Maxine Waters | |
|---|---|
 Official portrait, 2012 | |
| Ranking Member of theHouse Financial Services Committee | |
| Assumed office January 3, 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Patrick McHenry |
| In office January 3, 2013 – January 3, 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Barney Frank |
| Succeeded by | Patrick McHenry |
| Chair of theHouse Financial Services Committee | |
| In office January 3, 2019 – January 3, 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Jeb Hensarling |
| Succeeded by | Patrick McHenry |
| Chair of theCongressional Black Caucus | |
| In office January 3, 1997 – January 3, 1999 | |
| Preceded by | Donald M. Payne |
| Succeeded by | Jim Clyburn |
| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromCalifornia | |
| Assumed office January 3, 1991 | |
| Preceded by | Augustus Hawkins |
| Constituency | 29th district (1991–1993) 35th district (1993–2013) 43rd district (2013–present) |
| Member of theCalifornia State Assembly from the48th district | |
| In office December 6, 1976 – November 30, 1990 | |
| Preceded by | Leon D. Ralph |
| Succeeded by | Marguerite Archie-Hudson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Maxine Moore Carr (1938-08-15)August 15, 1938 (age 87) |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouses | |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | California State University, Los Angeles (BA) |
| Signature |  |
| Website | House website |
Maxine Moore Waters (néeCarr; born August 15, 1938) is an American politician serving as theU.S. representative forCalifornia's 43rd congressional district since 1991. The district, numbered as the29th district from 1991 to 1993 and as the35th district from 1993 to 2013, includes much of southernLos Angeles, as well as portions ofGardena,Inglewood andTorrance.
A member of theDemocratic Party, Waters is in her 18th House term. She is themost senior of the 13 black women serving in Congress, and chaired theCongressional Black Caucus from 1997 to 1999.[1] She is the second-most senior member of theCalifornia congressional delegation, afterNancy Pelosi. She chaired theHouse Financial Services Committee from 2019 to 2023 and has been the ranking member since 2023.[2]
Before becoming a U.S. representative, Waters served seven terms in theCalifornia State Assembly, to which she was first elected in 1976. As an assemblywoman, she advocateddivestment from South Africa'sapartheid regime. In Congress, she was an outspoken opponent of theIraq War and has sharply criticized PresidentsGeorge H. W. Bush,Bill Clinton,George W. Bush,Barack Obama, andDonald Trump, whom she has consistently denounced.[3][4]
Waters was included inTime magazine's list of "100 Most Influential People of 2018."[5]
Waters was born in 1938 inSt. Louis,Missouri, the daughter of Remus Carr and Velma Lee (née Moore).[6][7] The fifth of 13 children, she was raised by her single mother after her father left the family when Maxine was two.[8] She graduated fromVashon High School in St. Louis before moving with her family toLos Angeles in 1961. She worked in a garment factory and as a telephone operator before being hired as an assistant teacher with theHead Start program inWatts in 1966.[8] Waters later enrolled at Los Angeles State College (nowCalifornia State University, Los Angeles), where she received a bachelor's degree insociology in 1971.[9]
In 1973, Waters went to work as chief deputy to City CouncilmanDavid S. Cunningham Jr. She was elected to theCalifornia State Assembly in 1976. In the Assembly, she worked for the divestment ofstate pension funds from any businesses active inSouth Africa, a country then operating under the policy ofapartheid, and helped pass legislation within the guidelines of thedivestment campaign'sSullivan Principles.[10] She ascended to the position of Democratic Caucus Chair for the Assembly.[11]
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Upon the retirement ofAugustus F. Hawkins in 1990, Waters was elected to theUnited States House of Representatives forCalifornia's 29th congressional district with over 79% of the vote. She has been reelected consistently from this district, renumbered as the35th district in 1992 and as the43rd in 2012, with at least 70% of the vote.
Waters has represented large parts ofsouth-central Los Angeles and the Los Angeles coastal communities ofWestchester andPlaya Del Rey, as well as the cities ofTorrance,Gardena,Hawthorne,Inglewood andLawndale.
