Rangel Should Resign

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Registered: 10-18-2008
Rangel Should Resign
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Fri, 12-05-2008 - 5:44pm

This is not the sort of representative we should have chairing the the House Ways And Means Committee.


http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/12/report_rangel_paid_sons_compan.php



Report: Rangel Paid Son's Company For Shoddy Web Design
By Zachary Roth - December 5, 2008, 10:27AM


Looks like the man who takes the lead in writing our tax code, Rep. Charles Rangel, could be in more hot water.


Rangel, the New York Democrat who chairs the House Ways and Means committee, already faces an ethics investigation into claims that he didn't pay taxes on income from a rental property and that he got a special deal on a group of Harlem apartments.


Now, Politico reports that, between 2004 and 2007, Rangel paid nearly $80,000 in campaign funds to a company run by his son, Steven Rangel, for two poorly designed websites that, according to an expert, should have cost no more than $900.


The payments to the company, Edisonian Innovative Works, are probably legal, says one campaign finance wonk, but "definitely wrong."


The quality of work on the web site does appear shoddy. Politico describes it as "slapped together in a hurry, intermittently updated and never spell-checked." The site notes:

An apologetic note near the top of the site warns readers that the page is undergoing "routine maintenace (sic)" and cautions that "much of our content is currently unavailable."


Another button urges visitors to "Give Contribuition ."



According to FEC filings looked at by Politico, the sum paid by Rangel for this prodcutwas the most paid for web sites by any House member. And Rangel has not faced a competitive race for his Harlem seat in decades, meaning there would appear to be even less need to spend so much on a campaign website.


Politico adds: "Rangel's 2008 campaign site was designed and run by non-relatives for less than $25,000."

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
Fri, 12-05-2008 - 7:00pm
Yes...he needs to ride off into the sunset.

Sopal

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iVillage Member
Registered: 10-18-2008
Fri, 12-05-2008 - 7:37pm
Yep, this kind of corrupt aristocratic entitlement and
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
Fri, 12-05-2008 - 8:08pm

I'd like to see the Democrats get rid of him and also William Jefferson (cold hard cash in the freezer).

Sopal

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iVillage Member
Registered: 11-05-2008
Fri, 12-05-2008 - 9:08pm
It certainly does.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
Fri, 12-05-2008 - 10:00pm
I'm hoping that Rangel will just say he's feeling too old and surrender his seat (to be refilled by a Democratic governor's appointment).

Sopal

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iVillage Member
Registered: 11-19-2008
Fri, 12-05-2008 - 11:32pm
Rangle's already got several ethics violations/issues. He's pretty clearly a slug and should be booted.
iVillage Member
Registered: 01-28-2004
Sat, 12-06-2008 - 2:26pm
Careful what you say about those fine Democrats, you could be called a racist. LOL
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
Sat, 12-06-2008 - 2:35pm
Huh?

Sopal

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iVillage Member
Registered: 01-28-2004
Sat, 12-06-2008 - 2:54pm

It just never seems like some on the left are never held to the same standards.


If they were Republicans they would have been forced out long ago. Look at Trent Lott, just makes a bad joke and is forced out.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2007
Sat, 12-06-2008 - 3:10pm
Then again Republicans had Duke Cunningham and Bob

Sopal

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