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New York Governor David A. Paterson, a Democrat responded to reports last week that Caroline Kennedy is on a short list of potential candidates to replace New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D), the Secretary of State-designee by saying of Kennedy that the ball is in her report, Monday's New York Times reports:
“I have enough qualified candidates that I don’t think I have to draft anybody,” he told the Times last night. “Part of the consideration is how willing people are to serve, so I would figure if they were willing, they would make the request. I haven’t really taken anyone in hand and asked them.”
Ms. Kennedy, he added, is “thinking about it.”
“Her questions were more informational,” he said, referring to their conversation last week. “She said, ‘I’ll talk to you again to let you know if I’m interested,’ and I thought that was fine.”
Paterson's remarks came on the heels of an appearance yesterday on Meet The Press in which President-elect Barack Obama Obama told Tom Brokaw:
Caroline Kennedy has become one of my dearest friends, and is just a wonderful American, a wonderful person, but the last thing I want to do is get involved in New York politics. I've got enough trouble in terms of Illinois politics,
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