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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?

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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (88496)	8/3/2010 11:41:02 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (2) of 224729

And there was an unusually close overlap, the committee contended, between appeals for donations and his intervention on legislative matters, citing in particular a meeting Mr. Rangel held in 2007 at a New York hotel with an executive from an oil drilling company at which he made a bid for a donation and also discussed a tax break the company was seeking. The executive, Eugene Isenberg, and his company ended up making a $1 million contribution to the educational center, and Mr. Rangel helped the company secure a tax break worth an estimated $500 million. “Reasonable persons could construe contributions to the Rangel Center by persons with interest before the Ways and Means Committee as influencing the performance of respondent’s government duties,” said the complaint against Mr. Rangel, who was the committee’s chairman. pelosht drains the swamp ???? kennysht mute ???

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