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California’s Pete Stark, the CBC would be mad, and because the distinguished gentleman from NYC is a reliably progressive vote.
Last week, the House ethics panel voted to expand its investigation into Charlie Rangel’s finances for the third time since the probe began. The Harlem congressman has been plagued by numerous ethics problems, to the point that he even asked the ethics committee to look into behavior last year in an attempt to save face—this following the Republicans’ attempt to censure him.
Things have been bad for Rangel since the beginning of the probe, and they’ve only gotten worse. He’s faced questions about the acquisition of several rent-controlled apartments (at below-market rates) from a campaign contributor. It’s also come up that he solicited donations from business interests on congressional stationery for a public center at the City College of New York. The center happens to be named after him and was in part funded by a $1.9 million congressional earmark he secured. Rangel also failed to report $75,000 in rental income from a villa he owns in the Dominican Republic. And most recently he admitted failing to report an additional half a million dollars in income. Ultimately, Rangel’s behavior may lead to his removal from Congress, whether at the hands of his party’s leadership or through the ire of his constituents. Even if he doesn’t lose his seat, he’ll have to resign his chairmanship if the ethics committee indicts him.
Republicans have tried several times to have Rangel removed from his chairmanship of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, but they aren’t the only ones gunning for his head. Rangel’s former campaign manager, Vince Morgan, recently announced his plans to take a run at Rangel’s seat—just at a time when Rangel’s campaign contributions are dwindling. Rangel has raised only $685,050 in the first half of 2009, which means it’s unlikely that he’ll come close to the six million he raised the year before. Harlem was already grumbling about Rangel’s support for last year’s rezoning plan, which some residents warned would be the end of Harlem as they know it. With Morgan, they may get a chance to show just how unhappy with Rangel they really are.
Rangel’s problems are the Democratic Party’s problems. After riding to a majority on a wave of popular anger of Republican corruption scandals, the Democrats face the possibility of going into 2010 with a corruption narrative of their own. Even the liberal New York Times has called for Rangel’s removal. But things aren't as simple as that. Rangel isn’t just a 40-year incumbent, he’s a reliably progressive vote, and under the Democrats seniority system, he would automatically be replaced by the rather unpredictable Pete Stark of California, who has a record of making the kind of controversial statements about blacks and Jews. (Stark once called George H.W. Bush’s Health and Human Services Secretary, Louis Wade Sullivan, a “disgrace to his race.”) Finally, if the Democratic leadership pushes for Rangel’s removal, they risk the ire of the Congressional Black Caucus, especially if Rep. John Conyers is somehow ensnared in the Michigan corruption scandal that led to his wife pleading guilty to bribery.
So Rangel isn’t the only one stuck in an increasingly untenable situation. If the ethics committee indicts him, he’ll have to give up his chairmanship. If Democrats remove him, they lose a key negotiator at a time when they are trying to push through President Obama’s signature piece of (health care) legislation. And if they don’t push for him to step down, Dems can expect to see Rangel’s face, and words like “culture of corruption” on GOP mailings and television commercials all through 2010.
In his autobiography, Rangel wrote that he “hasn’t had a bad day since” the Battle of Kunu-Ri during the Korean War, when he heroically led his unit out from behind enemy lines despite being seriously injured. But it looks like someone, either the Democrats or Rangel, may have bad day coming.
Adam Serwer is a writing fellow at the American Prospect. His writing has appeared in the New York Daily News, The Village Voice and Utne. Follow him on Twitter.
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Rangle cheats on his income tax and he got caught...don't give me any conspiracy crap! He is a high profile guy and he should know better. My God , he writes the tax laws!!!
The right wing Jews stike again lol...
Rightwing group targeted Rangel:
http://www.amsterdamnews.com/articles/2009/10/22/news/doc4adf71f4d369887...
Are we having problems with the first amendment?
Are we having problems with free speech?
