The Ben Shapiro Show – Daily Wire – 07/09/24 – deepcast.fm
My cmnt: I am a subscriber to The Daily Wire and put this out for the convenience of my readers. It is extremely important to understand the level of incompetent bozos the democrats routinely put forward and get elected to national office. Barack Obama while good at reading the teleprompter was an utterly incompetent and unprepared buffoon sitting in the Oval Office. Hillary was a scheming, evil, lying succubus and had no business being in national office besides having seizures and being too sick to even campaign against Trump. Joe Biden was senile way before the democrats scammed his way into the presidency with illegal, unverified mail-in ballots and has nearly ruined every major institution he has touched. And the now the possibility of Camela being president is beyond the pale of the worse Hollywood script imaginable.
My cmnt: Harris graduated from Howard in 1986 with a degree in political science and economics. Harris then returned to California to attend law school at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law through its Legal Education Opportunity Program (LEOP). Let’s just say that Camela got thru college and especially law school by affirmative action pgms and not by any talent or abilities of her own. This is much like how our first half-black president got thru his entire post high school education by the ill-placed help of liberals passing him thru as the DEI case of his day.
This transcript is an episode of Ben Shapiro’s podcast where he introduces a series called ‘Kamala Harris Unmasked.’ He portrays Harris as a deceitful and incompetent politician who has achieved success through ambition and lack of principles. The episode traces Harris’s rise from a deputy district attorney in San Francisco to her current position as U.S. Vice President, highlighting scandals, missteps, and radical views along the way.
Shapiro delves into Harris’s early career, including her relationship with former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown, who allegedly helped her secure lucrative positions. He accuses her of dishonesty, highlighting instances where she allegedly misrepresented her background and falsified statistics. Shapiro also criticizes Harris’s prosecutorial record, claiming she was soft on crime while portraying herself as tough.
The episode portrays Harris as an opportunist who changes her stances to suit her political ambitions. Shapiro argues that Harris’s success is a result of her unbridled ambition and lack of convictions, rather than genuine accomplishments or principles.
Key Episodes Takeaways
- Ben Shapiro portrays Kamala Harris as a deceitful, opportunistic, and radical politician who achieved success through ambition and lack of principles rather than genuine accomplishments.
- The episode traces Harris’s rise from a deputy district attorney in San Francisco to her current position as U.S. Vice President, highlighting various scandals and missteps along the way.
- Shapiro accuses Harris of dishonesty, falsifying statistics, being soft on crime despite portraying herself as tough, and constantly changing her stances to suit her political ambitions.
- Harris’s relationship with former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown, who allegedly helped her secure lucrative positions early in her career, is cited as an example of her willingness to use personal connections for advancement.
- The episode portrays Harris as a dangerous radical whose true nature is often obscured by her public persona and awkward behavior.
- Shapiro argues that Harris’s success is not due to genuine accomplishments or principles, but rather to her unbridled ambition and lack of convictions.
- The episode is a scathing critique of Harris’s political career, presenting her as an unqualified and incompetent politician who poses a significant threat to the nation.
- Shapiro claims that Harris’s rise to power is a result of the corrupt political system that props up incompetent leaders and radical ideologies.
Chapter Details
Chapter 1: Introduction to Kamala Harris’ Rise
- Ben Shapiro promises to expose the truth about Kamala Harris’s rise to power, which he portrays as being enabled by deceit, corruption, and a lack of principles.
- Shapiro characterizes Harris as an inauthentic, radically opportunistic figure driven solely by ambition rather than any core convictions.
Chapter 2: Kamala Harris’ Early Life and Background
Chapter 3: Harris’ Relationship with Willie Brown and Early Career
Chapter 4: Harris as San Francisco District Attorney
Chapter 5: Harris as California Attorney General and U.S. Senator
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This chapter chronicles Kamala Harris’s tenure as California Attorney General and her subsequent election to the U.S. Senate. It highlights her continued pattern of dishonesty, catering to her radical base while projecting a tough-on-crime image, and her refusal to defend state laws she opposed.
