Maxine Waters: How is she possibly a Congresswoman

[Cowlesy]

Are you kidding me?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123682571772404053.html

[torchbearer]

Reminds me of William Jefferson from New Orleans.

[Paulitician]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUaY3LhJ-IQ

ROFL

[Truth Warrior]

Maxine couldn't even manage a shift at a Mickey-Ds.<IMHO> :p

[MsDoodahs]

I was just about to post about this. Here are the links I found:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/us/politics/13waters.html?_r=1&hp

Here's a little bit:

"Congresswoman With Ties to Bank Helped Seek Funds

By ERIC LIPTON and JIM RUTENBERG

Published: March 12, 2009

WASHINGTON — Top banking regulators were taken aback late last year when a California congresswoman helped set up a meeting in which the chief executive of a bank with financial ties to her family asked them for up to $50 million in special bailout funds, Treasury officials said."


and

http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/maxine-in-hot-waters-over-bank/

"Maxine in Hot Waters Over Bank Conflict

Thursday, Mar. 12 2009 @ 10:38AMBy Steven Mikulan

L.A. Observed's business writer Mark Lacter does a fine job pulling together choice quotes from the Wall Street Journal and N.Y. Times on L.A. Congresswoman Maxine Waters' ties to OneUnited Bank. Until a few years ago she was an investor and her husband was once a director of the Boston-based bank, which has branches in Miami and L.A. to serve low-income and minority communities. The South Los Angeles Democrat has interceded timeand again on OneUnited's behalf. Last September she used her influence as a member of the House Financial Services Committee to arrange a meeting between the Treasury Department and OneUnited CEO Kevin Cohee."

She is VILE.

But she DID have the best line when the bankers were in front of the committee "Welcome, Masters of the Universe." That was funny right there. :D

[Zuras]

They found a woman dumber than Pelosi? If only the dumbocrats could put their minds to good instead of ill.

[MsDoodahs]

Reminds me of William Jefferson from New Orleans.

Is he the guy that got caught with bribe money in his freezer a few years back?

[torchbearer]

Is he the guy that got caught with bribe money in his freezer a few years back?

Yes- money from an african government.
Then, he got re-elected... (but i don't think he won the last one)

He also had a national guards unit take him out of new orleans during Katrina. A whole unit, just for him.
Leaving his 'brothas and sistas' behind to drown.
People will never learn here.

[Truth Warrior]

I was just about to post about this. Here are the links I found:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/us/politics/13waters.html?_r=1&hp

Here's a little bit:

"Congresswoman With Ties to Bank Helped Seek Funds

By ERIC LIPTON and JIM RUTENBERG

Published: March 12, 2009

WASHINGTON — Top banking regulators were taken aback late last year when a California congresswoman helped set up a meeting in which the chief executive of a bank with financial ties to her family asked them for up to $50 million in special bailout funds, Treasury officials said."


and

http://blogs.laweekly.com/ladaily/maxine-in-hot-waters-over-bank/

"Maxine in Hot Waters Over Bank Conflict

Thursday, Mar. 12 2009 @ 10:38AMBy Steven Mikulan

L.A. Observed's business writer Mark Lacter does a fine job pulling together choice quotes from the Wall Street Journal and N.Y. Times on L.A. Congresswoman Maxine Waters' ties to OneUnited Bank. Until a few years ago she was an investor and her husband was once a director of the Boston-based bank, which has branches in Miami and L.A. to serve low-income and minority communities. The South Los Angeles Democrat has interceded timeand again on OneUnited's behalf. Last September she used her influence as a member of the House Financial Services Committee to arrange a meeting between the Treasury Department and OneUnited CEO Kevin Cohee."

She is VILE.

But she DID have the best line when the bankers were in front of the committee "Welcome, Masters of the Universe." That was funny right there. :D That line probably just came from her staff or from somewhere else. :rolleyes: She's as stupid as a "box of rocks".<IMHO> :p

[Original_Intent]

I have often stated that the only positive function she provides in Congress is that she often speaks directly before or after Ron Paul in the bank services committee, and it just emphasizes how he smart is.

Her and Pelosi it is a constant internal battle who is my least favorite congress-critter. Probably Pelosi because she is such a smug &*^%$ on top of being an idiot.

[krazy kaju]

Funny how one of the furthest left Congresswomen pretty much bends over backwards to do the bidding for big banks.

[nate895]

Yes- money from an african government.
Then, he got re-elected... (but i don't think he won the last one)

He also had a national guards unit take him out of new orleans during Katrina. A whole unit, just for him.
Leaving his 'brothas and sistas' behind to drown.
People will never learn here.

He got kicked out, Anh Cao replaced him.

[Chieppa1]

I saw her on Bill Maher when Ron Paul was on. She really made everyone there dumber. The next day was great. I was chatting with my liberal Cali. friends, and they absolutely thought she was amazing. How these people aren't embarrassed is something beyond me.

[Eric21ND]

She sounds like a moron everytime she goes on Bill Maher. Its embarassing.

[misterx]

I've asked myself that same question many times lol

[jack555]

I live in LA and just the site of that womans face makes my heart drops a few inches...shes the perfect example of what is wrong with the country. It is truely sad.

[Philmanoman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBjocTdiT3w

[akihabro]

$20 says Obama offers her a cabinet position. Zero ethics and integrity. Gimme gimme gimme.

[akihabro]

I live in LA and just the site of that womans face makes my heart drops a few inches...shes the perfect example of what is wrong with the country. It is truely sad.

