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Sen. Charles Schumer

2004

• March 4 -- "My Heroes Have Always Been…" Senate Democratic Leaders?
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, who recently called Democratic Senate leader (and Limbaugh-basher) Tom Daschle "soft-spoken" and "decent," uses a whirlwind gun vote in Congress to spin the liberal leader into a legislative hero: "When the gunfight--or rather, the fight over guns--finished in the Senate on Tuesday, it seemed as if Senator Tom Daschle, the Democratic leader, was the last man standing."

 

• November 4 -- The Times and the "C-Word"
A story on Democratic Sen. Schumer's filibusters against Bush nominees goes crazy with "conservative" labels.

• June 16 -- Sen. Schumer Non-Scandal Watch
A Times story on Charles Schumer’s 2004 reelection race again fails to mention the large fines the Federal Election Commission leveled against Schumer -- an outspoken advocate of campaign-finance reform.

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