Hey I don't talk about the law, because I only post about things that I have a clue about.

New York Times

By DANNY HAKIM and RAYMOND HERNANDEZ
Published: December 19, 2008

As Caroline Kennedy embarked on a tour of upstate New York this week, camera crews and reporters in tow, the state’s attorney general, Andrew M. Cuomo, was announcing a $2.7 million settlement with the operator of an illegal dump in Lackawanna.
Ms. Kennedy ended up on the cable television networks, in national newspapers and on blogs everywhere. Mr. Cuomo got a story in The Buffalo News.
Since he returned to the state capital two years ago, Mr. Cuomo, son of a former governor, has thrown himself into his job, tackling issues large and small. And he has softened the in-your-face style that earned him enemies years ago.
So when it became clear that the Senate seat held by Hillary Rodham Clinton would become open, Mr. Cuomo restrained himself from overt campaigning and retreated to the background. That left the stage to Ms. Kennedy, who has marched out front and become the candidate everyone is talking about — and the favorite for the appointment.
That, friends say, has left Mr. Cuomo feeling outfoxed and frustrated. “It’s driving him crazy,” said one confidant of Mr. Cuomo’s, who spoke to the attorney general about the Senate seat this week. “He’s boxed in. He can’t do anything except fume, and he is fuming.”
Assemblyman John J. McEneny, an Albany Democrat and a longtime observer of New York politics, suggested the process was especially vexing to Mr. Cuomo because it was not clear how aggressive those under consideration by the governor should be.
“It’s got to be a very frustrating and even painful process,” he said, referring to Mr. Cuomo’s position. “In a campaign, you would know what to do. But it’s unclear what the rules are here. And that just adds to the frustration.”
Gov. David A. Paterson, who will make the appointment, has said that he and Mr. Cuomo have discussed the position, but will not say more, and Mr. Cuomo has been circumspect in public.
“We had this conversation,” Mr. Cuomo told a reporter in the capital this week. “The decision is up to the governor.”
Mr. Cuomo’s aides insist that he has not asked for the job and is content as attorney general. He has plenty on his plate, including possibly involving his office in the federal case against the financier Bernard L. Madoff.
As for the Senate seat, people with knowledge of his thinking say Mr. Cuomo believes Ms. Kennedy’s public bid opened the door for him to campaign for it. While he has not ruled the job out, he has decided not to embark on a public campaign, they said.“He’s happy doing what he’s doing," one top aide to Mr. Cuomo said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the process.
The situation is especially tricky for Mr. Cuomo, 51, a one-time boy wonder who began his political career in his 20s as a top adviser to his father, Mario M. Cuomo, and became a cabinet secretary under President Bill Clinton before the age of 40.
His ambitions and his brazenness have sometimes landed him in trouble, especially in 2002, when he alienated the black political establishment by running for governor rather than backing the bid of the state comptroller, H. Carl McCall, who would have been New York’s first black chief executive. Mr. Cuomo was forced to bow out to avoid a humiliating defeat.
The problem for Cuomo is that he never earned anything in his life either. If he wants to run he should just run. He can put pressure on Patterson to counteract Kennedy's pull. One of his major problems is that he made a lot of enemies. There is an old adage, be nice to the people on the way up because you are going to meet them on the way down. So he has to get down and dirty if he wants the job. But he doesn't want to do that. He wants it handed to him.

Patterson is a fool if he names either one of them. They will have no gratitude to him and he gets not practical benefit. He should name a Hispanic politician who actually ran for something and can give a credible performance. Better yet an Hispanic woman. That's why as I have said the best person to name is Nydia Velasquez a Brooklyn congresswoman. Although she is very liberal she at least is honest and hardworking and will work for her constituents.
Or he can name Christine Quinn the speaker of the City Council. She is a lesbian who is hooked into the gay political community which would help Patterson in his bid for re-election.

So to coin a phrase, pick the Homo not Andrew Coumo. Or at least the lesbian.