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ACTIVIST NAJEE ALI VS. REP. MAXINE WATERS: Bad blood between pair reportedly erupted outside L.A. church.
*Things have rarely if ever been civil between Los Angeles-based activist Najee Ali and Rep. Maxine Waters (Dem/CA), ever since he was fired from his post as community affairs columnist for local paper L.A. Focus after publicly criticizing the congresswoman on a local radio show for supporting James’ Hahn’s mayoral campaign.
Ali won a lawsuit against L.A. Focus, but the matter seems to remain a sore spot for Ali, as it was brought up in an altercation between the two last week in the parking lot of a Los Angeles church.
According to local publication Soulvine, the Baptist Ministers Conference of Los Angeles and Southern California was having its monthly meeting at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, where Calif. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had been scheduled to speak. Rev. Al Sharpton invited Ali to attend, and Rep. Waters was on hand because she had reportedly organized a protest march in the parking lot.
Upon Ali’s arrival, Waters reportedly approached Ali and began yelling at him to avoid the media. Najee said she told him that if he spoke to the press, "She'd make things rough for me," Soulvine reported.
The screaming match was reportedly accented with fingers wagging in faces on both sides before the dust-up ended and Ali was pulled away.
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Congresswoman Maxine Waters
Waters, meanwhile, has been named among the “20 Most Corrupt Members in Congress,” according to the latest poll from Washington D.C.-based watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (CREW).
“Rep. Waters’ family members have used her name and connections to make lucrative commercial deals from which they have reaped personal financial gain in violation of House rules,” CREW said of the eight-term Democrat representing South Los Angeles.
Waters' daughter, Karen Waters, allegedly received hundreds of thousands of dollars by charging for spots on slate mailers issued by a nonprofit organization that sends sample ballots to voters, according to CREW. Waters’ husband, Sidney Williams, reportedly earned hundreds of thousands of dollars by working as a consultant for a bond underwriting firm that seeks government investment, CREW said. Waters' son, Edward, also benefited from her political connections involving a county lease to run a golf course in South Los Angeles, according to CREW.
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