https://freerepublic.com/tag/maxinewaterscorrupt/ en-us Sat, 11 May 2019 22:35:21 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3748643/posts Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) paid $50,000 from her campaign's coffers to her daughter in recent months to chip away at six figures of accrued debt for an operation that pulls in large sums of money for the congresswoman's campaign committee, Federal Election Commission filings show. Rep. Waters's committee disbursed two payments to her daughter, Karen, in the amounts of $42,000 and $8,000 during the first quarter, which runs from Jan. 1 to March 31. The $50,000 in payments were made to Karen for running a slate mailer, or endorsement mailer, operation from the campaign and were the most paid... The Washington Free Beacon https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3748643/posts#comment Sat, 11 May 2019 22:35:21 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3548313/posts Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters (Calif.) spoke to the Huffington Post on Thursday and fondly remembered the 1992 Los Angeles riots, insisting they were actually an "insurrection." More than 50 people were killed during the riots, with thousands more injured and over $1 billion in property damage. But Waters told the Huffington Post that the L.A. riots were "a milestone in the history of black people demanding justice." "These were people who had been basically forgotten," Waters said. "And because of Rodney King's beating and the current emotion that was stirring in that, it was like people were saying, ‘We're here.... freebeacon.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3548313/posts#comment Fri, 28 Apr 2017 19:01:42 GMT