Schumer Says Squadron Won't 'Lose Touch'
Here’s Chuck Schumer endorsing Dan Squadron yesterday in lower Manhattan. Squadron, a former Schumer aide, is trying to unseat State Senator Marty Connor.
Schumer didn't mention that Connor failed to support Schumer in his 1998 Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, but did say (around the 6:10 mark), “Another thing I look for when someone’s in office for a long time, is that they’re not going to lose touch.”
Later, I asked Squadron and Schumer about congestion pricing. Squadron said he had problems with the bill, but also said that New York missed an “historic opportunity“ to address an important issue. Ultimately, he declined to say if he would have voted for the bill as it was presented to lawmakers. Schumer, whose wife is the city’s former transportation commissioner, said, “I didn’t get involved in congestion pricing because they never sent us the plan.”
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There's going to be a lot more questions you won't want to be answering, Dan, like whether or not you ever spoke up against Chuck Schumer's selling out of lower Manhattan's air quality and traffic congestion by insisting on preserving the one-way toll on the Verrazano Bridge, which provides a huge incentive to trucks and other motorist traveling to Jersey to cut through downtown Manhattan.
Yeah, here are some more questions, Dan: how do you feel about Michael "Don't Know If Waterboarding Is Torture" Mukasey, Chuck's recommendation to Bush for Attorney General? How about Chuck's votes for the Iraq War Resolution, the Patriot Act, the death penalty -- were those cast on behalf of "ordinary Americans", too, and weren't you on Chuck's staff during those votes?