How is Charles Rangel still in office?

[Chunkee]

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9951540

Tax evasion more than once. Use of funds for travel. Have you ever watched an interview with this person? If we expect our govt. to help, we must stop elected corrupt idiots.

His tax problems "They are mistakes"
His travel problem "My staff's fault.!"

Good grief. This guy is amazing how he stays in office.

 

[Mursilis]

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9951540

Tax evasion more than once. Use of funds for travel. Have you ever watched an interview with this person? If we expect our govt. to help, we must stop elected corrupt idiots.

His tax problems "They are mistakes"
His travel problem "My staff's fault.!"

Good grief. This guy is amazing how he stays in office.

How is he still in office? For the same reason Al Sharpton is considered a serious politician.

 

[highland145]

Hey, we still have Mark Sanford for governor. Of course, he was only screwing one Argentinean.

 

[Mursilis]

Hey, we still have Mark Sanford for governor. Of course, he was only screwing one Argentinean.

He's clearly unfit for office as well.

 

[Narmer]

Because they bring home the bacon for their constituents. They also have dirt on their colleagues.

 

[Genx87]

Hey, we still have Mark Sanford for governor. Of course, he was only screwing one Argentinean.

I suspect Mark wont be back after this term ends.

 

[Linflas]

Charles Rangel (D) New York

Reason still in office bolded.

 

[GoPackGo]

Not only will he NOT be brought up on any charges he WILL be reelected in November.

 

[Throckmorton]

He ASKED the ethics committee if it was OK, and they said it was.

 

[highland145]

I suspect Mark wont be back after this term ends.

He can't run again anyway. And I have a vested interest in Gresham Barrett getting elected in the fall.

 

[Fear No Evil]

It would be nice if the democrats would just screw interns and tap their feet in bathrooms instead of screwing the American taxpayers constantly.

 

[Linflas]

He ASKED the ethics committee if it was OK, and they said it was.

Really? The ethics committee signed off on:

If this was Rangel's only ethics problem, it might not be crippling to Democrats. But still looming is a much larger ethics investigation. That one is focusing in part on Rangel's use of official stationery to raise money for a college center in his name; and his belated financial disclosure of hundreds of thousands of dollars in previously unreported assets and income.

The unreported assets included a federal credit union account worth between $250,001 and $500,000; a Merrill Lynch account valued between $250,000 and $500,000; tens of thousands of dollars in municipal bonds and $30,000 to $100,000 in rent from a multifamily brownstone building in New York.

Charlie must be plugging up that drain Nancy was going to drain the swamp through.

 

[cubeless]

it's got to be pretty grim when the dems are in power and they still had to actually look at this in the ethics committee...

he can just claim that it's a cultural thing, he being from ny and ethnic, these things are normal in the 'hood...