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Top NY Democrats, but few House colleagues, turn out for Charles Rangel fundraising 80th birthday party - NYPOST.com

Rangel: 'This ain't no funeral'

By CARL CAMPANILE and JENNIFER FERMINO

Last Updated: 12:05 PM, August 12, 2010

Posted: 3:48 AM, August 12, 2010

A who's who of Democratic officials turned out to celebrate scandal-scarred Rep. Charles Rangel's 80th birthday last night -- whooping it up as if he didn't have an ethics charge in the world.

In fact, former Mayor David Dinkins, 83, went so far as to flip the bird to a protester who called Rangel a "crook" outside The Plaza hotel gala.

This was a flock of the chattering lack-of-class democrats who use their offices as a personal charity to pass out favors and ruin simultaneously.

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