2004 US Senate Race
In 2004, Treadwell faced controversy after he supported Assemblyman Howard Mills as the party's nominee for the U.S. Senate against Senator Chuck Schumer over the would-be primary candidate Michael Benjamin. Benjamin publicly accused Treadwell and Governor George Pataki of trying to muscle him out of the Senate race and undermine the democratic process. Mills, who was nominated after numerous other potential candidates turned the race down, would go on to lose in the largest landslide in state history. Conservative commentator George Marlin has since criticized Treadwell, labeling him a "liberal elitist".
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