Chuck Schumer
By | January 25, 2010 | 12:14 pm
If he runs, Harold Ford Jr.'s will be challenging Kirsten Gillibrand, but in explaining his rational for running, Ford sometimes talks about his problems with both senators from New York. During an interview with Fred Dicker in Albany this morning, Ford was asked what Gillibrand has done to warrant being replaced. "I believe both senators should do a better job of putting New York State and New York City first," said... READ MORE»
ALBANY—David Paterson this morning vowed he will fight in court "to keep New York State solvent" against education groups that are suing him to prevent delays in aid... READ MORE»
By | December 17, 2009 | 8:55 am
On the topic of his party's chances in next year's elections, Robert Menendez is a study in resolute optimism. Not that he has much choice. Mr. Menendez, New Jersey's junior senator, chairs the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which recruits and provides financial and political support for the party's U.S. Senate candidates. Optimism is part of the job. But in 2010, Mr. Menendez will have to deal with some unpleasant realities that his predecessor, the irrepressible... READ MORE»
By | December 17, 2009 | 5:00 am
On the afternoon of October 16—65 days into U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's reign of prosecutorial terror—the phone rang in the Murray Hill office of defense attorney Ravi Batra. On the other end, a concerned hedge-fund executive wanted to schedule an emergency Saturday meeting to discuss the day's news: Mr. Bharara—an affable 41-year old native of India and the latest chief of the Southern District of New York—had just announced that his office was... READ MORE»
ALBANY—A reader forwarded this email from Senator Chuck Schumer, who has written an appeal to Kirsten Gillibrand's donor list. "I've been involved in politics for a long time now, and I've learned to recognize when someone has what it takes to make a real difference," writes Schumer. "There's no doubt in my mind that Kirsten Gillibrand has what it... READ MORE»
ALBANY—After a concerted political blitz including a television ad campaign, a new poll finds David Paterson's approval and favorability ratings inched up this month, but he now trails Andrew Cuomo in a gubernatorial primary by nearly 60... READ MORE»
By Kate McGee | November 11, 2009 | 4:39 pm
Senator Chuck Schumer said the Obama administration shouldn’t rush to a decision on whether to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, which the president's advisers are reportedly urging him to do. Standing in front of the Manhattan Veterans Affairs office, Schumer—joined by New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez—said the number-one job is to protect the country from... READ MORE»
ALBANY—Randy Credico, the recovered addict, current activist, comedian, impersonator, sometime Bloomberg heckler and general character called this morning to announce what has been rumored on Fred Dicker's radio show for months: he will run against Senator Chuck... READ MORE»
By | November 3, 2009 | 7:53 pm
Back when Senator Charles Schumer was a freshman from an embattled minority party, he used to say that if you put his distant predecessor Jacob Javits—the legendary liberal, antiwar, nonconformist Republican—into a centrifuge and spun it around, it would produce a pair of New York isotopes: Daniel Patrick Moynihan, an intellectual who churned out sesquipedalian tomes on social policy, and Al D’Amato, a profane tactician who seemed to understand his office in purely... READ MORE»
ALBANY—Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said he would give a "warm welcome" to Dede Scozzafava if she were to switch into his... READ MORE»
In the nearly five years that Harry Reid has been the Senate’s Democratic leader, public tension between him and Chuck Schumer—who serves with Reid in the leadership—has essentially been nonexistent. Until... READ MORE»
Harry Reid should be well suited to the delicate, grueling, and thoroughly thankless task of merging the health care packages passed by the Senate’s two committees of jurisdiction, a process that kicked off with the Finance Committee’s approval of a bill on Tuesday.... READ MORE»
Lots of Democrats, including some very important ones, support Bill Thompson for mayor. Some support him more strongly than others. “This is, for me, a very great day,” he said on Oct. 9. “I am honored and proud to accept the president’s support.”... READ MORE»
The on-again, off-again legislative odyssey of the public option has been filled with false alarms, red herrings, and dead-end breakthroughs.... READ MORE»
Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand endorsed Bill Thompson for mayor at Union Square this afternoon, praising him for everything from his stewardship of the city pension to his long career in public service to his everyman... READ MORE»
