New York – Rep. Charlie Rangel’s unofficial lead in the congressional primary over state Sen. Adriano Espaillat has dipped to a scant 802 votes — 18,075 to Espaillat’s 17,273 — the City Board of Elections said last night.
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On election night last Tuesday, Rangel was reportedly leading by 6 percentage points. Now, as the slow counting of the votes continues, the 21-term congressman is leading by less than 2 points.
And there’s still more counting to do, as about 2,000 paper ballot votes are due to be tallied starting this week.
Officials said some absentee ballots may also still come in — so that number could change further.
Can someone explain why Rangel did not go to jail for failing to pay a huge amount of taxes? Why is he allowed to run again even though he didn’t pay his taxes? If anyone else didn’t pay that much taxes they would go to jail. The 18,000 people who voted for him are just as immoral as he is.
Still hard to understand how about 18000 people voted for an obvious crook. Can it be reverse racism?
The fact that 18k people voted for him shows there are at least 18k FOOLS in his district!