Maxine Waters reportedly paid her daughter another $16,500 out of her campaign coffers for campaign services, bringing the total now to well over $1.2 million. If there was any evidence that lawmakers will continue to do things because they know they can get away with it, Waters is a prime example.
Maxine Waters Funnels Cash to Her Daughter
- The younger Waters has been engaged in the slate mailer technique for nearly 20 years, receiving a total of more than $1.2 million from her mother's committee during that time
- "Slate mailer" is just a term for mass mailing campaign literature
- Waters Jr. handles at least some of her mother’s campaign mailings
Maxine Waters In Hot Water After Paying Her Daughter's Firm Over $1.2M
- The LA Weekly has described the practice as "sleaze."
- Waters is reportedly the only lawmaker who used the practice in 2020.
- "Corruption!" she said.
Will Anything Be Done About It?
- Maxine Waters' daughter has been receiving campaign payments since 2003
- According to legal scholar Jonathan Turley, the corrupt practice is perfectly legal because "Congress works hard to keep it that way."
- Politicians want voters to shrug off such enrichment as "everyone does it" or "it is not illegal."
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