The New York Times is up with a must-read on the behind-the-scenes maneuvering to secure Caroline Kennedy a Senate seat. A top aide to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Kevin Sheekey—he of the “Bloomberg for President” leaks—has been calling state movers and shakers and telling them to “get on board now,” The Times reports. Sheekey’s arm-twisting apparently has the blessing of his boss, but it’s rankling some Democrats, who are seeing echoes of Bloomberg’s alpha-male bid to rid himself of the city’s term limits—another Sheekey project. “It appears to be another case of central casting by the city’s cognoscenti,” snipes a Democratic City Council member.
Read it at The New York Times
