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Rangel confirms plans to retire at the end of the year
The Hill ^
| February 24, 2016
| Harper Neidig
Posted on 02/24/2016 2:19:18 PM PST by jazusamo
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Good, two corrupt Rats will be gone and Charley's dreaming about Hillary.
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posted on
02/24/2016 2:19:18 PM PST
by
jazusamo
To: jazusamo
One of the most popular pols ever to trod the sidewalks of New York!
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posted on
02/24/2016 2:21:14 PM PST
by
Theodore R.
(Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
To: jazusamo
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posted on
02/24/2016 2:21:39 PM PST
by
SueRae
(It isn't over. In God We Trust.)
To: jazusamo
Rangel’s district is two-thirds Hispanic. He was having a harder and harder time in the primary getting the nomination. You can bet the house that his replacement will be Hispanic.
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posted on
02/24/2016 2:21:40 PM PST
by
kabar
To: Theodore R.
Rangel, 84, first elected in 1970, was for decades one of the nation's most influential black elected officials, but his influence has waned since his 2010 censure by peers in the U.S. House of Representatives over ethics violations forced him to surrender the chairmanship of the powerful taxwriting Ways and Means Committee.Espaillat, 59, who would have been Congress' first Dominican-born member, had stumped as the face and voice of change in a district that in recent years underwent a demographic shift to include more Latinos.
Espaillat, of Washington Heights, lost a 2012 primary challenge to Rangel by less than 1,000 votes. For their rematch, he was endorsed by several politicians and unions that had thrown their weight behind Rangel two years ago: City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, Comptroller Scott M. Stringer, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., and the United Federation of Teachers among others.
The campaign had been embroiled in racially tinged controversy, which prompted Mayor Bill de Blasio and the Rev. Al Sharpton to step in and denounce discussions of race or nationality from either side.
Rangel at a debate earlier this month criticized Espaillat for fliers his 2012 campaign distributed saying a Dominican legislator had betrayed his community by backing Rangel. Rangel also alleged Espaillat had not done anything for the district "besides saying he's a Dominican."
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posted on
02/24/2016 2:26:38 PM PST
by
kabar
To: jazusamo
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posted on
02/24/2016 2:27:21 PM PST
by
fhayek
To: jazusamo
They never gave Obama the opportunity to do the things he dreamed they could do?? Who is they??? And what did he dream about????
To: jazusamo
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posted on
02/24/2016 2:29:42 PM PST
by
Raymann
To: jazusamo
Off he goes to pass-out on a beach chair in a posh Caribbean resort.
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posted on
02/24/2016 2:31:46 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: jazusamo
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posted on
02/24/2016 2:34:24 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Army Air Corps
Yep, that pic of him passed out on the beach lounge is a hoot...beached whale. LOL!
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02/24/2016 2:34:36 PM PST
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jazusamo
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02/24/2016 2:37:44 PM PST
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DoughtyOne
(Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
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posted on
02/24/2016 2:38:01 PM PST
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jazusamo
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To: jazusamo
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posted on
02/24/2016 2:38:39 PM PST
by
fwdude
To: jazusamo
Doesn’t this clown still owe a ton of back taxes?
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posted on
02/24/2016 2:39:34 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: jazusamo
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posted on
02/24/2016 2:41:14 PM PST
by
beethovenfan
(Islam is a cancer on civilization.)
To: Army Air Corps
I believe so and he should have been indicted over that fiasco.
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posted on
02/24/2016 2:41:19 PM PST
by
jazusamo
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To: jazusamo
His retirement condo ought to be a federal supermax prison.
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posted on
02/24/2016 2:43:38 PM PST
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: jazusamo
Should have happened a long time ago.
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posted on
02/24/2016 2:44:39 PM PST
by
Parmy
(I)
To: jazusamo
The Gravy Train is pulling into the station. Time to get off.
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