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On July 29, 1994, Waters came to public attention when she repeatedly interrupted a speech by RepresentativePeter King. The presiding officer,Carrie Meek, classed her behavior as "unruly and turbulent", and threatened to have theSergeant at Arms present her with theMace of the House of Representatives (the equivalent of a formal warning to desist). As of 2017[update], this is the most recent instance of the mace being employed for a disciplinary purpose. Waters was eventually suspended from the House for the rest of the day. The conflict with King stemmed from the previous day, when they had both been present at aHouse Banking Committee hearing on theWhitewater controversy. Waters felt King's questioning ofMaggie Williams (Hillary Clinton's chief of staff) was too harsh, and they subsequently exchanged hostile words.[12][13][14]
Waters chaired the Congressional Black Caucus from 1997 to 1998. In 2005, she testified at theU.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce hearings on "Enforcement of Federal Anti-Fraud Laws in For-Profit Education", highlighting theAmerican College of Medical Technology as a "problem school" in her district.[15] In 2006, she was involved in the debate overKing Drew Medical Center. She criticized media coverage of the hospital and asked theFederal Communications Commission (FCC) to deny a waiver of thecross ownership ban, and hence license renewal forKTLA-TV, a station theLos Angeles Times owned. She said, "TheLos Angeles Times has had an inordinate effect on public opinion and has used it to harm the local community in specific instances." She requested that the FCC force the paper to either sell its station or risk losing that station's broadcast rights.[16] According toBroadcasting & Cable, the challenges raised "the specter of costly legal battles to defend station holdings... At a minimum, defending against one would cost tens of thousands of dollars in lawyers' fees and probably delay license renewal about three months".[17] Waters' petition was unsuccessful.[18]
As a Democratic representative in Congress, Waters was asuperdelegate to the2008 Democratic National Convention. She endorsed DemocraticU.S. SenatorHillary Clinton for the party's nomination in late January 2008, granting Clinton nationally recognized support that some suggested would "make big waves."[19][20][21] Waters later switched her endorsement to U.S. SenatorBarack Obama when his lead in thepledged delegate count became insurmountable on the final day of primary voting.[22]
In 2009 Waters had a confrontation with RepresentativeDave Obey over anearmark in theUnited States House Committee on Appropriations. The funding request was for a public school employment training center in Los Angeles that was named after her.[23] In 2011, Waters voted against theNational Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, related to a controversial provision that allows the government and the military to detain American citizens and others indefinitely without trial.[24]
UponBarney Frank's retirement in 2012, Waters became theranking member of theHouse Financial Services Committee.[25][26] On July 24, 2013, she voted in favor of Amendment 100 in H.R. 2397 Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2014.[27] The amendment targeted domestic surveillance activities, specifically that of theNational Security Agency, and would have limited the flexibility of theNSA's interpretation of the law to collect sweeping data on U.S. citizens.[28] Amendment 100 was rejected, 217–205.
