[wagglebee]

The Waters' close financial ties are not expressly prohibited by state laws or congressional ethics rules.

Well they should be, this crap has gone on way too long in both parties.

[JustAnotherSavage]

This is an editorial by Terry Anderson, a radio host. He has commented many times about Waters and how they as a black community cannot get across to her how their lives are being affected by illegal immigration. It's all about money, Maxine, be damned the black voter. What a piece of crud she is.


African-Americans drowning in wave
   of illegal immigration

                           By TERRY ANDERSON

THE black community has made great strides in the last few
decades. Racism has certainly not been eradicated, but it is no
longer accepted with a wink and a nod as it once was. We are
proud to see Secretary of State Colin Powell, even when we do
not agree with everything he does. The same with Condoleezza
Rice, the president's national security adviser, and many others. 

That's the good news. 

The bad news is that in some regions we black folks are so
overwhelmed by the huge numbers of immigrants that we are
being displaced in our schools, jobs and neighborhoods. 

That may seem a harsh thing for a black person to say against
brown people, but I don't see it that way. I am an American,
proud of both my nation and my race. What I see in my
community of South Central Los Angeles -- where I have lived
nearly all my life -- is thousands of Mexicans who care nothing
about our traditions and culture, and only want to impose their
way on us. That's not immigration, that is invasion. 

It is sad what has happened in my neighborhood. This was a
respectable, blue-collar area of hard-working black folks living in
their bungalows and going to their jobs. In just a couple decades it
has become almost entirely Mexican. They live several families to
a three-bedroom house and keep chickens in the yard, but the
city doesn't care about the zoning violations or the noise of having
so many crowded into a small space. 

According to the Census Bureau, nearby Watts is now 60 percent
Hispanic, and it was previously the black community on the West
Coast. No longer. 

The immigration situation is really hard on our young people. A
17-year-old kid on my street couldn't get a job at McDonald's
because he didn't speak Spanish. Another young neighbor boy
was thrown into a bilingual classroom at age 8 and was forced to
listen to Spanish all day long. His six-hour school day was turned
into three hours. When his mother asked for an English-only class,
she was told "there are none." 

Would you believe that I, a black man, have been called a racist
many times for speaking up against this invasion? I have a radio
program on the subject and therefore hear from a lot of people,
even some in Mexico.

When they call me a racist, I put this question to them: What if a
hundred thousand Vietnamese were suddenly dropped into
Guadalajara? And what if those newcomers didn't speak Spanish,
and further insisted that their children be taught in Vietnamese?
What would you think if they were happy to work for half the
normal wages for any job they could get, thereby putting
thousands of your local Guadalajarans out of work? Would it be
racist to say there was a problem? 

When people of good will and good sense hear the situation put
that way, nearly all understand and respect my viewpoint. 

Now if only they would listen in Washington. America's political
leaders are the problem. They have been selling out this great
nation for real and imaginary political benefits while ignoring the
dangers. Even after Sept. 11, nothing has been done to plug up
our borders. Another terrorist attack could be 10 times worse,
and it would likely happen because Congress and the president
learned nothing about the need to keep the nation's borders
secure. 

If I sound angry, you hear right. Like other Americans, I want
immigration to be legal, controlled and reduced. But as a black
American, I see that the burden my people must carry is heavier
than for many others. I am sure that if Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
were alive, he would understand the fundamental unfairness to the
black community of allowing more immigration than the nation can
handle. 

[robertpaulsen]

They could have left the "Rep." out of the article title.

But no, they put it in for the ignorant reader to see as an abbreviation for Republican.

[Paulus Invictus]

"We are not bad people." Oh, I beg to differ. You and your tribe are nothing more than thieves taking advantage of your position. Resign now!

[sully777]

I think Maxine Waters is fine congresswoman and there are no skeletons in her closet __NOT!

Maxine Waters on Crime

Click here for 8 full quotes on Crime OR background on Crime .
Voted YES on funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons. (Jun 2000)
Voted NO on more prosecution and sentencing for juvenile crime. (Jun 1999)
Voted YES on maintaining right of habeus corpus in Death Penalty Appeals. (Mar 1996)
Voted NO on making federal death penalty appeals harder. (Feb 1995)
Voted YES on replacing death penalty with life imprisonment. (Apr 1994)
Rated 100% by CURE, indicating pro-rehabilitation crime votes. (Dec 2000)
Moratorium on death penalty; more DNA testing. (Mar 2001)
Require DNA testing for all federal executions. (Mar 2001)

Maxine Waters on Drugs

Click here for 3 full quotes on Drugs OR background on Drugs .
Voted NO on military border patrols to battle drugs & terrorism. (Sep 2001)
Voted NO on prohibiting needle exchange & medical marijuana in DC. (Oct 1999)
Legalize medical marijuana. (Jul 2001)

Source: On The Issues (http://www.issues2000.org/CA/Maxine_Waters.htm#Principles_+_Values)

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But its all the CIA’s fault for the drug problems, the fall of the communist Sandinistas and FOR THAT should be destroyed... The following is a collection of quotes from Waters on a number of topics from her wide-ranging discussion at Cal-State Northridge, including comments made during a question-and-answer session that followed.

