Rep. Rangel's Benz Towed From Capitol Lot

Embattled N.Y. Democrat Found Using Government Lot To Store Vintage 1972 Auto

(CBS/AP)  A vintage car that Rep. Charles Rangel has stored in a congressional parking lot in violation of rules has been towed away.

The New York Post reported Friday that the 1972 silver Mercedes-Benz, whose registration expired four years ago and which was being kept in a House of Representatives indoor lot without plates, was towed.

House rules require cars to display proper identification including plates and forbid use of the garage for storage.

Rangel has so far declined to answer questions about the car. The House Web site says anyone with a reserved indoor space incurs taxable income currently calculated at $100 per month.

An employee of the Falls Church, Va., towing company said the car was taken to a dealership for service.

The towing came as leaders of the House ethics committee said they plan to begin investigating some of the ethical issues surrounding Rangel, chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee.

Rangel, a Democrat, has asked the committee to investigate him for not reporting rental income on a Dominican Republic vacation house; for his use of four rent-stabilized apartments in Harlem; and for his use of congressional stationery to drum up private funding for a college center named after him.

On Thursday the House voted on a measure offered by Republican Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio, calling for Rangel to lose his committee post. The move failed.

An earlier House vote seeking to censure Rangel also failed by a wide margin.

[usclimey]

You wait, the GOPigs will be here in a minute trying to raise this infraction to the level of lying multiple times to the public serious abuse of powers and ignoring subpoenas. Sad, but wait and see.

[rushlimpdrug]

This man is a phony.

You see he did not try to preserve a vintage
Chevy or Ford, but rather a foreign car.

This is what this two-face thinks of America.

[mjvw2]

LMAO

[urnot]

Rangel is sleazy. So is John Boehner. If it were a Republican, John Boehner would be defending him to the end, and would never have initiated a censure motion before any investigation was concluded. John Boehner is just a f''ing hypocrite and slimy old-time partisan.

[mydiatribe]

Sorry Charlie, If the return isn''t RIGHT -- We must INDICT!

[mmstar20]

Washington insiders think the rules of government don''t apply to themselves. Gov. Palin isn''t a Washington insider and that''s what gets their panties in a wad.

[rushlimpdrug]

Tow this man''s aazzzz and his big mouth.

I''m sure the taxpayers would be willing to pay.

If not, I''d pay.

[thevicar1]

RACIST PROFILING!

Oh DEAR GOD, why did you take Johnny Cochran from us? Just when we need him the MOST!

''If you take my Benz, you must make Amendz''

[thevicar1]

Homeland Security REALLY allowed an unregistered vehicle to sit in a Congressional parking garage for FOUR years? This is yet ANOTHER example of Bush`s failure to protect Americans from possible harm.
----------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted by Nancy_Naive


Oh yeah, dem parked cars is really gonna mess us all up!

[donevis-2009]

Lets get more in depth with this one. I was managing an Auto repair shop in DC from 1994 to 1998. Rangel was a Customer and friend of the owners. At some point he wanted us to have this same M/Benz towed to our shop and repairedas "it had been sitting awhile". He''d asked me a few questions about it and just trying to feel out the price for repair. When I responded with guess-timates. He flared and insisted that we should tow it for free and repair cost should be trimmed because of who he was and his relationship with the owner. I couldn''t believe that someone that holds a pretty high office was being such a cheap-skate. He exclaimed that he would find someone else to do the work within his expected "financial parameters". If this is the same vehicle and I''m pretty sure it is, it would mean he has left it parked there for over 10 Years. This story just shows how much these kinda guys expect the world to allow them leeways because they feel important. If I was the service manager of the Dealership I''d get money up front before doing any repairs.

[redbds]

So, after the WTC-1993 (where a car bomb was parked in the WTC parking garage) and WTC-2001, Homeland Security REALLY allowed an unregistered vehicle to sit in a Congressional parking garage for FOUR years?

This is yet ANOTHER example of Bush`s failure to protect Americans from possible harm.

Posted by Nancy_Naive at 01:04 PM : Sep 19, 2008

This is another example of your ignorance!

[louklou51]

What a ***!

[gotagrip]

Washington insiders think the rules of government don''''''''t apply to themselves. Gov. Palin isn''''''''t a Washington insider and that''''''''s what gets their panties in a wad.......
Posted by mmstar20 at 12:19 PM : Sep 19, 2008

But her husband has refused to answer a subpoena so I guess HE''S a Washington insider, right??

[donevis-2009]

One of Rangel''s BEST QUOTE''S EVER
Feb 13th, 2007 When asked what he thought about the President. "Well" he said, "I really think he shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all." LOL

[cdfoxtrot3]

It would be nice if the Republicans would focus on the economy and not go on the political withhunt of a great national figure like Charlie Rangel.

[amerifemale]

It would be nice if the Republicans would focus on the economy and not go on the political withhunt of a great national figure like Charlie Rangel.


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Posted by cdfoxtrot3 at 04:39 PM : Sep 19, 2008

I have never even heard of him. How can he be a great national figure????

If he is cheating he should be punish just like anybody else no matter who he is!!!!

[im4honesty]

This is awful!! This Rangel guy should be locked up for life!! Several times worse than outing a CIA operative!! This is treason, parking on the government lot!! This should quiet all those harping about the lies told to take us into an illegal war!! The worst things Bush/Cheney ever did were looting the treasury, attacking a country that could not and would not harm us, causing the deaths of thousands of young Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis.

[bobnjersey]

[Democrats are the bane of America!]
[Posted by OneAmerican6 at 04:57 PM : Sep 19, 2008]

what does that make the republicans?

