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Charlie Rangel is Going Step Down
Reuters ^ | March 2, 2010 | Thomas Ferraro

Posted on 03/02/2010 8:44:20 PM PST by discocrico

Three Democratic leadership aides told Reuters they were unable to confirm or comment on the NBC report. A fourth indicated that no immediate announcements were planned.

NBC quoted a Democratic House member as saying the party did not have the votes to save Rangel, who has faces calls from Republicans and some Democrats to step down as chairman.

Representative Sander Levin of Michigan or Representative Pete Stark of California may temporarily take over as chairman, NBC said, citing congressional leadership sources.

NBC quoted unidentified sources as saying Rangel has been encouraged to step aside before the House votes on a Republican measure to strip him of his chairmanship, which may happen as early as Wednesday,

The Washington news outlet Politico said Rangel would keep his chairman's gavel "for now."

It said Rangel emerged from a closed-door meeting in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office Tuesday evening to declare he is still committee chairman.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; charlesrangel; congress; corruption; cultureofcorruption; pelosi; rangel; waysandmeans
I guess this guy was slick. I thought he was legit, but he was corrupt after all.

I guess the conservatives knew this guy was corrupt and they were right.

1 posted on 03/02/2010 8:44:20 PM PST by discocrico
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To: discocrico

Yo CHahlie.. you crooked liberal SCUM (guess that makes me racist).. Better Idea.. Get yo black butt back to Harlem and resign from Congress you Crooked SOB


2 posted on 03/02/2010 8:48:44 PM PST by gwilhelm56 (OBAMA ... Orwell's 1984 was a WARNING ... NOT a TEXTBOOK!!!)
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What a vote of confidence from Nancy: “I guess he’s still Chairman”.

With friends like that...


3 posted on 03/02/2010 8:49:40 PM PST by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: discocrico

I wanta see this scumbag frog-marched outa Congress in chains.


4 posted on 03/02/2010 8:51:04 PM PST by webschooner (Lincoln Freed the Slaves ... Obama Enslaves the Free)
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MEOW


5 posted on 03/02/2010 9:04:34 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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I guess this guy was slick. I thought he was legit, but he was corrupt after all.

Can I borrow your turnip truck you fell off?

6 posted on 03/02/2010 9:07:40 PM PST by Stentor
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7 posted on 03/02/2010 9:25:03 PM PST by Bean Counter (I keeps mah feathers numbered, for just such an emergency...)
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I feel like something could be said about democrats, corruption and the tip of an iceberg.


8 posted on 03/02/2010 9:31:34 PM PST by Feline_AIDS (Boop boop hoop yeah!)
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“Stepping down”???

Why isn’t he being booked on criminal charges like any other of the “little people” would be?


9 posted on 03/02/2010 9:34:39 PM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: discocrico

From Rangel to Peter Stark... from an arrogant crook to an arrogant commie.


10 posted on 03/02/2010 9:35:54 PM PST by aquila48
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Yeah, you’re a racist. You can’t get a bunch of people together anywhere without having a loser or two in the crowd.

You ought to like Rangel. He spent an entire career hurting black people.


11 posted on 03/02/2010 10:33:54 PM PST by SkipW
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Just like his predecessor, ol’ Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: corrupt as the day is long, until finally those "racist" Whitey House "hate mongers" forced the po' bro out.

By the mid-1960s Powell was being increasingly criticized for mismanagement of the committee budget, taking trips abroad at public expense (including travel to his retreat on the Bahamian isle of Bimini), and missing sittings of his committee. He was also under attack in his district, where his refusal to pay a slander judgment made him subject to arrest. He spent increasing amounts of time in Florida.

Seventy years of this nonsense, divided between 2 perps: Harlem sure loves its grifters; no wonder Billy feels at home in his offices there.

12 posted on 03/02/2010 11:54:14 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (If God didn't want a One Worlder hanging from every tree, He wouldn't have created rope)
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I don’t believe it .


13 posted on 03/03/2010 4:57:22 AM PST by lionheart 247365 (-:{ GLEN BECK is 0bama's TRANSPARENCY CZAR }:-)
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