Kamala Harris launched political career with $120K ‘patronage’ job from boyfriend Willie Brown

(The Real Kamala) ByAlana Goodman June 1, 2019 4:00 am1/2

Kamala Harris’ first significant political role was an appointment by her powerful then-boyfriend Willie Brown, three decades her senior, to a California medical board that has been criticized as a landing spot for patronage jobs and kickbacks.

Then 30, Harris was dating 60-year-old Willie Brown, at the time the Democratic speaker of the California State Assembly, when he placed her on the California Medical Assistance Commission in 1994.The position paid over $70,000 per year, $120,700 in current money, and Harris served on the board until 1998.

The medical commission met twice a month, and Harris, a United States senator for California since 2017 and now a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate,missed about 20% of the meetings each year, according to commission records obtained by the Washington Examiner.

The seven-member board was largely comprised of late-career former state officials who were semi-retired or biding time before retirement.At 30 years old, Harris was the youngest appointee by some three decades.

Harris, now 54, and Brown, now 85, started dating in the spring of 1994, showing up arm-in-arm at numerous high-profile functions, including Brown’s lavish parties and celebrity galas. He has been separated but not divorced from his wife Blanche Vitero since the 1980s and has maintained a string of girlfriends over the years.

That June of 1994, Harris took a leave of absence from her job as a deputy prosecutor at the district attorney’s office in Alameda County, where she had worked for four years after graduating from law school.Brown appointed Harris to the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, a position that paid $97,000 annually, which would be $167,000 in 2019. Five months later, Harris resigned from the insurance board, andBrown immediately appointed her to the California Medical Assistance Commission.

Brown, in a letter to Harris, wrote that he was “pleased to appoint” her to the board, which oversaw the payment of insurance providers for state-subsidized MediCal recipients. “I am confident that your knowledge and experience will contribute significantlyto the important work of the Commission,” he wrote.

Harris had no medical background, according to a copy of her resume that she submitted to Brown at the time. Her experience consisted of four years as a deputy prosecutor, a handful of summer jobs and internships, and a volunteer position at a hospital fundraising group.

According to state recordsof the time,membersof the committeehad to be “selected from persons with experience in management of hospital services, risk management insuranceor prepaid health programs, the delivery of health services, the management of county health systems, and a representative of recipients of service.”

Brown’s decision to appoint Harris raised eyebrows in political circles. “Both boards are reserved for political payback or occasionally for personal rewards for personal service,” said Brett Granlund, a former California Republican state assemblyman who worked closely with the commission while Harris was on the board.“The boards are considered plumb appointments as they require no work, no policy credentials, and arepaid the equivalent of a full-time [state] senator for arriving at a one- to two-hour meeting each month.” Granlund said the appointment seemed brazen at the time because of the relationship between Harris and Brown.“Screwing the speaker has its rewards,” he said. “Stevie Wonder could have seen through that play.”

However, Sandra Smoley, a registered nurse who served on the California Medical Assistance Commission from 1999 to 2004, saidmany of the appointees did not have medical backgrounds and there were no criteria governing appointments. “I had a health background, but [the commission] wasn’t necessarily health related,” she said. Smoley said the commission was primarily run by nonappointed staff members who worked full time out of an office and handled all of the negotiations with hospitals.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/1014836/kamala-harris-launched-political-career-with-120k-patronage-job-from-boyfriend-willie-brown/

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Although the medical commission has since been disbanded, Smoley said the board did important work at the time. Its role was oversight. “I think the work of the Commission was highly positive,” she said. “The work that we did was necessary, and I do think it did effect access to care for MediCal recipients and also cost containment of hospital rates.”

Brown recently acknowledgedin an op-ed for the San Francisco Chronicle thathe “may have influenced” Harris’s career. “Yes, we dated. It was more than 20 years ago. Yes, I may have influenced her career by appointing her to two state commissions when I was Assembly speaker,” he wrote. (He was reminding her she owes him and better not screw him but telling the truth)

He noted that he had helped other politicians throughout his career, andsaid Harris was the “only one, who after I helped her, sent word that I would be indicted if I ‘so much as jaywalked’ while she was D.A.” He added: “That’s politics for ya.”

Brown was one of the most powerful politicians in Californiawhen he and Harris began their relationship. He was a member of the California State Assembly for three decades, half of that time as its speaker, and later went on to serve as mayor of San Francisco.

