Frankly I'm surprised the Democrats aren't forcing people to donate to Rangel's monument to himself. They're busy raping our wallets as it is to shove ObamaCare down our throats, so what's a measly couple million more to build up one of the chief hacks in the party?
Donors have contributed just $3,315 to the Rangel Center at City College since the Harlem congressman became enmeshed in scandal last fall.I get it. Bush is to blame.
The center -- which critics have derided as a "monument to me" -- needs $30 million to renovate a derelict building in Harlem and fulfill its mission to prepare minority students for public-service careers.
But data provided by the college shows Rangel's pet project has amassed just $6.6 million in pledges, and only $650,000 in cash contributions, since fund-raising began in 2005.
The pledges have dried up completely, and the cash donations slowed to a trickle, since September 2008. That's when a congressional ethics committee began a far-reaching probe into the lawmaker's alleged tax dodges, misuse of rent-stabilized apartments, influence-peddling, and soliciting donations for the center on congressional letterhead.
"There have been no additional pledges since that time," said Mary Lou Edmondson, spokeswoman for City College. "Given the general state of the economy, of course, last year was not an easy year for fund-raising."
Maybe if they just call it rhe Obama-Pelosi-Rangel Center the cash would start flowing in.
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