New Hampshire Democrat calls for Charlie Rangel to resign

Here is a mobile post, and yes I do have my power back. I just might be getting addicted to mobile posting!

Last week New Hampshire 2nd district House Democrat, Paul Hodes, became the first member of the House to call for corrupt Charlie Rangel to resign his chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee. Since that time several other members of the House have called for Charlie Rangel’s resignation, while Republicans are preparing a resolution calling for his resignation.

Today my congressman, Democrat Carol Shea-Porter joined Paul Hodes and the others and is calling for Rangel’s resignation. But she has gone one step further and is going to return $14,000 in campaign donations she received from Rangel’s PAC. I knew that sooner or later the law of averages would make it possible that she would say something that I agreed with– and today that has happened for the first time.

Paul Hodes should follow her example, he has accepted $17,000 from Rangel’s PAC but he is refusing to give it back. It appears that tough words are all we are going to get from him, he is running for the senate seat that the retiring Judd Gregg is leaving open so he needs all the money ha can get, even if it comes from people with questionable ethics backgrounds.

And then there is Senator Jeanne Shaheen, who will not take a position on Rangel, but is more than happy to take money from him– to the tune of over $10,000, which she has decided to keep. She is not up for re-election until 2012, so unlike Paul Hodes, she has no immediate need for the tainted money, yet she will not give it back.

I never thought I would ever say this, but Paul Hodes and Jeanne Shaheen should do what Carol Shea-Porter has done– return the money.