Democrat Charles Rangle: Ethics Panel Finds he Broke Rules. (I'm Not Suprised)

[US Army Retired]

Bottom line this man is a African American crook. You do not accept trips from corporations. When the Democrats took over Congress they said it would be the most ethical Congress ever.

“This leadership team will create the most honest, most open, and most ethical Congress in history” – Speaker-Elect Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Press Release, November 16, 2006

Rangle needs to accept his wrong doings and step down. He has served to long.



Ethics panel finds Rangel broke rules - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON – Rep. Charles Rangel, the most powerful tax-writing lawmaker in Congress and a 34-year veteran of Capitol Hill, acknowledged Thursday that an ethics panel has accused him of accepting Caribbean trips from a corporation in violation of House rules.

At least four other members of the Congressional Black Caucus who were also on the 2007 and 2008 trips were exonerated by the panel, a congressional source familiar with the findings told The Associated Press.

"I don't want to be critical of the committee but common sense dictates that members of Congress should not be held responsible for what could be the wrongdoing or mistakes or errors of staff unless there's reason to believe that member knew or should have known, and there is nothing in the record to indicate the latter," Rangel said at a hastily called evening news conference on Capitol Hill.

 

[driveby]

They're a bunch of racists .......

 

[Coyote]

....what difference does it make that he's African American?

 

[Modbert]

Bottom line this man is a African American crook.

I'm curious as to what race has anything to do with this and why you felt the need to mention this first?

 

[US Army Retired]

Bottom line this man is a African American crook.

I'm curious as to what race has anything to do with this and why you felt the need to mention this first?

What kind of people are members of the Black Congressional Caucus?

 

[Modbert]

What kind of people are members of the Black Congressional Caucus?

Human beings? Why, do you consider African Americans to be not people or do you just define non-whites by their race?

 

[SFC Ollie]

Race should have nothing to do with it, Just another congressman who has broken the peoples trust.

 

[Coyote]

Bottom line this man is a African American crook.

I'm curious as to what race has anything to do with this and why you felt the need to mention this first?

What kind of people are members of the Black Congressional Caucus?

What kind of people are congress?

 

[namvet]

retarded libs use the term "global citizen"

 

[US Army Retired]

What kind of people are members of the Black Congressional Caucus?

Human beings? Why, do you consider African Americans to be not people or do you just define non-whites by their race?

Yes I single them out by race. Why do you think African Americans single themselves out by calling it the Black Congressional Caucus? Anyway what do you think about Rangle breaking ethics rules?

 

[Coyote]

Race should have nothing to do with it, Just another congressman who has broken the peoples trust.

Yup.


The correct terminology would be, I believe: crook.

 

[SFC Ollie]

Race should have nothing to do with it, Just another congressman who has broken the peoples trust.

Yup.


The correct terminology would be, I believe: crook.

I do try to be nice sometimes.

 

[Modbert]

Yes I single them out by race. Why do you think African Americans single themselves out by calling it the Black Congressional Caucus? Anyway what do you think about Rangle breaking ethics rules?

So you admit you're a racist then? And Rangel is a crook, always has been. Doesn't make your comments on race correct however.

 

[RodISHI]

What kind of people are members of the Black Congressional Caucus?

Human beings? Why, do you consider African Americans to be not people or do you just define non-whites by their race?

Is there a white or yellow congressional caucus?

 

[Modbert]

Is there a white or yellow congressional caucus?

Go ahead, make a white congressional caucus. I could care less. Just because African Americans have a congressional caucus doesn't make it excusable for racism against African Americans, sorry, it doesn't go like that.

 

[RodISHI]

Is there a white or yellow congressional caucus?

Go ahead, make a white congressional caucus. I could care less. Just because African Americans have a congressional caucus doesn't make it excusable for racism against African Americans, sorry, it doesn't go like that.

Okay so I take it that there is not any already in existence. I don't believe I stated I think there should be.

