Indeed....
Posted on 09/03/2009 8:08:52 AM PDT by La Lydia
For politicians with major bad news to make public, there's no time like the dead of August to do it....the public won't remember a thing come September. We hope Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) will have no such luck. His belated revelation of previously unreported income, property and bank accounts demands that he step aside as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
Mr. Rangel's amended financial disclosure form, which exposes omissions from his 2002 through 2006 records, is a treasure trove of outrage. He neglected to report a checking account with the Congressional Federal Credit Union and one with Merrill Lynch, each valued between $250,000 and $500,000; the tens of thousands of dollars he's earning from dividends from a number of mutual funds and stocks; and the money made from the sale of a Harlem townhouse. As a result, Mr. Rangel's reported net worth doubled, from between $516,015 and $1,316,000 to between $1,028,024 and $2,495,000.
We called on Mr. Rangel to resign his coveted post last November...Mind you, that committee already was looking into his using official stationery to raise funds for that pet project, paying below-market rents on four Harlem apartments, failing to report income from a Florida condominium sale and failing to pay taxes on a home in the Dominican Republic. There's another subcommittee investigation into lobbyist-paid trips by Mr. Rangel and four other members of Congress.
Much is expected of elected officials. Much more is expected and demanded of those entrusted with chairmanships...Mr. Rangel has violated that trust continually and seemingly without care.
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thanks, bfl
Everytime I hear his scratchy bl*wj*b voice I cringe!
Every time I see him I get to wondering who uses more Congolene.....him or Al Sharpton.
Me too, shamefull
The Democratic National Committee has quietly issued marching orders the State-controlled Media to force Rangel out of office.
The reason is the Rangel will be a Republican poster child in 2010 advertising, and the DNC wants to get Rangel out before this.
He probably should be sitting in a cell next to Cunningham.
he will never resign, they will have to drag him out in handcuffs.
I just heard on the radio that they didn’t do a fricking thing to him.
Don’t be fooled. Charlie will still be in charge. He wasn’t removed from the committee, just stepped aside. Same as Diane Feinstein when she got caught funneling inside info on to her contractor husband about plum VA contracts. They made ALOT of money and never gave it back. I know we’re all shocked.
The WP is just another organ of the Dem Party.”
It is one of the “outside of the body” organs, and I don’t mean the ears.
James Traficant just got out of jail...maybe Charlie can hire James as his adviser to help him cope while in jail?”
Maybe they can both get tax advice from little Timmy Geitner?
Every time I see him I get to wondering who uses more Congolene.....him or Al Sharpton.””
Brpthers from different daddy’s???
He stepped down from the chairmanship? When? How did I miss that?
Feinstein lost her chairmanship a few years back. Rangel did too. That’s what this thread is about. I just said that what they won’t tell you is that he will still remain. He just won’t have the title.
I’m sorry, I still don’t understand. What chairmanship did Rangel lose? He is still House Ways and Means Committee chair. Nor can I remember Feinstein losing a chairmanship. Perhaps I have a bad memory and you could help me by refreshing it? This thread is about calls for Rangel to resign as chairman.
Getting caught like he did says volumes about him from the neck up.Rangel has a neck?!?
So much for change in Congress, Ms. Pelosi. It’s the same old same old.
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