A charismatic and shrewd politician, Brown was also known for his slew of attractive girlfriends and apparent inability to stay with one woman for very long.

Although he faced several allegations of pay-to-play and corruptionwhile he was speaker and mayor,multiple FBI investigations turned up empty and he was never indicted. (of course)

Harris was first described as the “speaker’s new steady” in a column written by the late San Francisco gossip columnist Herb Caen, a close friend of Brown’s, in March 1994. Photos from the time, obtained from Brown’s personal archives in San Francisco, show the couple cozying up and dancing at parties, including Brown’s birthday and his annual fete known as “The Reunion.”

According to Caen’s columns, friends of the couple were hopeful that Harris could convince Brown to finally settle down. To their surprise, the two broke up shortly after Brown was elected mayor of San Francisco. “This news came as a shock to many, including those who found Kamala Harris attractive, intelligent and charming,” wrote Caen on Dec. 26, 1995.

“Also flabbergasted: the brain-trusters who found Kamala the perfect antidote to whatever playboy tendencies still reside in the mayor-elect’s jaunty persona.”

The breakup reportedly happened shortly after Brown met 32-year-old San Francisco socialite Carolyn Carpeneti, a woman with whom he would later have a daughter.While the two were dating, Carpeneti was paid $2.33 million for campaign workfrom a network of nonprofit groups and committees run by Brown and his associates, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

“If this doesn’t cross the line, it comes awfully close,” Jim Knox, executive director of California Common Cause, told the San Francisco Chronicle at the time. “At the very least it seems questionable for [Carpeneti] to have free use of a public resource in her role as private campaign consultant.”

That wasn’t the last time Brown would face scrutiny for steering benefits to women he was dating. In the 1980s, he reportedly hired his girlfriend Wendy Linka as a fundraiser, and she was later hired as a marketing director for city commissions after Brown became mayor.

Brown also continued to aid Harris’s political career after their split, supporting her successful 2003 campaign for district attorney. But publicly, Harris attempted to distance herself from the San Francisco mayor.

She called Brown an “albatross hanging around my neck” in a 2003 San Francisco Weekly profile, which reported thatthe “mere mention of their former liaison makes her shoulders tense, her hands clench, and her eyes narrow.” Harris said: “His career is over; I will be alive and kicking for the next 40 years.I do not owe him a thing… Willie Brown is not going to be around. He’s gone — hello people, move on.”

Brown recently joked to the Washington Examiner that if Harris wins the presidential election he would have to “leave the country.”Harris’ campaign did not respond to requests to comment.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/1014836/kamala-harris-launched-political-career-with-120k-patronage-job-from-boyfriend-willie-brown/

I think the black community would love to know this info, and they might want to know she is not 1/2 black, her father was Jamaican.

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Kamala sued and arrested David Dailidon on behalf of Planned Parenthood, a complete misnomer, they have sucked him dry and he's still fighting the state of CA. No wonder Kamala main policy goal is Abortion, Abortion, Abortion. I wonder how much they donate to Kamala with the US Public's money that our stupid government gives them?

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There had to be locals involved in this too, and DHS, DHI investigators, this was planned for a long time.

>>21269020

that was not a lady, it was a DEI test tube creature

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Biden-Linked MeidasTouch Owner Refusing to Pay Staff, Editor Quits.

Los Angeles Magazine Editor-in-Chief Shirley Halperin has resigned after just over a year on the job amid reports the publication’s owners—Mark Geragos and Ben Meiselas—have failed to pay reporters, photographers, freelancers, and other vendors for their work.Meiselas co-founded the far-left, anti-Donald Trump MeidasTouch Network with his brothers Jordan and Brett, which has spread conspiracy theories regarding the former president and Republican lawmakers.

Responding to a report in The Wrap regarding Halperin’s resignation and the failure to pay staff and freelancers, the magazine offered a non-answer.“We are proud that Los Angeles Magazine will have a profitable year in a challenging media environment, and circulation is way up,” Christopher Gialanella, the president and publisher of Los Angeles Magazine, said, adding: “We will be announcing our new Editor-In-Chief in the next two weeks.”

‘NO REGARD FOR MEDIA INDUSTRY.’

Ben Meiselas and his law partner Mark Geragos purchased Los Angeles Magazine in 2022 for an estimated $6 million. At the time of the purchase, the magazine was an unprofitable venture.Under Meiselas and Geragos, the magazine has continued to hemorrhage cash.

