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  • (Chuck) Schumer: Democrats shouldn't protest Bush win

    01/16/2005 4:52:00 PM PST · by weegee · 5 replies · 770+ views
    The Associated Press via Newsday ^ | January 6, 2005, 5:48 PM EST | By DEVLIN BARRETT
    WASHINGTON -- Sen. Charles Schumer, fresh in a new leadership role among Democrats, found himself at odds with some of them Thursday, including Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, over a ceremonial counting of President Bush's re-election victory. Schumer, D-N.Y., was tapped late last year to head the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and began the day touting the DSCC's lack of debt heading into the 2006 elections. The achievement was largely overshadowed by an objection to Ohio's electoral vote tallies by Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio, joined by Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. Some Democrats have complained that voting problems in Ohio, where...