The blog post I chose to critique is from the blog site, My Direct Democracy. The title of the post was More Dems Abandon Rangel and it is about how many Democrat congressman are calling out Rangel to resign for his lack of ethics in office. The post does not give very much background information so I had to research to find what a couple of his offenses were. Rangel has been accused of paying rent on his apartments that is much lower than the rest of his neighbors because of a relationship with one of the owners, which violates city and state regulations. He also failed to report the income he made from renting out a villa he owns and many details regarding the sale of one is his homes.
I believe the audience for this blog is most likely democrats. This is partly because My Direct Democracy is a left leaning blog, but also because it seems like democrats would be interested in what is going on with their representatives. The author of the blog post is Nathan Empsall and he has written many insightful blogs for My Direct Democracy. Empsall is glad to hear that other Democrats are speaking up against Rangel, because, in his opinion he should have resigned already. He claims that if Rangel really cared about his constituents he would have stepped down and allowed someone else to go ahead and start doing his job, because he is no longer credible as a representative. He concedes that Rangel does not have any legal reason to yet, because he has not had a trial yet and there is no reason he should be forced to resign without due process. But he still believes that resigning voluntarily would have been better and less selfish of Rangel.
I agree with Empsall, because I personally would not want a person to represent me that was breaking the law while doing it. It is a representative’s responsibility to make out government and country better and Rangel should take responsibility for what he has done.
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