Maxine Waters Faces Allegations of Ethics Violations
POSTED BY: mincingbeast
UPDATED: Monday, August 28, 2023 16:55
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Rangel has company. Behold:
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/31/nation/la-na-waters-20100731
I can't decide if these allegations are part of a racist conspiracy from Fox news to discredit strong public servants, or evidence that all black politicians...hell, all black people are evil. Perhaps someone could explain to me, slowly and in simple language, how I should react to this story and what it means?
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You just KNOW what the Congressional Black Caucus is going to say about all this, don't you?
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New toy? That gif, while rad, is so passe. Don't you have one of a white kid crying racism?
Dude, that wasn't persuasive. But I agree with you--the CBC is bound to cry racism, and folks like you will surely seize on that to accuse the CBC of racism.
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" folks like you " ??
It's a Dem controlled Congress, a bi-partisan ethics board, and oh yeah... a black President.
Can you just imagine the cries if this occurred with a GOP controlled congress ?
The facts speak for themselves, and if you can't see that now.....
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Pffth, this has less to do with any official reason than it does her attitude towards AIPAC.
Of course, one would have to go digging to figure that out, instead of just accepting the MSM commentary at face value - commentary which is becoming more and more irrelevant as people figure out how worthless it is.
-Frem
I do not serve the Blind God.
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Well, there's also an investigation ongoing into Senator John Ensign's "alleged" criminal misdeeds and ethics violations. Kinda hard to pin it all on racism if they're hanging lily-white Ensign out as well. His Republican cohorts are thus far making themselves scarce in coming to his defense.
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So, the fact thats she's anti Israel is the real issue here?
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The findings on the investigation into Waters by the Office of Congressional Ethics are expected to be made public on Monday.
That office, an independent watchdog created by Congress, referred the matter to the House Ethics Committee. The committee turned the matter over to a panel of two Democratic and two Republican lawmakers who have been conducting their own probe for months
“Congressional financial-disclosure forms show Ms. Waters acquired OneUnited stock worth between $250,000 and $500,000 in March 2004, as did Mr. Williams. Mr. Williams joined the board of OneUnited that year. Each sold shares in September 2004 — including Ms. Waters’s entire stake — but Mr. Williams continued to hold varying amount of the company’s stock. In the lawmaker’s most recent financial-disclosure form, dated May 2008 and covering the prior year, Ms. Waters reported that her husband held between $250,000 and $500,000 worth of the bank’s stock. Mr. Williams also received interest payments from a separate holding at the bank, also worth between $250,000 and $500,000. The 2008 form doesn’t specify what that is. Mr. Williams stepped down from the bank’s board last spring. It couldn’t be learned whether he still owns stock in the bank. Mr. Williams didn’t return calls seeking comment.
Waters (along with Rep. Frank) participated directly in pressuring the feds for OneUnited’s piece of the bailout pie. She personally contacted the Treasury Department last December requesting $50 million for the company– and failed to disclose her ties to the bank to them. The government ended up coughing up $12 million in TARP funding for OneUnited — despite another government agency rapping the bank in October 2008 for “operating without effective underwriting standards and practices,” “operating without an effective loan documentation program” and “engaging in speculative investment practices.”
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Err ?
Hell, I never said Waters wasn't corrupt, that's kind of a no-shit-sherlock assessment there, given that just about ALL of these jerks and berks are...
Thing is, they only seem to actually get PROSECUTED for it when they start touching those unspoken "Third Rail" items, like how we seem to be Israels bitch (Waters, McKinney), or big bank misconduct (Spitzer), or abuses from former administrations who still have people in power (not just Bush, but Johnson, Nixon, hell, even Kennedy's hangers on did this) - stuff like that.
So this is less about partisanship than about rocking boats that there's some kind of asshole-consensus not to rock, you see.
You ever think that's one reason that Congress is happy to install folks who are obviously corrupt, that it gives them a leash to control the fuckers ?
-Frem
I do not serve the Blind God.
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Jihad Cynthia was/ is bona fide bat shit crazy. She didn't fall far from the nutty tree, as her daddy , a GA legislator, once threatened to " cut " a fellow state Rep....
When Cynthia first lost her seat, daddy Billy declared it was because of..... wait for it .... the " J - E - W - S ". The fact of the matter was, the moderates of her district had had just about enough of her nonsense.
As was the case w/ Cynthia, Maxine is an example of someone who is so completely out of her element and out of their league, they really have no clue of what it is they're doing. They treat their position of power as some sort of entitlement, and that by virtue of their lofty public servants position they see themselves as some sort of all powerful monarchs.
Hell, even Rep Pete Stark (D - CA ) thinks that " the Federal Gov't can do what it wants". 
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Hell, that attitude came right from the top down between 2000 and 2008...
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Friday, May 28, 2010 - 18:26 To President Obama:
Mr. President, you're a god damn, mother fucking liar.
Fuck you, you cock sucking community activist piece of shit.
... go fuck yourself, Mr. President.
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