Rangel the Weighty, Shady Pol is Threat to Own Party

THIS was supposed to be the year Democrats could not lose.

But that was before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi – in a standoff with Charlie Rangel, one of her most powerful and scandal-scarred chairmen – blinked.

That was before Rangel launched his “Monument to Me – The Rangel Center at CUNY” – with your money and greedily grabbed four rent-stabilized apartments, using a system designed to help less fortunate New Yorkers from getting squeezed out onto the street.

Read more: (Charles Hurt, “Weighty, Shady Pol Threat to Own Party,” New York Post, 9/18/08)