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Carmona Set To Fundraise With Liberal New York Senator Chuck Schumer  Richard Carmona (D-AZ) likes to preach his independence on the campaign in Arizona, but an inside look at his fundraising apparatus tells a far different story.  Tonight, Carmona’s political patron liberal U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) will host a fundraiser for Carmona at the posh Grace Hotel in New York City. Schumer is an unabashed supporter of Barack Obama’s tax-and-spend agenda, supporting key initiatives like Obama’s failed $825 billion stimulus and $2.5 trillion healthcare law.  Additionally, Schumer is a strong opponent of the Second Amendment and has consistently voted to raise taxes on families and small business owners in Arizona.   On every major issue, Schumer has been in lockstep with President Obama, who personally recruited Carmona to run last year. “If Arizonans want to see who Richard Carmona will stand with in Washington, they don’t need to look any…

Democrats’ “Message Guru” Encouraging His Party’s Candidates To Embrace Occupy Wall Street Movement After spending years shaking down Wall Street banks and bankers for millions of dollars in campaign contributions, particularly during his four years leading the DSCC, New York’s senior Senator Chuck Schumer said today that not only is he now encouraging Senate Democrats to campaign against the New York financial industry, but that “income inequality” is a “winning issue” for his party moving into next year’s election. In an interview today with liberal Washington Post blogger Greg Sargent, the Democrats’ anointed “message guru” said that “Occupy Wall Street has resonance far beyond the protests,” and vowed that inequality would be a central issue in the campaign that Democrats would focus on “like a laser.” “It’s a remarkable admission from New York’s senior Senator that he believes vilifying the New York City financial community, which is responsible for creating…

For those focused on protecting and strengthening New York’s economy, yesterday’s action in the U.S. Senate was instructive for understanding who is standing up for New York’s job creators and who isn’t. U.S. Senator Ben Nelson from Nebraska became the latest Senate Democrat to break with his party leaders and make clear that cutting spending, and not raising taxes, should be the focus over the debt ceiling debate.  Nelson joined fellow Democrat Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia, who has also voiced his opposition in recent days to the hundreds of billions of dollars in proposed tax increases from Senate Democrat leaders, which would have a disproportionate effect on New York City job creators in particular. This includes targeting the so-called “carried interest” provision used by investment services partnerships which Democrats believe could raise them at least $20 billion in new government tax revenue. Yet, while some Senate Democrats are…

Democrats’ Message Guru Strikingly Silent On Effort To Raise Taxes On New York Job Creators As the camera-loving Senator from New York, Chuck Schumer has become well known for his Sunday press conferences where he holds court on issues ranging from caffeinated malt beverages to new legislation prohibiting sex offenders from working at carnivals. But as both parties continue to debate hiking the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling by an additional $2 trillion, Senate Democrat leaders, including Schumer, continue to dig in and insist on at least $400 billion in new tax increases to offset any spending cuts.  And the normally voluble Schumer is suddenly silent and circumspect in commenting on how several of these new tax hike proposals would land disproportionately on job creators in New York City. As the Wall Street Journal reports today: Another administration proposal would change the tax treatment of earnings for many investment-fund managers, ending…