Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
Charlie Rangel on legitimate ways to campaign against Charlie Rangel
State Senator Adriano Espaillat's congressional campaign has stressed the barrier-breaking nature of his congressional candidacy. (If elected, he would be the first Dominican-American elected to Congress).
The man he is looking to unseat, Rep. Charlie Rangel, said he didn't begrudge anyone using an overt ethnic appeal in campaigning against him. Rangel, a founding member of the Black Congressional Caucus, said on NY1 last night, "Hey, we said it's our chance for president. And I think it's our chance for the second term of our president. I think these things are what America is all about ... But you just don't say 'I'm not on the list' especially if you're the only guy with the list." More
April 27, 2012 10:06 am
Profiting from a small moment in the political history of the Rangel district
Charlie Rangel may have had his reasons (namely, fund-raising) for making a big deal of the news that one of his prospective 2012 challengers recently conducted a poll in the district. But he was right to mark the poll as something of an occasion.
The survey was commissioned by Clyde Williams, a former political director for the Democratic National Committee, and it appears to be the first time in years that a challenger to Rangel has polled in the district. More
December 7, 2011 12:21 pm
Adam Clayton Powell IV eyes Rangel's seat, again
If there's any name that's as well known as Charlie Rangel's in the congressional district he's represented for forty years, it's that of Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the guy who occupied the seat for the 20 years before Rangel.
Powell's son, Adam Clayton Powell IV, who ran for the seat twice, said yesterday he's going to run again, if Rangel doesn't.
"If he doesn't run, I'm definitely in," Powell told me. "If he does run, I probably won't run." More
November 2, 2011 11:27 am
After Rangel...what?
There are three men and one woman running against Charlie Rangel, the legendary Harlem Congressman and dean of the New York delegation, in the September 15 Democratic primary. The four of them combined have so far raised less than half the $800,000 Rangel raked in this year and none of them has any support from the political establishment.
This ought to be a great opportunity for these aspirants to the historic Harlem Congressional seat. Rangel has been reeling for a while now from a succession of ethics controversies, and last week, he was formally charged by the House ethics committee with, among other violations, illegally using rent-stabilized apartments for campaign work and failing to disclose rental income from a yacht club in the Dominican Republic. More
July 26, 2010 8:24 am
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