 

[Modbert]

Okay so I take it that there is not any already in existence. I don't believe I stated I think there should be.

It doesn't really matter. It's just another group involved in Congress somehow. One of thousands around.

 

[US Army Retired]

I have always wondered why we don't have a NAAWP like their NAACP.

 

[namvet]

any of you jokers ever fill out a job app ????? huh???? what the fucks on it????


oh ..................look............... its says "ethnic origin" morons

 

[Rambunctious]

NYT: The Corruption of the Congressional Black Caucus
By: Mark Hemingway
Commentary Staff Writer
02/14/10 4:19 PM EST
Today's New York Times has a bombshell of an investigation into the Congressional Black Caucus. Here's an interesting fact from the article -- "All eight open House investigations involve caucus members, and most center on accusations of improper ties to private businesses." The bottom line is that it appears the Congressional Black Caucus is devoted to two things -- spending millions of dollars on lavish parties and raising money from corporations and lobbyists. And many of the caucus' fundraising arrangements are suspect at best:
From 2004 to 2008, the Congressional Black Caucus’s political and charitable wings took in at least $55 million in corporate and union contributions, according to an analysis by The New York Times, an impressive amount even by the standards of a Washington awash in cash. Only $1 million of that went to the caucus’s political action committee; the rest poured into the largely unregulated nonprofit network. (Data for 2009 is not available.)

The caucus says its nonprofit groups are intended to help disadvantaged African-Americans by providing scholarships and internships to students, researching policy and holding seminars on topics like healthy living.

But the bulk of the money has been spent on elaborate conventions that have become a high point of the Washington social season, as well as the headquarters building, golf outings by members of Congress and an annual visit to a Mississippi casino resort.

In 2008, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation spent more on the caterer for its signature legislative dinner and conference — nearly $700,000 for an event one organizer called “Hollywood on the Potomac” — than it gave out in scholarships, federal tax records show.
There is, of course, the pernicious influence of lobbyists at work:
Even as it has used its status as a civil rights organization to become a fund-raising power in Washington, the caucus has had to fend off criticism of ties to companies whose business is seen by some as detrimental to its black constituents.

These include cigarette companies, Internet poker operators, beer brewers and the rent-to-own industry, which has become a particular focus of consumer advocates for its practice of charging high monthly fees for appliances, televisions and computers.

Caucus leaders said the giving had not influenced them.
Not influenced them, eh?
For instance, Representative Danny K. Davis, Democrat of Illinois, once backed legislation that would have severely curtailed the rent-to-own industry, criticized in urban districts like his on the West Side of Chicago. But Mr. Davis last year co-sponsored legislation supported by the stores after they led a well-financed campaign to sway the caucus, including a promise to provide computers to a jobs program in Chicago named for him. He denies any connection between the industry’s generosity and his shift.
And:
The board of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation includes executives and lobbyists from Boeing, Wal-Mart, Dell, Citigroup, Coca-Cola, Verizon, Heineken, Anheuser-Busch and the drug makers Amgen and GlaxoSmithKline. All are hefty donors to the caucus.

Some of the biggest donors also have seats on the second caucus nonprofit organization — one that can help their businesses. This group, the Congressional Black Caucus Political Education and Leadership Institute, drafts positions on issues before Congress, including health care and climate change.

This means, for example, that the lobbyists and executives from coal, nuclear and power giants like Peabody Energy and Entergy helped draft a report in the caucus’s name that includes their positions on controversial issues. One policy document issued by the Black Caucus Institute last year asserted that the financial impact of climate change legislation should be weighed before it is passed, a major industry stand.
The New York Times deserves big credit for not pulling any punches on this out of political correctness


Read more at the Washington Examiner: NYT: The Corruption of the Congressional Black Caucus | Washington Examiner

The truth is what it is, when you give too much politically correct latitude to any group of human beings corruption will follow.