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Home Front: Politix
Rangel tells Obama to back off of local politics
2009-09-30
(CNN) -- Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-New York, is making it known he's not happy with President Obama's recent meddling in the state's 2010 gubernatorial race.

"The whole thing to me was not presidential," Rangel told the New York Daily News over the weekend. "It wasn't good for the president, and it wasn't good for the governor."

The comments came a week after the New York Times reported that administration officials had asked New York Rep. Gregory Meeks to convey to embattled Gov. David Paterson that Obama would prefer he not run for re-election next year.

The Times reported that the White House is concerned about Paterson's dismal poll numbers becoming a drag on the entire Democratic ticket in New York next year, and would prefer Andrew Cuomo -- the state's popular attorney general -- carry the party's banner instead.
Posted by:Fred

#5  Maybe Zero can invite Rangel and Paterson over and have a televised beer...
Posted by: Broadhead6   2009-09-30 10:34  

#4  All that can be said then, is may the best man win. Or woman, as the case may be. ;-) I think it's a lovely idea that the two party machines fight -- let each expose the faults and misbehaviours of the other, leaving the voters to exercise preference.
Posted by: trailing wife   2009-09-30 08:34  

#3  Basically, the New York mob fighting with the Chicago mob over territory and turf.

'I knew Al Capone and you're no Al Capone' - Dutch Schultz /sarc off
Posted by: Procopius2k   2009-09-30 07:59  

#2  Nah. Rangel and Patterson come out of the same NYC machine and they don't want the Chicago machine butting in. Cuomo's not from that machine and they don't want him supported effectively from outside the state.
Posted by: lotp   2009-09-30 06:44  

#1  Buyer remorse surfaces in strangest places.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2009-09-30 04:34  

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