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Lawmaker on Rangel jury plans to keep $3,000 in donations from embattled rep
The Hill ^ | 8/5/2010 | Susan Crabtree

Posted on 08/05/2010 1:15:09 PM PDT by Outside da Box

Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) has no plans to give up the $3,000 in donations he took from embattled Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) even though he sits on the jury considering evidence that the former Ways and Means Committee chairman broke ethics rules.

Butterfield is one of a bipartisan group of eight members on the ethics committee who will weigh the allegations against Rangel.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: butterfield; corruption; democrats; rangel

1 posted on 08/05/2010 1:15:12 PM PDT by Outside da Box
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To: Outside da Box

This day keeps getting better and better ... “Pat” Kagan gets anointed, this fool tells us to shove it ... every day a new wound in the death of a thousand cuts to my poor country.


2 posted on 08/05/2010 1:19:32 PM PDT by jessduntno (I wonder...how will third Manassas turn out?)
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To: Outside da Box

If you are a democrat, you never have to be accountable for your actions. You can do whatever you want and not worry about anything.
If you are a normal person, you are harassed, forced to bend over for the examination, trashed and beaten if you missed paying for a parking ticket 20 years ago.


3 posted on 08/05/2010 1:33:03 PM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (I will not be silenced.)
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"When, in the course of human events......."
4 posted on 08/05/2010 1:40:51 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Outside da Box

Culture of Corruption, Nancy. Culture of Corruption.


5 posted on 08/05/2010 2:39:23 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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Now we know how obama walks on water .. the water is actually a swamp


6 posted on 08/06/2010 3:22:58 PM PDT by Munz (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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