It’s amazing, this stuff about Wrangle has been known for literally years, yet the gutless republicans and democrats and propagandists (medica) have been too chicken to bring it out.
It’s an interesting ending. There are eight folks on this judgement board...four Republican and four Democrat. Rangel wants a deal...but it has to have one of the Republicans agreeing to it. I can’t see that happening. So other than offering to resign...that might the only agreeable thing that all eight would readily accept.
I suspect he wants most of the charges tossed and he’ll just pay the fines. But that just won’t wash at this point.
My offer to the guy? Offer to represent the region you’ve been elected from but disqualified from voting for any piece of legislation for two years (it’d make you worthless but you could continue to collect a pay-check). Pelosi would have a heart-attack if this was the final result...but it’d make things interesting, and we’d still have Charley around.