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Charlie Rangel: Tea partiers are ‘mean, racist people’ from ‘slave-holding states’ (Video)

BY STEVE STRAUB ON MARCH 20, 2014 · LEAVE A COMMENT · IN POLITICS, VIDEO



I think we all know who the racist is here!

Via The Daily Caller:

New York Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel casually dismissed those who identify with the Tea Party as “mean, racist people,” compared red states to the Confederacy and wondered why President Barack Obama would ever try to work with Republicans — all in under two minutes.
Rangel made the remarks during an interview Tuesday night with NY1, when the anchor asked the congressman about a recent deadly explosion in his Harlem district. The congressman strangely blamed Republicans for blocking unnamed federal programs designed to refurbish failing infrastructure in his community.
“This is the president’s program,” he claimed. “It’s hard for me to explain how you work with a president that thought he could really deal with the Republican leadership. He really thought — and maybe it’s the water they drink at Harvard — that he could deal with the Tea Party!”
Watch Charlie Rangel call those who identify with the Tea Party mean racist people:



http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/p...g-states-video

Something as vile as this should be expected from a man that lacks ethics.
Charles Rangel guilty on 11 ethics charges

The panel found 'clear and convincing evidence' that Charles Rangel violated 11 of the 13 charges. | Pete Marovich, POLITICOClose

By JOHN BRESNAHAN | 11/16/10

Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) has been found guilty on 11 ethics charges, ending a two-year investigation into his personal finances.

A special eight-member panel of the House ethics committee, after deliberating for roughly six hours, found that there was "clear and convincing evidence" that Rangel had violated House ethics on 11 of the 13 charges he faced heading into a rare public ethics trial.


VIDEO: Rangel leaves trial


VIDEO: Rangel guilty

The panel deadlocked on one charge, and then folded another charge into a different count.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), the chairwoman of the full ethics committee, oversaw the trial. She indicated that the votes were unanimous, meaning all four Democrats on the bipartisan panel ruled against Rangel.

Rangel, who has been defiant through the entire two year investigation, is still refusing to accept the outcome of the ethics trial.

“How can anyone have confidence in the decision of the Ethics Subcommittee when I was deprived of due process rights, right to counsel and was not even in the room?” Rangel said in a statement. “I can only hope that the full committee will treat me more fairly, and take into account my entire 40 years of service to the Congress before making any decisions on sanctions.

“I am disappointed by the unfortunate findings of the Ethics Subcommittee,” Rangel continued. “The committee's actions are unprecedented in view of the fact that they arrived at without rebuttal or counter evidence on my behalf.”
One House Republican has already called on Rangel to resign.

"I think that he should resign. He has received every procedural accommodation,” said Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.). “And the committee has unambiguously decided against him”

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and other Democratic leaders, who are facing their own internal problems facing the GOP triumph on Election Day, have yet to comment on Rangel’s guilty verdict as well.

At this point, Rangel is expected to request a personal appearance before the full ethics committee when it meets to decide what sanctions to impose, said Democratic insiders. The list of punishments Rangel faces range from a “letter of reproval” all the way up to expulsion, with a formal reprimand or censure considered the most likely options.

Lofgren said she would talk to her GOP counterpart, Rep. Jo Bonner (Ala.), to decide when a sanctions hearing will take place, although it is likely to occur this week.

“I have to talk to the ranking member [Bonner] to see when can do it. It’s a scheduling issue,” Lofgren told reporters. “Hopefully it will be promptly.”
Rangel, 80, walked out of his ethics trial on Monday, complaining that he had not been given enough time to find new legal counsel after parting ways with his previous law firm last month. The full ethics committee will now consider punishment for Rangel, and possibly refer the case to the House floor with a recommendation for a sanction against the lawmaker.

The sweeping verdict on Tuesday morning offered a powerful conclusion to a two-year ethics investigation that has tarnished the political legacy of Rangel, a Harlem giant who was stripped of his Ways and Means chairmanship while he was under investigation. He came to the ethics trial as a diminished political figure, complaining that he did not have enough money for a lawyer.

"We have tried to act with fairness, led only by the facts and the law," Lofgren said. "We believe we have accomplished that mission."

Rangel offered a brief but spirited defense on Monday, then walked out after just 30 minutes, leaving the special adjudicatory panel to try him in abstentia. The bipartisan panel quickly heard the evidence and agreed in less than 24 hours that
Rangel had violated a wide range of ethics rules.

Rangel was facing a 13-count “Statement of Alleged Violation” that included allegations that he improperly solicited millions of dollars from corporate officials and lobbyists for the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at The City College of New York, failed to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars of income and assets on financial disclosure forms, maintained a rent-stabilized apartment in a luxury Harlem apartment building for his campaign committee, and failed to pay income taxes on a villa in the Dominican Republic.

Rangel spent more than $2 million on lawyers to represent him during the long ethics probe, but then cut his ties to his leading law firm, Zuckerman Spaeder, just weeks ago in a dispute over money and tactics.

That left Rangel without counsel heading into Monday’s trial. He pleaded with Lofgren and other members of the special panel for more time to get a new lawyer, but his colleagues ruled against him.

Rangel then dramatically walked out of the proceedings, claiming his due process rights were violated.

Next up for the ethics committee is a Nov. 29 trial for Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), who has been charged with three counts of providing improper assistance during the 2008 financial to a minority bank where her husband owned $350,000 in stock.

Waters has denied any wrongdoing and, like Rangel, sought an open trial before the ethics committee.

While a guilty verdict almost seemed a foregone conclusion after Rangel walked out Monday's trial, his colleagues still expressed admiration for him personally and praised his long career in public service, including the Korean War and 40 years in Congresss.

