Kirsten Gillibrand trying to have her cake, and eat it too, on PIPA Gillibrand will be running for president after Obama's second term expires. She has aggressively raised her national profile in recent years, to the point of campaigning for Democrats in recall races in Wisconsin last summer. She has also employed an aggressive netroots strategy to make connections with the activist online... [more]
Kirsten Gillibrand trying to have her cake, and eat it too, on PIPA
Gillibrand will be running for president after Obama's second term expires. She has aggressively raised her national profile in recent years, to the point of campaigning for Democrats in recall races in Wisconsin last summer. She has also employed an aggressive netroots strategy to make connections with the activist online community. No one does those things unless they 1) are trying to build a national movement, or 2) they want a promotion to the biggest stage in the land. It's obviously not the former.
And there are few more fertile grounds for money and headline-grabbing than Hollywood. Thus, Gillibrand did her best to cling to this shitty bill in order to curry favor with future donors and backers. But given the backlash among the technology/online set—another constituency she's been wooing, she now tries to play the hero, as if she had anything to do with killing this bill.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/20/1056642/-Kirsten-Gillibrand-trying-to-have-her-cake,-and-eat-it-too,-on-PIPA?via=blog_1[less]
Peter King for Senate.