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Article: Battle of the Mean Machines: Can New York's Chuck Schumer Beat Al D'Amato at His Own Game?
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- The Washington Post
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- October 5, 1998
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Senator Pothole has a problem.
For the first time, the junior senator from New York, Alfonse
M. D'Amato, has a challenger who plays politics as he does: tireless
to the point of mania, armed with great wads of money and
unashamedly eager to poke a stick in his enemy's eye.
The problem's name is Charles E. Schumer. He is the son of a
Brooklyn exterminator, the smartest kid in his Flatbush high school,
a graduate of Harvard and Harvard Law, a state assemblyman at age 23
and a congressman from Brooklyn since he was 29.
Now 47 and having never lost an election, Schumer is a
center-left Democrat who disagrees with Republican D'Amato on
virtually everything. Yet when it comes to the ...