Kamala Then

Time Periods

REMINDER: She has become the unelected nominee without a single primary vote. Black Lives Matter says Dems are 'party of hypocrites' for 'installing' Harris sans 'public voting process' https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/black-lives-matter-says-dems-are-party-of-hypocrites-for-installing-harris-sans-public-voting-process/ar-BB1qvqd1

REMINDER: Kamala Harris Says Equal Outcomes Should Be the Goal of Public Policy… “everyone should end up in the same place.” https://reason.com/2020/11/02/kamala-harris-equality-equity-outcomes/ (see policies,.) (and her VP’s favorability towards socialism)

  • Communism: A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people

Early Life & Career

  • Both parents professors, mom was daughter of Indian diplomat, Dad Marxist scholar, they divorced when she was 7, raised by mother, brought up Hindu, Berklee until 12, high school in Montreal

  • Middle Class? According to New York Times: “… an extroverted American teenager who had moved to Montreal from California at age 12…Eventually the family settled on the top floor of a spacious Victorian home in an affluent neighborhood bordering Westmount, one of Canada’s wealthiest districts.”  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/05/world/canada/kamala-harris-montreal.html

  • 1994 met and started dating the (married to someone else, “estranged”) Speaker of California Assembly Willie Brown, who appointed her to various public positions …he was 60 and she was 29, Willy the “womanizer” and “godfather of politics and “real slick Willy” as per Bill Clinton 

BELOW:  “frequent companion” and “the salary jumps to $72k starting tomorrow” and the $97k job “until last week was held by Harris”

BELOW: “he [Willie Brown] has given up girls in favor of a woman, Kamala Harris, who is exactly the steadying influence he needs.” (He was married to someone else.)

BELOW: 1996, Willie wins Mayor of San Fran, Kamala as his “first lady in waiting…” (Willie is still married to someone else.)

BELOW: soon after he becomes mayor, they break up and “the break up was shocking...she [Kamala] was perfect anecdote to his playboy tendencies”  (even though, wait for it, he was married to someone else.)

 

BELOW: Willie’s autobiography: “Blanche [his wife] read a column that implied a girlfriend of mine and I were going to get married…. Declared Blanche, ‘Listen, she may have him at the moment, but come inauguration day and he’s up there on the platform being sworn in, I’ll be the bitch holding the Bible.’” (hence the break up)

 

  • 1998 San Francisco DA Terence Hallinan (friend of Brown at the time) hires Kamala as prosecutor

  • In 2000 she tried to get DA’s chief deputy fired, failed, moved to City Attorney’s office, within 3 months Willie Brown was publicly criticizing Hallinan and soon Kamala was running against him as DA, she ran on being tougher on crime, criticized him for not prosecuting thousands of rioters of Iraq War

  • City Ethics Commission fined Harris $34,000 for breaching a spending cap she promised to honor and her campaign manager was caught impersonating a volunteer for a rival to gain inside information https://www.law.com/almID/900005394795/

  • According to Charlie Spiering, author of Amateur Hour, she was a relatively unknown Alameda County prosecutor, but Brown takes her to all the donor’s parties, gives her state positions ($1 million in today’s $)

  • Backed by Mayor Willie/San Fran donors, high society, Kamala won DA’s office

 2004-2011: As DA of San Francisco

  • Campaigned on being “tough on crime” and as opponent of death penalty, even after 2004 murder of policeman “cop killer” by gang member

  • Continued to refuse death penalty for illegal immigrant who committed triple homicide

  2011-2016: As California Attorney General

 2017-2020: As Senator

  • 2019: GovTrack, a non-partisan organization that tracks bills in Congress, ranked  Harris as the “most liberal compared to All Senators.” One measure the organization uses is comparing how many bipartisan bills each senator cosponsors to how many bills they co-sponsored in total. Harris had the lowest at 15% in 2019 (of course, “page no longer found,” but see below)  https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/kamala_harris/412678/report-card/2019