The Transcript
Hey folks, Ben Shapiro here. Welcome to Kamala Harris unmasked. This series is exactly why Dailyware plus exists and why your membership is so crucial. Were bringing you the unvarnished truth about Kamala Harris that the mainstream media are too cowardly to touch. This is the kind of hard hitting, fact based content thats missing in todays media landscape.
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If you believe in honest journalism, if youre tired of the mainstream medias lies and if you want to be part of the solution, then join us. Go to Dailywire.com subscribe and become a member today. Lets continue this fight together. The truth matters and with your help, well make sure its heard. Now lets dive into Kamala Harris unmasked and see what the left doesnt want you to know.
Meet Kamala Harris. You know her of course. She’s the vice president of the United States, the historic first black female vice president since Joe Biden chose Kamala as his vice presidential candidate in 2020. He has touted her as a co partner in this administration. I will be a full partner to the president elect and the president and whatever our priorities are, I will be there to support him and support the american people.
She was put in charge of the border crisis. She has substituted for Joe Biden at international conferences on Ukraine. She has sat in on phone calls with foreign leaders. She has globetrotted to push the administration’s agenda on everything from climate change to the economy to race in America. And yet, Kamala Harris is largely perceived as a joke by the american public, a figure straight from Veep.
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My fellow Americans, words have many meanings. And sometimes, instead of conveying our meaning, they can suggest other meanings. We are the United States of America because we are united. Whatever we have in store cannot be known. There is a reason for that.
Ben Shapiro
Harris awkward laughter has become the unofficial accompaniment to the administration’s myriad foibles. Poor hubby. Poor hubby.
Her bizarre word salads have become a late night comedy fodder, right? The significance of the passage of time. What can be unburdened by what has been? What can be unburdened by what has been? And, as always, wakanda, forever.
Kamala is, in the public mind, according to polling data, incompetent, unqualified, and idiot. But all of this sells Kamala Harris short. Kamala Harris has been in public life for four decades. In that time, she has conned her way from obscurity to deputy district attorney, from there to San Francisco district attorney, from there to California attorney general, from there to the United States Senate and finally to the vice presidency. Kamala Harris story is one of corruption and of failing up, of lies and betrayals, of dishonesty and incompetence.
Kamala Harris is not merely incompetent or unqualified or foolish, though she is dangerous. That danger is often obscured by her awkward Persona. You think you just fell out of a coconut tree, round and round.
But that Persona hasn’t been an obstacle to her rise. Now, Kamala Harris is a hair’s breadth from the Oval Office. But how did she get here? How did someone with such a knack for failure manage to climb the greasy pole to the precipice of the most powerful position in the world? In this documentary podcast, were peeling back the layers of Kamala Harris career, exposing the scandals, the missteps, and the awkwardness that have come to define her journey, and exposing her radicalism, too.
Because heres the ugly Kamala Harris is utterly and radically inauthentic, a person without any central conviction except the desire for power. And if the story of Kamala Harris tells us anything, it’s that in America, unbridled ambition combined with a complete lack of principle can take you just about anywhere, even to the White House.
Kamala Harris
My mother used to have a very funny story, but I was fussing and she said, kamala, what do you want? And I said, and this is how she would say it. And she said, kamala, what do you want? And I said. That’S Kamala Harris on Jimmy Fallon’s show in 2021, and it’s one of her favorite stories.
Ben Shapiro
In fact, she told it to Elle magazine in October 2020 as well. Unfortunately, that story doesn’t appear to be Kamala’s it appears that Kamala plagiarized it from Martin Luther King junior, who wrote in 1965, quote, I will never forget a moment in Birmingham when a white policeman accosted a little negro girl, seven or eight years old, who was walking in a demonstration with her mother. What do you want? The policeman asked her gruffly, and the little girl looked him straight in the eye and answered, feed em. Its a small but telling example of Kamala Harris constant attempts to reshape and remold her own history.
But what lies at the core of the real Kamala Harris? Kamala Harris was born on October 20, 1964, to Donald Harris, a marxist economist from Jamaica, and Shemala Gopalan, a breast cancer researcher from India. Like Barack Obama, Kamala was not an american descendant of slavery. Both of her parents would earn PhDs from UC Berkeley. They would go on to divorce when she was seven.
