Maxine Waters’ campaign paid her daughter $240,000

While it may seem like a a paltry sum compared to the millions of dollars Ilhan Omar’s campaign paid to her husband, Maxine Waters’ campaign helped to enrich her daughter this election cycle to the tune of $240,000. Here is more:

The daughter of California Rep. Maxine Waters netted around $240,000 this past election cycle — from her mother’s own campaign, new records show.

The congresswoman’s campaigns shelled out payments to Karen Waters for work she did on her 82-year-old mother’s re-election campaign, including “slate mailer management” and “GOTV” — or likely “Get Out the Vote” services.

More than $212,600 in disbursements to Karen Waters are broken down into 26 entries such as “slate mailer management” fees, “office expenses” and “canvassing” between March 2019 and September 2020.

Another $28,150 in payments to Karen Waters occurred in October and November, for “GOTV” and “slate mailer management” fees — though one for $1,000 was simply labeled “Walker payments.”

The article does not say if these payments were illegal or if there is a complaint filed against the Waters campaign but taking money people donated to your campaign to enrich your family is certainly unethical, especially considering this is not the first time Maxine Waters has paid her daughter using campaign finances. Back in 2018 Maxine Waters was hit with an FEC campaign violation charge for paying the same daughter $750,000 in campaign money over the years. Old habits are hard to break, especially when you get away with them over and over again…

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