Waters Takes Her Fight to the Street
“Three staffers working for embattled Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) were asked by security officers to leave an event in downtown Washington on Thursday after they tried to display large campaign signs just as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was about to speak.
“The aides were holding lawn signs that defended Waters from the ethics charges she is facing in the House.
“‘Let’s fight for Maxine Waters,’ read a headline on the signs above a large picture of the congresswoman. Smaller headings read: ‘No improper action. No benefit. No failure to disclose. No one influenced. No case!’”
Read more: (Russell Berman, “Maxine Waters’s Aides are Expelled from Event of Speaker Pelosi’s,” The Hill, 09/16/2010)