Sen. Chuck Schumer Calls on IDC to Work with Democrats: 'That's the Right Thing to Do'

 

By Kenneth Lovett

ALBANY — U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer has joined a growing chorus calling on a group of eight breakaway state Senate Democrats to re-unify with the chamber's mainline Dems.

The Independent Democratic Conference, or IDC, has been aligned in a leadership coalition with the Senate Republicans.

"The IDC, they're elected as Democrats and they should caucus with the Democrats and create a Democratic majority," Schumer said Monday during an unrelated Putnam County appearance. "That's the right thing to do."

Of the IDC, he said that "they don't run as Republicans, they just caucus with Republicans. That's wrong. They ought to caucus and work with the Democrats."

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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)