Democratic Corruption

Congress has something like a 8% approval rate, no wonder based on the corruption cases coming of this legislative body,...and no one can dispute that most of this is squarley on the Democrat,....Pelosi, Rangel, and Frank to name but a very few.   The latest case of Democratic Corruption in the spotlight,..exposed to the light of day not from the legacy media but from watch dog groups is the corruption case of Maxine Water (D-CA) that the House Ethics Committee has resumed.  

One of these watchdgo groups is http://www.crewsmostcorrupt.org/ and the following article from their entry on Maxine Waters who is an unapolgetically unethically because that is her particular entitlement. 

http://www.crewsmostcorrupt.org/mostcorrupt/entry/maxine-waters

California Representative Maxine Waters has technically been under investigation for numerous ethical problems for the past three years. However, because Waters has done her damnedest during those three years to exploit as many legal technicalities as possible to try to get the investigation halted, it has dragged on endlessly.

Today, yet another of her excuses ran out of mileage. Maxine Waters The Los Angeles Times reports: The House Ethics Committee put its case against California Congresswoman Maxine Waters back on track Wednesday after finding that her due process rights had not been violated.

In the latest twist in an investigation that has gone on for three years, the committee acknowledged that its staff’s communications with only the Republican committee members during its investigation of Waters, a Democrat from Los Angeles, had “raised concerns about the appearance of staff partisanship.“ It also found that a committee staff member made ”inappropriate” remarks during the investigation. But a review by an outside counsel concluded that none of the actions violated Waters’ due process rights.

With the due-process concern decided, committee members will now await a recommendation from their outside counsel, Washington lawyer Billy Martin, on whether to pursue the case on its merits. Waters, a South Los Angeles political fixture who won election to the state Assembly in 1976 and to Congress in 1990, was to face a rare trial before an ethics panel in 2010, but the hearing was put off to allow for further investigation. Waters has been accused of intervening improperly on behalf of a bank on whose board her husband served and in which he owned stock.

The Los Angeles Times reports: The House Ethics Committee put its case against California Congresswoman Maxine Waters back on track Wednesday after finding that her due process rights had not been violated. In the latest twist in an investigation that has gone on for three years, the committee acknowledged that its staff’s communications with only the Republican committee members during its investigation of Waters, a Democrat from Los Angeles, had “raised concerns about the appearance of staff partisanship.“

It also found that a committee staff member made ”inappropriate” remarks during the investigation. But a review by an outside counsel concluded that none of the actions violated Waters’ due process rights.

With the due-process concern decided, committee members will now await a recommendation from their outside counsel, Washington lawyer Billy Martin, on whether to pursue the case on its merits. Waters, a South Los Angeles political fixture who won election to the state Assembly in 1976 and to Congress in 1990, was to face a rare trial before an ethics panel in 2010, but the hearing was put off to allow for further investigation.

Waters has been accused of intervening improperly on behalf of a bank on whose board her husband served and in which he owned stock. These results are refreshing, but to those who have followed the case, thoroughly unsurprising. Discomfort with Waters’ ethical problems transcends partisanship – indeed, even the liberal organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics and Washington (CREW) added Waters to their list of “Most Corrupt Members of Congress” after this particular conflict of interest was disclosed. From their profile on Waters: In the midst of a national financial catastrophe, Rep. Maxine Waters used her position as a senior member of Congress and member of the House Financial Services Committee to prevail upon Treasury officials to meet with OneUnited Bank.

She never disclosed that her husband held stock in the bank. Rep. Waters is an eleven-term member of Congress, representing California’s 35th congressional district. She is a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee. Rep. Waters was included in CREW’s 2005 and2006 Most Corrupt Report for unrelated matters, as well as in the 2009 report for her actions regarding OneUnited. What‘s Waters’ excuse? “The only reason my husband still owns those shares is that no one wants to buy them!”


 

Justice Department Protects Illegal Voters in Florida

In a thinly vieled attempt to keep illegal voters on the Florida voting rolls, Holder's Justice Department is now threatening Florida, demanding that Florida Secretary of State stop efforts to purge Florida voting rolls of illegal voters. Think about this! Obama's Justice Department does prosecute Black Militants intimidating Penneslvania voters, because the ones beng intimidated are white, older people mostly voting Republicans, but then they have the plain gall to tell Florida they cannot take illegal voters off their own voting rolls? That's because the vast majority of the illegal Florida voters vote Democrat....who else is going to give them free stuff.

From Yahoo! News reported by Reuters, Reporting By Andrew Stern and Tom Brown (Reuters) -

Florida, a key electoral battleground where the 2000 presidential election was decided by a few hundred ballots, will decide in the coming days whether to heed a Justice Department warning to stop its campaign to purge ineligible voters, a state spokesman said on Saturday. The warning issued this week by the head of the Justice Department's voting section said the effort appeared to violate the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which protects minorities. It demanded a response by Wednesday.

A spokesman for Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner said the state must make certain that only eligible voters cast ballots. "We have a year-round obligation to ensure the integrity of Florida's elections. We will be responding to (the Justice Department's) concerns next week," Chris Cate said in an email message. Cate said in a subsequent telephone call that the state was still formulating its response.

Polls show Florida will be closely contested between Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and the outcome could swing the November 6 election. A mere 537 Florida votes decided the 2000 election in favor of Republican George W. Bush over Democrat Al Gore, amid charges from both sides that some people were unable to vote, some votes were uncounted, or were counted incorrectly.

The U.S. Supreme Court ultimately decided the contest in a ruling that halted the recount process. Supporters of Florida's voter scrub, conducted by the administration of Republican Governor Rick Scott, say it is aimed at clearing voter registration rolls of non-citizens. But critics call it part of longstanding Republican efforts to deter minorities and the poor, who tend to vote Democratic, from casting ballots.

2,700 VOTERS SUSPECTED

In its letter to Detzner on Thursday, the Justice Department also said the effort seemed to violate the 1993 National Voter Registration Act and its rules for maintaining "accurate and current" voter registration lists "in a uniform and non-discriminatory manner." The purge effort, begun in April, compares lists of registered voters with driver's license records that contain information on citizenship.

Critics contend the information can be out of date as many people become citizens after they get their driver's licenses or state IDs. So far the state has identified about 2,700 voters as suspicious and sent them letters demanding they produce proof of citizenship to avoid being stricken from the voter rolls. According to the Miami Herald, Florida's current list of potential non-citizen voters includes many people who are lawful citizens. Of course they are!  They have the welfarechecks to provie it.

 About 58 percent on the list were Hispanics - Florida's largest ethnic immigrant population. And the largest percentage of the illegal population as well.

Whites and Republicans were least likely to face being purged from the rolls, the newspaper said. Civil rights groups say Florida has a long history of voter roll tampering and manipulation. Most recently, in 2000 and 2004, it tried purging convicted felons from the rolls using what were found to be inaccurate lists that kept ballots out of the hands of black voters - who tend to vote Democratic.