Rangel’s Birthday Bash
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 12th, 2010 4:42 am by HL
Rangel’s Birthday Bash
Walter Shapiro crashed Rep. Charlie Rangel’s (D-NY) 80th birthday party last night and notes it was “the antithesis of Chelsea Clinton’s wedding — a glittering social event on the New York political calendar that many prominent politicians wished (very privately) they did not have to attend and hoped (very secretly) would somehow be canceled.”
The New York Times reports the evening started with former New York City Mayor David Dinkins getting out of his car when a man yelled, “You know you are attending a party for a crook.”
“At that, Mr. Dinkins, a paragon of statesmanship and dignity, raised his middle finger at the man, displaying it for all to see, according to witnesses, whose accounts were confirmed by the former mayor.”
