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Tasini commits to Rangel run
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| Last Edited | Craverguy May 18, 2010 05:39pm |
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| Author | Maggie Haberman |
| News Date | Friday, May 14, 2010 12:40:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Jonathan Tasini, the labor activist and gadfly candidate whose latest effort is now to join the crowded field against embattled Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel, is offering up a classic New York reason for running in that district - his rent-stabilized, $870-a-month apartment is way too good to give up.
"I'm not going to go district-shopping," said Tasini, who dropped his quixotic effort against Democratic Sen.Kirsten Gillibrand Wednesday and decided to take on Rangel, when asked why he didn't go after a riper target, such as Democratic Rep. Mike McMahon of Staten Island.
McMahon is under fire from the left already for his "no" vote on the health care reform bill, but so far has escaped a challenger—and he would seem a more promising target than Rangel, who already has at least two opponents.
But Tasini said he's committed to Rangel 15th District, which also encompasses portions of northern Manhattan and where he's lived for years.
"With my rent, why would I move?" he said of his one-bedroom pad."Unlike most New Yorkers, I've been a renter my whole life."
But when POLITICO noted that Rangel is under fire for having rent-stabilized apartments—rents that are well-below market value under a decades-old system in New York—Tasini said, "I only have one. He has four."
As for other Rangel problems? "He's become a symbol of the system....he's a decent man who needs to be replaced," Tasini said, predicting the turnout will be extremely low because the top of the ticket races aren't expected to be heavily contested. |
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