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2019/2020 – as Presidential Candidate  

  • 2019: launches presidential campaign on MLK day (Feb) comes out strong, 2nd only to Bernie, 1st female black president, “female Obama”), raised $1.5 million in 24 hours

  • 2019: Jesse Smollett (see chapter on hoaxes): Kamala deems “modern day lynching” (reminder: this story was completely made up)

  • 2019: 7 women came forward claiming sexual harassment against Biden, Kamala “I believe them”, raised $12 million in 1st quarter

  • 2019:  Kamala Harris Vows To Cut America Back on Red Meat If Elected https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2024/07/24/kamala-harris-vows-to-cut-america-back-on-red-meat-if-elected/

  • 1st debate: attacks Biden on racial segregation, “you worked with them to oppose bussing. there was a little girl in California...she was bussed to school...that little girl was me.” raises $2 million more

  • 2019: “We have to have a buyback program, and I support a mandatory gun buyback program,” she said. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/live-blog/gun-safety-forum-live-updates-las-vegas-n1060911#ncrd1061751

  • 2019: I will explore issue of reparations for African-Americans if elected https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkiCHo-2N0M

  • 2019: wants to fight for transgender inmates to get gender-affirming surgeries, tax-payer funded “On that issue I will tell you I vehemently disagree and in fact worked behind the scenes to ensure that the Department of Corrections would allow transitioning inmates to receive the medical attention that they required, they needed and deserved,” Harris said. https://www.washingtonblade.com/2019/01/21/harris-takes-full-responsibility-for-briefs-against-surgery-for-trans-inmates/

  • 2019:  “there's no question I’ m in favor of banning fracking “ endorsed a nationwide ban on oil and gas fracking, which would cost tens of thousands of jobs and cause power outages like those that often occur in her home state.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VNkA1CYC8k

  • 2019: promised to end cash bail, get rid of court-ordered fines, expunge the records of some felons, discontinue federal mandatory minimum sentences and to place greater federal scrutiny on local police departments, according to her memo https://s3.amazonaws.com/ak-kharris/images/Kamalas_Plan_to_Transform_the_Criminal_Justice_System.pdf and https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1816878329586241831

  • 2nd democratic debate: it was pointed out that despite her claims of criminal justice reform, she “put 1500 people in jail for marijuana violations then laughed about it when asked if she’d ever smoked pot, blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so, kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California, and she fought to keep a cash bail system in place that impacts poor people in the worst kind of way.”

  • Personality problems: inauthentic, breaks into laughter at inappropriate times

  • Town halls, interviews, contradicted herself on issues such as healthcare & criminal reform, ended up pleasing nobody, drop in polls, untrustworthy

  • Internal emails reveal “chaotic organization with staff turnover and a lack of cohesive strategy - Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/30/kamala-harris-campaign-layoffs-061112

  • Kamala Harris Campaign Accused of Treating Staff 'So Poorly' and Not Having 'a Real Plan to Win' https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-campaign-accused-treating-staff-so-poorly-not-having-real-plan-win-1474851 “"This is my third presidential campaign and I have never seen an organization treat its staff so poorly," and “her personal political convictions are unclear” —>she has no principles

  • Early 2020: still bashing Biden, supporting Tara Reid who had accused him of sexual assault

  • Despite all of that ^^ she was still black and female and Biden had made it clear he wanted a female VP

  • George Floyd/riots, she calls for donations to Minnesota Freedom Fund to help those “protesting on the ground” —>bail for rioters, often violent

  • 2020: praised Defund the Police movement “we need to reimagine how we are creating safety…for too long, the status quo thinking has been we get more safety by putting more cops in the street…well, that’s wrong”  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/kamala-harris-praised-defund-the-police-movement-in-june-2020-radio-interview/ar-BB1qFck6 and

  • Kamala Harris Is a Cop Who Wants To Be President - The California senator and former prosecutor has a long record of pushing illiberal policies. https://reason.com/2019/06/03/kamala-harris-is-a-cop-who-wants-to-be-president/  

    • More than a decade later, her book would stress that she decided to become a prosecutor out of a desire to reform the system from within—to help end policies that lead to mass incarceration by sending people to prison for minor crimes and that disproportionately affect people of color, immigrants, and the poor. Yet while in the district attorney's office, Harris amplified attacks on vulnerable populations, launched new enforcement initiatives (including one against parents), and brought the hammer down on "quality of life" crimes.

