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Rep. Maxine Waters cancels Birmingham trip due to security concerns
The Birmingham News ^ | June 28, 2018 | Jonece Starr Dunigan

Posted on 06/28/2018 10:29:09 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-California, has cancelled a planned trip to Birmingham due to security concerns. She was scheduled to speak Friday at an annual conference for black female politicians, local officials and community leaders.

Waters was supposed to address an audience of black women for the National Organization of Black Elected Legislative (NOBEL) Women's Annual Legislative Conference, which starts today and ends Sunday. But NOBEL President Karen Camper, a state representative from Tennessee, confirmed that Waters was no longer coming because of security reasons. Details about the safety concerns have not been released and it's not known if a specific threat were made.

Waters' cancellation comes during a time when both Republican and Democratic lawmakers are criticizing remarks she made during an immigration rally telling citizens to publicly confront members of President Donald Trump's administration. Her statement was made in response to Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy, which led to the separation of children from families at the Mexico border.

"Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up," Waters said during the rally. "And if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere. We've got to get the children connected to their parents."

Multiple lawmakers, such as House Majority Kevin McCarthy, have asked Waters to apologize for her statements.

"We have to have civility," McCarthy told Fox News during an interview on Monday. "I can disagree with somebody philosophically, but to personally attack -- to remove somebody and not serve them? What's interesting to me, the people who claim tolerance seem to be the most intolerant in this process."


TOPICS: Alabama; California; Parties; U.S. Congress
KEYWORDS: alabama; blacks; maxinewaters; waters
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What terrible news!
1 posted on 06/28/2018 10:29:09 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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maxine bikers 4 trump
2 posted on 06/28/2018 10:30:25 AM PDT by FrankR ( Winners NEVER cheat, and Cheaters NEVER win.)
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Maybe her mouth was too big to fit into that city.


3 posted on 06/28/2018 10:31:21 AM PDT by lee martell
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What happened to the skunk when the wind changed?


4 posted on 06/28/2018 10:32:00 AM PDT by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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Oh noes!! I hope she’ll be okay with her security guard around her at all times.


5 posted on 06/28/2018 10:32:25 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Make Atlantis Great Again.)
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So.....she wants to harass others but can’t take it herself? The hypocrisy of these people is beyond comprehension!


6 posted on 06/28/2018 10:33:52 AM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Note to all foreigners: GET OUT and STAY OUT!)
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Ha! Love this!!


7 posted on 06/28/2018 10:34:22 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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“What’s interesting to me, the people who claim tolerance seem to be the most intolerant in this process.”

...duh.


8 posted on 06/28/2018 10:34:25 AM PDT by albie
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I don’t know what she’s thinking. Nobody on God’s green earth would mistake her as a Trump supporter or an American for that matter.


9 posted on 06/28/2018 10:34:27 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't pass up the opportunity to use the Second Amendment today! IT'S FREE!)
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What else is there to say other than

Bwahahahahaha...


10 posted on 06/28/2018 10:34:41 AM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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To: BipolarBob

Regular members of congress have no security or bodyguards assigned to them, only the leadership has those.


11 posted on 06/28/2018 10:34:43 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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an annual conference for black female politicians

Racist and sexist.

12 posted on 06/28/2018 10:35:21 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Waters was supposed to address an audience of black women for the National Organization of Black Elected Legislative (NOBEL) Women’s Annual Legislative Conference, which starts today and ends Sunday. But NOBEL President Karen Camper, a state representative from Tennessee, confirmed that Waters was no longer coming because of security reasons.

Not safe from her own followers...


13 posted on 06/28/2018 10:35:59 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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Breaking down the population from the 2010 census shows that 75% of Birmingham’s total population is Black or African America. Approximately 22% are White, 3.6% are Hispanic or Latino, 0.2% are Native American, 1% are mixed race, and 2.1% are another race.

Hmmmmmmm. What is the security problem of a city that is 78 percent minority.......Interesting she is so scared.


14 posted on 06/28/2018 10:36:33 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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Are these the NOBELs that gave Bonzo the prize?


15 posted on 06/28/2018 10:36:44 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't pass up the opportunity to use the Second Amendment today! IT'S FREE!)
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“Waters was no longer coming because of security reasons.”

Who could possibly wish ill on that dear, lovable, sweet little old lady?


16 posted on 06/28/2018 10:36:46 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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I can’t believe she hasn’t demanded and not gotten security guards. Maybe out of the DNC, Soros or her own pocket, I don’t know. I have no knowledge either way but the makes herself a BIG target with her mouth.


17 posted on 06/28/2018 10:36:54 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Make Atlantis Great Again.)
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I call BS.

This is happening to make it look like those Irredeemable Deplorables are waiting to harm the best thing that ever happened to the Republicans in the Mid Term Election Cycle.

Heck, I’ll chip in and buy Mad Max a new Bullhorn.


18 posted on 06/28/2018 10:37:49 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Afraid she might be mobbed?


19 posted on 06/28/2018 10:38:11 AM PDT by DonkeyBonker
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The reason the Republicans at the softball game weren’t all slaughtered by that Bernie Bro is that Scalise was in the leadership and had police assigned to him.


20 posted on 06/28/2018 10:38:41 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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