On March 27, 2014, Waters introduced a discussion draft of the Housing Opportunities Move the Economy Forward Act of 2014 known as the Home Forward Act of 2014.[29] A key provision of the bill includes the collection of 10 basis points for "every dollar outstanding mortgages collateralizing covered securities", estimated at $5 billion a year. These funds would be directed to three funds that support affordable housing initiatives, with 75% going to the NationalHousing trust fund. The National Housing Trust Fund will then provide block grants to states to be used primarily to build, preserve, rehabilitate, and operate rental housing that is affordable to the lowest income households, and groups including seniors, disabled persons and low income workers. The National Housing Trust was enacted in 2008, but has yet to be funded.[30] In 2009, Waters co-sponsored RepresentativeJohn Conyers's bill calling forreparations for slavery to be paid to black Americans.[31]
For her tenure as chair of the House Financial Services Committee in the 116th Congress, Waters earned an "A" grade from the nonpartisan Lugar Center's Congressional Oversight Hearing Index.[32]
After a 1996San Jose Mercury News article alleged the complicity of theCentral Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the Los Angelescrack epidemic of the 1980s, Waters called for an investigation. She asked whether "U.S.-government paid or organized operatives smuggled, transported and sold it to American citizens".[33] TheUnited States Department of Justice announced it had failed to find any evidence to support the original story.[34] TheLos Angeles Times also concluded after its own extensive investigation that the allegations were not supported by evidence.[35] The author of the original story,Gary Webb, was eventually transferred to a different beat and removed from investigative reporting, before his death in 2004.[36]After these post-publication investigations, Waters read into the Congressional Record a memorandum of understanding in which former PresidentRonald Reagan's CIA director rejected any duty by the CIA to report illegal narcotics trafficking to the Department of Justice.[37][38]
According to Chuck Neubauer and Ted Rohrlich writing in theLos Angeles Times in 2004, Waters' relatives had made more than $1 million (~$1.59 million in 2024) during the preceding eight years by doing business with companies, candidates and causes that Waters had helped. They claimed she and her husband helped a company get government bond business, and her daughter Karen Waters and son Edward Waters have profited from her connections. Waters replied, "They do their business and I do mine."[39] Liberal watchdog groupCitizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington named Waters to its list of corrupt members of Congress in its 2005, 2006, 2009 and 2011 reports.[40][41]Citizens Against Government Waste named her the June 2009 Porker of the Month due to her intention to obtain an earmark for the Maxine Waters Employment Preparation Center.[42][43]
Waters came under investigation for ethics violations and was accused by a House panel of at least one ethics violation related to her efforts to helpOneUnited Bank receive federal aid.[44] Waters' husband is a stockholder and formerdirector of OneUnited Bank and the bank's executives were majorcontributors to her campaigns. In September 2008, Waters arranged meetings betweenU.S. Treasury Department officials and OneUnited Bank so that the bank could plead for federal cash. It had been heavily invested inFreddie Mac andFannie Mae, and its capital was "all but wiped out" after the U.S. government took it over. The bank received $12 million inTroubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) money.[45][46] The matter was investigated by theHouse Ethics Committee,[47][48] which charged Waters with violations of the House's ethics rules in 2010.[49][50][51][52] On September 21, 2012, the House Ethics Committee completed a report clearing Waters of all ethics charges after nearly three years of investigation.[53]
Waters and other House members objected to Florida's electoral votes, whichGeorge W. Bush narrowly won after a contentiousrecount. Because no senator joined her objection, the objection was dismissed by Vice PresidentAl Gore, who was Bush's opponent in the2000 presidential election.[54]
Waters was one of 31 House Democrats who voted to not count Ohio's electoral votes in the2004 presidential election.[55] PresidentGeorge W. Bush won Ohio by 118,457 votes.[56]
Waters objected toWyoming's electoral votes after the2016 presidential election, a stateDonald Trump won with 68.2% of the vote.[57] Because no senator joined her objection, the objection was dismissed by then-Vice PresidentJoe Biden.[58]
In July 2017, during a House Financial Services Committee meeting, Waters questionedUnited States Secretary of the TreasurySteven Mnuchin. At several points during the questioning, Waters used the phrase "reclaiming my time" when Mnuchin did not directly address the questions Waters had asked him. The video of the interaction between Waters and Mnuchin became popular on social media, and the phrase became attached to her criticisms of Trump.[59]
In early 2018, Waters was among the members of Congress theRepublican Jewish Coalition called on to resign due to their connections withNation of Islam leader and knownanti-Semite[60]Louis Farrakhan, who had recently drawn criticism for antisemitic remarks.[61][62][63] ThePittsburgh Jewish Chronicle noted that Waters had "long embraced Farrakhan" and refused to denounce him, even as other members of the Congressional Black Caucus who secretly met with Farrakhan in 2005 eventually did.[64]
When south-central Los Angeles erupted inriots – in which 63 were killed – after theRodney King verdict in 1992, Waters gained national attention when she led a chant of "No justice, no peace" at a rally amidst the riot.[65] She also "helped deliver relief supplies in Watts and demanded the resumption of vital services".[66][67] Waters described the riots as a rebellion, saying, "If you call it a riot it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable."[68] In her view, the violence was "a spontaneous reaction to a lot of injustice." In regard to the looting of Korean-owned stores by local black residents, she said in an interview withKABC radio hostMichael Jackson:
There were mothers who took this as an opportunity to take some milk, to take some bread, to take some shoes. Maybe they shouldn't have done it, but the atmosphere was such that they did it. They are not crooks.[69]
On June 23, 2018, after an incident in which White House Press SecretarySarah Huckabee Sanders was denied service and asked to leave a restaurant, Waters urged attendees at a rally in Los Angeles to harass Trump administration officials, saying:
If you see anybody from [Trump's] 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.[70][71]
Many on theRight saw this statement as an incitement of violence against officials from the Trump administration.
