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Congresswoman Waters has no ethics violations
San Francisco Bay View ^ | August 6, 2010 | by Joseph Debro, President, Bay Area Black Builders

Posted on 08/07/2010 9:33:08 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Joseph Debro, based on this writing, is either a complete fool or assumes that everyone else is fool enough to believe these illogical ramblings. Either way, his words are meaningless.


21 posted on 08/07/2010 10:09:32 AM PDT by jdsteel (CONGRESS: Take it again in twenty ten.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Uh, Joe, if blacks are being targeted exclusively for ethics crimes, you must be saying that there are plenty of white ethics criminals in Congress.

Names. Give us names. Or else quit yer bellyakin’.


22 posted on 08/07/2010 10:10:04 AM PDT by DPMD (~)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
As a "Minority Contractor" the writer has a financial conflict-of-interest.

His income, and the income of members of his organization, derives from minority set-asides in government construction contracts (which the Black Congressional caucus routinely lobbies for).

Blinded by his own self-interest, it's not surprising that he couldn't see a conflict-of-interest in the charges against Maxine Waters.

23 posted on 08/07/2010 10:14:43 AM PDT by research99
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Congresswoman Waters has no ethics violations

There, fixed.

24 posted on 08/07/2010 10:16:40 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I just knew this was about Race. Isn’t every charge against any black politician? It doesn’t maatter though. She could be convicted of murder and her district would still reelect her.


25 posted on 08/07/2010 10:21:35 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy (tHE)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This piece is so lame and pathetic I actually thought it was satire at first. Oh yeh...its about RACE alright. If a member of Congress is black they get a free pass? Not anymore-—the bulk of US citizens can see this phoney melodrama and they know the score! Whatever happened to the ‘content of character’ part of the equation?


26 posted on 08/07/2010 10:31:28 AM PDT by tflabo
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
...the story in the press...
The press is doing the work of its right wing owners.

Translation: Fox News is evil and is trying to make Maxine Waters look bad by reporting the story.

Despite the fact that MSNBC, ABC, CBS as well as many news organizations have reported on the story.

27 posted on 08/07/2010 10:32:20 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: tflabo
Whatever happened to the ‘content of character’ part of the equation?
It seems that "It's all about the Benjamins" outweighs such archaic principles.
28 posted on 08/07/2010 10:34:53 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Liberals in general think corruption is a civil right.


29 posted on 08/07/2010 10:50:33 AM PDT by TASMANIANRED (Liberals are educated above their level of intelligence.. Thanks Sr. Angelica)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“She’s black so this must be a racist attack” - is that the sum total of his argument?


30 posted on 08/07/2010 10:56:42 AM PDT by Mr. K (Physically unable to proofreed (<---oops! see?))
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To: Lorianne
But the idea that people will commit crimes or ethics violations in exact proportion to their numbers of a particular group in a larger body of persons is preposterous!...Debro is an idiot...

You're being too kind. I think he's a dishonest racist. What Debro is suggesting is ethics investigation quotas, apportioned solely by race. Not fact. Not justice. Race. Worse, he's suggesting there be caps on investigations of wrongdoing--caps based solely on race. Outrageous.

31 posted on 08/07/2010 11:06:51 AM PDT by Eroteme
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They actually did this at my daughter’s elementary school (before I moved her to private school).

Teachers could only send-up unruly kids to the principals office, make them sit in the hall, or issue discplinary notices to parents on a racial quota basis. I found this out while volunteering in the classroom, it was not policy that the school told parents about.

One day a black girl was threatening other kids with scissors (she had serious problems) and I was told by the teacher that she couldn’t send her out in the hall in ‘time out’ because she had already reached her quota for the week in disciplining ‘minority’ kids.


32 posted on 08/07/2010 11:13:03 AM PDT by Lorianne (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. ___ George Orwell)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“...The New York Times asked Maxine how could a Black woman and her husband accumulate $500,000. The Times would be amazed at how much wealth there is in the Black community....The New York Times tried to make a story out of this matter several months ago. They wanted to know how her family got $500,000...The spineless Democrats allowed this matter to reach this level even though it was in no way a conflict.”

If there is so much wealth in the black community, and they are continually taken for granted by white Democrats, then why do they continue to vote for them? Why do they continue to support their so-called “friends” in the elitist “white” liberal media who are solely concerned with self-congratulation no matter the result? The election of the first black president did absolutely nothing to solve the problems they cite.

They could build a black conservative powerhouse led by brilliant minds like Walt Williams and Thomas Sowell, and fundamentally change their communities for the better, if they would just give it one chance. And all of that wealth could buy some real influence that would not be taken for granted, because it is heavily sought after. But I guess old habits die hard...


33 posted on 08/07/2010 11:35:38 AM PDT by Qbert
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Congresswoman Waters has no ethics violations...Because Maxine Waters and I are very good friends....
34 posted on 08/07/2010 12:05:09 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ain’t nothing uglier than a 72 YO black woman. Now before everyone goes ballistic, that line is a counter/take off to Redd Foxx’s comment that “there ain’t nothing uglier than a 70 YO white woman!


35 posted on 08/07/2010 12:21:41 PM PDT by chooseascreennamepat (Reid: Why , oh why, are they picking on me?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Congresswoman Waters has no ethics violations

Because Maxine Waters and I are very good friends,

I kinda stopped reading right there...

36 posted on 08/07/2010 12:36:20 PM PDT by Moltke (panem et circenses)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
There was no ethics violation

Oh, ok... so glad we've cleared that up.

37 posted on 08/07/2010 12:39:39 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“It makes the Democrats look corrupt.”

My favorite line from the story! NO, they ARE corrput. Doesn’t take much effort to make them look that way.


38 posted on 08/08/2010 6:20:50 PM PDT by smalltownslick
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

and Ole Joe leaving himself open to a look into HIS books, work product, etc. Way to go, Joe. But I’m sure he’s as pure as the newly driven snow. Just like Maxine.


39 posted on 08/08/2010 6:23:34 PM PDT by EDINVA
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