Strange Bedfellows
By E M Barner | Sunday, January 11th, 2009 | Policy
Charlie Rangel is quickly becoming the poster boy for Congressional corruption. He has used his powerful (and now tainted) Ways and Means Committee chairmanship to solicit private contributions for his Charlie B. Rangel Center for Public Service. And, of course there was that trip to the Caribbean (facilitating diplomatic relations, I’m sure) that Rangel forgot to report as income to the IRS. Oh, and I almost forgot, wasn’t he getting some kind of a sweetheart deal on those four rent-controlled Harlem apartments?
Anyway, this is the same Charlie Rangel that is a major fundraiser for the Democratic Party. And, it turns out that he channeled $14,000 into Glenn Nye’s campaign through his various fund raising committees (opensecrets.org). 
So, what do you think? Should Nye repudiate Rangel? Should he give back or donate the money?
Perhaps more importantly, what is Rangel going to get for his money? Will Nye be a loyal ally for Rangel in the ethics investigation to come?
Stay tuned for more updates on the 111th Congress’s freshman Democrats from Virginia.
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E M Barner, the blogger formerly known as DCH / De Civitate Hominis (“concerning the city of man”), writes from a Northern Virginia perspective. Barner has been active in Republican politics and policy since 1994 – as a grassroots volunteer, party leader, and professional.
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9 Responses to "Strange Bedfellows"
What a pathetic reach here – to attempt to smear Glenn Nye over Charlie Rangle donating to his campaign? Not only do I believe this is barking up the wrong tree, I feel it speaks loudly to the desperation of the Republican Party to have to sink to such low levels in an Keith Olbermann-like attempt to try to impune the integrity of the new Congressman from the 2nd District.
That would be MY District, BTW.
I would encourage the members of BD to reconsider such vile attacks and instead seek to take a higher form of discussion and debate. Focus on what Congressman Glenn Nye actually has done, or has not done, while in office.
Avoid the temptation to launch some lame attempt at playing that tired and dishonest game of smear the opposition using “guilt by association”.
Glenn Nye ran as a Democrat and he defeated a Republican. Of course fellow Democrats are going to do what they can to help other Democrats in their campaigns to defeat Republicans. That’s party politics.
Glenn Nye doesn’t appear to me to be a person lacking integrity. At least I have not witnessed anything he has done while in office that would merit such a charge.
The whole bru-ha-ha over the location of his house was pretty lame too. It reminds me of those desperate attempts by some to claim that Barack Obama is not really an American born citizen and therefore cannot be President.
Barack Obama won the election. Time to move on. Do Republicans really want to behave just like those pathetic Democrats that kept trying to claim that “Bush stole the election!” when John Kerry lost?
Let’s take the high road on BD – let’s focus on positions on issues, policies, and actual decision/votes made by our elected representatives, not tiresome Sean Hannity tactics.
Let’s stay away from garbage like this:
“Perhaps more importantly, what is Rangel going to get for his money? Will Nye be a loyal ally for Rangel in the ethics investigation to come?”
Yes, let’s take the high road like the libertarians do, like when they post attacks on elected officials calling them fat, nazis, and corrupt for keeping the real estate tax rate the same.
Seems Nye is No. 4 among members most in danger of being unseated in 2010.
so where are we in the candidate vetting process
What is the platform going to look like
See these are actually productive uses of time
latley it seems the posts are trying to become the Raising Kaine of the Right. All talk and not solutions
Nova, you don’t honestly believe that the candidate vetting process would be shared with the Democrats on a blog, do you?
of course not :-p
I’ve always questioned the real value of blogs but you guys do a great job with the podcasts and your posts but lately it seems many of the posters (Not you specifically Brian) are posting garbage.
I have no need to reread nonoriginal negative crap from the RNC and RPV. It seems it would be more productive to talk about what solutions need to be brought forward in the future.
To me thats the fundamental flaw with the party. I think many people still wrongly believe the way to win is to bash the other guy and then say Regan and conservative ever other word. As Norm said so many months we need to focus on what we stand for and what we are going to do.
Anbody knows what the house of delegates is planning to do……. yeah I thought so.
You will tonight.
Brian, so you want to act like that?
I act a number of ways
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