Any dirt I should know about Adam Schiff? (D-29th) Gotta love the town he lives in (Burbank) cause its a illegal immigrant sanctuary city.

[Truth Warrior]

The first time that I heard Maxine on the House floor on CSPAN I had no idea who she was. My first reaction was "Who is that idiot?". Now she's just gotten worse.

[bobbyw24]

Here in Jacksonville we have Congresswoman Brown, who is a real gem. She once claimed that all white men look the same.

She got elected and gets re-elected every 2 years thanks to gerrymandering and race-based politics.

From her website:

Corrine Brown was elected to Congress from the Third District of Florida in 1992. She is a public servant who prides herself on delivering the goods and services of the federal government to her constituents.

[angelatc]

Now the New York Times is discussing it. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/us/politics/13waters.html?_r=2&hp


WASHINGTON — Top federal regulators say they were taken aback when they learned that a California congresswoman who helped set up a meeting with bankers last year had family financial ties to a bank whose chief executive asked them for up to $50 million in special bailout funds.

Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat of California, requested the September meeting on behalf of executives at OneUnited, one of the nation’s largest black-owned banks. Ms. Waters’s husband, Sidney Williams, had served on the bank’s board until early last year and has owned at least $250,000 of its stock.

Treasury officials said the session with nearly a dozen senior banking regulators was intended to allow minority-owned banks and their trade association to discuss the losses they had incurred from the federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But Kevin Cohee, OneUnited’s chief executive, instead seized the opportunity to plead for special assistance for his bank, federal officials said.

“Here you had a tiny community bank that comes in and they are not proposing a broader policy — they were asking for help for themselves,” said Stephen Lineberry, a former Treasury aide who attended the meeting. “I don’t remember that ever happening before.”

Ms. Waters declined on Tuesday to comment on the meeting, or to say whether her husband still owned shares of OneUnited. Her staff released two letters that showed the meeting had been initially called to discuss industry concerns broadly.

Ms. Waters, a member of the House Financial Services Committee, did not disclose her ties to OneUnited to Treasury officials, who said they learned of them only later.

“It is upsetting to me,” said Jeb Mason, the deputy assistant secretary for business affairs at Treasury during the Bush administration, whose office helped set up the meeting. “This is something that was potentially politically explosive and embarrassing to the administration. They should have at least let us know.”

While OneUnited did not get the $50 million it requested, the bank did become among the first minority-owned institutions to receive a cash infusion — $12 million — in December through the Treasury’s bank bailout effort, called the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

The aid surprised some bank analysts because OneUnited was then considered to be in precarious financial shape. In addition, it had been criticized by regulators in 2007 for failing to lend enough money to lower-income residents in Miami. And the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation admonished the institution in October 2008 for, among other things, providing Mr. Cohee with a Porsche S.U.V., a $6.4 million beachfront compound in Santa Monica, Calif., with views of the Pacific, and a pool and spa.

OK. Read the bolding. Maxine Waters aside....WTF?

[Theocrat]

Are you kidding me?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123682571772404053.html

It's simple:

http://www.govtrack.us/media/districts/CA35.gif + http://www.worldnetdaily.com/images2/diebold_voting_machine.jpg + http://www.kidsvotingkansas.org/images/kidsvoting.jpg = http://lighthousepatriotjournal.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/maxinewaters-foxnews-photo.jpg

[susano]

Maxine Waters is also a vile racist. She defended the bashing in of Reginald Denny's head in the LA riots.

[V-rod]

Maxine Waters threatened to support nationalization of oil companies.

I wish I could say she would feel at home in Cuba, but a few months there, she would be crying for what she had before.

[akihabro]

It's simple:

http://www.govtrack.us/media/districts/CA35.gif + http://www.worldnetdaily.com/images2/diebold_voting_machine.jpg + http://www.kidsvotingkansas.org/images/kidsvoting.jpg = http://lighthousepatriotjournal.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/maxinewaters-foxnews-photo.jpg

There isn't any white kids in that district! Ok, Ok I just looked at the 35th district map I know there is some Koreans, white folk and some Mexicans. Not those kids, they are from Orange County. LOL She was on Stossel's bullshit in America tonight. I couldn't help but blurt out "crook!" when I saw her.

[angelatc]

Are you kidding me?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123682571772404053.html

I was telling DH about this issue this morning. He sais that she is only one point north of retarded.

[Cowlesy]

I was telling DH about this issue this morning. He sais that she is only one point north of retarded.

And Congress wonders why their polls are at record lows when we have asshats like her stomping around the marble halls.

Then again, what sort of asshats are we that keep re-electing these shitheads. I guess I shouldn't extrapolate my generalization to this board of course. Her district is setup so that she's got a lifelong job, just like my Congressman Anthony Weiner will never be unseated (unless he does so on his own accord) due to demographics.

[Truth Warrior]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Black_Caucus)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Progressive_Caucus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Progressive_Caucus)


:p

[angelatc]

And Congress wonders why their polls are at record lows when we have asshats like her stomping around the marble halls.

Then again, what sort of asshats are we that keep re-electing these shitheads. I guess I shouldn't extrapolate my generalization to this board of course. Her district is setup so that she's got a lifelong job, just like my Congressman Anthony Weiner will never be unseated (unless he does so on his own accord) due to demographics.

It's practically impossible to unseat the incumbents in either house. But she had to beat the biggest loser in the world to get her seat.

Who, back in the day, could look at her and say "I think she's a great candidate!!"