Maybe check Charlie's bank account.
Posted on 11/08/2009 6:54:20 AM PST by Libloather
'Chuck' bucks have run dry
Just 3G in donations for 'Rangel' school
By MELISSA KLEIN and ISABEL VINCENT
Last Updated: 6:42 AM, November 8, 2009
Donors have contributed just $3,315 to the Rangel Center at City College since the Harlem congressman became enmeshed in scandal last fall.
The center -- which critics have derided as a "monument to me" -- needs $30 million to renovate a derelict building in Harlem and fulfill its mission to prepare minority students for public-service careers.
But data provided by the college shows Rangel's pet project has amassed just $6.6 million in pledges, and only $650,000 in cash contributions, since fund-raising began in 2005.
The pledges have dried up completely, and the cash donations slowed to a trickle, since September 2008. That's when a congressional ethics committee began a far-reaching probe into the lawmaker's alleged tax dodges, misuse of rent-stabilized apartments, influence-peddling, and soliciting donations for the center on congressional letterhead.
"There have been no additional pledges since that time," said Mary Lou Edmondson, spokeswoman for City College.
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But despite such activity, the Rangel Center has virtually no presence on campus. At its temporary quarters in the dean of social sciences' office on the sixth floor of a student center on Convent Avenue, there are no signs it exists.
On a visit last week, the dean's office was deserted and neither students nor campus police had any idea where the Rangel Center offices were.
The center is eventually to be housed in a vacant limestone mansion owned by the college at Convent Avenue and 141st Street. A city landmark, the mansion was gutted by fire and has been empty for decades.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Maybe check Charlie's bank account.
Is this the real “two buck Chuck”?
“needs $30 million to renovate a derelict building in Harlem and fulfill its mission to prepare minority students for public-service careers.”
They need a 30 million dollar building to learn how to shake down whitey and special interests groups? I’d have thought a two page pamphlet would suffice.
We already have these buildings.
They are called prisons.
They are the source of ACORN thugs, islamist terrorists in the government, and democrat party Congressmen.
Since Treasury Head is already taken, how about we nominate him to head the task-force for regulating the Federal Reserve? [/LOTS of Sarc]
Oh man…yeah…that’s just what we need! /s
It’s “only” taken in $6 million in pledges. If you tracked down that $6 million, you’d be a long way toward discovering who’s bribing Charlie for pork and favors. But of course they don’t care about that.
How about putting Poop in a paper bag and leaving it on the stairs.
That would be an appropriate monument I think.
He’s looking a little thin in the face...not stealing enough for dinner, Charlie?
We are lead by criminals.
'Chuck' bucks have run dry
Wouldn't that be a wasteful duplication of services? Aren't the Ivy League Universities already doing this?
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