From Hot Air:
…According to new e-mails uncovered by the committee, her (Waters’) chief of staff directly coordinated with other members of the House Financial Services Committee on behalf of OneUnited:
A newly discovered exchange of e-mails led the House ethics committee on Friday to delay its trial of Representative Maxine Waters, a California Democrat accused of helping steer bailout money to a bank in which her husband owned shares.
The e-mails are between Mikael Moore, Ms. Waters’s chief of staff, and members of the House Financial Services Committee, on which Ms. Waters serves. The e-mails show that Mr. Moore was actively engaged in discussing with committee members details of a bank bailout bill apparently after Ms. Waters agreed to refrain from advocating on the bank’s behalf…
This, then, may drag in other Democrats – in this deal, for those who need reminding, Waters got a lot of TARP money for a bank she held a strong financial interest in. Its the really bad sort of political corruption.
Waters, herself, has never been more than a place holder for liberalism in the House. She just parrots whatever she’s told and votes as instructed – but she seems to have taken this to mean that as long as she does as she’s told, she can get away with pretty much anything she wants. This might have been true in the past, but in the TEA Party-influenced present, that sort of thing won’t be tolerated.
There must be a complete investigation of this no matter where it leads – all of those who in any way, shape or form influenced government policy for personal profit must be made to pay the price. Corruption eats at the heart of democracy, and it is long past time that we really did drain the swamp.
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