McMahon Asked to Return Campaign Donations from Rangel

House Republicans demanded yesterday that freshman Rep. Mike McMahon of Staten Island return $15,000 in campaign donations from Rep. Charles Rangel, who is being probed for ethical violations.

The National Republican Campaign Committee sent out a tongue-in-cheek e-mail to supporters evoking the 1980s hit song “Tainted Love” to put McMahon’s feet to the fire as a recipient of Rangel’s largesse.

“McMahon has a decision to make: come clean or follow the path of the band Soft Cell as a one-hit wonder Member of Congress,” reads the e-mail, which included a music video of the song.

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(Daphne Retter, “Pol’s Charlie Hor$e,” New York Post, 9/04/09)