nytimes.com - 12/3/2008
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Break ). The article was based on weeks of reporting, including an extensive review of Congressional records, public statements and news media accounts of the legislation as it was written, as well as interviews with dozens of people involved in the creation of the law from members of Congress ...
nytimes.com - 12/10/2008
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Individuals and Fund-Raisers From 2000 to 2004, Mr.
Blagojevich and Mr. Rezko offered Ali Ata, a businessman,...
a high-level position with the state in exchange for contributions, according to testimony by Mr. Ata. Joseph Cari, a Democratic fund-raiser, ...
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Web of Influence - Interactive Graphic
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 12/8/2008
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Rangel said he is not stepping down from
his powerful chairmanship. (CNN) – Under fire for allegations...
of ethical violations, New York Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel told reporters Monday that he has no intention of stepping down as chairman ...
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Rangel not stepping down
nypost.com - 12/8/2008
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Posted: 1:01 am December 7, 2008 The ethical
clouds hanging over Rep. Charlie Rangel grow thicker by...
the day. Thursday, it came to light that Rangel's campaign committee steered some $80,000 to his son's Internet company for work that Politico.com's ...
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Remainders: Rangel vs. The Times
Michael Calderone's Blog —
Rangel and the NY Times -- now with a re-energized Metro desk -- battle back and forth on the paper's site. (Related: Politico's story from Tuesday).
The Times forgets Cuomo already got the Warhol treatment.
Campbell takes on Rendell.
Washington Times could go national.
Did voters buy the media's "Obama-as-elitist" narrative?
Daily News steals the Empire State Building
CQ's Allen wins Dirksen Award
And inside Politico's scotch-soaked ...
Who Should Take Over House Ways And Means? Let's Make Sure We Poll All GOP Interests And Make Sure It's Not Some Dirty Damn Liberal
DownWithTyranny! —
... To understand how strong that pressure is, forget the parry-and-thrust between Rangel and the NY Times and instead consider that yesterday's CongressDaily featured a long post on the ins and outs of finding the right successor for Rangel. Do you recall any of the Inside the Beltway types viewing a Republican appointee to any job thru the lenses of how that person might be accepted by working families or by organized labor? Or did I miss the issue where CongressDaily suggested that ...
Charlie Rangel v. The New York Times
Swampland —
... I've never seen a takedown like this of a letter to the editor.
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Fisking Rangel
Ben Smith's Blog —
... The Times' David Kocieniewski, responding to a letter from Charlie Rangel, employs what strikes me both as a powerful, and fairly simple, use of the Internet, and a refusal to be bullied by a powerful local pol. ...
The NYT versus Charlie Rangel
Sister Toldjah —
... by writing a letter to the editor trying to debunk what reporter David Kocieniewski. Here’s what Rangel wrote - but it gets really interesting as the NYT included Kocieniewski’s response to Rangel’s letter on the same page. ...
Cash in the Family
A Blog For All —
... his name. Rangel’s leadership PAC and congressional committee shelled out $79,560 to Edisonian Innovative Works LLC for “websites,” according to Federal Election Commission filings. Edisonian Innovative Works, which lists several clients on its homepage – none of them politicians — was founded by Rangel’s son, Steven Charles Rangel, 40, of Greenbelt, Md. Expect Rangel to complain that he's being smeared by the media and that the website served its purpose and was worth the money. Rangel has already attempted to push back at the New York Times report about his ...
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Can Rangel Survive?
politicalwire.com 12/4/2008 — In a letter to the New York Times , Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) aggressively challenges the newspaper's allegations that he got special real estate deals and tax deals over the years. First Read notes Rangel's political career "may be in more jeopardy ...
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nytimes.com 12/14/2008 — Outcome Mr. Schumer s stand helped inspire a surge in political donations to the Senate Democratic committee by hedge fund executives: they jumped from 131,000 in 2003 to 2.2 million in 2007. Still, Mr. Schumer supported a procedural motion late last ...
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House Ethics expands Rangel investigation
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com 12/10/2008 — Rangel is under an ethics investigation
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The House Ethics Committee announced Tuesday it is expanding its investigation into Rep. Charles Rangel.
In a statement the committee said, “…the investigative subcommittee shall ...
Rangel takes on the New York Times
politico.com 12/2/2008 — He denies any link between Isenberg’s donation and his committee’s action, and aides raise questions about the accuracy of the Times story.
Congress: Rangel vs. NYT —
First Read 12/2/2008
Though he's under the darkening cloud of an ethics investigation, House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel is not going down without a fight. Politico writes that "the New York Democrat is launching a concerted counterattack against The New York ...
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