Where are your manners, Rep. Rangel?
Ouch. Wasn’t last week supposed to be all about expanding the Democratic Party’s base, demonstrating a sense of political inclusiveness and pragmatism that broadens the reaches of an outfit that in defeat would have been heading in the direction of utter irrelevance?
So what was U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel of Manhattan thinking when he took a gratuitous dig at Mississippi?
Mississippi paces New York on a variety of measures, from the top personal income tax rate (5% in Mississippi versus 6.85% there).
“The other question Rangel might have asked is why people from Mississippi aren’t flooding into his politically corrupt, crime-ridden city,” James W. Bailey wrote in The Clarion-Ledger (though Bailey himself apparently lives in Reston, Virginia).
But it may be WDAM in Hattiesburg that has the best retort, albeit a tad uncouth.