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An aide to City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams apparently wasn’t too happy their email was inadvertently exposed to a bunch of Trump supporters after a faux-pas by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s office.
On Friday, President Trump announced the inauguration would be held indoors, creating a last-minute venue shake-up.
That’s when Sen. Schumer’s office got an email out to his inauguration list, advising attendees that since the event was to be moved, their invites could not be used to access the new indoor venue. But the tickets could make nice souvenirs should they still want to pick them up in person at the Hart Senate Office Building or have them mailed.
However, the email from Schumer’s office to the hundreds of guests on his ticket list might’ve been sent out a bit too fast — and the aide who fired off the message apparently did not use the “BCC” [blind carbon copy] option, showing everyone’s email on the list.
An email from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s office caused a bit of a stir. Getty Images An aide for Speaker of the New York City Council Adrienne Adams apparently chimed in. Andrew Schwartz / SplashNews.comWe hear that within moments Trump supporters quickly began “replying all” — and the comments continued all weekend, with some suggesting someone would get getting axed for the mix-up, and another replying it would be Schumer who gets voted out.
The email chain went so far afield that some were even trying to land dates from the list, and one mom offered up her two daughters to a man who asked if “anyone was a Jewish 20- or 30-something,” and, “better if they like pickleball.”
By Wednesday afternoon, after dozens of “reply all” messages flew, an aide for Adams had enough and wrote a stern note to Schumer’s office, asking, “Please tell me why am I on a group email? Is there any reason why this mail was not BCC? Now you are exposing individuals’ mailing addresses in a group.”
Donald Trump’s inauguration was moved indoors. POOL/AFP via Getty Images An angry aide added: “In my opinion. This is inappropriate. I am surprised discretion was not used here.” Getty ImagesThe angry aide added: “In my opinion. This is inappropriate. I am surprised discretion was not used here.”
But in “replying all” herself, she just added to the din.
A Trumper wrote back: “We Republicans are grateful to connect with other Republicans… But yes it was a huge flaw again by a Democrat. Everything they do is a failure. Thanks for proving it to all of us.”
Tickets to the inauguration issued from Schumer’s office were via lottery. AFP via Getty Images One Trumper trumpeted: “We must make emails great again!” Getty ImagesYet another chimed in: “We must make emails great again!”
Schumer spokesperson Angelo Roefaro told us when we reached out: “We are sorry for any CConfusion, as it was an aCCident.”
We hear that folks got the tickets in the first place by entering a lottery.