In response, House Democratic leaderNancy Pelosi posted comments onTwitter reported to be a condemnation of Waters' remarks: "Trump's daily lack of civility has provoked responses that are predictable but unacceptable."[72]
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Comments by Waters on April 17, 2021, while attendingprotests over the killing of Daunte Wright inBrooklyn Center, Minnesota, drew controversy.[73] Responding to questions outside the Brooklyn Center police department[74] – a heavily fortified area that for days had been the site of violent clashes between law enforcement and demonstrators attempting to overrun it[75][76] – Waters commented on the protests and the looming jury verdict in thetrial of Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer who at the time was charged with murderingGeorge Floyd.[77] Before closing arguments in the trial, Waters said, "I hope we get a verdict that says guilty, guilty, guilty. And if we don't, we cannot go away", and when asked, "What happens if we do not get what you just told? What should the people do? What should protesters do?", Waters responded:
We've got to stay on the street. And we've got to get more active, we've got to get more confrontational, we've got to make sure that they know that we mean business.[73][78]
In response to a question from a reporter about thecurfew in effect in Brooklyn Center, which loomed shortly,[79] Waters said, "I don't think anything about curfew ... I don't know what 'curfew' means. Curfew means that 'I want to you all to stop talking, I want you to stop meeting, I want you to stop gathering.' I don't agree with that."[80][81]
The protests outside the Brooklyn Center police station remained peaceful through the night. The crowd grew raucous when the curfew went into effect but shrank shortly after as protesters left on their own and no arrests were reported.[79][82]
The judge in Chauvin's trial said on April 19, 2021, that Waters' comments were "abhorrent" and that it was "disrespectful to the rule of law and to the judicial branch" for elected officials to comment in advance of the verdict. The judge refused the defense's request for amistrial, saying that the jury "have been told not to watch the news. I trust they are following those instructions", but also that "Congresswoman Waters may have given you something on appeal that may result in this whole trial being overturned".[83][84]
After Waters' comments, Republican minority leaderKevin McCarthy said, "Waters is inciting violence in Minneapolis just as she has incited it in the past. IfSpeaker Pelosi doesn't act against this dangerous rhetoric, I will bring action this week".[81][85][86][87] On April 19, 2021, McCarthy introduced a resolution in the House to censure Waters, calling her comments "dangerous". The following day, the House voted to block McCarthy's resolution, narrowly defeating it along party lines, 216–210.[88]
Waters later said that her remarks in Brooklyn Center were taken out of context and that she believed in nonviolent actions. In an interview, she said, "I talk about confronting the justice system, confronting the policing that's going on, I'm talking about speaking up. I'm talking about legislation. I'm talking about elected officials doing what needs to be done to control their budgets and to pass legislation."[89]
Packages that contained pipe bombs were sent to two of Waters' offices on October 24, 2018. They were intercepted and investigated by the FBI. No one was injured. Similar packages were sent to several other Democratic leaders and to CNN.[90][91] In 2019, Cesar Sayoc pleaded guilty to mailing the bombs and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.[92][93]
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Waters has a 100% rating fromNARAL Pro-Choice America and an F rating from theSusan B. Anthony List based on her abortion-related voting record.[100][101] She opposed theoverturning ofRoe v. Wade.[102]
In August 2011, Waters criticized PresidentBarack Obama, saying he was insufficiently supportive of the black community. She referred to African Americans' high unemployment rate (around 15.9% at the time).[103] At aCongressional Black Caucus town-hall meeting on jobs in Detroit, Waters said that African American members of Congress were reluctant to criticize or place public pressure on Obama because "y'all love the President".[104]
