoral process," Baruch College political scientist Doug Muzzio said when told of Kennedy’s ballot breakdowns.
Records show Kennedy did not pull the lever for any of her fellow Democrats in city primary races for mayor in 1989, 1993 and 1997 and 2005, which Republicans went on to win three out of four times in the general election.
She was also AWOL for the primary and general elections in 1994, when Sen. Daniel Moynihan was running for reelection to the seat Kennedy hopes to hold…
A review by The News found that of the 38 contested elections since 1988, Kennedy skipped about half, almost all of them primaries…
Thursday, Kennedy went to Harlem for a soul-food sitdown with the Rev. Al Sharpton, who, ironically, was Moynihan’s Democratic opponent in 1994.
"I come at this as a mother, as a lawyer, as an author, as an education advocate and from a family that really has spent generations in public service," she said with Sharpton at her side outside Sylvia’s, Harlem’s famed soul-food mecca.
Inside, the two shared a lunch of grilled chicken and collard greens at the same table where Sharpton and Obama had dined in November 2007 – a meeting that was key to his presidential win, Sharpton joked with Kennedy.
"If she believes that," Sharpton quipped, "then I got some other things I can sell her in Harlem." …
Kennedy’s more immediate problem may be explaining her voting record.
Records show she also took a pass on the 2002 gubernatorial primary as well as the general election, when Democrat Carl McCall took on incumbent Republican George Pataki.
Aides Thursday said that prior to 1988, Kennedy was registered in Massachusetts while a student at Harvard University. She later switched her voting address to her mother’s old apartment on Fifth Ave., but apparently fell off the rolls completely sometime in the 1980s.
When she went to reregister in 1988 at her new Park Ave. home, she filled in "1984?", when asked the year she had last registered.
But will she vote ‘present’ in the Senate?
Of course the important thing is that she kissed the Reverend Sharpton’s er ring.
Hmmh, Princess Caroline doesn’t vote. This is funny. But as the Admin has pointed out-voting present may be the way to go. I will say one thing for Caroline though, she has allowed herself to age gracefully and isn’t a botox loser like Lady Pelosi.
She’s an aloof, sanctimonious, elitist, parading as a crusader of “the people”. We could see the grooming of her taking place when she was given a night to speak at the kingmaker of events, the Democrat National Convention.
This do-nothing monarch has left all the grimy, commoner duties of voting and putting your money where your mouth is to the rest of us, then, when the moment is right for easy appointment to the pinnacle of elected office, she jumps at it, sneering at us the whole time.
Contrast that with a homespun woman, raised on heartland principles, who spends 20 years running for elected office. Alaskans never had to wonder “where is Sarah?” on issues, elections, etc., as they do with princess Caroline. Sarah had to earn everything she has achieved, and did it without the benefit of being born into an aristocracy built on bootlegging.
Yet the press greeted Sarah as a bumbling nincompoop who didn’t know enough to be in high office. She was backwards, unenlightened, and, according to Matt Damon, wrestled with whether or not dinosaurs roamed the Earth 6,000 years ago.
Do you feel the hypocrisy? The left can give you whiplash from so many issues: love of equal treatment for women like Caroline Kennedy=hate Sarah Palin; love of equal treatment for African Americans and Latinos=hate them when they vote yes on Prop 8; love of equal treatment of homosexuals=hate Mark Foley and Larry Craig.
A woman who is true Americana and has spent her lifetime on the far reaches of this planet, forging a good life out of rugged, unforgiving conditions that most of us can’t understand, finds herself catapulted into mainstream media’s gaze for only 2 months, where she was spit upon, mocked, and told, “You’re out of your league.” Sarah didn’t lose out on anything when America chose Barry. America lost.
(My take on the lunch between Al and the princess: http://girdingmyloins.blogspot.com/)
The saddest thing about all this is Kathleen Parker’s latest piece:
http://townhall.com/columnists.....?page=full
Here Kathleen, the woman who tried to sink Sarah Palin, actually defends the media’s kind treatment of Kennedy AND the harsh treatment of Palin.
It is sickening.
And Catie/John Galt, I agree.
@Latinos-I’ve never liked Parker (I’m sure I mentioned this before) and don’t believe she’s really a true conservative or like the “blue blood set”, likes going to cocktail parties and wants to make sure she’s on the invite list at all times. I read the column and I am beginning to wonder why Townhall continues to have her in there.
Consider the very SMALL group of elitist “leadership” which spawns these folks.. I don’t really wonder anymore why “X” knows “Y” who happens to know “Z” when the scandals pop up… It is a shifting criminal manipulation of media, and purposeful activism to continue the Oligarchy which is currently rearing its ugly head. Power to the few..
WE love Palin because we recognize she is as much like US as ANY politician could possibly be. Salt of the earth…
@Jason, I read in the Washington Times yesterday an article by Wes Pruden on that very subject. It also mentioned that whoever it is that’s being appointed to Biden’s seat, he will dutifully step down as soon as sonny boy gets back from Iraq (you know it will look great for this child of plug’s loins who is also the AG of DE to have served in Iraq and then come triumphantly to the Senate). For the record-neither myself or my husband have high thoughts of JAGs in combat. But that is our personal prejudice.
Catie.. JAG opinion Understood. Some things transcend extreme circumstances such as war..
To Mr. John Galt,
Sir, I don’t think it could be said anymore honestly and blunt. The last line of you’re comment is dead on. Why would this nation choose to lose? Unbelievable!! I don’t log in everyday, but when I come back and check out a few comments, some hurt my heart more than others. Yours near killed me. Don’t misunderstand, the truth has to be told. This is the only place to get it.I just can’t wake up and accept this downfall for 4 years. But it’s good to know others see it to. Wish we didn’t have to though. I have nothing against Ms. Kennedy, She has lived her life in a credible way. But the honesty in you’re breakdown of treatment (S.Palin to her). It’s grotesque is what it is. Shame on all of them. Shame on the 60million or so who voted this way!
Thank-you, bl.