
Despite a White House campaign that convinced
Steve Israel,
Carolyn McCarthy, and
other Democrats not to challenge Kirsten Gillibrand's Senate seat in 2011 -- yes, they're being that cautious that early -- Carolyn Maloney has stubbornly refused to rule out a run against Gillibrand, whom she considers an underachiever and insufficiently anti-gun. And why should she back off? A recent poll showed the longtime Congresswman
running ahead of Gillibrand in a speculative race. Now
a Maloney adviser says she's definitely running. It seems everything
David Paterson does comes up for review these days, doesn't it?