She was largely raised by her mother religiously. She also grew up going to hindu church. Her mother told the Los Angeles Times in 2004, quote, a culture that worships goddesses, produces strong women. She performs all rituals and says all prayers at the temple. My family always wanted the children to learn the traditions irrespective of their place of birth.
Kamala grew up in the Uber liberal enclave of Berkeley for a few years, from 1970 to 1976. Later, of course, Kamala would claim to have been victimized by segregation, most famously in her second presidential debate, when she targeted Joe Biden. We’ve also heard, and I’m going to now direct this at Vice President Biden, to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country. You also worked with them to oppose busing. You know, there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bussed to school every day.
Kamala Harris
And that little girl was me. When Kamala was twelve, she moved with her mother and sister to Montreal, Canada. There she went to school at the private catholic school Notre Dame de Nasas, then Westmount High School. According to the New York Times. Quote, eventually, the family settled on the top floor of a spacious victorian home in an affluent neighborhood bordering Westmounthen, one of Canada’s wealthiest districts.
Ben Shapiro
According to one of Kamala’s classmates, students at her school were more divided about who had the latest Jordache genes than about race. In other words, Kamala certainly did not grow up in the face of widespread and sinister american racism. She spent her most formative years in Canada. Nonetheless, after high school, Kamala went to college at Howard University, a historically black university. She chose Howard because, as she later told the Washington Post, when you’re at an HBCU and especially one with the size and with the history of Howard University and also in the context of also being in DC, which was known forever as being chocolate city, it just becomes about you understanding that there is a whole world of people who are like you.
It’s not just about there are a few of us who may find each other. She was searching for an identity, and she found one, becoming a social justice activist as soon as she got there. According to the Post, she spent many weekends protesting against apartheid in South Africa on the mall in Washington, DC. And she took part in a 1983 sit in the of an administration building to protest the expulsion of the student newspapers editor, after attending Howard, Kamala went to the University of California, Hastings College of Law. She interned at the Alameda County District attorneys office between second and third year at law school, as well as becoming president of the National Black Law Students association.
She failed her first attempt at the California bar, later making the excuse she hadnt properly studied. Nonetheless, she latched on at the district attorneys office as a deputy prosecutor, and Kamala’s career might well have ended there as a local prosecutor. But then, in 1994, she met someone very speaker of the California Assembly, Willie Brown. Willie Brown had entered the California State assembly in 1964, the same year Kamala was born. He was 60 years old when they began dating Kamala, a mere 29, Brown was a famous womanizer who led a separate life from his wife and apparently had done so since 1980.
Bill Clinton called him the real slick Willy Brown was a California political kingmaker looking for a new gig after speaker of the assembly. He wanted to run for mayor of San Francisco, and Kamala was, to put it mildly, a woman on the make. Within months, Brown wasn’t just squiring around Kamala publicly, introducing her to all the important people in California culture and politics. He was actually appointing her to public positions, taxpayer funded public positions. First, he appointed her to the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, a position that compensated her $97,000 annually.
That would be about $205,000 today. She left after six months, but he then appointed her to the California Medical Assistance Commission, which paid her over $70,000 per year, about $150,000 today. As the Washington examiner reports, the commission met just twice per month. Kamala still missed one fifth of all the meetings. Kamala herself was the youngest member of the board by 30 years.
Brown sends her a letter stating, quote, I am confident that your knowledge and experience will contribute significantly to the important work of the commission. At the time, she had zero experience in health or medicine, despite the fact that the committee was supposed to be selected from persons with experience in management of hospital services, risk management, insurance or prepaid health programs, the delivery of health services, the management of county health systems, and a representative of recipients of service. Well, get to more on that in a moment. First, are you still struggling with back taxes or unfiled returns? Nearly one in four americans owe back taxes, and the worst thing you can do is ignore the problem.
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As Kamala’s mother would later tell the press, quote, why shouldn’t she have gone out with Willie Brown? He was a player. Brown didn’t just provide a public pension to his lover, he also familiarized her with the top players in the state. As journalist Charlie spearing writes in his political biography of Kamala amateur hour. Quote, Brown and Harris only dated for about a year, but he made a foundational impact on her political and financial future.
