This week’s Weekly Whiner is none other than Maxine Waters, Democrat House Representative from the 43rd district in California. This last Saturday, June 23rd, Maxine Waters told her supporters at an Los Angeles California rally to confront and harass Trump officials where ever they may go.
“If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere,” Waters stated.
“This was in response to the booting out of Sarah Huckabee Sanders from the Red Hen restaurant by owner Stephanie Wilkinson for just being a member of the Trump cabinet.
Some Democrats such as Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) stated, “I understand the frustration and the anger she was expressing, and I share a lot of that. I wouldn’t have done it, but I don’t criticize her for doing it.”.
Others such as Adriano Espaillat, (D-NY), stated, “Said he loved Maxine Waters”, and that he supported “it”.
But a number of Democrats, and Republicans, disagreed with her stance and statement for this issue.
On Thursday, June 28th Maxine since she made public comments earlier in the week to encourage protesters to heckle and harass members of the Trump’s Cabinet in public venues, she has received numerous threats and was forced to cancel some of her events.
However, Waters has denied that she ever called for violence, saying she’s only urging peaceful protests.
Significant Events:
1991-Maxine Waters is elected to the 29th district. She received over 79% of the popular vote.
2010-08-10 – Maxine Waters is charged with three counts of violating House rules and the Federal Ethics code for her efforts in arranging a 2008 meeting between Treasury Officials and OneUnited bank. However, on 2012-09-25 the House Committee on Ethics concluded that Representative Waters’ chief of state was at fault for creating the appearance of conflict, but Waters was not.
In her 27 years as a House Representative she has successfully been the primary sponsor of 5 bills that were enacted. The most recent four were within the Obama administration. These were the following:
- H.R. 3827 (114th): Project-Based Voucher Improvement Act of 2015
- H.R. 5569 (111th): National Flood Insurance Program Extension Act of 2010
- H.R. 4573 (111th): Haiti Debt Relief and Earthquake Recovery Act of 2010
- H.R. 1116 (111th): Honest FHA Originator Act of 2009
- H.R. 289 (109th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 8200 South Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles, California, as the Sergeant First Class John Marshall …
Maxine Waters has been criticized for not living within District 43. However, her house used to be in her district, but redistricting shifted her home into the 37th district. She should get a pass on this issue.
She has been re-elected 13-14 times. In 2016 she received over 76% of the popular vote in her district. Her nearest challenger received 23.9%, an enormous margin. In 2018 she slipped a bit to 72.3% versus 14.1% for her nearest challenger. She must be doing something right!
In some sense her playbook is becoming more like President Trump’s.
Question:
Should extremists from the far left and the far right, start harassing their opponents as Maxine Waters suggests?
We think NOT!