Gillibrand Campaign Goes Straight Into Brooklyn
- By Josh Kurtz
- Roll Call Staff
- Aug. 21, 2009, Midnight
KINGS PARK, N.Y. Its the dog days of August, and any prospect of a serious Democratic primary challenge has withered in the summer heat. But appointed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) is as dogged as ever, interrupting a three-day swing through western New York Thursday to travel to a peninsula on the north shore of Long Island. There, she greeted 3,600 senior citizens who were bused in from Brooklyn for a picnic sponsored by state Assemblyman Vito Lopez (D).
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