Dishonest Democrat, Yes, I repeat myself.

Yet another dishonest Democrat blaming others for his criminal activity.

From the New York Times:

Representative Charles B. Rangel has delivered six checks, totaling $10,800, to New York State and to the I.R.S. to pay the back taxes he owes from rental income on his Dominican villa, his legal team announced on Friday

Mr. Rangel acknowledged this month that he had failed to declare $75,000 in rental income from his beachfront villa on both his tax returns and financial disclosure forms. Mr. Rangel’s lawyers said he owed back taxes for at least three years and had hired a forensic accounting firm to review his records dating back 20 years to search for additional omissions.

...Mr. Rangel, a Harlem Democrat, has come under fire in recent months for his fund-raising and personal finances, and is also the subject of two other ethics investigations: one into his use of his Congressional stationery to raise money for a City University of New York center that will bear his name, the other involving the four rent-stabilized apartments that a landlord allowed him to lease at prices far below the market rate.

...Because Mr. Rangel is the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, which writes the nation’s tax code, his failure to pay taxes has proved an embarrassment. Republicans, and several newspaper editorial boards, have called for him to give up the chairmanship. But after Mr. Rangel met with the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, this week, he announced that he would remain as chairman. A resolution to remove him as Ways and Means chairman was defeated on Friday, largely along party lines.

Mr. Rangel and his staff did not return repeated calls requesting comment on Friday. But in an open letter to New York residents, the congressman said he was the target of a “guerrilla war” being carried out by Republicans. “The campaign season has begun, and to no great surprise, I’m now a Republican talking point,” he wrote. “But I assure you, I’ve brought no dishonor to my family, the Congress, my constituents, or my country.”

Mr. Rangel,

It is your fault.
You claim ignorance of the laws you wrote.
It is your fault that you are ignorant of the law.
You should know the tax law or you should hire folks who do know the tax laws to do your taxes.
It is your fault.

It is your fault.
That you disobeyed the laws of the City of New York, owning 4 different rent-controlled apartments.
You are the one denying other folks a place to live.
It is your fault.

Mr Rangel, other people would be jailed for these crimes.
but you are a Congress Critter who thinks himself above the law.
Mr Rangel, you are a leader of the most dishonest Congress ever.
and
It  Is  Your  Own  Fault.

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