Steve Sailer writes: Harris has been in the news since 1994 when she was the very special 29-year-old guest at the 60th birthday party of master politician Willie Brown, the longtime speaker of the state assembly, who, by the way, has been married since 1958. The ethically challenged Brown found lucrative state sinecures to appoint his mistress to.
When Californians voted for term limits in large part to get rid of Willie, he slid over to being mayor of San Francisco. Despite since being term-limited out of the mayor’s office, Brown, now 82, still pretty much runs San Francisco through his handpicked mayor Ed Lee. Evidently, term limits lead to amateur office holders, who give local deep state rascals like Brown even more power.
Brown is a political genius of sorts, but not the kind that states normally want to flaunt in Washington. Willie was always a down-home taste, fine for the gamey realities of San Francisco but not really for sharing with national company. (Granted, Brown was never as crazy crooked as some more recent San Francisco elected officials, such as Ed Jew, who tried to shake down the owners of a rival tapioca shop, and Leland Yee, the state senator and gun-control advocate who was recently jailed for gunrunning shoulder-launched missiles with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, a.k.a. MILF.)
The Democrat Brown was famous for being able to stay speaker by finding Republicans here and there to vote for him. Not surprisingly, his former concubine has followed a 1990s path of running for prosecutor jobs to set herself up for higher office.
* Who is Kamala Harris? An attractive Mixed Race woman. I know she married a White guy.
If they had kids together, they would be passable as White.
After all Susan Rice has kids who can pass for White and Susan is darker than Kamala.
* The Harris example shows that there is a destabilizing asymmetry in the media universe. Female behavior is scrutinized significantly differently than male behavior. How much of that noticing and critique of males is due to the top dog getting hounded by all those oppressed individuals and classes? The corollary to that is that men deserve the hounding as one price for all that privilege.
Alternatively, how little of the female behavior is held up to objective review? Something like a Kamala Harris greasy pole dance might seem somewhat benign in the Clintonian scheme of things. As more women accede to higher positions, how will they fend off or rationalize away criticisms about some of the shadier methods used in that ascent?
* Aside from her looks and racial and academic credentials, and partisan considerations aside, is Kamala Harris any good?
How does she rate for sheer professional competence, leadership smarts and political chops? Does anyone in California know?
Do you have any strong impression, Steve?
These days it’s hard to find that kind of information about anyone running for office…the signal to noise ratio in the media is infinitesimal now.
* There’s so many ‘firsts’ (and ‘seconds’ too) in one person you can’t count them all.
1. First black senator from California
2. First female Asian-American senator
3. Second black female senator
4. First woman attorney general of California
5. First black attorney general of California
6. First asian attorney general of California
* Politics are about what you would expect from a diversity hire, 100% liberal.
Kamala Harris
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Harris has been a vocal proponent for gun control her entire career. While serving as District Attorney in Alameda County Harris recruited other District Attorneys and filed an amicus brief in District of Columbia v. Heller, arguing that the Second Amendment does not protect an individual’s right to own firearms.[68] Harris also supported San Francisco’s proposition H, which would have prohibited most firearms within city limits.
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Harris is opposed to the death penalty but has said that she would review each case individually.
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Harris created a special Hate Crimes Unit as San Francisco District Attorney. She focused on hate crimes against LGBT children and teens in schools.
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Harris supports same-sex marriage in California and opposed both Proposition 22 and Proposition 8.
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Harris has been vocal in the immigration debate, supporting San Francisco’s immigration policy of not inquiring about immigration status in the process of a criminal investigation.
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In interviews with Matt Lauer on The Today Show and local KGO-TV, Harris argued for treating “habitual and chronic truancy” among children in elementary school as a crime committed by the parents of truant children.
* I noticed that, too, about Kamala Harris and Willie Brown, and thought I was misreading it. I hesitated to comment because I’m not in California. But–good Lord!–if a Kamala Harris clone were to run for major public office in Ohio, how would anyone not think she’d bootstrapped her political career by sleeping up.