Can someone here please attempt to explain to Ewart what the 'plantation mentality' is? I've tried to explain and inspire, respectfully, one too many times in posts below.
Simply, if you're Black or Brown in the 21st century (or 20th century) and still gauge your interactions, social challenges, situational accomplishments or the quality or goals of your life based on what White bigots (or straight-up racists) think, feel, do or may do — you're historically doing what slaves on the plantation did on a daily basis — whether you were in the field or 'the big house.' Hence, the 'PLANTATION MENTALITY.'
This was their world view. With the exception of the runaway or rebellious slave, of course — they saw and preferred the world view and a self-defined destiny beyond the plantation.
Know many Whites deciding their destinies based on what Black or Brown people think? Yet, there are many Black and Brown people right now in a new millennium that unconsciously (sometimes consciously) engage in the 'plantation mentality' when dealing with the Whites — usually with us taking a deferential posture, second guessing our decisions, or as a basis for our actions and reactions in every encounter or issue.
Understanding and stopping these tendencies can be mentally or intellectually challenging for many, as it has been psychologically embedded in most of us for generations. My Dad, had very wise words (an advisory or warning) he used in circumstances like this — in seeing the truth in front of us: "Simplicity can be difficult for the complicated mind."
Nevertheless, after facing or reading this, many still won't, can't or choose not to get it.
Dennis Moore — Publisher — http://www.POTUSworld.com — ppceo@potusworld.com
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I'm not surprised that you are unable to give a straight answer to a straightforward question about Powell's travel expenses, and instead refer me to irrelevant material. As they used to say, "Everything is everything."
Anyway, it is dumb to accuse me of a plantation mentality for saying that (1) as African-Americans we do not have the power to control the white man/woman, and therefore (b) we cannot stop them from discriminating against us if they insist, and they do insist, and (c) that means we can expect to be falsely accused from time to time. Those are FACTS. If you work for a white corporation, for example, your travel expenses probably get more scrutiny than those of white employees (I have worked in an Internal Audit Dept. that did that, and sorry, you can't control those auditors because they are free to pick their targets without your knowledge). True story: I once was given a free, unsolicited hotel room upgrade during a field assignment. The room I got was nicer than that given to the white manager I was travelling with. When we got back to corporate headquarters, the manager spent weeks trying to prove to the department director that I had secretly arranged for the upgrade, that it must have cost the company something, etc. He did everything he could to damage my standing in the company. Facts are facts. Recognize them.
Thanks for your additional insight Ewart. But, perhaps between us it's a generational or uniquely different personal perspective of some sort. Surely, I could never fix my brain and mouth to say "So we must be cleaner than the white man, and even then expect to be falsely accused from time to time."
Perhaps I've seen much of the Black and American experience through a very different prism than you — or as some of my colleagues would attest that I never expressed or showed any signs of having the 'plantation mentality' in my world view.
Nevertheless, I am still certain based on your defensive responses that you have not done the homework when you add "I wasn't there, but then no-one alive was there when Powell was mis-appropriating public funds: he was operating in secret." Follow and read the links I provided in earlier posts — and you will be further enlightened about facts versus conjecture.
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Memo to POTUS World CEO
You have told me to do research about Adam Clayton Powell. I did the research years ago, and I remember reading about Powell's corruption. Of course, I wasn't there, but then no-one alive was there when Powell was mis-appropriating public funds: he was operating in secret, so unless you were on his staff, and he trusted you to see his wrong-doing, you wouldn't have first-hand knowledge of his theft.
Of course, black politicians (like other black professionals) are often singled out for special scrutiny by white colleagues. But we know that, and as a relatively poor minority group, there is nothing we can do to stop such discrimination. So we must be cleaner than the white man, and even then expect to be falsely accused from time to time.
I am sure Powell's sins were exaggerated, but he was a sinner. A big sinner. Now please address the claim that he used Congressional committee funds to pay for huge personal travel expenses to and from Bimini.