Can the CIA Be Trusted to Investigate Itself?

"Of course I'm skeptical of the CIA's own internal investigation, and no, I don't have a great deal of confidence that their inspector general will turn up the information we know is there, but this is just part of the whole process of forcing the truth to light."

"[Former CIA Director] John Deutch is gone. Hello. Goodbye. What was that all about? How committed is this agency to answering the questions we've presented before them?"

"We will never get George Bush's hands, clearly, where we think they were."


Isn't Secrecy Necessary to Protect National Security?

"A lot of people tell me that, when it comes to these obscure, clandestine federal agencies, that they are doing important work that relates to national security, and that I should not interfere with this important work. Well, I don't care what their work is all about.... Because it appears that the CIA not only is involved with drug dealers, but they're involved with the worst kinds of criminals in all manner of sordid affairs, just so they can say they're out there doing something."


Wasn't the CIA Only Marginally Connected to Drug Dealing?

"A lot of people get hung up on the [dollar] amount, saying that not that much money actually made it to the Contras from their cocaine sales. Well, as far as I'm concerned, one dollar from the sale of drugs funding the Contras should not be tolerated."

"Other people argue about the degree to which the CIA may have been involved.... It doesn't matter. The government and the CIA cannot say they had no knowledge that this was happening."


Has Crack Disproportionately Affected the Black Community?

"It's better to have a job at McDonald's than to sell drugs. There is no defense for drug dealing. And there's no way to be involved with dealing drugs without getting hurt, going to jail, or both."

"There is something wrong with our criminal justice system that is causing a disproportionate percentage of young black males to end up rotting away in federal prison on senseless drug charges."

"I drive through the streets of South Central and point out to my driver the undercover FBI agents who are standing on the street corners just waiting to arrest people for buying or selling a single rock of crack cocaine.... I'm not going to sit back and let them be thrown into federal prison for selling one rock of cocaine while the big-time drug dealers cuddle up close to government agencies and go free."


Are We Winning the War on Drugs?

"It's time to take a serious look at the so-called 'war on drugs' in this country. We have no more need for PR programs masquerading under cute slogans like 'just say no.' We should make every effort to redirect the $15 billion already spent on federal drug and law enforcement in this country and spend it on ways aimed at cutting off the supply of drugs.... We should not support with foreign aid or in any other way any country that supplies drugs to the U.S."

"When law enforcement is involved in drug dealing, they should get enhanced sentencing because they are the ones with the badges and the guns."

"All over America, drugs and the money associated with them are some of the most corrupt influences you've ever seen. What you need to do is find out about the drugs that are 'confiscated' by law enforcement and what happens to them."


How Will Your Investigation Help Expose Corruption?

"What we're trying to do with our own investigation is to create a climate of suspicion around the CIA and their activities so that it is not considered crazy to be asking these questions about their involvement in the sale of crack. It may take 10 years' worth of work, but that's the goal."

"We don't expect to be able to run our own 'sidebar' investigation and turn up any kind of 'smoking gun' evidence. We don't have the resources to tackle that kind of thing.... But I have gone to Managua... and we have met with shady people in the dead of night in horrible places, and will continue to do that in search of any information that can help us unravel all of this."

"I am here to hold their [the CIA's] feet to the fire. I'm doing it in an unofficial capacity, and my efforts are probably unwanted, but that's not going to stop me."

Source: http://www.parascope.com/articles/0297/maxine2.htm

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The party of Maxine Waters
August 21, 2000

She is one of the most self-serving, hate-filled, race-obsessed politicians in America. The Democratic Party doesn't just embrace her. It kneels at her feet....After throwing a hissy fit in the press because she had not been personally consulted about Al Gore's veep picks ("I never had the opportunity to talk to anybody about it before he was decided on as the vice-presidential choice," she whined), Waters gave her benediction. The skilled publicity hound dissed and then kissed Lieberman for the cameras; a cheek-to-cheek photo of the couple appeared in newspapers across the country.

Waters is not a marginal figure in Democratic politics. She has been at the center of the action for two decades. She has served on the Democratic National Committee since 1980. She led the Congressional Black Caucus. She was a key leader in five presidential campaigns and seconded the nominations of Sen. Edward Kennedy (1980), Rev. Jesse Jackson (1984 and 1988), and President Bill Clinton (1992).

