Gothamist: Rumblings Over Representative Rangel's Rent

matty

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:50:16 -0500

has anyone made the point that sometimes he slips through the space/time vortex and occupies all three apartments at once? Cause I think that is what is being overlooked here.

Pull My Finger

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:53:20 -0500

Wow double standards from democrats, I am so shocked.If this was a republican you all would be calling for them to drawn and quartered. I am so shocked...not!

rosweed

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:30:56 -0500

The NY Times editorial today about this issue nails it. Gov. David Paterson is also a beneficiary of the gifts that aren't gifts. I don't think this a left-right issue. It's just plain greed.

ides_of_march

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:32:25 -0500

Curachita, learn to read; I wrote rent contolled and stabilized.

westernqueensland

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:43:32 -0500

When you find a politician that doesn't take favors, that'll be the news. This guys been there since forever, and he's just reaping politico-frequent-feeder-points.

westernqueensland

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:08:40 -0500

When you find a politician that doesn't take favors, that'll be the news. This guys been there since forever, and he's just reaping politico-frequent-feeder-points.

west side Michael

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:41:30 -0500

What happened to my comment about needing MORE Rent Controls for we suckers that have jobs in this city that cant afford a million dollar one bedroom apartment in Brooklyn or Chelsea? Be nice to us or else we spit in your soup.

JacqueMehoff

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:15:15 -0500

God Bless you Congressman Rangel, you served our Country and went above and beyond what's called of you.

NannyState

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:05:26 -0500

Nobody really needs an apology from His Highness, we just need him to enjoy his cheap apartments as an out-of-office greedhead.

cucarachita

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:02:30 -0500

The least he could have done while living in those apartments is help out the rest of us who are lucky enough to have rent stabilized apartments, and make sure we get to keep ours and not be harassed by our landlords! BTW rent-stabilized is not the same as rent-controlled, ides of march. Get it straight.

cucarachita

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:58:52 -0500

All they have to do is figure out what Olnick gets out of letting have four apartments like that. If they benefit from doing him that favor, it's a gift. Duh.

Spiritof76

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:37:50 -0500

No, he's not like Marie Antoinette. More like Leona Helmsley. "Only the little people pay fair market rent." His constituents will still forgive him. When all's said and done, he may be a crooked politician, but he's their crooked politician.

jnguy

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:03:56 -0500

Crook! Despite whatever it is that he has done for NYC and his community (people seemed supportive in the last post), that doesn't entitle him to break the rules.

smacky

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:00:50 -0500

Such a politician. Well, say hello to "retirement". What a knucklehead

babyhitler

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:51:09 -0500

the difference between a democrat and a republican is that a democrat says he won't screw you in the ass but does. A republican says he will screw you in the ass but very gently, but of course he reams your ass. In the end you'll get screwed in the ass hard no matter what.

ides_of_march

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:34:01 -0500

So what if he's paying the rent? Those apartments are rent controlled/stabilized for people on the bottom of the economic ladder, not some well to do congressputz. Another brilliant social program that does nothing to help the people they claim to champion. Wrangle gets this yera's Marie-Antionette screw-the-poor award.

blablanyc

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:56:47 -0500

What a piece of garbage this guy is.