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Maxine Waters ... went to Damian Williams’s house (the guy who hit Reginald Denny in the head with a slab of concrete then did a victory dance over his unconscious body) and called him a hero.

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If she did that (I truly do not know), then that was extremely short-sighted, stupid and irresponsible of her.


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Maxine Waters is one of the most hate filled racially bigoted people in Congress. She has accomplished nothing in 10 years in the House besides obstruction

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You piqued my curiosity about her background! Here's some info on Ms Walters:

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In 1973 Waters went to work as chief deputy to City Councilman David Cunningham. In 1976, she quit her job and successfully ran for election to the California State Assembly. After serving for fourteen years in the California State Assembly, in 1990 Waters successfully ran for a seat in the 29th Congressional District of California.
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In November 2002, she was elected to her seventh term in the House of Representatives with an overwhelming 77.6 percent of the vote.

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Doesn't sound like a run-of-the-mill poltico to me! And that's certainly no "10 years" of service! But there's more:

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Maxine Waters brought national spotlight to the allegations of CIA involvement in the Contra cocaine drug trafficking in South Central Los Angeles[/b]
in the mid-1980s.
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She has called for redirecting the resources of the so-called war on drugs to prevention and treatment, and for repealing mandatory minimum sentencing laws for minor drug offenses.
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She was responsible for ... 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.
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She was instrumental in ... creating a “Center for Women Veterans,” among others.
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In the mid-80s, she also founded Project Build, working with young people in Los Angeles housing developments on job training and placement.
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Following the 1992 civil unrest, she founded Community Build, the city’s grassroots rebuilding project.
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Rep. Waters was a key figure in Congressional efforts to restore to power Haiti’s democratically-elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. She also was arrested in front of the White House urging justice for Haitian refugees and the restoration of democracy in Haiti.


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Although this was taken from Congress web pages, it seems like she is more than a "racial bigot" or an obstructionist.