Chelsea Clinton to Run for Senate or Mayor in New York?
It looks like Chelsea Clinton may have gotten bitten by the political bug after she recently hinted that she might go into the family business.
In a recent interview, the 34-year-old Stanford University alum said that she would be open to running for a multitude of offices, from mayor of New York to the U.S. Senate. This is a far different tone than the former first daughter exhibited just a few years ago, when she declared that she was not interested in pursuing a career in politics.
"I live in a city and a state and a country where I support my elected representatives," Clinton told Fast Company magazine. "If at some point that weren't the case, and I didn't support my mayor or my city councilwoman or my congresswoman or either of my senators -- and I'm lucky to live in a state where I have lots of women representing me, you know -- maybe then I'd have to ask and answer the question for myself, and come to a different answer."
This is not the first time that Clinton has expressed some interested in becoming an elected official like her parents, former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in the last few years.
Las August, she told CNN, "I'm grateful to live in a city and a state and a country where I really believe in my elected officials, and their ethos and their competencies. Someday, if either of those weren't true, and I thought I could make more of a difference in the public sector, or if I didn't like how my city or state or country were being run, I'd have to ask and answer that question."