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Rangel Gets Primary Challenger

By Big Tent Democrat, Section Other Politics
Posted on Tue Oct 13, 2009 at 08:06:01 AM EST
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Leave Charlie Rangel Alone!!! Just kidding.

I actually think every pol should face a primary challenger, including my cult leader, Charlie Rangel:

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) will face a 2010 primary challenge from one of his own former campaign directors. Vince Morgan, a New York banker who once worked for Rangel as a special assistant and subsequently as a campaign director, announced Monday that he would challenge Rangel for reelection.

Kos and Co. should back the challenger. I promise I won't call them interlopers. I am for Rangel.

Speaking for me only

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    An idea was floated last week (none / 0) (#1)
    by andgarden on Tue Oct 13, 2009 at 08:09:01 AM EST
    that Rangel might step aside for Paterson in a special election. Other than that, I kinda doubt Rangel is going anywhere.

    I think the Times endorsed his Republican opponent last year, which made me giggle.

    Did you know . . . (5.00 / 1) (#2)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Tue Oct 13, 2009 at 08:10:30 AM EST
    that the only committee in the Congress that provides for a nationwide robust public option is the one chaired by one Charles J. Rangel?

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    But he didn't report all of his houses!!!! (none / 0) (#3)
    by andgarden on Tue Oct 13, 2009 at 08:17:49 AM EST
    Seriously, I'm no reflexive Rangel defender, and I think his behavior towards Cuomo has been unseemly this year, but I also think that the ethics brief against him is really uninteresting.

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    Paterson and Rangel (5.00 / 1) (#5)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Tue Oct 13, 2009 at 08:20:03 AM EST
    That's personal and will be done with quickly.

    He and Basil Paterson go way back.

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    Plus Mario Cuomo (5.00 / 1) (#6)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Tue Oct 13, 2009 at 08:20:41 AM EST
    f*cked Dinkins in 1993.

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    Sins of the father matter in politics, I guess (none / 0) (#7)
    by andgarden on Tue Oct 13, 2009 at 08:25:34 AM EST


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    The son was the (none / 0) (#8)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Tue Oct 13, 2009 at 08:27:19 AM EST
    chief political advisor wshen the SI referendum was called.

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    OK (none / 0) (#9)
    by andgarden on Tue Oct 13, 2009 at 08:33:11 AM EST
    Didn't know that.

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    What were you, 8? (none / 0) (#10)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Tue Oct 13, 2009 at 08:35:36 AM EST
    how could you remember?

    Me, I lived that night in 1993. Worst political night of my life.

    I remember Bill Lynch trudging in at the end, and you could see his body language, we were not going to win.

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    Yup, 8 (none / 0) (#11)
    by andgarden on Tue Oct 13, 2009 at 08:39:29 AM EST
    I was enjoying dinosaurs and Jurassic Park.

    As for Lynch, his firm just had a good cycle. For all of the talk about the death of Harlem . . .

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    But (none / 0) (#12)
    by jbindc on Tue Oct 13, 2009 at 09:15:00 AM EST
    but I also think that the ethics brief against him is really uninteresting.

    I guess the question is - would you feel the same way if tyou replace the name Charlie Rangel with Jeff Sessions or Michelle Bachmann?

    Not talking about you personally, but how many here (and in the liberal blogosphere) would be demanding investigations if a long-time member of Congress from the Republican party couldn't be bothered with getting his/her own affairs straight? Whether or not Rangel did something unethical or illegal is for someone else to sort out, but he's been fightiong this for a while now, and progressives have had the attitude of "Why are you picking on Charlie Rangel"?

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    I don't need new reasons to dislike those people (5.00 / 1) (#13)
    by andgarden on Tue Oct 13, 2009 at 09:25:01 AM EST


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    I always consider the timing of the (none / 0) (#16)
    by Inspector Gadget on Tue Oct 13, 2009 at 10:22:37 AM EST
    "scandal". Does it coincide with the incident, or is it more easily attached to what is being worked on? I'm doubting there is anyone in congress who is free of a potential scandal...if there's nothing real, they just make it up. There may even be something Rangel can do to make it all disappear.

    I even chuckled this morning at the news the stock market is on the rise...an attempt to deflect the endless grim topics, or are they trying to ready themselves for the big year-end bonuses? This is how they get the average person to do what they want....create a crisis or claim the train will leave without them if they don't buy their ticket.


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    Timing of the (none / 0) (#26)
    by Wile ECoyote on Tue Oct 13, 2009 at 02:02:17 PM EST
    Scandals.  They are ongoing.  One right after another.  He is as corrupt as they come, but he is liberal so he gets a pass.  Speaking for me only.

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    I have reached a point (none / 0) (#28)
    by Inspector Gadget on Tue Oct 13, 2009 at 02:55:23 PM EST
    where I think our entire gov't is so corrupt it needs a major overhaul and 80% of them should be replaced at the next election.


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    Voting against every incumbent... (5.00 / 1) (#30)
    by kdog on Tue Oct 13, 2009 at 09:43:08 PM EST
    in every election is the best start we could make I think, two three cycles even, till the kids cut the sh*t.

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    That idea was floated by Rahm (none / 0) (#4)
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