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U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer is claiming responsibility for preventing Brighton Beach Brooklyn from going ______? 

That’s the question of the day, based on Mr. Schumer’s boastful — and suddenly abbreviated — remarks in the above video shot last week.  

“We helped bring the Russians to the community in Brighton Beach,” Schumer brags. “We had a phone number, when a Russian got off the plane, you need an apartment, look up, call this number and that’s how we filled up Brighton Beach and prevented it from going_____.” 

New York’s verbose senator has never been at a loss for words.  So what is the missing word, Mr. Schumer?  You were saying something….

Had someone else made such a pointedly awkward statement, Mr. Schumer would be marching down some boulevard right now, his arms linked with Al Sharpton’s.