Rangel pays IRS, complains of 'guerrilla war'

[trickblue]

This is one of the guys that need to go. From my understanding, he CHAIRS the committee this infraction pertains to, then he blames Republicans?

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Rangel pays IRS, complains of 'guerrilla war'
By DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Rep. Charles Rangel wrote six checks for about $10,800 in back taxes, and then penned an open letter to New Yorkers Friday, saying he has done nothing dishonorable and is the target of a GOP "guerrilla war."

Rangel, the dean of the New York congressional delegation, has faced a string of embarrassing revelations — he didn't pay taxes on rental income for a beach house in the Dominican Republic; he used three rent-stabilized apartments in Harlem, including one for a campaign office; he used his congressional stationery to drum up private donations to a college center named after him.

He ended up writing a number of checks to cover taxes due on his 2004, 2005, and 2006 returns, related to the unreported rental income, said his chief of staff, George Dalley.

The federal government tab ended up being $4,803, according to Rangel's accountants, while he wrote checks totaling $6,022 to New York State. The state figure includes a small percentage owed to the New York City authorities.

Penalties and interest were not included in those payments, Dalley said.

"If the IRS chooses to impose them, of course he'll readily pay them," said Dalley.

As he paid the taxman, Rangel also tried to assure constituents he did nothing to shame his office.

"I've never violated the public trust, so I'm not worried," Rangel wrote in a letter, e-mailed by his campaign.

A House ethics committee plans to investigate, and Republicans have called for the 19-term congressman to be removed from his powerful position as chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee. After private meetings with House Democratic leaders earlier this week, Rangel was able to keep the post.

"Last July, the Republican Party declared guerrilla war against Democrats and since then has made every effort to smear me and members of my party," Rangel wrote in the letter.

"My record in the Ways and Means Committee and 38 years in Congress is unassailable, so they've pried into my private life and used insinuation and half-truths to write stories that sell papers," Rangel wrote.

[bbgun]

He's really on a roll:

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/1...-the-disabled/

[trickblue]

Originally Posted by bbgun

He's really on a roll:

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/1...-the-disabled/

He's on a roll... a jelly roll...

This is one of the worst members of congress... he is WAY too partisan...

Pay your damn bills like the rest of us, Charlie... and while you're at it... own up to it and quit behaving like the colossal arse you are. You got caught... plain and simple and you SHOULD be removed from your chair...

[BrAinPaiNt]

Originally Posted by trickblue

He's on a roll... a jelly roll...

This is one of the worst members of congress... he is WAY too partisan...

Pay your damn bills like the rest of us, Charlie... and while you're at it... own up to it and quit behaving like the colossal arse you are. You got caught... plain and simple and you SHOULD be removed from your chair...

It's not that he is just too partisan, which he is, he is just a scumbag.

[trickblue]

Originally Posted by BrAinPaiNt

It's not that he is just too partisan, which he is, he is just a scumbag.

That he is...

I know we technically have "term limits" as we can vote them out of office, but he's been in congress for 38 YEARS. He needs to be gone...

He should have to get a real job at some point don't you think?