Blogs: Adam Clayton Powell IV (politician)

Right now, it appears, in another ironic twist, that the most viable challenger to Rangel is Adam Clayton Powell IV, a state legislator who won 42 percent of the vote against Rangel in a 1994 Democratic primary. ... But Charlie Rangel is nothing if not a politician. And he will have to think long and hard as the full extent of his troubles becomes clear about not just his own future but that of a party to which he had been exceptionally loyal–and for which he could become ...