[Mrs.ssippi]

Originally Posted by PARAGON

Yeah, can't wait for high and mighty Democrats. The one next in line to become chair of the ways and means committee wants to give tax cuts to latin americans and doesn't discriminate at all.


Pickering wants NY congressman to apologize for comment about Mississippi
By By Emily Wagster Pettus
The Associated Press


JACKSON, Miss. ? A Democratic congressman from New York says he wasn?t trying to insult Mississippi in published remarks today, but a Republican colleague from Mississippi says Rep. Charles Rangel should apologize to the state.

Rangel, D-N.Y., was quoted in an article today in The New York Times, saying: ?Mississippi gets more than their fair share back in federal money, but who the hell wants to live in Mississippi??

Rep. Chip Pickering, R-Miss., issued a news release criticizing Rangel?s words.

?I hope his remarks are not the kind of insults, slander, and defamation that Mississippians will come to expect from the Democrat leadership in Washington, D.C.,? Pickering said.

Elbert Garcia, Rangel?s press secretary in New York, said Rangel had received calls Thursday about the Mississippi quote.

Garcia e-mailed The Associated Press a response from Rangel: ?I certainly don?t mean to offend anyone, I just love New York so much that I can?t understand why everyone wouldn?t want to live here.?

Rangel is the ranking Democrat on Ways and Means, and is in line to become chairman of the powerful tax-writing committee. The New York Times article was about how the New York congressional delegation gained political clout in the midterm elections.

Rangel said, among other things, that he wants to direct more federal money to his state.

U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss., said he believes Mississippi will be treated fairly by Rangel and other Democratic leaders. As for Pickering?s question of whether Democrats could hurt the state, Taylor said: ?That?s Chip.?

Pickering was elected to the House in 1996 and for the first time will be a member of the minority party in Congress.

NEW YORK CITY???????? Get a rope.