In his last year as California speaker of the assembly, Brown appointed his new girlfriend to two positions in state government, that, all told, paid her more than $400,000 over five years. Brown also gave Harris the keys to a BMW as Brown’s girlfriend. Harris was featured in all the gossip and high society columns of as Brown worked the city for his campaign for mayor. Brown has publicly acknowledged how much he helped her in her early years. Yes, we dated.
It was more than 20 years ago, he wrote in 2019. Yes, I may have influenced her career by appointing her to two state commissions when I was assembly speaker, and I certainly helped with her first race for district attorney in San Francisco. I’ve also helped the careers of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Governor Gavin Newsom, Senator Dianne Feinstein and a host of other politicians. He does not note, however, that he never had sex with Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom or Dianne Feinstein. We presume Kamala was not just another fling for Willy Brown.
Some people around him thought it was serious. Herb Kane, a San Francisco Chronicle reporter who also happened to be Willie Brown’s best friend, wrote a lot about his relationship with Kamala. In a June 19, 1995 report, Cain wrote that Brown had, quote, given up girls in favor of a woman, Kamala Harris, who is exactly the steadying influence he needs. In a December 14, 1995 piece on Brown’s victory party, Cain referred to Kamala as the, quote, first lady in waiting. He reported that the hap Brown war, celebrating with dumb air written on it in all caps, was a gift from Kamala.
But then, eleven days later, on the day after Christmas, Cain wrote, the newly elected mayor was putting the word out. It was over with Kamala. He said the breakup was shocking and flabbergasted aides who viewed Kamala as the perfect antidote to his playboy tendencies. So what happened? For that, you need to look in Willie Brown’s own autobiography, Basic Brown.
Without mentioning Kamala by name, he says his actual wife, Blanche Vittero, put her foot down once she saw the reports about how serious things were with Kamala. In the book, Brown writes that while Blanche, quote, usually maintained her cool about his philandering, every once in a while she made it clear who was boss. After Blanche read an item in Herb Kanes column that implied a girlfriend of mine and I were going to get married. This is what she said to a friend. Listen, she may have him at the moment, but come inauguration day and hes up there on the platform being sworn in, ill be the b holding the Bible.
Thats from woolly Brown himself. Why was he scared of his wife? Well, in the book, he also writes that she was a high priestess in haitian voodoo religion. So maybe it was that. But more importantly, any notion this wasn’t an affair because Brown and his wife were long estranged seems to be undercut by Brown himself.
They broke up because Willie Brown was married. And maybe that explains the animosity Kamala clearly still has. Brown wouldn’t leave his voodoo priestess wife to make Kamala San Francisco’s first lady. As fearing points out in his book, Kamala still refuses to acknowledge her debt to her former lover later in her career, as she ran for San Francisco district attorney with his help, she insisted, quote, his career is over. I will be alive and kicking for the next 40 years.
I do not owe him a thing. If there is corruption, he will be prosecuted. Kamala doesnt mention Willie Brown once in her autobiography. In 1998, San Francisco District Attorney Terrance Hallinan hired the now 33 year old Kamala. She was to be paid some $100,000 per year, almost $200,000 in todays dollars.
Helenen called her a terrific prosecutor with a great reputation. He also insisted he had not spoken with Willie Brown about her hiring until it was all done. Sure, the next year, despite questions about Hallinans far left progressive prosecutorial style, Brown backed Hallinan. Kamala, though, quickly became disillusioned with her lack of power in the prosecutors office. She tried to get Halinans chief deputy fired.
When she failed in August 2000, she moved to the city attorneys office and set her sights on defenestrating her former boss. Kamala’s next ambitious move would be the betrayal of the man who hired her at the San Francisco district attorney’s office. Just three months after she moved offices in October 2000, Willie Brown began publicly criticizing Halonen, paving the way for the Kamala Harris for DA campaign. And I made a very conscious and deliberate decision to become a prosecutor, understanding that it is some of the most vulnerable people in our community who are impacted by the criminal justice system. Kamala turned on Halonin as soft on crime and tried to make the case that she would be far harsher on criminals than Halinan had.
