(CNN) — Chuck Schumer has postponed his book tour events amid anger from within the Democratic Party over the Senate minority leader’s handling of the government funding fight in Congress.

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    6 months ago

    What did you think was going to happen you spineless neoliberal!?

    Who is going to buy your book anyway? These political books seem like a money laundering operation. I can’t imagine there are so many people lining up to buy these political hacks writings.

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    There’s zero security concern.

    He’s just afraid of his voters like Republicans are if theirs

    This won’t even cost him money in book sales though. The way the grift works is PACs but pallets worth, but they do it thru bookstores at individual retail price.

    The author gets a cut, then the PAC gives them back to the campaign.

    Then the Candidate signs them, and gives them out at events for free but marks on the book they cost $100+.

    The big reason journalists looked into it, is some politician figured out which random bookstores are the sample for the Times best seller list and did it there.

    After looking into that we realized it’s happening pretty much anytime a politician writes a book. It’s literally just money laundering PAC money to the campaigns directly

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        Yeah, the result was no one gave a fuck.

        Bookstores loved it, especially the ones that were samples for the lists.

        The list said they’d try to keep a better lid on which stores get sampled.

        And politicians decided it was totally cool and perfectly legal for politicians to do this…

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    I would be more concerned about your books collecting dust on the shelves than security. No republican will buy it and Dems hate Chuck. I hope he has to burn those books to keep warm at night.

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      They’ll be snatched up and given out at political conventions where mindless people go to collect these books and never read them.

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    6 months ago

    Was planning to show up with a couple of friends. We’ve rescheduled to go to a local comedy show instead.