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...Mart also inserted itself into political races, to the unions' great irritation. The company donated money to the campaigns of black Congressmen Harold Ford, Charles Rangel and Albert Wynn. And after Wal-Mart gave a lunch for a few members of the Congressional Black Caucus, a small brouhaha between labor and the black caucus erupted. The Service Employees International Union fired off a letter accusing the Representatives of betraying labor. The head of the caucus, Democratic Congressman Mel Watt of North Carolina, bristled at the criticism. "I'm not defending them--I think a lot of their practices are abysmal...
...chatter began last year after Democrats introduced a pair of bills in Congress to resume conscription. The bills weren't taken seriously in Washington--Representative Charles Rangel said he introduced his version to make the point that the volunteer military is full of minority kids with few options. But the bills led to the formation of a website called stopthedraftnow.com and they inspired a largely fallacious, prodigiously forwarded e-mail claiming that the White House was fighting for the bills and that "$28 million has been added to the 2004 Selective Service System budget to prepare for a draft...
Like many who spread rumors of a new draft, McGregor failed to note that H.R. 163 was sponsored by Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), a liberal Democrat and consistent critic of the president and the war in Iraq. All of his co-sponsors are also liberal anti-war Democrats. Do these people really want to give the president what McGregor describes as “a cost-free standing army at his disposal?...
Demonstrating that they never intended for H.R. 163 to become law, Rangel and most of his co-sponsors voted against their own bill in yesterday’s vote. Only one of fourteen co-sponsors voted in favor; Rangel and 11 others voted no; and the rest did not vote. It is clear that they intended only to instill fear of the draft rather than reinstate...
...someone will ask: When our world went crazy and lives were lost, what were you doing?” Rangel said...