Friday, November 10, 2006

WLOX-TV - The News for South Mississippi: NY Congressman Says No Offense Intended With Mississippi Remark

WLOX-TV - The News for South Mississippi: NY Congressman Says No Offense Intended With Mississippi Remark: "A Democratic congressman from New York says he wasn't trying to insult Mississippi in published remarks Thursday, but a Republican colleague from Mississippi says Rep. Charles Rangel should apologize to the state.

Rangel, D-N.Y., was quoted in a Thursday article 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."

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