Trouble for Rangel? PDF Print E-mail
Written by Stumo   
Thursday, 10 July 2008

Rangel represents Harlem.  He is also chair of the House Ways & Means Committee.  A very powerful post.  Trade stuff goes through there.  And financial stuff.

Asian currency manipulation somehow can't get marked up in that committee, and they approve every trade agreement they see.

But what's in the news is... Rangel has four rent stabilized apartments in Upper Manhattan.  Four.  Nobody has four.  People will kill for one.  Apparently a kinda big developer is the landlord.  That developer is kinda zealous in kicking other tenants out of their rent stabilized apartments.  Tenants other than Charles Rangel.

So here's his comment:

Mr. Rangel, 78, declined to answer questions during a telephone interview, saying that his housing was a private matter that did not affect his representation of his constituents.

“Why should I help you embarrass me?” he said, before abruptly hanging up.

Uh oh.

Ways and Means is a funny place.  You generally get on the committee if you are a free trader.  The destructive wacko kind.

Anyway.  Will this Rangel story be a big one, or a little one.

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written by bluenceck , July 12, 2008
Rangel clearly has to go. He actually admnitted that the coulmbian and peruvian FTAs were abad deal for working americans during a cnn interview - yet he pushed them thru committee anyway. This economic traitor needs to go
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written by bob johns , July 11, 2008
That many in congress are on the take from big money -oops, so politically incorrect - for trade favors is not "new" news. It will be interesting to see who is providing Mr. Rangel with such a windfall - especially if they benefit from Chinese currency manipulation, lax enforcement of trade laws, dumb trade deals, sub-prime bailouts and the like.
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