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Defiant Maxine Waters refuses to even meet with Trump: The problem with Dems is we’re too ‘nice’
Bizpac Review ^ | December 27, 2016 | Samantha Chang

Posted on 12/27/2016 6:19:03 AM PST by kevcol

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To: kevcol

Hmmm. Sounds like another WIN for Trump.


21 posted on 12/27/2016 6:26:52 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: kevcol

Waters, knowing she has a snow ball’s chance in H#!! getting an invitation to the White House, preemptively declined the said no invitation......


22 posted on 12/27/2016 6:28:14 AM PST by JParris
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To: kevcol

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~Maxine Waters


23 posted on 12/27/2016 6:29:02 AM PST by Carthego delenda est
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To: Kozy

I think you’re right :)


24 posted on 12/27/2016 6:29:12 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: kevcol

dumb


25 posted on 12/27/2016 6:29:20 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: kevcol

Maxine Waters is a racist.


26 posted on 12/27/2016 6:29:26 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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CIRCA 2008 Maxine Waters has gotten involved with something a bit on the “crooked side. According to a report in the Washington Times, a powerful lobbying form paid Waters’ banker husband $15,000 in “consulting fees” at the very same time Ms Waters: co-sponsored a law designed to help that lobbyist’s top clients.

Even worse, the IRS has taken a look at that lobbyist’s clients business and determined those kind of businesses were: “scams. ” So Waters bill would have overturned a federal band on those shady businesses and allowed the lobbyist’s client to have keep making tons of cash off the scam.

The Internal Revenue Service ruled in 2006 that seller-funded down-payment assistance programs were “scams,” and federal housing officials tried for several years to end what they considered a dangerous practice of allowing sellers to make the required 3 percent down payments for homebuyers through a nonprofit middleman.

Basically the client acted as a middleman to help sellers give purchasers loans for their down payments. This will enable more low-income buyers to qualify for mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA).: Nehemiah Corp., the lobbyist’s client, was the largest of the middlemen in that business and stood to lose hundreds of million dollars if the practice was banned.

The federal government banned the practice in 2008, and despite the fact that Water’s offered legislation to overturn the ban three the ban still stands

A lobbyist known as one of California’s most successful power brokers while serving as a legislative leader in that state paid Rep. Maxine Waters’ husband $15,000 in consulting fees at a time she was co-sponsoring legislation that would help save the real-estate finance business of one of the lobbyist’s best-paying clients, records show.

According to federal lobbying records, Mr. Roos was paid $430,000 by the Nehemiah Corp. of America, a Sacramento, Calif.-based nonprofit that acted as a middleman to help sellers finance down payments for homebuyers to qualify for mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). He lobbied members of Congress and federal agencies on behalf of the firm.

One of those lobbied was Ms. Waters, a California Democrat and key Nehemiah ally, who held a hearing on down-payment assistance in June 2007 and persuaded federal housing officials to delay for 30 days efforts to impose a ban on the program. She also co-sponsored legislation in 2008 and 2009 that would have kept Nehemiah’s assistance program viable.

Nehemiah was the largest middleman on such deals nationwide, with more than a third of the business, passing on $1.5 billion from sellers to more than 320,000 home buyers in a decade.

As you may expect, Congresswoman Waters has denied any connection between her husband’s consulting fees and her work to help Mr. Roos’ client, Nehemiah. She claims the program allowed homeownership to hundreds of thousands of low- and moderate-income families who needed assistance with the down payments.

In a statement in response to questions from The Washington Times on her involvement with Nehemiah, she said her work on programs aimed at increasing homeownership had been “consistent throughout my career.”

She said that as head of the House Financial Services housing and community opportunity subcommittee, she was approached in 2007 by advocates both for and against seller-funded down-payment assistance programs to hold a hearing on the issue – before Nehemiah hired Mr. Roos.

Ms. Waters said she called the hearing because of her oversight responsibilities and because the issue had “potential implications for many people seeking homeownership.”

She said it was the owners of the Los Angeles hotel who asked Mr. Roos to include her husband in discussions with the city, and he accepted the contract nearly two years after her initial involvement with the issue of down-payment assistance.

Asked in writing whether there was a conflict of interest for her husband to receive a payment from a lobbyist for whom she was seeking favorable legislation for one of the lobbyist’s biggest clients, she said: “Ambassador Williams was hired for his stellar track record and knowledge of local government. Any suggestion to the contrary is unfounded and irresponsible.”

But this still has the smell of corruption whether you believe the Congresswoman or not.

Waters other ethics charges are also related to her husbands business. Waters is accused of helping a bank with ties to her husband receive TARP funds even though the bank did not have the qualifications to receive funding.

