Some folks experience their fairytale love-at-first sight moment when they meet their future spouse, but that wasn't exactly the case for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. In fact, his future wife put Schumer firmly in his place when the two initially met, in the 1970s, at a Mid-Bay Independent Democrats gathering in Midwood, Brooklyn. The 24-year-old was attending the meeting in his capacity as a New York state assemblyman, and it was there Schumer ran into Iris Weinshall, a fiery 21-year-old lobbyist who didn't budge easily, as he quickly learned when Schumer tried to weasel his way into making his speech before hers.

Weinshall looked back on that fateful day while chatting to Crain's New York Business in 2016. "I had waited to speak and he showed up and he came over to me and sa

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