Will The Clintons Try To Get Their Daughter A Congressional Seat?

Nita and Hillary

Don't we all really hate nepotism and political dynasties? If we didn't before, the advent of the Trump family should have put that in everyone's minds. And that Liz Cheney thing in Congress! Yeccchh. The Clintons have been wanting Nita Lowey to retire so their daughter Chelsea could take her House seat (NY-17) in northern and western Westchester County and all of Rockland County. The Clinton home-- which isn't where Chelsea lives-- is in Chappaqa in the center of the district. The district which has a PVI of D+7 and was won by Hillary 58.6% to 38.4% (slightly better than Obama had done against McCain and Romney) starts in Port Chester on the Connecticut border and heads west through White Plains and Dobbs Ferry and then north through Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow, Mount Kisco, as far north as Yorktown and Peekskill and west across the Hudson into Rockland County, which borders on New Jersey.

She's been in Congress for 3 decades. Last year the Republicans didn't bother running a candidate against Lowey, who beat Reform Party candidate Joseph Ciardullo, after outspending him $1,349,828 too $16,942.

Lowey, a Pelosi crony who heads the Appropriations Committee, is 82 years old and a garden variety moderate Democrat. ProgressivePunch has rated her voting record a disappointing "C," so it is likely a more progressive candidate will be elected with her out of the picture. She already had three primary challengers including Mondaire Jones, a 32 year-old former Obama Justice Department staffer who currently works as an attorney for Westchester County. He decided to run against her because she refused to back the Green New Deal and other policies he backs. He's running on an across-the-board progressive platform. The other two candidates already in the race are Johnny Jabbour, a progressive Arab-American singer-songwriter and progressive school teacher Lola Osoria.

Chelsea, another McKinsey consulting alum like Mayo Pete, works at the Clinton Foundation today and is married to sketchy investment bankster Marc Mezvinsky. They live in a $10.5 million Manhattan condo. She hasn't announced yet whether she's running or not. If Chelsea doesn't run, expect a whole slew of establishment types to jump in, like Assemblyman David Buchwald, right wing asshole and terrible state Senator David Carlucci, and White Plains Mayor Thomas Roach.