She went out of her way to slam Halonin’s refusal to prosecute thousands who had rioted over the Iraq war. She slammed Halonin as a man willing to let murderers off the hook. She accused Helenan of, quote, lying to us about his domestic violence record, adding, women are dying because of it. As we’ll see, this was merely rhetoric. In office, Kamala would follow Helenen’s San Francisco prosecutorial model herself.
Helenen struck back by pointing out Kamala’s relationship with Brown. In response, Kamala threw Willie Brown under the bus, undoubtedly with his tacit permission, as the Los Angeles Times would later report. Brown, the outgoing mayor less than universally loved at the end of his second term, kept his public role minimal. But his stamp of approval was crucial in raising money from the San Francisco establishment, said Aaron Peskin, a board of supervisors member who backed Harris. Kamala wasn’t above skirting the line, either.
As the Times reported, quote, the 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 arrival in a bungled attempt to gain inside information. She’s already accumulated half a dozen misdemeanors, the highest fine in the history of the San Francisco Ethics Commission, and committed violation after violation of our ethics code. But Kamala Harris did win for the. City and county of San Francisco, congratulations.
After winning, as has been the consistent pattern throughout her career, Kamala immediately embarked on a campaign for higher office.
This involved two simultaneous goals. First, catering to her radical left wing base. Second, acting tough on crime. Now, theres no easy way to square those two goals unless youre willing to lie. And thats precisely what Kamala did in her inaugural speech.
She promised to be smart on crime. By smart, she meant dishonest. First, she sought to cater to her left wing base. Kamala had campaigned as an opponent of the death penalty, and she held to that even after the April 2004 murder of police officer Isaac Espinoza by a gang member. We have thoroughly reviewed the facts and the law in this case, said Kamala.
It was a complicated analysis that involved many issues, many facts and many laws. It wasnt just didnt want a death penalty case on her record. Despite the protestations of then Senator Dianne Feinstein, Kamala also avoided seeking the death penalty for an illegal immigrant gang member who committed a triple homicide. It simply wouldnt do to look too right wing in going after murderers, even if she had criticized her predecessor for just that sort of conciliatory approach to homicide. Kamala also reversed herself on her critique of Halinin regarding the Iraq war rioters.
She ended up letting all of them off the hook. Her office was responsible for the release on probation of a suspect who would murder a prominent Oakland journalist. She refused to prosecute criminals under Californias so called three strike law unless the final felony was violent. It turns out her campaign as a smart crime fighter was just a facade for the more San Francisco leftism. But somehow, Kamala also had to appear tough on crime, at least tough enough to run for attorney general of California.
And so she began falsifying her prosecutorial statistics. Now, there are two ways of increasing your conviction rates as a prosecutor. First, you can actually increase the number of convictions out of the number of trials. You know, you can be a better prosecutor. Second, you can decrease the number of trials altogether while holding the number of convictions steady.
Give a bunch of cases easy plea bargains. Kamala, of course, went with strategy number two. As Charlie spearing reports, quote, of the backlog of 73 homicide cases on Hallinans watch, Harris cut a deal for 32 of them and only convicted 15 of the defendants for murderous police officers. Didnt understand why cases were being dropped, but the answer was, fewer cases you need to prosecute means fewer cases you need to win to keep your conviction rate up. Kamala continued to take both sides of nearly every issue during her time at San Francisco da, she refused to prosecute prostitution, but opposed decriminalization.
She supported legalizing medical pot, but also supported federal officers arresting distributors. She tried to prosecute a schizophrenic woman who was injured by the police after attacking officers. Most famously, she began arguing she could lock up parents of truant children. I would not be standing here were it not for the education I received. So I decided I was going to start prosecuting parents for truancy later.
Of course, she would argue she never actually imprisoned parents, but that’s not what she was bragging about at the time. Trying to be top cop. Her incompetence nearly exploded into the open in 2010 when a member of her office emailed a colleague about an increasingly undependable crime lab technician. That crime lab technician, Deborah Madden, wasn’t merely undependable. It turned out she was criminal.