In October 2011, Waters had a public dispute with Obama, arguing that he paid more attention toswing voters in the Iowa caucuses than to equal numbers of (geographically dispersed) black voters. In response, Obama said that it was time to "stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying" and get back to working with him.[4][105][106]
Waters opposesmandatory minimum sentences.[107]
Waters has called Trump "a bully, an egotistical maniac, a liar and someone who did not need to be president"[41] and "the most deplorable person I've ever met in my life".[108] In a 2017 appearance onMSNBC'sAll In with Chris Hayes, she said Trump's advisorswho have ties to Russia or have oil and gas interests there are "a bunch of scumbags".[109]
Waters began to call forthe impeachment of Trump shortly after he took office. In February 2017, she said that Trump was "leading himself" to possible impeachment because of his conflicts of interest and that he was creating "chaos and division".[110] In September 2017, while giving a eulogy atDick Gregory's funeral, she said that she was "cleaning out the White House" and that "when I get through with Donald Trump, he's going to wish he had been impeached."[111] In October 2017, she said the U.S. Congress had enough evidence against Trump to "be moving on impeachment", in reference to Russian collusion allegations during the 2016 presidential election, and that Trump "has openly obstructed justice in front of our face".[112]
Linking Trump to the violence that erupted at awhite nationalist protest rally inCharlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017, Waters said that theWhite House "is now theWhite Supremacists' House".[113][114] After Trump's 2018State of the Union address, she released a video response addressing what most members of theCongressional Black Caucus viewed ashis racist viewpoint and actions, saying, "He claims that he's bringing people together but make no mistake, he is a dangerous, unprincipled, divisive, and shameful racist."[115] Trump later replied by calling her a "low-IQ individual".[116]
On April 24, 2018, while attending the Time 100 Gala, Waters urged Trump to resign from office, "So that I won't have to keep up this fight of your having to be impeached because I don't think you deserve to be there. Just get out."[117]
On December 18, 2019, Waters voted for both articles of impeachment against Trump.[118] Moments before voting for thesecond impeachment of Donald Trump, she called him "the worst president in the history of the United States.″[119]
On June 18, 2019, Waters asked Facebook to halt its plan for the development and launching ofLibra, a newcryptocurrency, citing a list of recent scandals. She said: "The cryptocurrency market currently lacks a clear regulatory framework to provide strong protections for investors, consumers and the economy. Regulators should see this as a wake-up call to get serious about the privacy and national security concerns, cybersecurity risks, and trading risks that are posed by cryptocurrencies".[120]
In August 2008, Waters introduced HR 6796, the Stop Very Unscrupulous Loan Transfers from Underprivileged countries from Rich Exploitive Funds Act (Stop VULTURE Funds Act). It would limit the ability of investors in sovereign debt to use U.S. courts to enforce those instruments against a defaulting country. The bill died in committee.[121]
Waters has visited Cuba a number of times, praising some ofFidel Castro's policy proposals.[122][123][124] She also criticized previous U.S. efforts to overthrow the Castro regime and demanded an end to the U.S. trade embargo.[125] In 1998, Waters wrote Castro a letter calling the 1960s and 1970s "a sad and shameful chapter of our history" and thanking him for helping those who needed to "flee political persecution".[126]
In 1998, Waters wrote Castro an open letter asking him not to extradite convicted terroristAssata Shakur from Cuba, where she had sought asylum. Waters argued that much of the Black community regarded her conviction as false.[127][128][129] She had earlier supported a Republican bill to extradite Shakur, who was referred to by her former name, Joanne Chesimard. In 1999, Waters called on PresidentBill Clinton to return six-year-oldElián González to his father in Cuba; the boy had survived a boat journey from Cuba, during which his mother had drowned, and was taken in by U.S. relatives.[126]