[bobnjersey]

[On the other hand, what would you expect plagiarist-joe biden, a 30+ year Beltway politics-as-usual parasite and the poster-boy for all that is rotten with Washington, to do?]
[Posted by ImpeachNOW at 04:32 PM : Sep 19, 2008 ]

where''s tom delay on your list?

i''m guessing you have posters on your bedroom walls.

[hypnotoad72]

Voters can be hopeful that The Real American Team of McCain-Palin will clean up this cesspool and restore common sense and ethical behavior.

Posted by ImpeachNOW
---------------

I hope so. I know Dems have used the mantra of "getting corporate money because we otherwise don''t have a chance" - therefore McCain also using lobbyist money while desiring reform is being used against him. By Democrats. I''m sure there''s a difference; not sure where...

[rushlimpdrug]

I have never even heard of him. How can he be a great national figure????
If he is cheating he should be punish just like anybody else no matter who he is!!!!
Posted by amerifemale at 04:56 PM


FYI he is the man that made Hillary step down because
the superdelegates were all bought up.

[demwatcher]

"[Democrats are the bane of America!]
[Posted by OneAmerican6 at 04:57 PM : Sep 19, 2008]

what does that make the republicans?

Posted by bobnjersey at 05:11 PM : Sep 19, 2008"

The winners.

[o_emptysuit]

Ha, ha sounds like you were parked in the ''Disabled Parking'' space there Rangle. Remember tossing stones when living in an ocean side glass villa can come back to haunt you.

McCain / Palin 08

[lucasnico]

Oh come on people, isn''''t the story about Palin''''s e-mails way more interesting than this(sarcastic). There are so many crooked dems that we''''ve all become numb to it. Oh the hypocracy. I''''ve said it once and I''''ll say it again, you dems drones no longer have any credibility.

Posted by luvusa

Credibility?? We could start with Bush and move through Larry Craig and a list too long to cover on any one page of all corrupt republican sexual activity involving underage girls AND boys

[rushlimpdrug]

IF YOU DONT VOTE FOR OBAMA AND YOU PUNISH RANGEL, YOU ARE A RACIST OF THE WORSE KIND.
Posted by jaxsterling5 at 06:32 PM


Yeah, I hear that a LOT.

Don''t vote for what you feel is best
(of the two worst possible candidates)
for the country.

Vote to not be racist.

[rushlimpdrug]

To continue the lipstick jokes:

Put lipstick on charles rangel and he
looks like michelle obama with a mustache.

[rushlimpdrug]

ol'' charlie be doing the country a
GREAT diservice.

Send his funky aaazzzz to dominican republic
along with his benz
so he can hire folks from Haiti to work on
his vacation house.

What a total loser this Rangel.

A political punk of the worst kind.

[rushlimpdrug]

Rangel = race hustling poverty pimp
..... typical Obama Democrat.
Posted by negrovote- at 07:05 PM


- - Absolutely on the mark:


Who be taking my Benzo??? sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet...
Posted by badaxmofo at 07:26 PM


Tooooo funny!


charles rangel is proof positive that
new yorkers are as stupid a voter as they come.

[stn_sage]

He''s been storing this thing illegally for FOUR YEARS!

Then it should have been towed FOUR YEARS ago! Not now.
Someone was derelict in their duties to let this go on for so long!

Additionally, Rangel should have to pay some type of fine on this as well! He should also get a non-punitive letter of reprimand placed in the Congressional Record about this, too!

This kind of petty abuse CANNOT be tolerated from EITHER major party!

[rushlimpdrug]

"Rangel has so far declined to answer questions about the car."

Here are some questions I have:

1. What color is it?

2. What model is it?

3. What is wrong with the car?

4. Would he like to sell it to a TAXPAYER?

5. What is so special about this car?

6. How soon can he leave politics?

[rushlimpdrug]

PLEEZE someone get a photo of this punk
driving the benz.

[kansas1946]

Lord, the arrogance and utter disregard for just basic courtesy and honesty of politicians just blows my mind. They want to set up on "the hill" and write all of these laws for the rest of us, but don''t want to be bothered by those same laws. If Rangel doesn''t get arrested for some of his shennanegans, then his district should vote him our of office.
And by the way, I am voting for Obama, and am proud to do it.

[txpatriot4us]

To continue the lipstick jokes:

Put lipstick on charles rangel and he
looks like michelle obama with a mustache.
Posted by rushlimpdrug

_____________________________________________________

Yeah and Georgie Bush was a Cheer Leader who wore his mommies make-up.(True Story) What do you have when Rush Limpwadd wears lipstick? Nothing different he is still a Pig or was that Karl Rover in Drag?

[m0nkeyb0nes]

txpatriot4us, stupid and full of hate is no way to go through life. Showing off how moronic you are for all to see isn''t wise either. At least be clever or actually humorous of which you are neither. Sarcasm loses it''s effectiveness when coming from an idiot. Keep working on it, one day you might actually score but i doubt it.

[chimpyout]

He should park it on the street (pick any neighborhood) and the homeys will take care of the problem.

[gmkjr49]

Oh come on. A 1972 Benz isn''t worth much, and the cost of fixing it to drive isn''t going to be cheap, either.

Probably one of those middle age "I wish I could have afforded it when I was young enough to enjoy it" fantasies.

And I''d bet that the guys who patrol the garages knew exacly whose car it was, too. That doesn''t excuse the tax issues or the letterhead abuse, but after recent shenanigans by the Repubs prior to the ''06 change of leadership, well, you decide.... Which brings to mind the fact that more than 2 of the ''storage'' years were when the Repubs were running the garage.