Schumer takes heat after the cancellation of the town hall

NEW YORK – Chuck Schumer's activists frustrated, demanding more fight from his Democratic senators, before even canceling a long-awaited public meeting Monday night.

But once Schumer bowed, citing a problem of equipment that kept his little plane on the ground, frustration After spending nearly a year putting pressure on the head of the Senate minority to meet his constituents, the liberal organizers rushed to push Schumer to postpone and not rely on a hastily assembled teleconference to allow him to answer their questions.

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The liberals who had hoped to see Schumer at a sold-out event resorted to slogans of "do not call him", a possibility he asked the progressives of remain as engaged in the battle of the High Court as in the field of health care

. last year, reminding them that official Washington was presenting the defense of Obamacare as a "mad race". Yet, he spent most of his time on the phone after his mayor was delayed to reassure skeptical activists.

this city that wants to support him, so that he can win battles, "said Liat Olenick, 32, a member of the liberal group of the Indivisible Brooklyn Group who has spent months directing personal calls to Schumer to plan the event. "But he does not speak to these people, and we want him to do it."

During his remarks to voters over the phone, Schumer tried to energize the loyal Democrats With a piece for unity, the democratic path to victory, he explained, succeeds in proving that Trump's choice of the Supreme Court, still anonymous, would roll back Roe v. Wade and Obamacare

Schumer also asks activists to spend less time Democrats using their limited procedural power to delay a confirmation from the Supreme Court. Last year, Republicans removed the # 39, systematic obstruction for can High Court Didactics

"I am willing to use the procedural tools available at the right time," he said in his appeal to the New Yorkers. "But I think if we put all our eggs in this basket, we will have less chance to focus on the substantive issues."

Schumer's stance – which the Democrats can not realistically blockade – received a boost last week when Indivisible warned its members that "it's not enough." there is no procedural tool to stop this confirmation process from the Supreme Court. "

But activists were looking for more from Schumer on Monday night, and his gesture for talking from afar did not appease them.

"We are in a shootout, but we have butter knife," a New Yorker who identified as Monique sighed to Schumer during his conference call.

Schumer did not hold a town hall until this congress, according to data maintained by the non-partisan Legistorm database.

Olenick set a stark contrast between this count and the many public meetings held by young New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.

Another indivisible local organizer, Lisa Raymond-Tolan, 44, did not rule out a protest in front of Schumer's house in Brooklyn, a tactic that hundreds of activists used for the first time in the winter of 2017, if he failed to postpone the promised mayor

"It is extremely important that he know for whom he is fighting and"

Schumer exposed his approach to the decision of The Trump Supreme Court in a New York Times op-ed Monday, focusing on abortion rights and health care, arguments he made to activists on the subject. The indivisible organizers praised this sentiment but also told a small crowd arriving early at City Hall that they wanted Schumer to bend his arms in his own caucus.

activists were irritated by the disinterest of Democratic leaders Gina Haspel, dir Director of the CIA, before its confirmation in May. And while Schumer has received praise from his members of the Red State facing tough re-elections in November for his willingness to let them vote in their own way, his base wants to see evidence that Schumer will respond to his own call for a strategy