Waters opposed the2004 coup d'état in Haiti and criticized U.S. involvement.[130] After the coup, she,TransAfrica Forum founderRandall Robinson, and Jamaican member of parliamentSharon Hay-Webster led a delegation to meet withHaitian PresidentJean-Bertrand Aristide and bring him to Jamaica, where he remained until May.[131][132][133]
On October 1, 2020, Waters co-signed a letter to Secretary of StateMike Pompeo that condemnedAzerbaijan'soffensive operations against theArmenian-populated enclaveNagorno-Karabakh, denouncedTurkey's role in theNagorno-Karabakh conflict, and called for an immediate ceasefire.[134]
In July 1992, Waters called PresidentGeorge H. W. Bush "a racist" who "polarized the races in this country". Previously, she had suggested that Bush had used race to advance his policies.[135]
Waters has been very critical of theTea Party movement. On August 20, 2011, at a town hall discussing some of the displeasure that Obama's supporters felt about the Congressional Black Caucus not supporting him, Waters said, "This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned, the 'tea party' can go straight to Hell ... and I intend to help them get there."[136][137]
Waters voted against theIraq War Resolution, the 2002 resolution that funded and granted Congressional approval to possible military action against the regime ofSaddam Hussein.[138] She has remained a consistent critic of the subsequent war and has supported immediate troop withdrawal from Iraq. Waters asserted in 2007 that PresidentGeorge W. Bush was trying to "set [Congress] up" by continually requesting funds for an "occupation" that was "draining" the country of capital, soldier's lives, and other resources. In particular, she argued that the economic resources being "wasted" in Iraq were those that might provide universal health care or fully fund Bush's "No Child Left Behind" education bill. Additionally, Waters, representing a congressional district whosemedian income falls far below the national average, argued that patriotism alone had not been the sole driving force for those U.S. service personnel serving in Iraq. Rather, "many of them needed jobs, they needed resources, they needed money, so they're there".[139] In a subsequent floor speech, she said that Congress, lacking the votes to override the "inevitable Bush veto on any Iraq-related legislation," needed to "better [challenge] the administration's false rhetoric about the Iraq war" and "educate our constituents [about] the connection between the problems in Pakistan, Turkey, and Iran with the problems we have created in Iraq".[140] A few months before these speeches, Waters cosponsored the House resolution to impeachVice PresidentDick Cheney for making allegedly "false statements" about the war.[141]
Waters' second husband,Sid Williams, played professional football in theNFL[142] and is a formerU.S. ambassador to the Bahamas under the Clinton administration.[143] They live in Los Angeles'Windsor Square neighborhood.[144]
In May 2020, during theCOVID-19 pandemic, Waters confirmed her sister, Velma Moody, had died of the virus, aged 86.[145]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Maxine Waters | 38,133 | 80.6 | |
| Republican | Johnnie G. Neely | 9,188 | 19.4 | |
| Total votes | 47,321 | 100 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 30,449 | 80.8 | |
| Republican | Timothy F. Faulkner | 7,247 | 19.2 | |
| Total votes | 37,696 | 100 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 39,660 | 82.9 | |
| Republican | Yva Hallburn | 8,194 | 17.1 | |
| Total votes | 47,854 | 100 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 54,209 | 100 | |
| Total votes | 54,209 | 100 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 59,507 | 85.8 | |
| Republican | Donald "Don" Weiss | 9,884 | 14.2 | |
| Total votes | 69,391 | 100 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 42,706 | 84.5 | |
| Republican | Ezola Foster | 6,450 | 12.8 | |
| Libertarian | José "Joe" Castañeda | 1,360 | 2.7 | |
| Total votes | 50,516 | 100 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 49,946 | 100 | |
