New York’s Governor David Paterson, himself a second-generation politician, is faced with a hard dynastic decision now that Caroline Kennedy has made it clear that she wants Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat.
In the Empire State, unlike those where money talks and talks, political bloodlines matter in the choice between a former president’s daughter and a former governor’s son, Andrew Cuomo, to replace a former First Lady.
To complicate it even more, Cuomo is divorced from Caroline Kennedy’s cousin Kerry, whose brother, Robert Kennedy Jr. only recently took himself out of contention for the Clinton seat.
In political experience, Cuomo is a quarter of a century ahead…