Oregon: Charles Schumer

Wed, 08/27/2008 - 18:17

DSCC Press Conference with Schumer, Merkley

By Britten Chase, PolitickerOR.com Reporter

DENVER -- U.S. Senate candidate and Oregon House Speaker Jeff Merkley appeared earlier today in a press conference with U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and other Democrats running tight races for current Republican Senate seats.

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Wed, 08/27/2008 - 14:23

Schumer: ‘Smith is trying to change who he is’

By Britten Chase, PolitickerOR.com Reporter

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday that U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Pendleton) was trying to change who he is by running ads talking about all the work he had accomplished in tandem with Democratic Sens. Barack Obama and John Kerry.

"Gordon Smith is one of the least popular Republican incumbents," Schumer said. "And he is trying to change who he. He runs more commercials with Barack Obama and John Kerry than he does with George W. Bush and John McCain."

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Wed, 08/20/2008 - 19:31

Merkley to address Democratic National Convention

By Britten Chase, PolitickerOR.com Reporter

Oregon House Speaker and U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Merkley (D-Portland) will be addressing the Democratic National Convention, according to the convention’s organizers.

According to the Democratic National Convention Committee, the spotlight will be on Merkley Wednesday night when some of the Democratic Party’s top U.S. Senate challengers take center stage.

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Wed, 05/21/2008 - 11:53

Hours after the primary, general election fight starts for Merkley, Smith

By Lauren Lafaro

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee was really banking on a Jeff Merkley win last night. It had already commissioned a poll before the primary election, pitting the DSCC's handpicked candidate against the incumbent, Republican Sen. Gordon Smith.

The primary did go Sen. Chuck Schumer's way, with Merkley beating Steve Novick, and the poll of 800 likely voters taken by the Feldman Group was distributed to the media today.

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Wed, 05/21/2008 - 00:48

DSCC: 'Merkley can win in November'

By Jamie Klatell, Politicker.com Editor

Shortly after his victory over Steve Novick in the U.S. Senate race's Democratic primary, Jeff Merkley got some words of encouragement from Sen. Charles Schumer, the chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

After acknowledging that voters chose from "an impressive field of candidates," Schumer's statement looks toward the general election campaign against incumbent Sen. Gordon Smith:

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Tue, 11/20/2007 - 08:08