{"id":416141,"date":"2010-03-11T11:34:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T16:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78987"},"modified":"2010-03-11T11:34:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T16:34:03","slug":"senor-tales-of-yankee-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/416141","title":{"rendered":"Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Barbaro <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/11\/nyregion\/11senor.html?scp=1&amp;sq=dan%20senor&amp;st=cse\">previews a possible New York Senate bid<\/a> by former Defense Department adviser Dan Senor, by my count the 1045th person to consider challenging Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.). At CPAC, Conservative Party chairman Mike Long told me that the party was looking hard at a serious candidate against Gillibrand; Barabo&#8217;s reporting suggests that this was the candidate. And just look at the resume:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>An adviser to <a title=\"More articles about Spencer Abraham.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/a\/spencer_abraham\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Spencer Abraham<\/a> of Michigan when Mr. Abraham was a senator, he has rotated in and out of government over the last two decades. He worked briefly at the politically connected <a title=\"More articles about Carlyle Group.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/business\/companies\/carlyle_group\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Carlyle Group<\/a>, a private equity firm in Washington. After the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, he became the civilian face of the coalition government, as policy adviser to the government and chief spokesman for <a title=\"More articles about L. Paul Bremer III.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/b\/l_paul_iii_bremer\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">L. Paul Bremer III<\/a>, the top American administrator in Iraq.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"more-78987\"><\/span>Ben Smith <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/bensmith\/0310\/Gillibrand_aide_Senors_Iraq_role_at_issue.html?showall\">runs down<\/a> the reasons why team Gillibrand isn&#8217;t broadcasting a lot of fear about this bid &#8212; a neoconservative hedge fund manager has, you could say, some potential vulnerabilities in a heavily Democratic state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Barbaro previews a possible New York Senate bid by former Defense Department adviser Dan Senor, by my count the 1045th person to consider challenging Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.). At CPAC, Conservative Party chairman Mike Long told me that the party was looking hard at a serious candidate against Gillibrand; Barabo&#8217;s reporting suggests that this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}