Maxine Waters paid daughter $192,000 in campaign funds during 2022 cycle, filings show

California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters continued her longstanding practice of funneling campaign cash to her daughter to run a lucrative operation during the 2022 election cycle, which netted the younger Waters another six figures in payments.

Karen Waters pocketed $192,300 from her mother's campaign to keep her "slate mailer" operation afloat between Jan. 2021 and Dec. 2022, a Fox News Digital review of Federal Election Commission filings shows. The setup involves outside campaigns paying Waters' campaign to appear on the slate mailers - or endorsement mailers - sent out to constituents in the Los Angeles area.

The practice is highly unusual on the federal level, and Waters appears to be the only national politician using it to grab committee cash. Slate mailers, however, are commonplace in her home state of California, though critics say it involves deceptive practices over one campaign paying another for a politician's backing in an election.

Waters received the green light to run the operation from the Federal Election Commission in the fall of 2004. Since then, Karen Waters has received more than $1.2 million in payments from her mother's campaign.... (Read more)

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