he/she would have been dragged out of office .
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09172008/news/regionalnews/stuck_in_his_ways_129463.htm
Pelosi is a serious POS and a joke as HOuse speaker no wonder they have a lower rating then even Bush.
By DAPHNE RETTER in Washington, DC, and CHUCK BENNETT in NY
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[/align][/align]Last updated: 6:28 am
September 17, 2008
Posted: 3:55 am
September 17, 2008
Embattled US Rep. Charles Rangel will not give up his plum leadership position on one of the most powerful committees in Congress, his lawyer said yesterday.
Despite growing calls for him to step aside as chairman of the tax-law-writing Ways and Means Committee - because he failed to report rental income from his Dominican Republic hideaway on his own tax returns - Rangel will stay put as the House Ethics Committee investigates his personal finances.
"Mr. Rangel has not considered, nor has it ever been on the table, that he would step aside from his current position as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee," said the Harlem Democrat's lawyer, Lanny Davis.
"He has no intention of leaving that position, even on a temporary basis."
The development came as new details emerged about Rangel's tax shenanigans, based on his financial-disclosure forms:
* The congressman's Sunny Isles, Fla., condo was purchased in 2004 for $335,000 and listed as a rental, although he didn't report income on it. He then sold it in 2007 for a $60,000 profit, but didn't list the sale, as is required.
* He never disclosed, as mandated, the sale of his Washington, DC, home in 2000. Property records list the price as $500,000.
* He only sporadically listed rental income for a West 132nd Street home. Then, when he unloaded it in 2004, he didn't report the sale. The home's value was listed as less than $100,000 in 2002; in 2004, Rangel said it was worth $250,000 to $500,000.
* The value of his personal portfolio fluctuated wildly without explanation. The investments he reported grew from $50,001 in 2000 to somewhere between $177,000 and $530,000 in 2001. In 2002, he reported new holdings worth $115,000 to $315,000.
Republicans have turned Rangel's ethics controversies - from the tax-reporting issues to his four rent-stabilized apartments in Harlem to soliciting funds for a City College center named after him - into a campaign issue.
The National Republican Campaign Committee has called on Democratic candidates and incumbents to return his donations.
At least one said he will: Anchorage, Ala., Mayor Mark Begich.
Begich, a Democrat challenging Republican incumbent Ted Stevens for the US Senate, yesterday said he'd return $10,000 in donations from Rangel.
Despite what one source said was a quiet push by Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to get Rangel to step down on Monday, he returned to work yesterday.
And Pelosi seemed unwilling to have a showdown with her most powerful chairman.
"I see no reason why Mr. Rangel should step down," she said after meeting with him for the second time yesterday.
With AP
Had this been a Republican
