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Pelosi: Rangel won’t be forced aside
By JOHN BRESNAHAN & PATRICK O’CONNOR
9/10/08 4:27 AM EST
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Hoping to put the Democrats’ “culture of corruption” argument to work for themselves, House Republicans on Tuesday called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to remove Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) from his post as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.
Rangel has been battered by a series of recent stories questioning his use of rent-stabilized apartments in Harlem as well as his efforts to raise money for the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at the City College of New York. And last week, the New York Post reported that Rangel had failed to declare $75,000 in rental income from a vacation home he owns in the Dominican Republic.
Rangel has tried to pre-empt a crisis by asking the ethics committee to investigate the allegations leveled against him. But the panel lost its chairwoman when Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio) died last month, and Pelosi has declined to name a replacement until the House can hold a memorial service.
[Flynn’s Editorial: I cannot believe that one of U.S. representative would not pay tax, get caught for lying about taxable income and not get jailed; while the rest of the American citizens get penalized and jailed for the same if not lesser offense!]
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