HOMING IN ON RANGEL

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HOMING IN ON RANGEL


Embattled Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel will be slapped tomorrow with another congressional ethics complaint - this time for improperly taking a tax break on his Washington, DC, home, The Post has learned.

"Lawmakers shouldn't be lawbreakers," said Ken Boehm, chairman of the watchdog group National Legal and Policy Center, which is filing the latest House Ethics Committee complaint against Rangel.

The Post yesterday reported that Rangel received a so-called "homestead" tax exemption on a house he owned in Washington from 1995 until he sold it in 2000, even as he occupied several rent-stabilized apartments in New York City.

The homestead exemption - worth up to $288 a year in tax breaks - is available only to people whose Washington property is their primary residence and to people who pay personal-income taxes to the District of Columbia.


http://www.nypost.com/seven/11242008/news/regionalnews/homing_in_on_rangel_140475.htm

[NHSparky]

C'mon, haven't you learned yet?  "Culture of Corruption" only applies to Republicans, not Democrats.

[Eupher]

Rangel's success in getting his name in the news is a sure-fire way to guarantee his reelection - time after time. The substance of the news is immaterial and irrelevant.

The people of New York, as well-meaning and intended as they are, have a history of electing shitbirds into office. More recent examples include Hillary, Elliot Spitzer, and Rangel, but also include Adam Clayton Powell, Rangel's predecessor. Powell was actually expelled by the House because of scandal associated with expense accounts.

Rangel won the most recent election by an astonishing 87% of the vote. Apparently, his various ethics violations and his badmouthing VP Cheney don't hold sway in the NY 15th District. He also demanded a return to the draft, which was nothing more than a political stunt to keep his name afloat.

Rangel's got it figured out. They keep reelecting him.   

[Thor]

Any press is GOOD press........

[Chris_]

If this were a Republican - say, "Duke" Cunningham for a known example - the NeoCom propaganda organs would be opening their nightly news broadcasts with footage of him being perp-walked down the Capital steps for months after the fact.  And he would have ALREADY been fitted for an orange jumpsuit by this time.