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April 2, 2002
Schumer's Identity Politics
Civil Rights Advocates Fight Compromise on Election Reform
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June 9, 1998
Becoming 'Dem-ato'
Schumer Morphs Into Alfonse: Fires Assault Weapon at Green, and Praises His Own Miss
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April 25, 2008
Families to Rally At Schumer's Office for Child Citizen Protection Act
Schumer Morphs Into Alfonse: Fires Assault Weapon at Green, and Praises His Own Miss
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November 4, 2008
Winner will have to take office RIGHT NOW!
Schumer Morphs Into Alfonse: Fires Assault Weapon at Green, and Praises His Own Miss
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January 22, 2009
Wayne Barrett: Is Gillibrand Too Republican to Replace Clinton?
Now that Caroline Kennedy has dropped out, the new frontrunner for Hillary Clinton's senate seat is upstate congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democratic hero for capturing a Republican-majority district in 2006. Camera crews are now posted outside her home in Hudson, New York, and she is reportedl ... More >>
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January 23, 2009
Schumer Tells Gillibrand She Will "Evolve" On Guns
We said last post that we'd leave the Gillibrand press conference when Chuck Schumer took the podium, but as usual Schumer forces us to pay attention. He just referred to Gillibrand's record on guns (as everyone points out, she has a 100 percent rating from the NRA) and said that, as some conservati ... More >>
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January 27, 2009
Sitting target: Schumer blasts Madoff with elephant gun
MSNBC captured Schumer's spiel today about the Madoff scandal. Today's Senate Banking Committee hearing on the Bernie Madoff scandal was a perfect chance for pols to grab at the golden ring of video clips, and it looks as if the winner was...New York's own Chuck Schumer! If you missed the dog- ... More >>
Columns
August 5, 2008
A Former Charles Schumer Aide Tries to Upend State Senate Vet Marty Connor
A veteran progressive legislator faces the Schumer steamroller
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August 26, 2003
Analyze This!
Italians Iced From Federal Judicial Appointments
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October 6, 1998
Fonz's Greatest Hits
Italians Iced From Federal Judicial Appointments
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October 13, 1998
Sticks & Stones
Italians Iced From Federal Judicial Appointments
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February 19, 2002
Will Schumer Stand Up?
Only He Can Prevent a Hack Bush-Pataki Appointment
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April 15, 2003
Ashcroft's New Ally
Senator Schumer Pushes to Make Covert Surveillance Easier
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October 20, 1998
Desperate Times
Senator Schumer Pushes to Make Covert Surveillance Easier
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September 15, 1998
On the Mark
Green's populist campaign appeals to Hollywood and Harlem
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November 24, 1998
The 1998 Wacko Awards
Green's populist campaign appeals to Hollywood and Harlem
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March 5, 2002
The Louima Prosecutor
Pataki and D'Amato's Pick Is Unqualified and Tainted
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February 8, 2005
Letters
Pataki and D'Amato's Pick Is Unqualified and Tainted
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August 2, 2005
The John Roberts Sideshow
Hillary walks tightrope! Schumer frolics in spotlight!
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February 13, 2007
While Schumer Slept
For five years, New York's senior senator said nothing about the toxic cloud that hung over his own constituents.
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February 20, 2007
Letters
For five years, New York's senior senator said nothing about the toxic cloud that hung over his own constituents.
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March 13, 2007
All Wet
Bloomberg's man Dan Doctoroff has an answer for rising seas: more coastal condos!
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May 7, 2009
Chuck Schumer Avenges Humanity Against Urban Wildlife!
