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TJMS: Congressman Charles Rangel: The Nightmare Is Over

12/06/2010 11:12 am 0 comments

Congressman Charles Rangel joins Roland Martin on the Tom Joyner Morning Show to discuss the ethics committee trial, verdict and subsequent ruling to censure him.

Roland asked Congressman Rangel what has been the sentiment expressed to him from his continuance, fellow members of Congress after what took place this past Thursday. Congressman Rangel told Roland “my wife and community now know the nightmare is over.”

Rangel explained the reason behind he referred the case to the committee was to show that he was not self-enriched, he did not make any money and did not deliberately avoid paying taxes or try to deceive any of his holdings. He also highlighted that the chief council of the committee said that there was no corruption and that his biggest problem was that he was over zealous in trying to raise money for the students of the City College of New York, sloppy and depended upon others to do things that he should have done himself.

When asked what was next for him, Rangel said, “I think we have a lot of work, I want to pick up the pieces, I want to move forward and then we’ll see what the future holds. But I think it would be dramatically unfair to the people who had confidence in me and voted for me to just wake up and quit at a time when they need me the most.”

Listen to Roland Martin’s entire interview with Congressman Charles Rangel. Roland and Congressman Rangel discuss if Rangel had admitted to the various charges made against him would things have ended the way that it did, the proposed settlement agreement and the CBC’s claims of being unfairly targeted.

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