Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters of California denied being a socialist Tuesday after Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas mentioned comments she made 15 years ago threatening a government takeover of oil companies.
“We can go around and around in circles about trying to talk about and defining socialism, but at its core I was intrigued by an op-ed that I saw not too long ago by a Democrat from Cuba commenting on one of our colleagues, an avowed socialist, and essentially pointing out the extent to which democratic socialism is a lot like the system my family fled except its proponents promised to be nicer when seizing your business. That’s the truth,” Roy said during a Tuesday hearing of the House Rules Committee to discuss H. Con. Res. 9, a resolution introduced by Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida that denounces socialism.