….The funding came three months after Waters, a senior member of the committee that oversees banking, helped arrange a meeting between officials of the bank, other minority-owned financial institutions and Treasury Department representatives.

Waters’ husband, Sidney Williams, had owned stock in the bank and served on its board.

Waters has previously said that she fully disclosed her husband’s ties to the bank.

Gee, it seems as if Ms. Waters has lousy luck, every time she uses her office to help her husband, someone thinks its unethical.

(hat tip rightingnews.com)


27 posted on 12/27/2016 6:29:35 AM PST by Liz (W W W W W W w w w w w)
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To: kevcol

Bwahahahahahahahaha!


28 posted on 12/27/2016 6:29:35 AM PST by Lopeover (The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: kevcol

I am all in favor of Maxine being seen as the face of the real Democrat Party.

She will help complete the task of driving out any remaining straight white males into the Trump camp.


29 posted on 12/27/2016 6:30:18 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: kevcol

Nice is not a description I would use for Maxine Waters, Dick Turbin, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, and dozens of other members of the Commun, er Democrat Party.


30 posted on 12/27/2016 6:30:32 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents)
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To: kevcol

Nasty, nasty woman.


31 posted on 12/27/2016 6:31:04 AM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: kevcol

She is one of the very worst people ever to serve in Congress.


32 posted on 12/27/2016 6:31:29 AM PST by jimfree (In January 2017 my 16 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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To: kevcol

Hey Maxine, get off your racist high horse. Who thinks Trump wants to meet with you anyway?


33 posted on 12/27/2016 6:33:49 AM PST by From The Deer Stand
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To: kevcol

The fact that she keeps getting elected tells you all you need to know about democrats. Black democrats in particular.


34 posted on 12/27/2016 6:34:20 AM PST by lakecumberlandvet (APPEASEMENT NEVER WORKS.)
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To: kevcol
When I see someone like Maxine Waters or Sheila Jackson Lee I'm reminded of how little things have changed over the centuries. Like some ancient satrap or medieval vassal, they fancy themselves with the trappings and posture of power, while wielding real influence only within their narrow little fiefdoms. A more modern parallel is the fictional character of Chalky White on Boardwalk Empire, a violent, bitter race hustler selling his fellow blacks to the highest white bidder. These sad potentates are vile, mean, and corrupt beyond redemption.
35 posted on 12/27/2016 6:34:28 AM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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This lady caused the 2008 crash. Yep, I said it. She is the epicenter of the 2008 crash. How did she do it.

First you can see it on Youtube. You can watcher and Barney Frank cause the crash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sKpzmojjfU

When the government under Bush tried to control the largest government lobbyist Freddie and Fannie, Maxine and Barney defended them and refused to control them even as the market started to wobble.

Remember Freddie and Fannie went under first. They weren’t taken over until after Bear Stearns went under. But they had been zombies for longer. And they were taken over before Lehman Brothers went under.

Almost every congressman was getting something from the Freddie and Fannie lobbyists. But Waters carried their water more than most. And several friends of hers made millions as employees and board members of both companies. The GSEs turned numerous politicians into millionaires.


36 posted on 12/27/2016 6:38:19 AM PST by poinq
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To: kevcol

ONCE A RACIST ALWAYS A RACIST
She’ll implode, just like the rest of them...
Just a matter of time......


37 posted on 12/27/2016 6:41:40 AM PST by LouisianaJoanof Arc
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To: kevcol

Maxine gives psychosis a bad name.


38 posted on 12/27/2016 6:42:49 AM PST by _longranger81 (In a Yadda-Yadda Da-Vita, Baby)
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To: gundog

Maxine Kerosene shows her usual class act.


39 posted on 12/27/2016 6:44:01 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Carthego delenda est
Why, she's as articulate as that other great orator, Sheila Jackson Lee!

“Why do we have the capacity, uh, to dismantle the transponders? Why wasn't the emergency call already in place that it automatically signals when a aircraft goes off its, uh, discerned or destinated, uh, destiny, uh and destination, uh, as relates to, uh, its flight pattern. Why does it have to be done manually?”
- Speaking from the House Floor, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee had interesting questions about Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.

“Maybe I should offer a good thanks to the distinguished members of the majority, the Republicans, my chairman and others, for giving us an opportunity to have a deliberative constitutional discussion that reinforces the sanctity of this nation and how well it is that we have lasted some 400 years, operating under a constitution that clearly defines what is constitutional and what is not.”
- Speaking on the House Floor (3/12/2014), rocket scientist Sheila Jackson Lee claimed the United States had operated under the Constitution since 1614.

40 posted on 12/27/2016 6:46:59 AM PST by COBOL2Java (1 Tim 2:1-3)
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