Nydia Velazquez is Apparent Frontrunner To Replace Hillary
by Matt at Nov 17th, 2008
So says the New York Daily News:
Rep. Nydia Velazquez is the front-runner - for now, at least - to replace Hillary Clinton if she becomes the next secretary of state, a source close to Gov. Paterson said yesterday.
There are two other top contenders: Rep. Brian Higgins of Buffalo and Rep. Steve Israel of Long Island. Each would help Paterson with key constituencies when he makes his first run in 2010 for the post he inherited from disgraced Gov. Eliot Spitzer - upstaters in Higgins’ case and suburbanites in Israel’s.
Velazquez offers the tantalizing possibility of killing two political birds with one stone by appealing to Hispanics and women - both critical voting blocs.
I see this as much more likely than Brian Higgins… and far more realistic than Byron Brown.
