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Calling Mona Charen
From Politico:
Chuck Schumer is getting an earful from opponents of the Iran nuclear deal.
More than 10,000 phone calls have flooded his office line the past two weeks, organized by a group looking to kill the deal. Another group has dropped seven figures on TV in New York City to pressure Schumer and other lawmakers to vote against the plan. The powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee has put its muscle behind an effort to lobby the New Yorker against it.
And Dov Hikind, a state assemblyman from Brooklyn, was arrested for disorderly conduct while protesting the deal outside Schumer’s office.
People who have spoken with the senior New York senator believe the pressure campaign is having an effect: They say there is a growing sense inside and outside the Capitol that Schumer will vote against the deal when the Senate considers it in September.
Mona, can this be so?
And if it is so — if Sen. Schumer does vote against the deal — is the deal doomed?
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Eric,
You are correct in that my people should press for a commitment to both the initial vote and the override. That may sound obvious but you are right, in this situation one can take nothing for granted.
Only their actions.
Regards,
Jim