There are no usual suspects in David Paterson's U.S. Senate deliberation.You could name the third former president to serve in Congress. Could Bill Clinton ever really leave the world stage to take his wife's job? Is the job of junior U.S. Senator too small?
Could a Queens native, and the first black elected to New York's State Senate (north of NYC) and the Mayor's Office in Buffalo be a powerful enough candidate to roll call in the U.S. Senate to three African Americans (should Barack Obama's seat not be offered to a black candidate.)
My colleagues across the state believe Brown to be a sound upstate candidate, but only that. That he wants the job, but for Paterson, it would make little political sense for a black governor to name a black mayor to the post, upstate or not.
That the ever-racially aware Paterson does not want to be seen as advancing a black agenda, even with the positives Brown brings to the table.
And perhaps most important, that while Brown would bring Buffalo in a re-election bid, the rest of GOP-based upstate would not be a lock.
In the end, all of the head turning cast for this political passion play: Clinton, Brown, the Kennedys. They may be nothing more than window dressing to distract We The People while Paterson sets his strategy and locks in on a sure-fire successor to HRC.
Would you be able to draw parallels to an Andrew Cuomo appointment with President-elect Obama's selection of Hillary to Secretary of State?
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