Liverpool, NY - Three days before Election Day, U.S. Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand shook hands, held babies and gave high-fives at the Gardenview Diner in Liverpool. The senators were campaigning for themselves and for U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei, D-DeWitt, whose offices are just down Old Liverpool Road from the diner. All three are Democrats. The two senators...
Dan MaffeiLiverpool, NY - Three days before Election Day, U.S. Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand shook hands, held babies and gave high-fives at the Gardenview Diner in Liverpool.
The senators were campaigning for themselves and for U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei, D-DeWitt, whose offices are just down Old Liverpool Road from the diner. All three are Democrats.
The two senators had already made campaign stops in Buffalo and Rochester, and were headed to Albany after they left Liverpool. They made their way around the friendly crowd in the restaurant, chatting about food and families.
"Have more kids," Schumer urged Sally Santangelo, as she held her infant son, Isaac, who wore a one-piece fleece outfit with a "Maffei" sticker on the front. "I wanted four children, my wife wanted two, and so we comprised and had two," Schumer said, to laughter at the table where Santangelo's mother, also Sally, sat.
Earlier, Maffei held a rally at Democratic offices on Water Street with Democratic candidates for state Assembly and Senate.