Nice L.A. Times Piece on Maxine Waters
The L.A. Times had an excellent piece yesterday that reported:
U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters’ family members have made more than $1 million in the last eight years by doing business with companies, candidates and causes that the influential congresswoman has helped.
This has been going on for quite some time, of course, with little discussion in the Times that I can recall. My impression is that the gloves came off during the paper’s fine series on King/Drew hospital, which hit Waters pretty hard for her cynical role in covering up the mess at that institution. This is a good follow-up.
You wouldn’t accuse a politician of *gasp* using their office to get fat off the public till, would you?
I’m appalled.
Why, the next thing you know, you’ll tell us that the MSM reports stories supported by “fake but accurate” documents…
Comment by Confederate Yankee — 12/20/2004 @ 2:45 pm
You wouldn’t accuse a politician of *gasp* using their office to get fat off the public till, would you?
I’m appalled.
Why, the next thing you know, you’ll tell us that the MSM reports stories supported by “fake but accurate” documents…
Comment by Confederate Yankee — 12/20/2004 @ 2:45 pm
oops. hiccups…
Comment by Confederate Yankee — 12/20/2004 @ 2:46 pm
Must be the cold medicine. I read the headline first as “Nice LA Times Piece BY Maxine Waters”. I thought I had lost my grip on reality for a moment.
Comment by Mark Johnson — 12/20/2004 @ 5:03 pm
The L.A. Times on the Maxine Waters family business
p>I'm so unaccustomed to the Los Angeles Times doing any real investigative journalism about our local power brokers that I completely missed this item. Maxine Waters has been a community icon for decades and has been in Congress since 1990. Sh…
Trackback by No Illusions — 12/21/2004 @ 12:01 am
You and the Dog Trainer are just saying these things because she’s black!!!!
(end Jesse Who’s Your Daddy Jackson mode)
Comment by the friendly grizzly — 12/22/2004 @ 7:38 am
“You can’t ask me anything about my business.” - Maxine Waters’ husband
“We don’t have to answer your questions. We are not bad people.” - Maxine Waters
Wow.
Comment by Ladainian — 12/22/2004 @ 10:05 am
Miscellanea - No Crisis? Who Cares? Edition
Forget Halliburton, why isn’t someone investigating Maxine Waters?…
Trackback by Decision '08 — 12/23/2004 @ 8:41 am