| Total votes | 49,946 | 100 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Maxine Waters | 36,182 | 88.5 | |
| Democratic | Lionel Allen | 2,666 | 6.5 | |
| Democratic | Twain Wilson | 1,115 | 2.7 | |
| Democratic | Ted Andromidas | 930 | 2.3 | |
| Total votes | 40,893 | 100 | ||
| General election | ||||
| Democratic | Maxine Waters | 51,350 | 79.4 | |
| Republican | Bill DeWitt | 12,054 | 18.6 | |
| Peace and Freedom | Waheed R. Boctor | 1,268 | 2.0 | |
| Total votes | 64,672 | 100 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 51,534 | 89.2 | |
| Democratic | Roger A. Young | 6,252 | 10.8 | |
| Total votes | 57,786 | 100 | ||
| General election | ||||
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 102,941 | 82.5 | |
| Republican | Nate Truman | 17,417 | 14.0 | |
| Peace and Freedom | Alice Mae Miles | 2,797 | 2.2 | |
| Libertarian | Carin Rogers | 1,618 | 1.3 | |
| Total votes | 124,773 | 100 | ||
| Democraticgain fromRepublican | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 65,688 | 78.1 | |
| Republican | Nate Truman | 18,390 | 21.9 | |
| American Independent | Gordan Mego (write-in) | 3 | nil | |
| Total votes | 84,081 | 100 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 92,762 | 85.5 | |
| Republican | Eric Carlson | 13,116 | 12.1 | |
| American Independent | Gordan Mego | 2,610 | 2.4 | |
| Total votes | 108,398 | 100 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 78,732 | 89.3 | |
| American Independent | Gordan Mego | 9,413 | 10.7 | |
| Total votes | 88,145 | 100 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 100,569 | 86.5 | |
| Republican | Carl McGill | 12,582 | 10.8 | |
| American Independent | Gordan Mego | 1,911 | 1.6 | |
| Natural Law | Rick Dunstan | 1,153 | 1.0 | |
| Total votes | 116,215 | 100 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 72,401 | 77.5 | |
| Republican | Ross Moen | 18,094 | 19.4 | |
| American Independent | Gordan Mego | 2,912 | 3.1 | |
| Total votes | 93,407 | 100 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 125,949 | 80.5 | |
| Republican | Ross Moen | 23,591 | 15.1 | |
| American Independent | Gordan Mego | 3,440 | 2.2 | |
| Libertarian | Charles Tate | 3,427 | 2.2 | |
| Total votes | 156,407 | 100 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 31,010 | 86.1 | |
| Democratic | Carl McGill | 5,000 | 13.9 | |
| Total votes | 36,010 | 100 | ||
| General election | ||||
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 82,498 | 83.8 | |
| American Independent | Gordan Mego | 8,343 | 8.5 | |
| Libertarian | Paul Ireland | 7,665 | 7.8 | |
| Total votes | 98,506 | 100 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 36,685 | 100 | |
| Total votes | 36,685 | 100 | ||
| General election | ||||
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 150,778 | 82.6 | |
| Republican | Theodore Hayes Jr. | 24,169 | 13.2 | |
| Libertarian | Herbert G. Peters | 7,632 | 4.2 | |
| Total votes | 182,579 | 100 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 32,946 | 100 | |
| Total votes | 32,946 | 100 | ||
| General election | ||||
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 98,131 | 79.3 | |
| Republican | K. Bruce Brown | 25,561 | 20.7 | |
| Independent | Suleiman Charles Edmondson (write-in) | 2 | nil | |
| Total votes | 123,694 | 100 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 36,062 | 65.4 | |
| Democratic | Bob Flores | 19,061 | 34.5 | |
| Total votes | 55,123 | 100 | ||
| General election | ||||
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 143,123 | 71.2 | |
| Democratic | Bob Flores | 57,771 | 28.8 | |
| Total votes | 200,894 | 100 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 33,746 | 67.2 | |
| Republican | John Wood Jr. | 16,440 | 32.8 | |
| American Independent | Brandon M. Cook (write-in) | 12 | nil | |
| Total votes | 50,198 | 100 | ||
| General election | ||||
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 69,681 | 71.0 | |
| Republican | John Wood Jr. | 28,521 | 29.0 | |
| Total votes | 99,202 | 100 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 92,909 | 76.1 | |
| Republican | Omar Navarro | 29,152 | 23.9 | |
| Total votes | 122,061 | 100 | ||
| General election | ||||
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 167,017 | 76.1 | |
| Republican | Omar Navarro | 52,499 | 23.9 | |
