They say it's not personal, but it is."Famed environmental lawyer?" Oh yeah, the goofy Kennedy progeny that said Iowa pork farmers were a "greater threat than Osama bin Laden" and is in favor of windmills except where he has to look at them. That is, when he drops by the Kennedy compound after flying in on his private jet.
New York politics is looking positively Shakespearean now that Robert Kennedy Jr. is eyeing a run for attorney general against Andrew Cuomo — the man whose very public, bitter split from Kennedy's sister pitted two of the most powerful families in American politics against each other.
Family insiders say Kennedy, son of the assassinated New York senator by the same name, has never gotten over Cuomo's public contention that his sister, Kerry Kennedy Cuomo, "betrayed" him by engaging in a steamy affair with polo-playing cad Bruce Colley.
And the sources contend that Cuomo, son of former Gov. Mario Cuomo, has never forgiven Kennedy for failing to respond to his pleas to intervene with Kerry in hopes that Robert could prevent her from seeing Colley before the break-up.
But Kennedy insisted in an interview with The Post yesterday that bad blood with his estranged brother-in-law isn't the reason he's looking at entering the race.
Still, Kennedy pointedly refused to knock down the widespread view in state Democratic circles that he can't stand the man who publicly accused his sister of cheating.
"I won't talk about any of that, I won't talk about my feelings," said Kennedy, 51, a famed environmental lawyer.
"One of the points that [U.S. Sen.] Hillary Clinton made to me when I met with her is that it would be important for a candidate to win statewide office on the issues of the environment and corporate control in this country, because it hasn't been done before," he added.Hmm, I thought he wanted to be New York State Attorney General? Anyhow, more spicy details:
The Cuomos' nasty split — which followed tales of illicit love-nest trysts between Kerry and Bruce at Manhattan pals' pads — grabbed national headlines after lurid details of the married lovers' affair first surfaced in the summer of 2003.These limousine liberals certainly have interesting lives. And "careers."
Friends said Kerry, a human-rights activist, met Colley, a charming playboy restaurateur, indirectly through her brother.
Kennedy, through his Riverkeeper project, knew Colley's long-suffering wife, Ann, who heads the philanthropic efforts of millionaire Louis Bacon. This link then led Kerry and Andrew to meet the Colleys at a gathering at one of Bacon's estates.
The couples quickly became fast friends.
They frequently dined together at the trendy restaurant Man Ray, once part-owned by Bruce Colley, the son of a McDonald's franchise entrepreneur.
It's unclear when the affair between Kerry and Bruce began. But their spouses — suspicious of the time the pair were spending together — eventually confronted them, and both confessed, pals said at the time.
Well, it turns out we got our hopes up for nothing - RFK AVOIDS DIRT DEVILS:
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. decided against running for attorney general as a whispering campaign alleging serious skeletons in his closet was already well under way.Ted probably told him that he should have stuck to Scotch.
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Kennedy, 51, conceded yesterday he expected his past — including a two-decades-old arrest for heroin possession — to be pursued if he entered a statewide race.
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"I spoke to my uncle [Sen. Ted Kennedy], I spoke to my brother Joe, and they urged me to wait," said Kennedy.
He added that he wanted to spend time with his children "to make a difference in their lives while I still can."
But it's not all gloomy, Kennedy fans!
... word comes that some Democrats are courting cousin Anthony Kennedy Shriver to run for governor of Florida when Jeb Bush's second term ends next year.Probably borrowed some of Bobby Jr.'s stash.
"If I felt that being in that position would be extremely effective and helpful to people in this state, I would consider it," Shriver, 39, coyly told Miami's New Times.
Director Brett Rattner cautions that his pal has "some stuff in his past that could prevent him from being governor."
All we know is that, in 1993, he panicked Adnan Khashoggi, Estee Lauder and other guests at a party at Donald Trump's manse in Palm Beach by driving his Jeep around the manicured grounds. Donald didn't press charges.
