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Article: The Senator Has the Floor; Does Chuck Schumer Ever Have a Story for You!
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 15, 2005
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Chuck Schumer hails from Brooklyn, which might be the least
surprising biographical fact about him. Not only does the
indefatigable Democrat embody many cultural stereotypes of the place
-- the strong ethnic identity, neighborhood chauvinism and constant
laments about how you can't get a "decent" bagel or slice of pizza in
[insert non-New York place here] -- but Schumer mentions his roots
nine times during a 90-minute lunch.
This itself is a Brooklyn characteristic: The borough is perhaps
the most commonly self-referenced home town in America, a cultural
badge of bluntness and middle-class pluck. Indeed, when Schumer says,
"I am from Brooklyn," it is both an assertion of civic pride ...