Posted on 10/07/2009 4:51:50 AM PDT by Shellybenoit
Charlie Rangel is trying to prove that you can go home again, or at least pork can go home again. In the latest defense bill Charlie Rangel slipped in a $3 million dollar earmark for CCNY. The defense department didn't want the project.
Rangel's association with the school was strengthened years ago with his vanity earmarks surrounding the Charles Rangel School of Public Service at CCNY.
This Charlie Rangel “Monument to Me” project was partially funded though US Government grants, directed by the Ways and Means Committee Chairman:
Two years after creating a center in his own name at City College, Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel has come through with a $3 million defense grant for the school -- for a project the Pentagon doesn't even want, The Post has learned.
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Charlie is just following in the footsteps of Robert "KKK" Byrd. You remember him - he's the senior senator from the state of Byrd, formerly known as West Virginia. Practically every public building, road and highway is a memorial to Byrd, one of the most corrupt people in the senate. Rangel is just trying to catch up!
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