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Rangel runs again despite ethics probe
BY KAREN MATTHEWS The Associated Press

    NEW YORK — A defi ant Rep. Charles Rangel brushed aside questions about an ongoing ethics investigation Sunday as he announced his re-election campaign for the seat he has held since 1971.
    “They can fire their best shot, but they just can’t walk over success, right?” Rangel told supporters at Boricua College in Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood.
    The Harlem Democrat stepped aside as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee in March and faces challengers including state Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV, whose father held the seat until Rangel defeated him in 1970.
    Rangel said he would campaign for re-election “as though it’s a very close district and the whole Congress is depending on me to keep the majority.”
    Rangel relinquished his committee chairmanship after being admonished by the House ethics panel for taking corporate trips to the Caribbean in violation of House rules.
    “I stepped aside so that I would not be a target for the Republicans,” he said Sunday.
    He still faces inquiries by the ethics committee over late payment of income taxes on a rental villa in the Dominican Republic, his use of House stationery to solicit corporate donations to an educational institution that bears his name and belated disclosure of hundreds of thousands of dollars in previously unlisted wealth. ..............>>>>..........................>>>>..................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01204&AppName=1

"The whole Congress is depending on me to keep the majority?" lol-Then the DEMS are doomed.

      Forget about the majority and forget about "serving the people". Rangel is what is wrong in Washington and New York. Harlem has had enough-the country has had enough.