Disband The Black Caucus - Investors.com

Next week, the Congressional Black Caucus will hold its 41st annual conference in Washington. It should be its last. The race-baiting group is alarmingly corrupt and out of control.

Founded in 1971 by 13 civil-rights leaders as "the conscience of the Congress," the caucus has strayed far from its original mission. Now boasting 42 politicians — including some of the most radical and unethical in Congress — it chiefly serves its own interests.


Its lavish annual gala is an unseemly shakedown of corporate donors unwittingly funding a war chest for Marxist causes. While the living conditions of average African-Americans worsen, this elite black power club has empowered and enriched its own.


The group has become an embarrassment not just to the black community and the civil-rights legacy it deigns to uphold, but the Democratic Party from which it draws almost all of its members. It should be disbanded. Here's a bill of indictment:

• Hate speech: The caucus is run by racial arsonists spewing dangerous rhetoric.

Its whip, Rep. Andre Carson, last month likened Tea Party members to Klansmen who want to see blacks "hanging on a tree." Another member, Rep. Frederica Wilson, targeted the Tea Party as "the real enemy." The caucus' doyen, Rep. Maxine Waters, poured her trademark kerosene on the fire, adding: "The Tea Party can go straight to hell."

Rep. Allen West was so disgusted by the "hate-filled comments" he threatened to quit the caucus. He admonished fellow members to "follow the example of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., not the example of Rev. Jeremiah Wright." (The group's lone Republican, West says he only joined the caucus out of respect for his late parents.)

• Racism: Membership is closed to other races. The exclusively black group is the only one on the Hill that enforces a pigment test: No whites or other minorities allowed.

When a white lawmaker representing a mostly black district was turned down for membership, Rep. William Lacy Clay, son of the caucus co-founder, explained that it's an "unwritten rule" that you must be black to join. It's the sole criterion of membership.

• Corruption: Four caucus members show up on the left-leaning Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington's list of the "most corrupt" lawmakers. Several have been brought up on ethics charges or come under Justice Department investigation, including:

Waters, who stands accused of improperly lobbying Treasury officials to bail out a black bank, OneUnited, where her husband owned stock and served on the board, recently called bankers "gangsters" and threatened to "tax them out of business" if they didn't forgive minority mortgage delinquencies. She should know about gangsta bankers: The Los Angeles Times reports her OneUnited CEO pal Kevin Cohee in 2007 was charged with crack possession. The same year, the paper says, police also arrested him on a rape complaint.)


Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., convicted last year of 12 ethics violations. Among other things, the former Ways and Means Committee chair accepted gifts from donors with business before the tax-writing body. He also failed to pay taxes on rental income, and filed bad financial disclosure papers.

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The Right Perspective

Waters Ethics Charges “About Black People”

Embattled Democrat Congresswoman Maxine Waters has begun a publicity campaign aimed at making her upcoming Ethics trial not about her but “about Black people.”


Waters told DC blog The Hill that she organized staffers to hold signs proclaiming her innocence at various events around the Capitol, including the annual legislative conference for the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Foundation and a green technology awards ceremony held by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

“It ain’t about Nancy,” Waters said about the later event. “It’s about black people.”

Waters has been charged with using her influence to get a special private meeting for a bank her husband was on the board of, to discuss getting a special loan to keep the bank alive during the financial crisis. She has already blamed former US President George W. Bush and racism for the charges.

Signs held by Waters’ staffers at the Pelosi ceremony read, “Let’s fight for Maxine Waters,” and “No improper action. No benefit. No failure to disclose. No one influenced. No case!”. They were held up just before the House Speaker spoke.

One of the staffers told The Hill that Maxine Water was his aunt. When asked later about this, Waters just shrugged and replied, “I’m everybody’s aunt.”

The staffers were asked to leave and there was no confrontation.

A Waters campaign aide told The Hill that the young men at the Pelosi event were staffers paid for the day. The aide said 40 to 50 yard signs were printed, in addition to 10,000 handouts. The aide said a similar presence would be made at other events between now and when Waters’s trial takes place, but that no formal plans had been made.

“It’s important to communicate our message,” the aide said.


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HOW MANY SOCIALISTS IN CONGRESS?