She had tampered with cocaine and stolen some of it. A court found that Kamala, quote, failed to produce exculpatory information actually in her possession regarding Madden and the crime lab. The court blasted Kamala for significant errors and misjudgments. Hundreds of cases were affected. Kamala would herself dismiss some 1000 drug related cases in order to get the scandal off the books.
Once again, she was willing to let hundreds of criminals onto the streets in order to cut short the terrible headlines. All this time, Kamala’s eyes were on the next rung on the political ladder. State attorney general. To achieve that office, Kamala would have to increase her name brand, and the media were prepared to help her out. Now to a woman named, one of America’s most powerful women, by Newsweek magazine.
Matt Lauer
As San Francisco’s first female african american and indian american district attorney, Kamala Harris has received praise for raising conviction rates against violent criminals while creating innovative programs to reduce crime and prevent repeat offenders. Do you have ambitions for national office? No, I, you know, it’s one step at a time, and I actually, I’m a career prosecutor. I really believe that California has the ability. As that old adage says, so goes California, goes the rest of the country.
Ben Shapiro
Now, if you were to watch that interview with Matt Lauer, you’d think Kamala Harris had been wildly successful in San Francisco. But in reality, her tenure was a failure, with low conviction rates and, according to her opponents, the highest homicide and robbery rates in the state. Nonetheless, celebrity power triumph. Kamala won the primary. She then moved on to the general election against Republican Steve Cooley, Da for Los Angeles.
Cooley promptly hit the nail on the head, pointing out she had no intention of remaining attorney general for the state, that she had her eyes on higher office. For Kamala’s part, she wasn’t exactly hiding the ball. She recruited high profile supporters, including President Barack Obama. Her relationship with Obama would later become a crucial component in her rise. In the end, Kamala pulled out an incredibly close race, winning by just 0.8%.
As California AG, Kamala was quickly hailed as one of the nation’s most important women. Her star was rising and the media were burnishing it. 38 year old Kamala Harris came out of nowhere and was swept into office as San Francisco’s district attorney. And as she did, she made history. She was the first woman ever to be the city’s top prosecutor.
Matt Lauer
We take a look at a woman that many are calling the female Barack. Obama with a 90% conviction rate, superstar prosecutor. Prosecutor Kamala Harris made history when she was elected California’s first african american female district attorney. Barack Obama in particular, gave Kamala high praise, calling her the nation’s best looking attorney general. Mister Obama praised California Attorney General Kamala Harris, but then Mister Obama added, she also happens to be by far the best looking attorney general in the country.
Ben Shapiro
The resulting media melee, which Kamala no doubt enjoyed, forced Obama to issue a half hearted apology. Certainly, Kamala wasn’t defended. She spoke at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Obama’s favor, raising her profile, too. The american dream belongs to all of us, and if we can work together and stand together and vote together on November 6 for President Barack Obama, that’s a dream we will put within reach of all our people. How worshipful was the press, too?
Kamala? This new rising star. Maxim magazine named her the 54th hottest woman in the world in 2013, beating out Brooklyn Decker, Emmy Rossum, Emilia Clarke, and Jessica Chastain. Obviously, Kamala was on the rise. She was just as obviously dishonest.
Kamala knew she’d still have to play both sides of the table to preserve her campaign for higher office. To that end, she pretended to act as a tough on crime top cop, cut deals where she had to, and she played to a radical base at the same time. And in California, she got away with it. In 2012, Kamala came under scrutiny from her left for cutting a deal with the banks. After the housing meltdown of 2008, she refused to prosecute one west for predatory lending.
This led to criticisms of cronyism from the left, given that key investors included Kamala donors like Steve Mnuchin and George Soros. She also fell under the spotlight after her office made the argument that prisoners slated for release due to prison overcrowding had to be maintained to provide a labor pool for the prisons. Extending two for one credits to all minimum custody inmates at this time would severely impact fire camp participation, a dangerous outcome while California is in the middle of a difficult fire season and severe drought, her office wrote. When that news broke, Kamala pretended to be shocked. After all, who could expect the attorney general to read the paperwork her own office was filing?