| Total votes | 219,516 | 100 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 63,908 | 72.4 | |
| Republican | Omar Navarro | 12,522 | 14.1 | |
| Republican | Frank T. DeMartini | 6,156 | 7.0 | |
| Republican | Edwin P. Duterte | 3,673 | 4.3 | |
| Green | Miguel Angel Zuniga | 2,074 | 2.4 | |
| Total votes | 88,333 | 100 | ||
| General election | ||||
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 152,272 | 77.7 | |
| Republican | Omar Navarro | 43,780 | 22.3 | |
| Total votes | 196,052 | 100 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 100,468 | 78.1 | |
| Republican | Joe Edward Collins III | 14,189 | 11.0 | |
| Republican | Omar Navarro | 13,939 | 10.8 | |
| Total votes | 128,596 | 100 | ||
| General election | ||||
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 199,210 | 71.7 | |
| Republican | Joe Edward Collins III | 78,688 | 28.3 | |
| Total votes | 277,898 | 100 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 55,889 | 74.3 | |
| Republican | Omar Navarro | 8,927 | 11.9 | |
| Republican | Allison Pratt | 5,489 | 7.3 | |
| Democratic | Jean Monestime | 4,952 | 6.6 | |
| Total votes | 75,257 | 100.0 | ||
| General election | ||||
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 95,462 | 77.3 | |
| Republican | Omar Navarro | 27,985 | 22.7 | |
| Total votes | 123,447 | 100.0 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 54,673 | 69.8 | |
| Republican | Steve Williams | 10,896 | 13.9 | |
| Republican | David Knight | 5,647 | 7.2 | |
| Democratic | Chris Wiggins | 4,999 | 6.4 | |
| Democratic | Gregory Cheadle | 2,075 | 2.7 | |
| Total votes | 78,290 | 100.0 | ||
| General election | ||||
| Democratic | Maxine Waters (incumbent) | 160,080 | 75.1 | |
| Republican | Steve Williams | 53,152 | 24.9 | |
| Total votes | 213,232 | 100.0 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
Maxine Waters, a member of the California Assembly who helped frame her state's pension fund divestment bill, has promisedto work overtime to insure that our legislation reflects these guidelines and continues to target any and all U.S. companies that are doing business in or with South Africa.
During 14 years in the California State Assembly, she rose to the powerful position of Democratic Caucus Chair. She was responsible for some of the boldest legislation California has ever seen: the largest divestment of state pension funds from South Africa; landmark affirmative action legislation; the nation's first statewide Child Abuse Prevention Training Program; the prohibition of police strip searches for nonviolent misdemeanors; and the introduction of the nation's first plant closure law.
Tribune influenced public opinion in the Los Angeles DMA to harm its residents and one of its most critical public health facilities – the Martin Luther King/Drew Medical Center (King/Drew).
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Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.). The outspokenanti-war liberal, who campaigned forNed Lamont (D) over U.S. SenatorJoe Lieberman (I) fromConnecticut last year, has not picked a favorite.
What those articles traced, among other things, is the long-term relationship betweenNorwin Meneses, aNicaraguandrug trafficker,Danilo Blandon, a Nicaraguan businessperson connected to the Contra rebels as well as a drug trader, andRicky Ross, an American who worked with Blandon distributing crack cocaine in this country. These individuals represent a much broader and more troubling relationship betweenU.S. intelligence and security policy,drug smuggling, and the spread ofcrack cocaine into the United States. Letter toU.S. Attorney GeneralJanet Reno
Ms. Waters, who represents inner-city Los Angeles, hasn't made a secret of her family's financial interest in OneUnited. Referring to her family's investment, she said in 2007 during a congressional hearing that for African-Americans, "the test of your commitment to economic expansion and development and support for business is whether or not you put your money where your mouth is."
Top federal regulators say they were taken aback when they learned that a California congresswoman who helped set up a meeting with bankers last year had family financial ties to a bank whose chief executive asked them for up to $50 million in special bailout funds.
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