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Howard Dean, for example, has won the backing of more black congressional caucus members than any other candidate, but each candidate has his own bragging roster. Clark has the support of New York Congressman Charles Rangel and Andrew Young, and John Kerry can claim the leader of South Carolina's legislative black caucus as well as Senator Fritz Hollings of South Carolina, who had overwhelming support from African-American voters in his 1998 re-election. All of the candidates are in the hunt for the blessing of South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn, who had originally endorsed Dick Gephardt...
...Charles Rangel --Democratic Congressman from New York and Korean...
...stratospheric hopes--a man who didn't declare himself a Democrat until a few weeks ago and who says he isn't sure whether he voted for a Democrat for President before Bill Clinton ran. "He can save this goddam nation from self-destruction," declares New York Congressman Charles Rangel, who is arranging a meeting for Clark with the Congressional Black Caucus, possibly as early as this week. But Rangel acknowledges that he has never met Clark in person (they have talked on the phone) and didn't know a thing about Clark until he started catching the general...
...made with the opposition to hold a referendum that could force Chávez to resign. The Organization of American States brokered the agreement to end a two-month general strike organized by Chávez's opponents earlier this year. But Vice President José Vicente Rangel said the planned vote was unconstitutional because it would come before the mid-point in Chávez's term. The opposition has collected more than 2.5 million signatures in support of the referendum, and polls show they would easily prevail...
Last month, Rep. Charles B. Rangel, D-N.Y., spoke at the ARCO Forum about his consciousness-raising bill to reinstitute the military draft. In his speech, Rangel insisted that war or no war, there has to be more “shared sacrifice” in this country—and this needs to include not only men of all races and classes, but women as well...