At last, one of our elected representatives is fighting back against nature, which as we previously reported is at war with New York, sending cows, wallaroos, feral parrots and other agents to smite us. Chuck Schumer strikes on two fronts: first, he has put in a bill requiring airports to report bir ... More >>
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May 14, 2009
Schumer Accepts Non-Apology from Hayseed Legislator
Charles Schumer has issued a statement about that Arkansas state senator who called him "that Jew." Schumer's statement is, "Apology accepted." Actually it wasn't much of an apology -- what Republican lawmaker Kim Hendren (pictured left) said was, "I shouldn't have gotten into this Jewish business ... More >>
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June 17, 2009
Barrett: Schumer Protects Gillibrand from a Primary Challenge Citing His Record On Such Matters -- So We Checked That Record
Image from Howie Klein's "Down With Tyranny" blog (downwithtyranny.blogspot.com)As my colleague Tom Robbins explained last month, Chuck Schumer has been flexing his considerable muscle to make sure that no elected Democrat challenges Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, the accidental incumbent, in a 2 ... More >>
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July 7, 2009
Poor People Fishing Leads Senators to Call for More, Better Warnings
Yesterday the Daily News told us about the jolly, impoverished fishermen who cast for possibly poisonous bluefish, bass and flounder off the piers of the outer boroughs, for eating and sometimes for distribution to beggars ("They come here with a plastic bag and hope that people put a fish in it"). ... More >>
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August 24, 2009
Photos: Girl Talk's Williamsburg Waterfront Pool Party with Max Tundra and Wiz Khalifa
Sam HorineSo, yeah-- 8,500 people, three bands, a broken stage, and a Chuck Schumer sighting. Just another day at Williamsburg's East River Park, where things got well and truly out of hand for Greg Gillis' Girl Talk, a band pretty much made for the mayhem, nudity, and bare feet that are the ... More >>
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September 15, 2009
FBI, Homeland Security Warn Cops After Queens Terror Raids
Though Chuck Schumer insists the Monday federal raids on three Queens homes suspected of involvement in terrorist activities were "preventative" and that there is "no imminent threat," the FBI and Homeland Security are warning police departments to be on the lookout for explosive materials, a ... More >>
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November 10, 2009
New York's Representatives in D.C. Stand United for Staten Island Toll Relief
Never fear, Staten Island -- your votes are still important. New York's elected representatives in Washington are muscling through H.R. 3960, the Residential and Commuter Toll Fairness Act of 2009, which finds that some citizens are "forced to endure significant or undue toll burdens," and thereby ... More >>
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November 18, 2009
Help Save Jelly NYC's Pool Parties
We loved these things so much we had M. Wartella make this graphic that you're probably in somewhere.The last days of summer at Jelly NYC's Pool Parties brought the curious sight of New York Senior Senator Chuck Schumer gladhanding hipsters and swaying, like Jay-Z, to the sinuous sounds of Gr ... More >>
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November 18, 2009
Senator Charles Schumer Speaks: "I happened to pass by the Jelly concerts when I was riding my bike through Williamsburg"
Photo of Schumer rallying at Girl Talk via Amanda M Hatfield's photostreamFYI, write this man in support, not anger. Says U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer, via a statement his office just sent over: "I happened to pass by the Jelly concerts when I was riding my bike through Williamsburg and wa ... More >>
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December 1, 2009
Ungrateful Jelly NYC Pool Party Partisans Manage a Paltry 200 Emails to Senator Chuck Schumer's Office
His arms are getting tired of holding you up, people. Photo via via Amanda M Hatfield's photostreamEven as the press release went out today announcing that Brooklyn native, erstwhile two-wheeler, and local music-lover Chuck Schumer was "pressing officials to iron out remaining concerns to see ... More >>
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December 16, 2009
Chuck Schumer Says "Bitch," Apologizes; Should Have Stepped, Thrown
Chuck Schumer's really getting into his gangsta lean. Having spit in defense of "the Jelly concerts" in Williamsburg, he is today reported to have called a flight attendant a bitch. He was even sitting next to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand at the time, that's how hard he rolls. His charge was ... More >>
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December 17, 2009
Today's Battle of Political Outrages: Sarah Palin's Hat vs. Chuck Schumer's Bitch
Which of the today's internet political shrieks wins the battle of Depressing Indicator of Our Discourse of the Day -- Sarah Palin's un-McCain hat, or the continuing uproar over Chuck Schumer saying "bitch" on a plane? The answer may surprise you!
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January 13, 2010
Barrett: How Will the Ballot Police Protect Kirsten Gillibrand from the Harold Ford Invasion?
Kirsten's protector is ever vigilantThank God for the ballot police. But for them, five or six elected Democrats would've already committed the crime of running against Kirsten Gillibrand. Now we have the man Harry Reid obviously mistook for Barack Obama, Harold Ford Jr., illegally panhandl ... More >>
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January 14, 2010
Barrett: Remembering When Chuck Schumer Was Fighting for Harold Ford -- in Tennessee (UPDATED)
See UPDATE after the jump "Harold Ford is a great candidate who knows how to handle himself," Chuck Schumer said in 2005. "We're very hopeful about his candidacy." Maybe a bit less hopeful today. The fine line between irony and hypocrisy is crossed every day in politics. But in ... More >>
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February 2, 2010
JELLY NYC Pool Parties Saved! (Again!)
