Biography of Maxine Waters

Maxine Waters currently works as a United States Representative for California’s 43rd congressional district. She has worked for Congress since 1991. She is considered by many to be one of the most powerful women in American politics today. As a member of the Democratic Party, Waters is the oldest of the 12 black women currently serving in the United States Congress. She is also a member and past chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. As for her personal life, she is married twice and has two children.

Early life and education of Maxine Waters

Maxine Waters was born as Maxine Moore Waters on August 15, 1938 in St. Louis, Missouri. She was born to Remo Moore and Velma Lee Carr Moore . She is the fifth of thirteen siblings. She was raised by her mother on her own after her father left them when she was only two years old.

According to his biological data, Waters finished his high school from St. Louis, Missouri-based Vashon High School before moving with his family to Los Angeles, California in 1961.

Waters worked in a garment factory and also worked as a telephone operator in his early days. She worked as a teaching assistant at the Head Start program in Watts in 1996.

Waters later joined Los Angeles State College, where he received a bachelor’s degree in sociology.

Maxine Waters career

Early political career

In 1973, Maxine Waters served as Chief Deputy to City Councilman David S. Cunningham , Jr. She entered the California State Assembly in 1976.

During his time in the assembly, Waters served for the divestment of state pension funds from any business activity in South Africa, then operated under apartheid politics.

Waters also helped pass legislation within the Sullivan Principles guidelines of the divestment campaign. She rose to the position of Chairperson of the Assembly Democratic Caucus.

United States House of Representatives

Elections

Following the retirement of Augustus F. Hawkins in 1990, Maxine Waters was elected to the United States House of Representatives for California’s 29th congressional district with a maximum vote of over 79%.

Waters has been consistently re-elected from California, renumbered the 35th District in 1992 and the 43rd in 2012.

Tenure

Maxine Waters gained public attention when she interrupted a speech by Peter King on July 29, 1994. The president, Carrie Meek , called her activity ‘rebellious and turbulent’, threatening to have the Sergeant-at-Arms present her with the mace of The House of Representatives.

As of 2017, Maxine Waters has been suspended from the house for the rest of the day. She was the most recent example of the mace working in a disciplinary sense.

The confrontation with King arose from the first day the two were present at a House Banking Committee hearing on the Whitewater controversy.

Maxine Waters was chair of the Congressional Black Caucus from 1997 to 1998. In 2005, she testified at the US House of Representatives Committee on Education and Workforce hearings on ‘Federal Enforcement of Fraud Laws in education for profit’, highlighting the American College of Medical Technology.

In 2006, Waters participated in a debate about King-Drew Medical Center. She also criticized media coverage of the hospital. She asked the Federal Communications Commission to reject a waiver of the cross-ownership ban and license renewal for KTLA-TV in 2006.

In 2012, following Barney Frank ‘s retirement , Waters became the ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee. On July 14, 2013, he voted in favor of Amendment 100 included in the HR2397 Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2014.

Rodney King verdict and the Los Angeles riots

Maxine Waters gained national attention when she helped deliver relief supplies when south central Los Angeles erupted in riots that killed fifty-eight people after the Rodney King verdict in 1992. She also demanded the resumption of vital services.

She explained the riots as a rebellion, saying:

‘If you call it a riot, it seems like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason.’ I maintain that it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable.

INC

Waters was summoned for an investigation after a 1996 San Jose Mercury News article exposed CIA complicity in the Los Angeles crack epidemic of the 1980s. The Los Angeles Times later concluded that the evidence did not support the charges after his own investigation.

Gary Webb , the author of the original story, was eventually moved to a different location and removed from investigative reporting, before his death in 2004. He was found dead in his apartment with two bullet holes in his head. His death was ruled a suicide.

Maxine Waters read in the Congressional Record a memorandum of understanding after post-publication investigations. In the memo, former President Ronald Reagan’s CIA director disavowed any CIA duty to report the illegal supply of narcotics to the Justice Department.

Corruption allegations

As written in the Los Angeles Times in 2004, by Chuck Neubauer and Ted Rohrlich, Waters’ relatives earned more than $1 million over the past eight years from doing business with candidates, companies, and causes to which she had joined. helped.

They claimed that Waters, along with her husband, helped a company obtain government bond business, and her son Edward Waters , and daughter Karen Aguas have benefited from their connections.

Waters was investigated for ethics violations and was charged by a House panel with at least one ethics violation regarding her efforts to help OneUnited Bank receive federal aid. Her husband is a shareholder and former director of OneUnited Bank, and bank executives were major contributors to her campaigns.

In 2008, Maxine Waters arranged meetings between officials from the US Treasury Department and OneUnited Bank, so that the bank could ask for federal money.

positions

Barack Obama

In August 2011, Maxine Waters trashed President Barack Obama, stating that he did not support the black community enough. She also referred to the high unemployment rate for African Americans which hovered at 15.9 percent at the time.

In October 2011, Waters took his criticism of Obama to a new level, confronting the White House with racial issues it had worked hard to avoid.

Castro And Cuba

Maxine Waters visited Fidel Castro a couple of times, praising democracy and criticizing US efforts to oust him. She also demanded to stop the US trade embargo.

In 1988, Maxine Waters wrote a letter to Castro, citing the 1960s and the following year as a shameful and sad part of history and thanking Castro for helping the needs.

