Anonymous ID: 1b73c0 April 27, 2021, 12:06 a.m. No.13522567   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2620 >>2640 >>2679 >>2707 >>2718 >>2733 >>2751

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/rep-maxine-waters-family-continues-to-profit-directly-from-her-position-in-congress

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From 2006 through the end of the 2016 election cycle, Karen Waters’ firm, Progressive Connections, has collected more than $600,000 in campaign funds from her mom’s campaign committee, the Free Beacon also reported.

 

The congresswoman’s daughter also received an additional $108,862 in payments from the committee during the 2018 midterm election cycle, according to the FEC.

 

“The committee additionally reported that it still owes $94,000 to Karen,” the Free Beacon noted. “Once the debt is paid off, Karen will have received more than $200,000 in payments from the committee as marked at the end of the midterm cycle. The campaign was paid more than $200,000 from the likes of Democratic candidates and judges in California during the most recent campaign cycle.”

 

Though it all appears to to be legal, that doesn’t mean it's ethical. This story feels like an extension of the corrupt-but-not-quite-illegal familial kickbacks for which the Waters family has become well-known.

 

In 2010, for example, Waters was charged with violations of the House's ethics rules after it was reported that she had used her connections in 2008 to ensure a $12 million federal bailout of OneUnited Bank, which had contributed heavily to her campaign and where her husband owned stock. She was cleared of the charges in 2012. Her grandson was the one who took the fall. And by "took the fall," I mean he received a reprimand.

 

Earlier, in 2004, the Los Angeles Times reported separately that Waters' relatives pocketed more than $1 million over the course of eight years from businesses and political campaigns that were in some way connected to the congresswoman. The reporting showed that her children profited directly from her connections, including that they collected hefty fees from campaigns she had endorsed. The California lawmaker defended herself at the time by saying, "They do their business and I do mine."

 

That’s the problem, though. There doesn’t seem to be any clear delineation between Waters’ “business” and the rest of her family’s “business.” Everyone in that family is making bank on mom’s safe seat in Congress.

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Anonymous ID: 1b73c0 April 27, 2021, 12:13 a.m. No.13522591   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2620 >>2640 >>2679 >>2707 >>2718 >>2733 >>2751

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>https://www.judicialwatch.org/in-the-news/jw-ethics-complaint-waters/

From Townhall:

 

Government watchdog Judicial Watch has officially filed a complaint with the House Office of Congressional Ethics against Democrat Congresswoman Maxine Waters after she called for violent rioters to “get more confrontational” over the weekend.

 

“Ms. Waters took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States, which includes the rights accorded to Officer Chauvin to a fair and impartial trial by a jury of his peers and to due process. Ms. Waters’ inflammatory comments that pressure the jury, while encouraging rioters already engaged in rampant destruction of property and attacks on police officers, to ‘get more confrontational’ are irresponsible and dangerous incitement by a Member of Congress,” Judicial Watch released in a statement Tuesday. “House Rule 23, Clause 1, of the Code of Official Conduct of the Rules of the House of Representatives states: ‘A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House shall conduct himself at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House.'”

 

“Ms. Waters’ conduct surely does not reflect creditably on the House. By encouraging violence in response to a ‘guilty’ jury verdict, she seeks to undermine the Constitution’s guarantees and protections, and fosters the breakdown of civil society. Such dangerous and reckless rhetoric demands investigation,” the statement continues.

 

The group also noted Waters’ pattern of behavior and noted her calls in 2018 to “get up in the faces” of Trump cabinet members. They filed an ethics complaint against the Congresswoman for that behavior as well.

Anonymous ID: 1b73c0 April 27, 2021, 12:50 a.m. No.13522704   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2707 >>2718 >>2733 >>2751

https://rumble.com/vg47vf-ep.-1507-a-surprise-announcement-the-dan-bongino-show.html

https://bongino.com/ep-1507-a-surprise-announcement

have a special announcement on the show today. I also discuss the things liberals are doing that are actively destroying America, and I ask the question, “are they trying to burn the country down?”

 

News Picks:

 

An excellent piece that describes the dangers of “critical race theory.”

Bill Maher absolutely shreds the dopey ideas of the modern liberal.

Are NYPD officers rushing to retire amid the anti-cop climate?

Twitter and the “fact-checkers” are super busy cleaning up the Stacey Abrams’ mess in Georgia.

The Wall Street Journal article regarding the proposed capital gains tax disaster, which I discussed in the show today.

Crime is exploding in NY City and liberal leaders are ignoring it.

Florida and Texas continue to outperform the lockdown states on COVID.

Anonymous ID: 1b73c0 April 27, 2021, 1:11 a.m. No.13522783   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/irs-data-shows-democrats-now-party-rich/

For years, Democrats have presented themselves as the party of the middle class, standing up for the little guy.

 

That hasn’t been true for a long time, and now it is confirmed.

 

According to data from the IRS, Democrats are now the party of the rich.

 

The Washington Examiner reports:

 

Democrats are the party of the wealthy, IRS data shows

 

Democrats are the party of the wealthy, a flip from decades ago when it was the party of the poor and middle class.

 

Democrats represented 65% of taxpayers with a household income of $500,000 or more in 2020, according to IRS data, while 74% of taxpayers in Republican districts have household incomes of less than $100,000.

 

In 1993, the dynamic was reversed, with the typical Republican congressional district showing it was 14% wealthier than its Democratic counterpart. In 2020, data shows those Republican districts were now 13% poorer.

 

The data comes as some Democrats push to end former President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax law, which caps the federal deduction for state and local taxes at $10,000. The beneficiaries would predominantly be the 1% of the United States’s wealthiest households, with property owners in high-tax states benefiting from the relief on federal taxes.

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