The only thing missing here is Schumer. Illustration by M. Wartella.The Department of Parks and Recreation let slip back in December that the embattled, endangered JELLY NYC Pool Parties had been given a reprieve by the city that had temporarily tried to shut them down. But, as Senator Chuck ... More >>
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April 21, 2010
Mike Bloomberg Trashes Chuck Schumer As He Crusades to Protect Wall Street Excess
Politico reported today that Mayor Mike trashed his longtime buddy Chuck Schumer at an April 12 meeting in Mitch McConnell's Senate office in Washington. The attack on Schumer, who supports the financial reform bill now before the Senate, is part of the oddest Bloomberg campaign ... More >>
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July 12, 2010
Sen. Chuck Schumer Declares (Booze-Funded) War on Hipster Booze-Juice
You've seen them in your local bodega, deli, or drug store. They sit there, those brightly-colored cans containing malt liquor, sugar, caffeine, and mystique, waiting for the young and not-sober-for-long masses waiting to pick them up and drain them down their thin, thirsty gizzards. Sparks. ... More >>
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August 23, 2010
The Last Jelly Pool Party, Featuring "SECRET SPECIAL GUESTS!", Is Back On
Last chance to do this, for real this time. Pic by Sam Horine.Yes, the final Pool Party of a remarkably tumultuous year has been saved, set for this Sunday, August 29, rescued after an ugly few days of Jelly and the Open Space Alliance trading crabby press releases. The dialogue is still crab ... More >>
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September 7, 2010
Steve Rattner's Book, Overhaul: the Cuomo and Schumer Revelations
Steve Rattner, the financier and Democratic fundraiser who served in 2009 as President Obama's car czar, takes some guarded shots at New York's political elite in his yet-to-be-released book, Overhaul. He paints himself as a victim in the ongoing Securities & Exchange Commission investigati ... More >>
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November 16, 2010
Four Loko, Under Absurd Political Assault, Soon to Be Banned by FDA.
Sen. Chuck Schumer already won the war against crazyjuice booze drink Four Loko in New York, as it's soon to be banned statewide. But what about the rest of America? In all fifty United States, no Four Loko is safe.
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January 4, 2011
Wayne Barrett: Time for Something New
Ed Koch and I were inaugurated on the same day in 1978. He became mayor and I became his weekly tormentor. I had written a few pieces for the Voice before I took over the Runnin' Scared column that January, going back as far as 1973. But I was now inheriting a column that Mary Nichols, th ... More >>
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February 28, 2011
Senator Chuck Schumer is Terrified of Hackers
New York Senator Charles Schumer has issued a call to arms today to the largest sites on the internet, including Twitter, Yahoo, and Amazon, urging them to stop using the HTTP web protocol in favor of HTTPS, "after reports that hackers are granted easy access to users' private information thr ... More >>
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March 3, 2011
Ashton Kutcher's Twitter Hacked at TED, Just Like Chuck Schumer Said
Earlier this week, New York senator Charles Schumer made public an open letter he sent to the owners of some of the internet's biggest websites -- like Twitter, Yahoo and Amazon -- urging them to stop using the HTTP web protocol in favor of HTTPS, which is more secure. On shared WiFi networks ... More >>
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March 29, 2011
Senator Schumer Coaches Colleagues on Press Call; The Guardian To Expand Stateside
Chuck Schumer, media adviserOn Tuesday morning, a telling little bit of the relationship between high-ranking politicians and the press was exposed when New York Senator Chuck Schumer was caught chatting prematurely on a conference call about the budget process with his fellow lawmakers. Schu ... More >>
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April 7, 2011
Sen. Schumer, Christine Quinn Push Feds To Pressure Bank That Owns Shoddy Housing
A consequence of our sucky economy: The city estimates that around 125,000 housing units will go into foreclosure over the next two years. In many cases, owners (including banks) are trying to unload these buildings, and while they wait, living conditions deteriorate drastically for tenants ... More >>
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June 6, 2011
Internet Week Kicks Off With Speech From New York Senator Chuck Schumer
Esther ZuckermanDuring a question and answer session at Internet Week New York this morning, Senator Chuck Schumer quipped that he was of "the older generation." And even as Schumer looked forward in his keynote speech, which kicked off IWNY at its headquarters in the Metropolitan Pavilion, h ... More >>
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January 16, 2012
Senator Chuck Schumer to AT&T: Invite Us to Your Industry Meeting, Please
Appealing to his iPhone-addicted constituents, Sen. Chuck Schumer is calling on AT&T to do something about the steep uptick in smartphone thefts in the city. You might be thinking: "What can this little ole cell phone provider do to fight crime in Gotham?" Well, our senator thinks the company ... More >>
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January 30, 2012
Sen. Chuck Schumer Pushes For Crackdown On Drugged Driving
In New York City, 357 drivers were arrested in 2011 for being under the influence of drugs -- up from 81 ten years prior. That's more than a 300 percent increase. That's why Sen. Chuck Schumer is making a funding push to crackdown on "drugged driving" through new on-site technologies that w ... More >>
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