The San Francisco ghosts in Kamala Harris’ past

Via The Washington Examiner

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Few outside of California know or care who Willie Brown is. But that may be about to change.

Brown spent around a quarter of a century as de facto royalty in California, first serving more than three decades as a member of the California Assembly (15 years as its speaker), and then eight years as mayor of San Francisco.

He also once carried out an open extramarital affair with a young prosecutor named Kamala Harris, currently a U.S. senator and leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Now, we’re far beyond the point that a personal past like that disqualifies a candidate. Harris, after all, is vying to challenge a thrice-married man who once graced the cover of Playboy and publicized his infidelity on the cover of the New York Post. Candidates’ personal lives no longer warrant deep investigation, unless they tell us something about their professional and political lives.

Unfortunately for Harris, the Willie Brown story is not strictly personal. It’s also professional.

When Harris was barely 30, she began dating Brown, then in his 60s and speaker of the California Assembly. To be clear, an ambitious woman dating a powerful man is not alone any cause for concern. Strong women are attracted to success, and a 30-year-old assistant district attorney is hardly, say, a 21-year-old intern. But the story doesn’t end there.

For one thing, Brown was married at the time. He wound up dumping Harris and returning to his wife as he became mayor. (Again, in the era of President Trump, few will clutch their pearls over this.)

More questionable than the romance is the relationship’s apparent effect on her finances and her career. Brown, according to contemporary news accounts, gifted his then-girlfriend two government jobs with ample salaries — while she was just getting her start as an assistant DA.

As the San Francisco Weekly reported in 2003:

Aside from handing her an expensive BMW, Brown appointed her to two patronage positions in state government that paid handsomely — more than $400,000 over five years. In 1994, she took a six-month leave of absence from her Alameda County job to join the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board. Brown then appointed her to the California Medical Assistance Commission, where she served until 1998, attending two meetings a month for a $99,000 annual salary.

(That’s more than $150,000 in current dollars.)

Even after they broke up, Brown, a San Francisco kingmaker, continued to support Harris’ career, boosting her district attorney run and years later calling on Antonio Villaraigosa to stay out of the Senate race, thus clearing the field for Harris.

Just two years into her tenure as senator, Harris now wants to reach the White House.

The facts are messy, but most in California politics are. If she earned few hundred thousand dollars in taxpayer-funded patronage thanks to a personal relationship, that undermines some of her good-government cred. Or at least it requires her to explain how she’s changed.

Barack Obama wisely fessed up about his drug usage long before he was a presidential candidate, and he alluded to his personal growth and past mistakes enough that it created a satisfying narrative, one that couldn’t be used against him. Donald Trump was a womanizer and a brash braggart, but that was his entire brand for more than two decades. The first real instance where his past came to haunt him was when he seemed to confess to sexual battery on the now-infamous Access Hollywood tape. The allegations of consensual affairs never really mattered.

Harris doesn’t talk about Brown. She says that it’s not relevant. But part of her prosecutorial persona is a posture of toughness on corruption. But the Willie Brown story, with those big paychecks, gives off at least a whiff of cronyism. She’s got to address the charge she was profiting personally off connections to power — at least if she wants us to believe she actually stands for the people.

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Iska Waran
Iska Waran

I can’t imagine that any of this would make a difference to anyone in this day and age.

Morongobill
Morongobill

Of course it wouldn’t, there’s nothing there to beat Trump with.

CCRider
CCRider

No biggie. But if she’s found to have fucked a white christian; she’s toast.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

She’s now married to a white guy, but his name sounds jew-y.

CCRider
CCRider

Yeah, but is she fucking him???

YourAverageJoe
YourAverageJoe

Why settle for niggers when you have some awesome whiteness?

TampaRed
TampaRed

iska,
you’re an ahole,stereotyping is rude no matter how accurate it is–

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

😉

musket
musket

They are both classless clowns and should be treated as such. Now for the rest of the circus that is also known as the roster of imbeciles trying to wrestle the mantle of leadership from President Trump….who is next to crash their ship on the rocks of the shore? This is a competition of identity politics faces and nothing else……

Stucky

I don’t think the author of this article actually understands Amerika today.

First of all, he said Kamala is a “leading contender”. Contender, yes. Leading? Absolutely not. Most recent poll I saw a couple days ago has her at about 3%.

The rest of the article is irrelevant. That’s because the Left doesn’t give a flying fuck about personal shit …. unless, of course, it’s a Republican. My God! They elect ACTUAL felons, retards, and donkey faces!!

Kamala could suck every black cock in San Francisco, suck the shit out of every fag’s ass, let ten thousand illegals bang her poontang, and do all that live on teevee …. and they wouldn’t even blink.

Miles Long
Miles Long

Pay per view to get campaign finances?

Once you go black, you never go back… you cant.

Robert (QSLV)
Robert (QSLV)

Can’t imagine the soyness of present husband. I’d rather be with an ourangatan

We are Screwed
We are Screwed

So stating a fact that she “fucked herself into a top paid position” would be politically incorrect or would that be more of a toxic masculinity infringement……hmmmmm either way the fact she fucked herself into a paid position makes her a whore…..call me a racist, taoxic whatever but the fact remains she is still a WHORE…..

Stucky

What do have against whores? With a whore you at least know going in that you’re gonna get fucked.

She is far far worse than that.

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

Harris is no different than the Hollywood women who had sex with Harvey Weinstein to get parts. They sold themselves for their careers and that’s all there is to it. That equals whoring.

wdg
wdg

And then complained about it. Not only are they whores but feminist hypocrites as well. But anything is possible. Look at Canada now led by Trudeau a certified moron, former drama teacher and friend of pedophiles. But who voted for this sad excuse for a man with zero qualifications and half a brain?

Big Dick
Big Dick

Who cares what some worthless bitch from californication has to say or do????????????

Anonymous
Anonymous

Here’s the gig.

The sticking point for the dissident right is white women. White women are hard wired for status obsession. They are the epitome of NPC virtue signaling.

This is why I’m voting for Kamel Harries or Michael Obamma in the primary.

Morongobill
Morongobill

I’ll pass on that Kamala toe.

Peaceout
Peaceout

She is a politician, she does not “stand for the people”, she only stands for herself. End of story.

Pequiste
Pequiste

She stands for her masters; The Evil Fuckers.
In Kalifornyja think Hollyweird, Silicon Valley, and Banksters.

22winmag - The South was Right!
22winmag - The South was Right!

I smoked this one out a few days ago.

If she wants to BANG her way to the top now by screwing men twice her age…

…said men would be 108 years old.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Just another worthless whore, fucked her way up the ladder and now thinks she’s above everyone.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Classic case of ” It’s not what you know but who you blow” that counts. Fkn gold digg’n ho.

gilberts
gilberts

Whatever. Call me when she stands in the way of an indian huckster.

unit472

I imagine those patronage positions angered a lot of California Democrats in the state legislature. Those kind of lucrative sinecures were supposed to go to politicians being term limited out of their seats not the concubine of the Speaker. We shall see if any of them drop some dirt on Kamala as she tries to be Obama 2.0

ASIG
ASIG

Someone told me they had a conversation with Willie Brown and that Brown told them that it was Gavin Newsom that had been selected to run for the presidency. They didn’t say whether it was 2020 or 2024.

overthecliff
overthecliff

She’s an immoral nigger cunt. Tell us something we don’t know.

overthecliff
overthecliff

It is going to be Mike Obama. All these other clowns are entering the race to make him look good. They used the same technique with Barry and Trump.

Ottomatik
Ottomatik

Is it me or does the entire demoncrat line up seem….blackmailed.

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