If Rangel DID step down...who'd be the Dem frontrunners for his seat?

[Ken Burch]

I'm assuming there's no chance the district would flip to the 'Pugs.

But NYC DU'ers probably have a better sense of who'd step up to the plate.

Got any names?

[Historic NY]

1. Adam Clayton Powell IV looks like the contender.

http://newsone.com/nation/news-one-staff/adam-clayton-powell-iv-to-challenge-rangel-for-harlem-congress-seat/

[Ken Burch]

2. OK...and, forty years from now, would another Rangel take over from HIM?

You could see why a person might wonder.

(And I'm not trying to start an argument with you on this...just noting the weirdness of the seat passing between two royal houses in Harlem or whatever the hell this is).

What's the book on Powell the Fourth, btw?

[Nite Owl]

3. Rangel has a primary in September

against Jonathan Tasini. I hope he would take the seat. He's a good union man, definitely a fighter for the people.