Posted on 08/09/2010 11:46:59 AM PDT by lbryce
The House ethics committee today released three charges of ethical wrongdoing against Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California.
The charges relate to whether Waters gave inappropriate assistance to a bank to which she had personal connections in getting federal bailout money.
The committee says Waters organized a meeting in 2008 between Treasury officials and executives from OneUnited Bank, where her husband was once a board member and had large investments. The bank received $12 million from the federal government's Troubled Asset Relief Program.
The first charge against Waters states she violated a House rule that members must "behave at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House." Waters should have instructed her chief of staff to stop assisting OneUnited once it became clear she should not be involved in helping the bank, but she failed to do so, the charges state.
Her staff's "continued involvement in assisting OneUnited created an appearance that [Waters] was taking official action for [Waters'] personal benefit, which did not reflect creditably on the House," the charges state.
Waters was also charged with violating the "spirit" of the House rule that prohibits a member from receiving compensation for exerting improper influence from her position in Congress. Waters' husband's investments in OneUnited constituted compensation, according to the charges.
The congresswoman was also charged with violating the Code of Ethics for Government Service.
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Before stating they were going to nationalize the oil industry, she started to say they would socialize it but caught herself.
Reid? Pelosi?
Trust me, if any ‘Pubbies were in the hole, they’d be on ‘em.
Oh, I don't know about that. She and Cholly are in districts that I would presume would be safely in the Dem column. And Nancy gets to thump her chest about living up to her promise of the most ethical Congress in history.
If you want to stop a tide of corruption, you must first stem the Waters..
I’ve corrected, updated my post to reflect the utter sarcasm in which I made my comment to include [/sarcasm] and aplogize for any misunderstanding, ambiguity in which my initial comment was made.
crucify the ugly elitist bitch.
She will get away with it just like Rangel.
One set of standards for liberals.
Another set for normal people.
“But most (virtually all) have betrayed their oath to defend the Constitution. Just sayin’”
I was going to add that in, but these days it’s SOP to IGNORE the CONSTITUTION........
So much for living up to one’s solumn oath......
Trust me, if any ‘Pubbies were in the hole, they’d be on ‘em.
No doubt.
like flies on s##t
Three counts? Not enough and they will get thrown out or the penalty will be so minor it won’t even make the news.
If I remember correctly she also accused the CIA of introducing AIDS and crack cocaine to the ghetto to exterminate the black race.
Yeah, she's that crazy and stupid.
Thanks, that post was a stunner with out the /s tag.
;)
After she's been tarred and feathered! Oh, I'm sorry. Was that racist???
drain that swamp of nasty waters...
COME ON.. with all those white democrats in D.C. there must be much more conniving going on than just the darkies.. odds are that there are quite few greaser democrats and Jooooos too.. you know the lesbos got their hands in Lady Libertys panties too...
If further looked into, I believe Waters could be found to have cause for accusations of further ethics violations. She is unbelievably racist, and believes the country and espeially all whites owe her and every "person of color" so much that we could never pay it all.
I have had it with the cry of racism to exonerate blacks.
Yes, blacks have been mistreated in the past, but so have poor, ignorant whites, orientals,hispanics, and especially Indians.
Still---they are privileged to live here instead of say, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Cuba,Afghanijstan--hah! I would love to see Maxine live in Afghanistan for a year and see how her bossy, complaining, arrogant ways go over there.
vaudine
I was merely anticipating those in response who might raise the invalid argument by injecting racism into the matter as means to mollifiyng Waters’ criminality. As far as harboring any “guilt” of my own, there can never be (the sense of) guilt when the truth is spoken. :-)
Not Guilty.
Even without the picture.
She’s a democrat, and democrats can do no wrong.
Tonight, Chris Matthews and Olberwoman will be calling this “racism”.
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