"I have enormous respect for Charlie. He has served his country and his government," said Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.). "It's clear he made some major and minor errors."

Lowey said that she hoped the full House would not be forced to vote on a punishment for Rangel, something required for more serious sanctions.
Watchdog groups, however, wasted no time in calling for Rangel - recently reelected by a huge margin, despite the ongoing scandal - to resign from Congress.

“All of Mr. Rangel's theatrics aside, the facts were clear: Mr. Rangel violated numerous House rules and federal law," said Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibilty and Ethics in Washington. "Whether these violations were deliberate or inadvertent, the American people deserve to be represented by members of Congress who adhere to the highest ethical standards. Mr. Rangel should resign.”

For their part, House GOP leaders are content to let Democrats deal with the Rangel scandal on their own. Their feeling is that Rangel is a Democratic headache, and Democrats must now clean it up.

"We've got other things on our plate right now," said a top House GOP leadership aide, speaking on the condition of anonymity. "Let the Democrats handle it."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories...198_Page2.html

By
SHARYL ATTKISSON

CBS

July 29, 2010, 7:00 PM
Rangel Denies Wrongdoing in Ethics Case



The official investigation began two years ago at the request of Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) himself who defiantly asked the ethics committee to look into his actions.

Rangel is known for saying he hadn't had a bad day since he survived battle in the Korean War. On Thursday he said that changed, reports CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson.

"Today I have to reassess that statement," he said.

At the heart of the 13 counts is what critics have called Rangel's "monument to me," a presidential-library-like project called "The Rangel Center" at City College in New York. It was the subject of a CBS News investigation in 2007.

Rangel is charged with using public resources and Congressional letterhead to ask for big donations for the Rangel Center; that he solicited companies that had business before the tax committee he led at the time, including Goldman Sachs, Wachovia and dozens more; that he asked for $30 million from Verizon and New York Life, and $10 million from insurance giant AIG.

Rangel's attorneys responded that "The uncontroverted evidence is that Congressman Rangel never suggested that any donor to the Rangel Center would receive favorable consideration in legislative matters and never gave preferential treatment to any contributor."

Read the 32-page response from Rangel's attorneys

He's also charged with directing taxpayer earmarks to the center; failing to disclose income, checking accounts, stock and property; and improperly using rent-subsidized apartments for his campaign committees.

The stage is now set for the kind of spectacle that many of Rangel's colleagues had hoped to avoid. The last ethics trial was in 2002. James Traficant had been convicted of bribery and corruption.

Traficant's defense? Point fingers at colleagues who'd been found guilty of having sex with young pages but were not expelled.

At one point Traficant asked, "Is sex with a minor 17 years old rape?" When a colleague began to answer, Traficant continued, "And a felony, sir?"

In Rangel's case, he denies wrongdoing. The trial should begin in September.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rangel-denies-wrongdoing-in-ethics-case/

Well I'd say the TP is too polite to say what they think of him?!

Joe the Plumber

Which Black democrat do you believe?

One Quote Destroys Charlie Rangel’s Racist Tea Party Lie

Posted by Joe For America on Mar 20, 2014 in Congressional Arrogance, Grassroots, Politics, Racism, Videos



In an interview on NY1′s “Inside City Hall” Wednesday, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) called Tea Party members “mean, racist people” who are descendants of slave owners in the South and still love to wave around the Confederate flag:

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We can do a lot about it because this is the President’s program. It’s hard for me to explain how you work with a president that thought that he could really deal with the Republican leadership. He really thought and maybe it was the water they drink at Harvard [President Obama's alma mater] that he could deal with the Tea Party. They are mean, racist people. Now why do I say that? Because in those red states, they’re the same slave-holding states. They had the Confederate flag. They became Dixiecrats; they had the Confederate flag. They’re now the Tea Party; they still got the Confederate [flag]. I don’t think that’s a coincidence. There is nothing the president can do–not love of country, not love of party–that they’re not prepared to kill themselves to get to him.

Charlie Rangel knows better than to peddle these historical falsehoods.
But don’t take my word for it. Read what former Congressman Jessie Jackson jr. (a Democrat) said in an interview with Fox News contributor Angela McGlowan in her book Bamboozled:

“There is no doubt that the Democratic Party is the party of the Confederacy, historically, that the Democratic Party’s flag is the Confederate flag. It was our party’s flag. That Jefferson Davis was a Democrat, that Stonewall Jackson strongly identified with the Democratic Party, that secessionists in the South saw themselves as Democrats and were Democrats. That so much of the Democratic Party’s history, since it is our nation’s oldest political party, has its roots in slavery.”

Rangel is running for reelection. Decrying all Tea Party members as racists is a Democrat Article of Faith and is likely being used by the 22-term Congressman to rile up his base. Nevertheless, Rangel knows better than anyone that the GOP was responsible for virtually every piece of civil rights legislation to come out of the US Congress.
He claims that Tea Party people from former Confederate states are a bunch of blindly racist bigots. But the one common denominator that codified sound support of Jim Crow and Black Code Laws in southern states was that they all resulted from Democratic legislators of the “Solid South.”
Congressman Rangel, 83, in his dotage, probably forgot (or was too embarrassed) to mention that it was his own Democratic Party of segregation waving the Confederate flag, threatening the lives of civil rights advocates, and blocking civil rights bills in Congress.

Read more at http://dailysurge.com/2014/03/one-qu...1WbQBQDHRAc.99


http://joeforamerica.com/2014/03/one...tea-party-lie/