Hatch in Utah, Rangel in New York, plus more to watch for Tuesday in politics

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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/hatch-utah-rangel-york-plus-more-watch-tuesday-105741240.html

Voters go to the polls Tuesday for primaries or runoffs in Utah, New York, Colorado, Oklahoma, South Carolina and South Dakota. Two incumbents to watch: Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch in Utah and Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel in New York's 13th Congressional District.

Hatch faces former state Sen. Dan Liljenquist, who has tea party support, and, based on an independent public poll released Saturday by Deseret News/KSL-TV, Hatch is likely to win. He led Liljenquist among registered voters by 60 to 32 percent.

Rangel faces a tougher contest because of redistricting changes.

President Barack Obama will attend fundraisers Tuesday in Georgia and in the battleground state of Florida, and Mitt Romney will campaign in Virginia, another battleground state, and attend a fundraiser in New Jersey.

Vice President Joe Biden will be campaigning in Iowa — yes, that's a battleground state, too — and first lady Michelle Obama will attend fundraisers in Chicago, including one event with "Glee" star Jane Lynch.

Also worth noting: A group of civil rights leaders will hold a press conference at the National Press Club in support of Attorney General Eric Holder, who faces a contempt of Congress vote in the House of Representatives later this week. Participants will include Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights President and CEO Wade Henderson, National Action Network President Rev. Al Sharpton and NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous.

And then there is this: Rielle Hunter's memoir, "What Really Happened: John Edwards, Our Daughter, and Me," is officially released Tuesday. Hunter appears on ABC's "Good Morning America," "Nightline" and "The View" to promote the book

More on Charlie Wrangel, it's kind of long so I will just post the high points

http://hotair.com/archives/2012/06/25/rep-charlie-rangels-d-ny-last-hurrah/

Hitting the trail last week, Rangel — who survived a tough reelection fight in 2010 despite the ethics case and a suggestion from President Barack Obama at the time to “end his career with dignity” — displayed an almost missionary zeal to prove his detractors wrong. Betrayal and disrespect — Rangel believes he deserves better after such a long record of service —
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    1990: Rangel “didn’t know” that the developer of his villa had converted his $52,000 mortgage to an interest-free loan.
    1971-2000: The National Legal and Policy Center has confirmed Rangel owned a home in Washington and claimed a “homestead” exemption that allowed him to save on his District of Columbia property taxes.
    2001: Rangel has failed to report assets totaling more than $1 million on legally required financial disclosure forms going back to at least 2001.
    2004-2005: Income from rental was suspiciously low- Rangel did not pay rental income taxes on a beach-front property. The untaxed income was 75K.
        He promised to amend his tax returns, but that did not happen
    2004-2006: Rent-controlled apartment owned by donor to Rangel campaign and PAC, and sent lobbyist to Rangel.
    2007: Rangel had a credit union account worth at least $250,000 and maybe as much as $500,000 — and didn’t report it.
    2007: He had investment accounts worth about $250K, which he also didn’t report.
        Same for three pieces of property in New Jersey.
    2004-2006:He used one of his apartments as an office in violation of rent-control rules.
        2004-2006: Rent-controlled apartment owned by donor to Rangel campaign and PAC, and sent lobbyist to Rangel.
    2008: Investigation of Rangel’s fund raising for the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service at City College of New York. Rangel gave a donor to the center a tax loophole.
    Improper vehicle storage- Rangel parked a car for several years that did not have a parking permit and was unlicensed.

Rangel, who was found guilty of 11 of 13 counts leveled against him and also settled with the Federal Elections Commission related to campaign violations, received a formal censure on the House floor from then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). While many would have preferred the House Ethics Committee recommend expulsion, if not the sort of criminal charges the average person would have faced in the same situation, a December 2010 National Journal article shows censure is a relatively severe punishment in the House, and not one that had been implemented in nearly 30 years.

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