According to The Wrap, Greg Gilman—the executive editor for the magazine’s website—departed the publication last monthover the failure to pay freelancers and the “lack of vision and strategy by new owners.” Meiselas and Geragos are said to have “little or no regard for journalists and media industry.”

The National Pulse has reported extensively on Ben Meiselas and his brothers’ MeidasTouch operation.Ron Filipkowski, Editor-in-Chief of the far-left network, has likened his organization’s behavior on social media to criminal arson, “dropping a burning ember in a dry forest” andcreating a “big blaze” of fake news within hours.

MeidasTouch popularized the “bloodbath” hoax against Trump, and has been praised by the Biden-Harris regime as their “front lines.

”Disgraced attorney and perjuror Michael Cohen is a regular contributorto the far-left website, which has received funding from Epstein Island visitorReid Hoffmanand the scandal-ridden Lincoln Project.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/07/22/top-editor-resigns-after-meidastouch-owner-refuses-to-pay-staff/

VP Harris Has Not Met Border Patrol Chief Since He Assumed Office a Year Ago.

July 22, 2024

Border Patrol Chief Jason Owens says Vice President Kamala Harris, whom Joe Biden put in charge of the U.S. border crisis in March 2021, has not spoken with him since he assumed office last July.Owens’s predecessor, Raul Ortiz, who retired in May 2023, revealed this March that he “never had one conversation with the President or Vice President” during two years in office.

Vice President Harris’s status as “Border Czar”—which her corporate media allies are now denying—is likely to hamstring her efforts to present her presidential candidacy as a clean break from that of Joe Biden, who endorsed her after abandoning the race on Sunday.

“When she speaks, she speaks for me. Doesn’t have to check with me. She knows what she’s doing,” Biden said when assigning her the role in 2021.

Illegal immigration has reached unprecedented heights under the Biden-Harris regime. It is projected that, by the end of its four years, it will have overseen aninflux of illegal migrants on par with the number of legal migrants Ellis Island processed across 63 years.

Meanwhile, the year 2023 saw a flood of resignations from the Biden-Harris border team, including Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security John Tien, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) chief Chris Magnus, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) acting chief Tae Johnson. The slew of departures raises additional questions about Harris’s role in overseeing the U.S. border and her ability to manage federal offices effectively.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/07/22/vp-harris-has-not-met-border-patrol-chief-since-he-assumed-office-a-year-ago/

Congressman Re-Enacted Trump Shooting, Landed 15 of 16 ‘Killshots.’

Republican Representative Pat Fallon of Texas slammed United States Secret Service (USSDS) director Kimberly Cheatle over her agency’s failures during the attempted assassination of Donald J. Trump, saying he re-created the shooting and managed to hit 15 out of 16 kill shots.

Fallon said that he used his own AR-15, firing eight shots with a red dot and eight shots with a magnified scope.

“The one I missed would have hit the president’s ear. That’s a 94 percent success rate, and that shooter was a better shot than me. It is a miracle President Trump wasn’t killed,” Fallon said.

Fallon questioned Cheatle during a July 22 House Oversight Committee hearing,asking her how 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks outwitted and outsmarted her agency.

Cheatle admitted she knew of the heightened threat to Trump, which was later disclosed as Iranian in origin but did not increase Trump’s security.

“You just said you had the ability to beef up the security. You knew about the threat, and you didn’t. And that’s as telling as it is chilling,” Fallon said.

SECRET SERVICE CHIEF SNUBS SITE VISIT.

Cheatle confessed she had never visited the shooting location in the nine days since the shooting.

“The shooter had visited the site two times more than you have,” Fallon said, noting that Crooks had used a drone to scout out the best possible place to open fire from.

Previously, Cheatle had claimed no agents were on the building where Crooks took his shot due to the supposed sloped roof.

Fallon highlighted the fact that other USSS snipers were placed on buildings with even steeper sloped roofs, calling Cheatle’s statements “pathetic excuses.”

“I believe your horrifying ineptitude and lack of skilled leadership is a disgrace. Your obfuscating today is shameful, and you should be fired immediately and go back to guarding Doritos,” Fallon concluded.

Fallon was not the only member of the committee to slam Cheatle, as Rep. Nancy Mace (SC-R), told Cheatle she was “full of shit” during her questioning.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/07/22/congressman-re-enacted-trump-shooting-landed-15-of-16-killshots/

(How could she have worked for the SS for 36 years and work as head of security in a Doritos factory)

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Bidan has got to be dead