    • By 2005, Harris was also turning against the city's decade-old Drug Court, which allowed some people arrested on nonviolent possession and small-time sales charges to go to a city-run addiction treatment program as an alternative to incarceration. Successful completion could lead to the charges being dropped. In an op-ed that year in the San Francisco Examiner, Harris complained that people had "learned how to manipulate the system—by simply claiming to be addicts." She proposed barring anyone who had previously sold any quantity of any drug from the Drug Court, and the chance it offered for lesser sentencing, even if the current arrest was for mere possession.

  • POLICY PROPOSAL: Proposed multiple changes to the tax code, including raising taxes on high-income earners and providing refundable tax credits.  https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/21/us/politics/kamala-harris-economy.html

  • POLICY PROPOSAL: Proposed raising the corporate income tax rate of 21%, established in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), up to 35% https://taxfoundation.org/blog/kamala-harris-tax-proposals-2020/  

  • Damning New Report Shows How Oakland Cops Covered Up Their Sexual Exploitation of a Minor https://reason.com/2017/07/13/oakland-police-corruption-comes-out/  Before the feds stepped in, civil rights lawyers and California residents had been pleading for then-Attorney General Kamala Harris (now a U.S. senator) to open an independent investigation into the situation, since it spanned several police departments and involved allegations of coverups. During this same period, Harris was on a showy and unconstitutional crusade against executives at Backpage, claiming they were complicit in the sexual exploitation of teen girls. A judge dismissed the charges against Backpage execs while chastising Harris for her overreach; Harris responded by refiling nearly identical charges in another California court. But she never responded to the petitions and pleas asking her to look into systemic sexual exploitation by state agents in Oakland.

  • POLICY PROPOSAL: During her 2020 Democratic primary campaign, Harris had a roster of tax proposals, including taxing capital gains at the same rate as ordinary income, imposing a financial transactions tax, strengthening the estate tax, and providing tax credits to businesses in rural areas and companies developing renewable energy sources.  https://kamalaharris.medium.com/my-plan-for-medicare-for-all-7730370dd421

  • POLICY PROPOSAL 2020: on healthcare/Medicare for All/Government-Controlled Healthcare: Q: “In your plan, eventually everyone would be taken off the private plan that their company currently has? Kamala: "Yes.”

  • Sen. Kamala Harris drops out of 2020 presidential race – Harris, with just 3.4% support nationally, and just 3.3% and 2.7% backing in the early-voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire, respectively.  https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/sen-kamala-harris-drops-out-2020-presidential-race-n1094996

  • How Kamala Harris’s Campaign Unraveled -Ms. Harris is the only 2020 Democrat who has fallen hard out of the top tier of candidates. She has proved to be an uneven campaigner who changes her message and tactics to little effect and has a staff torn into factions.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/29/us/politics/kamala-harris-2020.html

Continue reading about Kamala As VP and Kamala as a Presidential Candidate

Yes, she was a “DEI” hire - Joe Biden specifically said he would hire a black woman VP (and Supreme Court nominee)

Have you heard her talk? Should she be representing our country on the world stage, negotiating with world leaders? If you were a dictator, would you be afraid of her? SHE CANNOT COMMUNICATE. The media used to TORCH her and make fun of her and question her competence – when she was appointed the nominee, her favorability jumped 13 points overnight. Why?