Meanwhile, Kamala even took a position against cash bail and defended death penalty cases in court despite her prior opposition to the death penalty as a DA in San Francisco. Now that her eyes were on the national level, she knew she’d have to distance herself at least a little from the San Francisco radical left. But Kamala also played to that left. She infamously refused to defend the will of California voters in the courts. In 2012, when the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals moved to discard proposition eight, California’s referendum enshrining male female marriage as the only legal standard for marriage in the state.
The night the proposition was killed by the 9th Circuit, she herself officiated a same sex wedding ceremony. I now declare you spouses for life. This amounted to a fundamental betrayal of her office. The attorney general of a state doesnt simply get to overrule the people of that state by refusing to defend the law. But Kamala did, and she was celebrated for it.
All was well in Kamala land, and it was about to get even better. In 2014, at the ripe old age of 49, just in time for her next political step, she married a wealthy lawyer named Doug Emhoff. As stepmom to Emhoffs two children, she began calling herself Mamala, Kamala easily won reelection as attorney general. Then, in January 2015, Senator Barbara Boxer announced she would leave office. That left the door wide open to Kamala, by far the most prominent Democrat in the race.
Not only that, California had recently changed its laws so that the top two candidates in an open primary would face each other in the senatorial election. That meant, for the first time, no Republican would appear on the final ballot at all, meaning that Kamala only had to be the most popular Democrat in the state to walk into the Senate. All the stars were aligning, but Kamala would use her final few months as attorney general to polish her left wing bona fides. In April 2016, she targeted David Deladon and Sandra Merritt, pro life activists who had the temerity to report on the selling of baby body parts by Planned Parenthood. Meanwhile, she was touting Planned Parenthood on her own website as Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B.
Anthony List, said, quote, the fact that Miss Harris is seizing private property of a pro life California activist who has exposed horrific practices conducted by Planned Parenthood, which donated thousands to her last campaign, while her Senate campaign promotes and defends them, the nation’s largest abortion provider, is a conflict of interest and abuse of government power, Daladen stated. This is no surprise. Planned Parenthood’s bought and paid for. AG has steadfastly refused to enforce the law against the baby body parts traffickers in our state or even investigate them, while at the same time doing their bidding to harass and intimidate citizen journalists. We will pursue all remedies to vindicate our First Amendment rights.
In May 2020, Delayden filed suit against Kamala for civil rights violations. No matter. Kamala’s 2016 Senate campaign was a romp. It required no serious campaign infrastructure, given that no Republican was running against her. It also required no discipline.
As the Atlantic reported, in December 2015, Kamala was, quote, the Senate candidate driving Democrats crazy, according to the Atlantic. One stay, one hotel, $1,886. That’s how much Kamala Harris campaign spent this march to put up the California Senate candidate at Washington’s luxurious St. Regis Hotel, a review of the Harris campaign’s federal election Commission reports reveals it was far from a one time splurge. In June, the campaign spent $1,500 to house Harris for a night at Houston’s posh houstonian hotel.
In July, it was another night at the St. Regis, this time for $1,600. In Chicago, it was the Waldorf Astoria in Boston, the four Seasons, and on four occasions this year, Harris campaign paid for rooms at the pricey W Hotel in Los Angeles. The total price tag for these first class accommodations? Almost $18,000.
Campaigns typically show up big bucks on media buys, staff salaries and expensive fundraisers. But spending it on housing, particularly when far cheaper options are available, is atypical, campaign veterans say, and even Harris fellow democrats have taken notice. But Kamala Harris was, in her own eyes, a star, and she deserved star treatment. Kamala’s for our schools, Kamala’s for affordable childcare. That’s Kamala.
Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris for Senate Kamala’s bad campaign habits didn’t cost her anything in 2016, but they would come back to bite her down the road. For now, though, Kamala’s star was on the rise. Kamala Harris had gone from California bar failure to California senator, from Willie Brown’s lover to Barbara Boxer’s seat. And Senator Kamala Harris had her eyes on just one the 2020 presidential election.
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