Just the racist Republicans stirring up trouble again!
/sarc
I’ll regain belief in our corrupt legal system when this clown is in jail.
Until then, my congresscritters can bite me.
Charlie Rangel’s voice hurts my brain.
Property of old X girl friend, you know he was just helping her out, wink,wink!!!!
it’s so hard to keep track of all the lies AND all that money when he’s governing mai tai beach.
Ethics?
We don't need no stinkin' ethics, THAT'S racist!
Crook!
“This leadership team will create the most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history” - Speaker-Elect Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Press Release, November 16, 2006
The same Charlie Rangel who can’t afford a rent-controlled apartment.
/sarc
Just the racist Republicans stirring up trouble again!
/sarc
Speaking of Democrat criminals, has anyone seen a “Tax-Cheat Geitner” (dollar) bill yet?
adam clayton powell
Ultimately, Powell used up his political currency. Members of the House, happy to find a reason to silence him, expelled him for pocketing congressional employment paychecks to his wife, and for taking junkets abroad with female staffers. The fighter in him took the case all the way to the Supreme Court. He won back his seat. Even then, he was docked $25,000 to repay the illegal kickback. But the people of Harlem grew tired of Powell's unbelievable record of roll call absences and endless litigations. In 1970, they finally voted him out. Two years later, he died of prostate cancer at the age of 63.
In January 1967, following allegations that Powell had misappropriated Committee funds for his personal use and other corruption allegations, the House Democratic Caucus stripped Powell of his committee chairmanship. The full House refused to seat him until completion of an investigation by the Judiciary Committee. In March the House voted 307 to 116 to exclude him. Powell won the special election in April to fill the vacancy caused by his exclusion, but did not take his seat.
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 fire in his district, where his refusal to pay a slander judgment made him subject to arrest. He spent increasing amounts of time in Florida and displayed his wealth more than was wise for a Congressman representing a poor district. In June 1970 he was defeated in the Democratic primary by Charles B. Rangel , who has represented the area ever since. Powell failed to get on the ballot for the November election as an independent. He resigned as minister at the Abyssinian Baptist Church and moved to Bimini.
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Poor Charlie! Now I understand why he needed three rent controlled apartments!
This guy is toast after 2010.....
Give old Charlie the “Ted Treatment”.
Don’t forget to call him old, senile or “out of touch” - you know, the whole ball of wax.
How many times does Charlie have to say it? TAXES ARE FOR “THE RICH”, THE REPUBLICANS AND THE CHUMPS.
Just Geithnernomics.
Hey - ask Gates - the rules don’t apply to dem elites...
They do EXCELLENT work and have been on top of the Rangel story.
How does a person who is of average means get to own houses in foreign countries and homes in three locations on a salary of $150,000 a year? They can earn no outside income from any type of other work, they are not able to get speaking fees...how do they get rich? The answer is corruption and it will end when we make Washington less powerful over the lives of Americans."