Posted on 10/27/2006 9:54:05 AM PDT by hipaatwo
(CBS) LOS ANGELES A civil rights activist obtained a stay-away order against Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Los Angeles, claiming the congresswoman threatened him at a Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger campaign appearance, the activist said Wednesday.
Najee Ali. executive director of Project Islamic Hope, said he sought the order, which he said requires the congresswoman to stay five yards away from him, to show "no one is above the law."
Mikael Moore, Waters' chief of staff in Washington, D.C., had no immediate comment.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Richard E. Rico issued the temporary restraining order against Waters Wednesday and set a Nov. 14 hearing on whether to make it permanent, according to the Superior Court public information office.
No one from Waters' office was present in court, Ali said. A copy of the order was not immediately available.
Ali said he sought the order following an Oct. 2 campaign appearance by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger at the Mount Moriah Baptist Church, where the governor met with clergy.
Waters and about 100 protestors showed up and reportedly called the clergy sellouts, and Ali said Waters verbally threatened him in the church parking lot.
"I remember her saying she was going to make it rough for me and that she was going to get me," Ali told lacitybeat.com. "I was stunned that a U.S. congresswoman would threaten me because I wanted to exercise my freedom of speech."
(Excerpt) Read more at cbs2.com ...
You're getting Maxine mixed up with Texas' very own Sheila Jackson Lee (who was on the Science Committee, no less).
Here's another article on the same issue http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=4525&IssueNum=177
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