Wall Street fat cats don’t think Senator Chuck Schumer is doing enough to justify their investment in him. They also don’t like the way he’s gotten all populist on him. So they’re out for revenge.
Schumer’s critics—who accuse him of adopting a populist streak so he can be the next majority leader—have no hope of unseating him, but they can take revenge in other ways, writes Smith in New York magazine. That includes getting behind Harold Ford Jr. as he tries to oust Kirsten Gillibrand—”a virtual ward of Schumer’s”—from her Senate seat. “A lot of what’s fueling the Ford thing is Chuck’s donors, who are furious at him,” says a political consultant. “They feel he’s walked away from them.”
I’m all for them taking revenge on Schumer by trying to unseat his little puppet, but can’t they throw some money at a candidate to run against Schumer, too?
