Frequent-Flying Senator Pays After a Challenge by a Rival (Chuckie Schumer eats some humble pie)

NY Times ^ | June 24, 2004 | MICHAEL SLACKMAN

[neverdem]

Chuckie Schumer eats some humble pie, couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

[neverdem]

PING

[ETERNAL WARMING]

"accounting errors."

ROFL Yeah, right.

[AUH2OY2K]

Why is it that accounting errors always favor the privileged?
Sorry, a self-evidencing question.

[The Electrician]

The sneering tone of this article is what we have come to expect from the NY Times whenever it must grudgingly acknowledge the mere existence of a Republican challenger to one of their favorite Democrats. Can anybody recall any occasion when the NY Times has taken Schumer to task for his (many, many) overreaching statements? I didn't think so...

[okie01]

One gets the impression the Times would've preferred to make this a short article, so as not to address undue attention to Sen. Schumer's embarrassment.

However, if they were going to print the story at all, they couldn't have it look too good for the Mills team or have it reflect too badly on their boy, Schumer.

Consequently, a good 80% of the text is devoted to the proposition that the Mills campaign didn't really get it 100% right, while Schumer was actually more accurate in identifying his transgressions.

Tortured spin.

[NormsRevenge]

Asked for a response to Mr. Mills's claims, Mr. Schumer's staff began its own review, and found that on some 35 occasions, Mr. Schumer had let taxpayers foot the bill for his political and fund-raising trips.

It was, if nothing else, a humbling moment for Mr. Schumer, a Democrat, whose office described the questionable billing as "accounting errors."

"chuckie" roast,, hard to chew and even harder to swallow

[proudpapa]

This reminds me of the time (99?) in Chicago, when my congresscritter Luis Gutierrez, discovered that he was supposed to pay property taxes. Only after he had been caught not paying them after several years.

[jocko12]

chuckie will skate,he is a demwit and rules don't apply.

[thegreatbeast]

"...Mr. Schumer had taken flights of less than 35 miles, in one case flying just 8.1 miles.".

That's just plain ridiculous; it's wasteful and illustrates just what an elitist Schumer is.

And if you think Chucky flew all over NY in a single engine plane, I'd like to sell you two 107 storey buildings in NYC. Contrary to what the NY Times wanted this story does show just how high-flying Chucky Schumer is.

[jsbankston]

Chuckie is just showing the World the power and Privilege of Incumbency. A Private Jet for Chuckie, Air Force One for Hillary, Billy, Al and yes even Dubya.

[LibertarianInExile]

The 'not-so-luxurious' Beechcraft interior.

I'm sorry, but I'd fly that over coach any day.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[CyberAnt]

"while the Mills effort was thematically prescient, it was, upon examination, far from perfect in its substantive analysis"

I loved this statement. So typical of the liberal elite.

[L.N. Smithee]

Chuckie Schumer eats some humble pie, couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Anything that will wipe the scowl off of Schmuckie Chumer's face is good news.

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ping

[pennboricua]

I attended High School with that little squirt, remember my father going to his precinct office one time and scaring the you know what out of him, about some abandonned property in Humboldt Park that needed razing and he saw no problem,.
Also remember the fools of the FALN and the socialist teachers at Tuley High School.

[Criminal Number 18F]

You might wonder how this kind of thing can be resolved by Charter Chuck with a $480 check. The guys in Congress have set up a sweetheart deal for themselves: they can get us taxpaying chumps to pick up the cost of a charter, and then they "reimburse" the government the cost of alternative public transportation: a coach ticket, or bus fare.

The writer of this piece belittles a Beechcraft Bonanza. Well, let me tell you why the vainglorious Chuck flies in that small six-seater: it comes and goes on his schedule, there is no inconvenient security (might be important: there are persistent rumors that Chuck carries a gun), and no waiting for airline schedules or other passengers. You will have no 400-pound, hygenically-challenged behemoth, nor any screaming infant in the next seat. Politicians hate flying scheduled airlines because it exposes them to unscripted contact with the electorate, and nothing good can come of that.

"I only cheated a little, and I paid it back when I got caught," seems to be what he's saying here, and Charter Chuck wants brownie points for that. Sheesh.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[neverdem]

Nice to know how our betters take care of themselves, thanks. Fienswine is authoritatively rumored to have a carry permit. I have read that the Chicago City Council have been deputized so they can carry. Remember that great proponent of gun control, the late columnist Carl Rowan shot or brandished on someone breaking and entering. He had a throw away from his son, a Federal Marshall in D.C., IIRC.