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Home Front: Politix
Barney sez, "Better you than me, Maxine."
2010-08-03
U.S. Rep. Barney Frank said today he felt "vindicated" that a House panel's report, which charged California Democratic Rep. Comrade Maxine Waters with violating ethics rules, did not implicate him.
Too bad for Maxine, though. Oh, well, off to P'town...
The panel said Waters may have violated House rules by seeking a meeting between Treasury Department officials and representatives of a bank - Boston-based OneUnited - where she had a piece of the cheese and her husband was suckling. Frank said he turned over all his records and was interviewed by the ethics panel, but since he wasn't charged "obviously dey got nuttin' on me."
Well, nothing they could prove...
Or nothing they were willing to prove. Congressman Frank wields a lot of power, and clearly isn't going to be rejected by his voters for being caught with a live boy...and a dead girl is unlikely, thank goodness.
Identified in the ethics panel report as "Representative A," Frank, who had previously admitted meeting with Waters in published reports, told investigators Waters spoke to him about her husband's involement with OneUnited and her possible conflict of interest. Frank told Waters to "'keep your head down, Maxine'," according to the report, adding that he "would take care of the grease."
Yeah, that sounds legit...
Frank said today he worked to make sure that OneUnited would be eligible for the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program because he is an inveterate back-scratcher and OneUnited is the only such bank in Massachusetts.
Posted by:tu3031

#4  Barney seems to have a thing for corrupt black female pols...

U.S. Rep. Barney Frank said yesterday he has “no regrets” about his role in helping a troubled Boston bank qualify for a $12 million federal bailout now at the center of ethics charges against California Rep. Maxine Waters.

In fact, Frank - chairman of the powerful House Financial Services Committee - says he never helped OneUnited at the behest of Waters, whose husband had served on the bankÂ’s board.

Instead, the Bay State congressman said he worked to promote the bailout at the request of scandal-plagued then-state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson.“I was already working on behalf of OneUnited, I was called by Senator Wilkerson and others, I don’t remember who. I was out in California doing a hearing and got a call from Wilkerson,” he told the Herald yesterday.

At the time Frank said he acted on WilkersonÂ’s behalf, the senator was one month away from federal bribery charges to which she recently pleaded guilty. She had previously pleaded guilty to failure to pay federal income taxes and been cited for unreported campaign donations and expenditures. In 2001, she was fined as a sitting senator by the State Ethics Commission for failing to report consulting fees from OneUnitedÂ’s predecessor, the Boston Bank of Commerce, for which she had lobbied.

...and the kicker.

OneUnited received $12 million from the massive federal TARP program. So far, OneUnited hasnÂ’t proven too good an investment - the bank has missed five dividend payments to the Treasury Department.
Posted by: tu3031   2010-08-03 20:27  

#3  not "...Fire Island? Senior Discount denied? Do you know who I am?"
Posted by: Frank G   2010-08-03 20:12  

#2  Good in-line (and headline) snarkery.

Too bad for Maxine, though. Oh, well, off to P'town...

I'd bet that this is about as close to a direct "quote" from his actual thoughts as you could possibly get. LMAO
Posted by: ryuge   2010-08-03 19:48  

#1  than, not then
Posted by: lex   2010-08-03 01:03  

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