Stephen Solarz
Velazquez gets the big three on Israel, without much talk of foreign policy
If Sunday's joint endorsement of Nydia Velazquez by the pro-Israel heavyweights Chuck Schumer, Shelly Silver and Jerry Nadler was intended to shore up the congresswoman's bona fides with the Jewish community, the point was mostly left implicit. More
Steve Solarz (1940-2010) and the making of Senator Schumer
The initial obituaries for Stephen Solarz, the former nine-term congressman from Brooklyn who died of esophageal cancer at the age of 70 on Monday, do not even mention the name Chuck Schumer. Which is a shame, because there might not have been a Chuck Schumer, as we know him today, if there hadn’t been a Stephen Solarz. More
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