Yet, in contrast to the media's wide coverage of GOP presidential nominee George W. Bush's primary-season visit to Bob Jones University, hardly a word was seen or heard reminding Americans of Waters' ugly history of race-baiting rationalizations and rhetoric.

This is a woman who excused the 1992 Los Angeles riots as a "rebellion."

This is a woman who called the violence in L.A. "a spontaneous reaction to a lot of injustice and a lot of alienation and frustration."

This is a woman who, instead of coming to the aid of Korean grocers and other minority business owners in her district whose lives were destroyed by looters, made sympathetic statements such as this:

"There were mothers who took this as an opportunity to take some milk, to take some bread, to take some shoes. Maybe they shouldn't have done it, but the atmosphere was such that they did it. They are not crooks."

And this: "One lady said her children didn't have any shoes. She just saw those shoes there, a chance for all of her children to have new shoes. Goddamn it! It was such a tear-jerker. I might have gone in and taken them for her myself."

This is a woman who danced the electric slide with Crips and Bloods gang members, and then noted in her official biography that "Many young people, including those in the hip-hop music community, praise her for her fearless support and understanding of young people and their efforts at self-expression."

This is a woman who visited the home of Damian Williams, the infamous thug who "expressed himself" by hurling a chunk of concrete at white truck driver Reginald Denny and performing a victory dance over the innocent bystander.

This is a woman who rose to power by badmouthing the white "Establishment," and then shamelessly abused it to secure an ambassadorship to the Bahamas for her husband -- a former pro football player and car salesman whose main qualification was having traveled to the island for a vacation.

This is a woman who repeatedly excoriates "the white press" whenever negative stories about black politicians appear.

This is a woman whose main accomplishment in Congress after five terms has been to bully the House Veterans Committee into hiring two black members to its staff....[snip]
©2000 Creators Syndicate, Inc.

[trebb]

The Waters' close financial ties are not expressly prohibited by state laws or congressional ethics rules.

Can you imagine seeing a disclaimer like this is it was a Republican in the story???

[punster]

Representative Maxine Water-on-the-brain sounds like a typical democrat politician, upto her ears in graft.

[Texas_Jarhead]

"Her son, Edward Waters, 49, a high school basketball coach and political consultant, declined to comment."

Now there's a combo that you don't see too often.

[bayourod]

"Some candidates are included free of charge, though others pay tens of thousands of dollars. "

Same money laundering scheme used by some black churches.

Candidates pay thousands of dollars for a business size ad in the church's voter guide.

In presidential election years when the DNC only puts money into battleground states the preachers don't get new cars.

[bruinbirdman]

"Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters' family members earned more than $1 million over the last eight years by doing business with companies, candidates and causes that she helped,. . ."

A small price to pay considering the alternative.

Afterall, it was Marxine Waters who issued the dictum to her minions concerning the jury deliberations of the Rodney King case, "No justice, no peace."

Marxine's Watts constituents proceeded to burn down half her district after the guilty verdict.

yitbos

[Blue Screen of Death]

Well, she was never going to make any money posing for Playboy.

[doug from upland]

One of the most despicable human beings on the planet. She is as much a waste of oxygen as anyone on California's death row.

[HP8753]

Campaign consultants for the tribes, whose interests and ballot measures Waters has consistently backed, said Karen Waters was hired on her merits. "We didn't hire her because of her mom," said consultant Chuck Winner.

Pure BS.....She was hired because of who her mother is.

[thegreatbeast]

"We are not bad people."

C'mon now, this has to be lie of the year!

[Lancey Howard]

Exactly WHO is going to pursue a criminal investigation of Maxine Waters?
The same DoJ that yawns about Sandy Berger walking off with classified documents in his pants? The same DoJ that yawns about CBS's attempt to fix a Presidential election using forged military memos?

Nothing will happen. It's just another yawner.

[Republican Wildcat]

"They do their business and I do mine," said Waters, 66. "We are not bad people."

[MissouriConservative]

"Her son, Edward Waters, 49, a high school basketball coach and political consultant,"


Now there is a combination you don't see every day....political consultant by day....basketball coach by night. Only in America.

[1Old Pro]

Al Sharpton, that starr jones woman, now Maxine waters. They just love getting things that aren't earned.

[Polyxene]

Wasn't ol' NAG hag Maxine one of the chief whiners complaining about "the man" wanting to investigate mismanagement of funds at the King-Drew Medical Center?? They better start investigating HER -- maybe she was getting some under-the-table money from there, too.

[Veto!]

Unreported in this article, Waters has always pushed for "normalization" of relations with Castro. Could it be that she wants her husband to increase his profits in the travel agency he owns and/or operates that sends tourists to Cuba through the Bahamas and Mexico? Naaaaah! That would be illegal.

Yes, Waters' husband's travel-agent connection was reported back when Cuba was a hot topic on FR during the Elian Gonzalez fiasco.