Rebranding Gillibrand: can New York's junior senator remain a conservative Democrat?
The American Conservative › April 06, 2009
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Rebranding Gillibrand: can New York's junior senator remain a conservative Democrat?
WHEN DEMOCRATS swept into the House in 2006, their new majority was constructed by moderates like Kirsten Gillibrand. Like many freshman Democrats that year, she campaigned against corruption--her opponent, incumbent John Sweeney, was tangled in a lobbyist scandal and his wife had filed a police report alleging abuse. Gillibrand won her upstate New York district by running to the right: she campaigned against amnesty for illegal immigrants, promised to restore fiscal responsibility to W...
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