American Socialists Release Names of 70 Congressional Democrats in Their Ranks

The Socialist Party of America announced in their October 2009 newsletter that 70 Congressional democrats currently belong to their caucus.


This admission was recently posted on Scribd.com:

American Socialist Voter–

Q: How many members of the U.S. Congress are also members of the DSA?

A: Seventy

Q: How many of the DSA members sit on the Judiciary Committee?

A: Eleven: John Conyers [Chairman of the Judiciary Committee], Tammy Baldwin, Jerrold Nadler, Luis Gutierrez, Melvin Watt, Maxine Waters, Hank Johnson, Steve Cohen, Barbara Lee, Robert Wexler, Linda Sanchez [there are 23 Democrats on the Judiciary Committee of which eleven, almost half, are now members of the DSA].

Q: Who are these members of 111th Congress?

A: See the listing below

Co-Chairs

Hon. Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-07)


Hon. Lynn Woolsey (CA-06)


Vice Chairs

Hon. Diane Watson (CA-33)


Hon. Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18)


Hon. Mazie Hirono (HI-02)


Hon. Dennis Kucinich (OH-10)

Senate Members

Hon. Bernie Sanders (VT)

House Members

Hon. Neil Abercrombie (HI-01)


Hon. Tammy Baldwin (WI-02)


Hon. Xavier Becerra (CA-31)


Hon. Madeleine Bordallo (GU-AL)

Hon. Robert Brady (PA-01)


Hon. Corrine Brown (FL-03)


Hon. Michael Capuano (MA-08)


Hon. André Carson (IN-07)


Hon. Donna Christensen (VI-AL)


Hon. Yvette Clarke (NY-11)

Hon. William “Lacy” Clay (MO-01)


Hon. Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05)


Hon. Steve Cohen (TN-09)


Hon. John Conyers (MI-14)


Hon. Elijah Cummings (MD-07)

Hon. Danny Davis (IL-07)


Hon. Peter DeFazio (OR-04)


Hon. Rosa DeLauro (CT-03)


Rep. Donna F. Edwards (MD-04)


Hon. Keith Ellison (MN-05)


Hon. Sam Farr (CA-17)


Hon. Chaka Fattah (PA-02)


Hon. Bob Filner (CA-51)


Hon. Barney Frank (MA-04)


Hon. Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11)


Hon. Alan Grayson (FL-08)


Hon. Luis Gutierrez (IL-04)


Hon. John Hall (NY-19)


Hon. Phil Hare (IL-17)


Hon. Maurice Hinchey (NY-22)


Hon. Michael Honda (CA-15)


Hon. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-02)


Hon. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30)


Hon. Hank Johnson (GA-04)


Hon. Marcy Kaptur (OH-09)


Hon. Carolyn Kilpatrick (MI-13)


Hon. Barbara Lee (CA-09)


Hon. John Lewis (GA-05)


Hon. David Loebsack (IA-02)


Hon. Ben R. Lujan (NM-3)


Hon. Carolyn Maloney (NY-14)


Hon. Ed Markey (MA-07)


Hon. Jim McDermott (WA-07)


Hon. James McGovern (MA-03)


Hon. George Miller (CA-07)


Hon. Gwen Moore (WI-04)


Hon. Jerrold Nadler (NY-08)


Hon. Eleanor Holmes-Norton (DC-AL)


Hon. John Olver (MA-01)


Hon. Ed Pastor (AZ-04)


Hon. Donald Payne (NJ-10)


Hon. Chellie Pingree (ME-01)


Hon. Charles Rangel (NY-15)


Hon. Laura Richardson (CA-37)


Hon. Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34)


Hon. Bobby Rush (IL-01)


Hon. Linda Sánchez (CA-47)


Hon. Jan Schakowsky (IL-09)


Hon. José Serrano (NY-16)


Hon. Louise Slaughter (NY-28)


Hon. Pete Stark (CA-13)


Hon. Bennie Thompson (MS-02)


Hon. John Tierney (MA-06)


Hon. Nydia Velazquez (NY-12)


Hon. Maxine Waters (CA-35)


Hon. Mel Watt (NC-12)


Hon. Henry Waxman (CA-30)


Hon. Peter Welch (VT-AL)


Hon. Robert Wexler (FL-19)

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