As the U.S. Representativefor California's 35th congressional district, and previously the 29th district, Waters, a member of the Democratic Party, nonetheless has a long-standing record of adhering to dangerous socialist ideas which, in turn, she routinely attempts to enforce (sometimes successfully and moreso since 2008) on the public. She has committed a number of ethics and protocol violations which, if committed by members of another political party and ethnic background, would result in impeachment and possible criminal proceedings. However, Waters has thus far emerged from these incidents unscathed.
Waters has publicly advocated racially-motivated violence. In response to the 1992 riots in Los Angeles, Waters said the riots were a rebellion, saying "If you call it a riot it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable." In her view, the violence, was “a spontaneous reaction to a lot of injustice.” In regards to the looting of Korean-owned stores by local black residents, she said: “There were mothers who took this as an opportunity to take some milk, to take some bread, to take some shoes...They are not crooks.” However, post-riot investigations led to the conclusion that no "mothers" were present at the looting of these Korean-owned stores. The looting was motivated solely by the desire to commit theft in an environment that was perceived, but not understood, as anarchy. However, Waters understood it as such and is unrepentant of her supportive stance on the acts committed by black rioters.
Waters has visited Cuba many times, praised Fidel Castro, and called for an end to the U.S. trade embargo. In 1998 Waters wrote a letter to Castro in which she referred to the 1960s and 1970s as “a sad and shameful chapter of our [American] history,” and thanked Castro for providing help to those who wished to “flee political persecution.” To this day, she has not retracted these statements nor expressed remorse for visiting a country hostile to the United States and its values. Waters has also participated in the violation of a child's civil and human rights. After a woman drowned during an attempted escape from Cuba to the U.S. in 1999, leaving a six-year-old son, Elian Gonzales, who survived and requested asylum in the U.S., Waters called on President Bill Clinton to return him at once to Cuba
Waters has also threatened those who belong to parties other than her own. On August 20, 2011 while at a town hall discussing some of the displeasure that supporters of President Obama have had with the Congressional Black Caucus not supporting the president Waters stated, "as far as I’m concerned, the ‘tea party’ can go straight to Hell . . . and I intend to help them get there." She was never censured, cited, or otherwise reprimanded for this remark and she remains unrepentant.
However, the sheer volume of Waters' ethics violations and examples of conduct unbecoming a public servant has forced several agencies to take action despite the accusations of racism this has and will elicit. According to Chuck Neubauer and Ted Rohrlich writing in the LA Times in 2004, Maxine Waters' relatives had made more than $1 million during the preceding eight years by doing business with companies, candidates and causes that Waters had helped. They claimed she and her husband helped a company get government bond business, and her daughter Karen Waters and son Edward Waters have profited from her connections. Waters replied that "They do their business and I do mine." Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) named Waters to its list of corrupt members of Congress in its 2005, 2006, 2009 and 2011 reports.
Waters' husband is a stockholder and former director of OneUnited Bank and the bank's executives were major contributors to her campaigns. In September 2008, Waters arranged meetings between U.S. Treasury Department officials and OneUnited Bank, so that the bank could plead for federal cash. It had been heavily invested in Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, and its capital was "all but wiped out" after the U.S. government took them over. The bank received $12 million in Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) money. At last, the House Ethics Committee said "race card be damned" and proceeded to investigate the matter.
In 2008, emboldened by the electoral victory of the Democratic Party in the Presidential election, Waters let it slip that she favors a socialist takeover of nearly all energy resource management companies in the United States. It is surmised in certain circles that she would like to take this even further to a complete and total Marxist/Stalinist takeover of the government from within.
RECOMMENDATIONS: WATERS IS A DANGEROUS THOUGHT CRIMINAL AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF HER BEING ALLOWED ANOTHER TERM IN PUBLIC OFFICE ARE UNTHINKABLE. SHE MUST BE REMOVED FROM PUBLIC OFFICE AND REEDUCATED.