In 1988, Waters supported a Republican bill to arrest convicted murderer Assata Shakur of Cuba. When Waters discovered that Shakur was listed by her previous name, Joanne Chesimard, she wrote a letter to Fidel Castro asking him not to arrest him because many members of the black community viewed his conviction as false.

Maxine Waters called on President Bill Clinton to send the six-year-old boy back to Cuba after a woman drowned during a flight from Cuba to the United States in 1999, leaving behind a six-year-old son, Elián González.

donald trump

In 2017, Maxine Waters made an appearance on MSNBC’s Everything with Chris Hayes , saying that advisers to President Trump who have oil or have ties to Russia have an interest in there being ‘a bunch of bastards’.

In February 2017, Waters stated that Donald Trump was leading himself to possible impeachment due to his conflicts and they also have high suspicions that Trump was creating ‘chaos and division’.

Maxine Waters texted on Twitter for an impeachment on Trump at the White House: “Trump has made it clear: he is now the House of white supremacists,” linking President Donald Trump to violence that erupted in a white nationalist protest rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. on August 12, 2017.

In October 2017, Maxine Waters claimed that the US Congress had enough evidence against Donald Trump to “move forward impeachment,” referring to allegations of Russian collusion at the time of the 2016 presidential election, and that Trump’ has openly obstructed justice in front of our face.”

On April 24, 2018, while attending the Time 100 Gala, Waters urged Trump to step down, “so I don’t have to keep up this fight that you have to be impeached because I don’t think you deserve to be there.” Just get out.’

On June 23, 2018, following an incident in which White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave a restaurant, Waters urged attendees at a Los Angeles rally to confront and harass to Trump administration officials who show up in public places: ‘ … tell them they’re not welcome anywhere anymore.’

In response, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi posted comments on Twitter reportedly condemning Waters’ comments: ‘ Trump’s daily lack of courtesy has prompted responses that are predictable but unacceptable. ‘.

George H. W. Bush

Maxine Waters considered President George HW Bush ‘a racist’ who has ‘polarized the races in this country’. Maxine Waters also suggested that W. Bush has used race to promote his policies.

Haiti

Maxine Waters criticized the United States’ involvement in the 2004 coup in Haiti and opposed it. She led a delegation along with a member of the Jamaican parliament. Sharon Hay-Webster and TransAfrica Forum founder Randall Robinson meet Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and take him to Jamaica where he would stay until May.

international loans

In August 2008, Maxine Waters introduced HR 6796, or ‘Stop Very Unscrupulous Loan Transfers From Disadvantaged Countries of the Rich Holding Funds Act.’

iraq war

Maxine Waters voted against the Iraq War Resolution, the 2002 resolution that found and granted congressional approval to military action against Saddam Hussain ‘s regime.

Waters has remained a consistent critic of the subsequent war and has supported an immediate troop withdrawal from Iraq.

In 2007, Waters claimed that President George W. Bush was trying to prepare (Congress) ‘by soliciting funds for an ‘occupation’ that is ‘draining’ the country of capital, other resources and the lives of soldiers.

Waters argued that the same economic resources being ‘wasted’ in Iraq are those that could provide universal health care or fully fund President Bush’s ‘No Child Left Behind’ education bill.

Maxine Waters net worth

Maxine Waters makes a decent amount of money as the United States Representative for California’s 43rd congressional district. As of 2017, Maxine Waters earns a salary of $170,000 a year and her net worth is over $2 million today according to Celebrity Net Worth. Her net worth was less than $2 million in 2016, according to online sources.

Waters also owns a mansion in Los Angeles. The house is built on 6000 square feet and is worth $4.3 million. In her most recent net worth disclosure, Maxine listed $1.5 million in assets and $1.4 million in liabilities. Her most valuable asset is her home, which is valued at between $1 million and $4 million based on the current real estate market and recent comparable sales.

The personal life of Maxine Waters

Maxine Waters was married twice in her life. She married Edward Waters in 1956, after graduating from high school. They also share two children together, a daughter Karen Waters and a son Edward Waters . The couple divorced in 1972.

In 1997, Maxine Waters married Sid Williams, a former football linebacker for the National Football League. Sid has played for teams like the Baltimore Colts, the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Cleveland Browns, and the Washington Redskins. . Sid, the former US ambassador to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.

In 2017, Waters was rumored to have made an announcement to divorce her husband after he cheated on her. Her husband, however, denied the accusations and said:

“There were several private investigators looking into it, and that’s what’s happening at this time and place and this is what’s necessary to bring this to its proper completion state.”

Since their marriage, the couple is living a happy life together but they have no children together. Sid is a stepfather to the Waters children.

In 2018, he receives a serious death threat after criticizing US President Donald Trump. She said,

”Because the president has continued to lie and falsely claim that I encouraged people to assault his supporters, while offering a veiled threat that I should ‘be careful,’ furthermore, people leave (threatening) messages and send mail hostile to my office,” he said in a statement, according to CNN.

“There was a very serious death threat made against me Monday by an individual in Texas, so my planned speaking engagements in Texas and Alabama were canceled this weekend,” he continued. “This is just one of several very serious threats being investigated by the United States Capitol Police in which individuals threatened to shoot me, lynch me, or cause me serious bodily harm.”

Due to such threats, he canceled two events in Alabaman and Texas.

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