Maxine Waters is done with 'nice guy politics' | TheHill:
"From the perspective of some House Democrats, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has the right message.
She’s just not always the best messenger.
The Los Angeles lawmaker’s early calls for President Trump’s impeachment and viral showdowns with administration officials have endeared Waters to the party’s young, liberal base.
And those stances have also garnered the respect of many House Democrats, who admire how Waters, 79, sticks to her political convictions.
"She is up-to-date, she is smart, she is authentic and she is not scared to express herself,” Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) told The Hill, adding that her constituents in Milwaukee often ask her if she knows Waters.
"She is transformative in terms of appealing to different generations of people.”
...Waters is aware that she sometimes pushes the envelope, according to a former aide who said the congresswoman thinks Democrats as a whole have engaged in "nice guy politics" for too long..."
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