Rangel Tells Obama to Back Off of Local Politics
Posted: September 28th, 2009 05:13 PM ET
From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-New York, is making it known he’s not happy with President Obama’s recent meddling in the state’s 2010 gubernatorial race.
Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-New York, is making it known he’s not happy with President Obama’s recent meddling in the state’s 2010 gubernatorial race.
(CNN) – Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-New York, is making it known he’s not happy with President Obama’s recent meddling in the state’s 2010 gubernatorial race.
“The whole thing to me was not presidential,” Rangel told the New York Daily News over the weekend. “It wasn’t good for the president, and it wasn’t good for the governor.”
The comments came a week after the New York Times reported that administration officials had asked New York Rep. Gregory Meeks to convey to embattled Gov. David Paterson that Obama would prefer he not run for re-election next year.
The Times reported that the White House is concerned about Paterson’s dismal poll numbers becoming a drag on the entire Democratic ticket in New York next year, and would prefer Andrew Cuomo — the state’s popular attorney general — carry the party’s banner instead.
