Late last night, Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) e-mailed POLITICO and others an unrepentant 700-word explanation of the beef with Appropriations Committee David Obey that led her to shout and maybe shove the 71-year-old Wisconsin Dem.
She doesn't deny reports (including mine) that she berated and pushed Obey over his refusal to cough up $1 million to fund a Watts job training center named after Waters — of the type the chairman has dismissed as "monuments to me."
Instead, Waters portrays the incident as Maxine vs. the man.
An "angry" Obey, she says, stubbornly refused to fund a badly needed community resource in one of the country's most depressed neighborhoods — Watts has a nearly 50 percent unemployment rate.
Waters' behavior may not have looked not so good here, but the argument should add to Waters' reputation back home, even though she hasn't had a serious challenger in years. The story proves she's fighting — literally — for Watts.
She calls the center a "national model," although I couldn't find any such assessment in a quick review of five years' worth of NEXIS clips.
The big question here, of course: Does the Maxine Waters Employment Preparation Center actually do its job? - Politico Story
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