Facing Ethics Charges, Rep. Waters Points Finger at Bush Administration

Yes, well what else could we expect from a democrat? Waters is taking a page right out of the obama administration's operations manual, which says, "When in doubt, blame Bush".

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Embattled Rep. Maxine Waters on Friday blamed the Bush administration for her ethics problems -- saying she had to intervene with the Treasury Department on behalf of minority-owned banks seeking federal bailout funds -- including one tied to her husband -- because the Treasury Department wouldn't schedule its own appointments.

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But the House ethics committee, which is investigating Waters for allegedly improperly using her position for personal gain, says in its report of charges that when the meeting was held, the officers of only one bank came -- OneUnited.

That's a problem for Waters since her husband, Sidney Williams, served as a member of OneUnited's board of directors from January 2004 until April 2008, and was a stockholder in the bank.

And this was Bush's fault, exactly how?




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Lady needs to learn a new song:



Sorry, can't stick up for this one.

Edit: Better version of song



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theres a video around when waters was rambling on about how corrupt newt gingrich


grand scheme of things i say this is karmic justice if you beleive in such things..

Rep. Waters has backed herself into a corner and is desperate. The conflict of interest between her and the bailout given to her husbands bank should be as plain as the nose on her face. Gotta protect that stock investment you know.

Some interesting info. is surfacing regarding the man at the helm of One United bank and some of the business dealings of this bank. Not sure how they willl be able to pin this stuff on Bush though.

As chairman and chief executive of OneUnited Bank, Kevin L. Cohee has sought to build a company that is about more than just money. He promoted the bank, now at the center of a House ethics case against Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), as a uniquely responsible investor in impoverished minority communities and urged prospective clients to live modestly.

Customers ought to focus on "real connections, real relationships," Cohee urges in a recording on the bank's Web site. Avoid "people who want to be with you based on the things that you have."

"Do you really need a Mercedes-Benz?" he asks. "Houses don't make you, cars don't make you."

Again, we have a now prevalent theme of do as I say not as I do

Cohee, 52, took a somewhat different view in his own life. His bank bought or leased luxury real estate he used and, until federal regulators complained in 2008, paid for his Porsche. Cohee's East Coast spread was an $880,000 condominium on Miami Beach's Ocean Drive, and out west the bank leased a $26,500-a-month mansion for him on Palisades Beach Road in Santa Monica, Calif., owned by Bruce Springsteen's drummer, Max Weinberg.

A battle of lawsuits over the house -- Cohee complained that he had to ship in "a huge bar, a desk, a chandelier," and Weinberg accused him of installing secret surveillance cameras in the master bedroom -- led Cohee and his wife, through a corporation they formed, to buy the house for $6.4 million in late 2006. OneUnited then provided him a living allowance at the mansion, where, a year later, he was twice arrested, on sexual assault and drug charges.

Interesting stuff... Here is Waters steps into it

It was the bank's assistance with his expenses that helped provoke a cease-and-desist order from the federal government, accusing the bank and its officers of misspending and lax lending, and putting its operating license at risk.

That order landed in the fall of 2008, in the same period that Cohee and his colleagues at the bank were in contact with Waters and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) to secure tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer money to keep it afloat. About $51 million of the bank's stock in federally chartered lending agencies had become virtually worthless, leaving it with a shortage of capital.

OneUnited's loss was also a loss for Waters's husband, Sidney Williams, a former member of the bank's board whose stock in it had plummeted in value from about $350,000 to $170,000. In 2005, 2006 and 2007, the couple had earned a total of more than $35,000 in dividends from Williams's OneUnited stock. Cohee and other bank officers had also contributed at least $11,000 to her campaign and organized a fundraiser for her at one of his homes.

There is much more to the story...
www.washingtonpost.com...

What more can you say?? Is it still Bush's fault

For once, I am going to agree with you guys. The buck needs to stop with Waters. Although I don't agree with the over generalization of Democrats in ....it weakens your point.

Yeah!!!!

For once we all agree on something political.

The corruption crap needs to stop - whoever is doing it.

Maybe we can extend our consensus further?

Originally posted by centurion1211


Maybe we can extend our consensus further?

Do you like authoritarian states of any nature, whether in the guise of socialistic nanny or patrio-crack conservatism with a slice of fascism on the side?

If you like neither, we're on the same page so far.

Do you recognize that free market capitalism is different from corporatism and multi-national corporate conglomerates are mostly at fault for nearly everything in the world today (including our current problems)?

If so then hot damn, we should have a beer some time.

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I think I'll have the Killian's Red ...

Have a good weekend!

video record of maxine waters from c-span when she condemed newt gingrich.




that blantent hypocrisy of this women listen to her own words.....



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NO representative regardless of party should blame anyone but themselves for their ethics problems. No one is to blame for your faulty judgment than yourself.
If it is legally or morally questionable you just do not do it, the ends never justify the means.