NRCC Continues To Hit Dems Over Rangel
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The National Republican Congressional Committee is out with a new ad today knocking Democrats in the House and Democratic congressional candidates over not returning campaign contributions from embattled Rep. Charles Rangel, D-Harlem.
“So why won’t Democrats return Charlie Rangel’s campaign contributions?” the ad reads. “If Democrats in Congress can’t drain their own swamp, they ought to at least return the money and tell Charlie Rangel, ‘No thanks’.”
The ad scrolls through the dozen or so Democratic candidates who have not returned Rangel’s money, including upstate candidates Dan Maffei and Eric Massa. Also, their list shows that Maffei ($71,670) and Massa ($65,923) rank second and third for the most received from Rangel and his PAC. Only New Jersey candidate Linda Stender ($72,063) received more.
They also put out a quip from Jay Leno about Rangel, who Leno said “has been found to be in default on his taxes on income on a beach villa he owns in the Caribbean. Rangel blamed it on his accountant, and he said he didn’t understand the law. Didn’t understand it? He wrote it! If he doesn’t understand it, how screwed are we?”
Here’s the two clips.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
