League of Women Voters of California - Additional Endorsements for Kamala Harris
2003 DA Election
https://www2.smartvoter.org/2003/12/09/ca/sf/vote/harris_k/endorse.html
https://archive.is/cFFyY
Big list of names to dig
https://pastebin.com/Veqy2eeU
Kamala's Comunism
March 2005
https://archive.org/details/richmondreview2005rich_1/page/2/mode/2up
Kamala DA race December 2003
https://archive.org/details/visitacionvalley209unse/page/12/mode/2up
https://www2.smartvoter.org/2003/12/09/ca/sf/vote/harris_k/bio.html
https://archive.is/Aj2JC
Full Biography for Kamala Harris
2003 DA
This information is provided by the candidate
Kamala D. Harris, 38, is a veteran prosecutor who has dedicated her outstanding legal talents to prosecuting violent crime, combating the sexual exploitation of children and working creatively to improve the quality of life in our communities.
A former Deputy District Attorney in San Francisco and Alameda County, Kamala has thirteen years of courtroom experience. She currently serves as a San Francisco Deputy City Attorney, where she is Chief of the Community and Neighborhood Division.
Kamala was born in Oakland and raised in Berkeley. Her parents, both professors, were active in the Civil Rights Movement and instilled in Kamala a strong commitment to justice and public service. That commitment led Kamala to Howard University, America's oldest black university, and then to Hastings College of the Law. She graduated in 1990.
As Deputy District Attorney in Alameda County from 1990 to 1998, Kamala prosecuted hundreds of serious and violent felonies, including homicide, rape and child sexual assault cases. Before Louise Renne recruited her to join the City Attorney's office in August, 2000, Kamala was the Managing Attorney of the Career Criminal Unit of the San Francisco District Attorney's office.
Throughout her career, Kamala has made youth and children a priority. She was one of the few prosecutors in California to stand up against Proposition 21, which has forced more young people unnecessarily into prison. Currently, she is spearheading a public-private task force that is pushing San Francisco to confront the growing problem of teen-age prostitution.
Among her many community activities, Kamala is Co-Chair of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights; President of the Board of Directors of Partners Ending Domestic Abuse; elected member of the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Bar Association; and founder of an SF Museum of Modern Art mentoring program which has served hundreds of young people from the inner city.
Kamala has been recognized many times for the excellence of her work. For her work on behalf of youth, Kamala received an award from Crime Victims United. In 1998, she was named by the Daily Journal as one of the top 20 young lawyers in the State of California. Most recently, she earned an award from the County Counsel Association of California for her work granting gay couples equal rights in child adoption cases.
Establishing Neighborhood Crime Councils
By Kamala Harris
https://www2.smartvoter.org/2003/12/09/ca/sf/vote/harris_k/paper3.html
https://archive.is/2baXZ
San Francisco is a city of neighborhoods, and our neighborhoods deserve a voice at the District Attorney's office. Instead, over the last eight years, the neighbors have been told that important problems such as drug-dealing, teen prostitution, aggressive panhandling, and gang violence were not a priority.
To give neighbors a voice, I will create Neighborhood Crime Councils that will act as a forum for the District Attorney's office to listen to the particular crime problems of that community and help determine how the office uses limited resources to improve our neighborhood quality of life.
During the campaign, I will also begin holding neighborhood town meetings in every Supervisor's District. These will be opportunities for neighborhoods to hear my views and for me to hear neighbor's view on important crime issues.
As the District Attorney, I will also work to expand and improve Community Courts, which have been used with limited success in this city but with great success throughout the United States. Community Courts are especially effective in deterring quality of life crimes and improving the day-to-day life of our city.
District Attorney's Race (2003 Audio Interview)
https://www.kqed.org/forum/312010900/district-attorneys-race
https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.kqed.org/forum/312010900/district-attorneys-race
https://od1.kqed.org/anon.kqed/radio/forum/2019/01/SFDARace20031201.mp3
Guests:
Terrence Hallinan, District Attorney for the City and County of San Francisco
Kamala Harris, Deputy City Attorney of San Francisco
Brains, brio, beauty – and wounded feelings
Nov 2003 - Kamala
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Brains-brio-beauty-and-wounded-feelings-2512633.php
https://archive.is/YkwPQ
They both have glamour, brains and determination they even travel in the same tight-knit San Francisco social circle but don't look for district attorney hopeful Kamala Harristo get a job reference from former office mate Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom anytime soon.
Because behind the smiles, Guilfoyle Newsom the network TV analyst and wife of mayoral front-runner Gavin Newsom is still smarting from what she says was the frosty and underhanded treatment she got from Harris when she was making a bid to return to the D.A.'s office a couple of years back.
"The bottom line is she didn't want me there," Guilfoyle Newsom tells us.
The back story as they say in Hollywood begins in 1996 when freshly elected District Attorney Terence Hallinan swept house at the Hall of Justice, and in the process sent the young and green Guilfoyle packing. She landed in the Los Angeles D.A.'s office.
A short while later, Hallinan chief assistant Richard Iglehart, who had worked with Harris in Alameda County, recruited the young up-and-comer (who also had been dating Mayor Willie Brown) to supervise the D.A.'s career criminal unit.
In time, Iglehart landed a judgeship and exited – and Darrell Salomon, a local attorney with his own political connections, became the new No. 2.
Before long, Guilfoyle who by this time was dating the politically ambitious Supervisor Newsom started making overtures to Salomon and others about returning to San Francisco.
Just what happened next is open to interpretation.
Some office insiders say Harris caught wind of Guilfoyle's plan and got her resume from the secretarial staff.
Next, Guilfoyle Newsom says, Harris was on the phone to her in L.A.:
"She called me and said basically that she was on the hiring committee and in charge of the budget for the D.A.'s office, and that I should have gone through her if I wanted to return to the D.A.'s office – and that there was no money to hire me."
Guilfoyle Newsom - who already had met with Salomon about coming back – says she called the office to find out what was going on and was told that that there was no such hiring committee and that Harris had no say in the matter.
"You have to understand, I came with an excellent resume," Guilfoyle Newsom said, "and talented women should support other talented women."
Harris recalled the conversation differently.
"I never discouraged her from joining the office," she said. "I never suggested to her there wasn't a job for her in the San Francisco D.A.'s office – of that, I'm very clear."
So why did Harris call her?
"To see if she needed any help – to let her know I was there to help her," Harris said.
She says she's at a loss to explain Guilfoyle Newsom's version of events. "I've seen Kimberly a number of times over the last few months," Harris said. "We have great rapport and have great respect for each other.
"I think she is a great lawyer," Harris added, "and I look forward to working with her."
As things turned out, Guilfoyle Newsom did land a job with the D.A. a couple of months after their chilly conversation – and she soon made quite a name for herself as one of the two attorneys prosecuting the owners of the dogs that killed Diane Whipple.
Guilfoyle Newsom is still able to summon a few kind words for Harris – calling her "very smart" and "a good speaker" and someone who "will work very hard" if elected.
But don't count on Guilfoyle Newsom going to work for Harris – or Hallinan, for that matter. She's been on leave from the D.A.'s office these past few months while helping her husband's campaign and pursuing her own budding career as a legal commentator for ABC News, CNN and Fox.
Say cheese: Saturday's long-awaited opening of the new Carquinez Bridge brought Penngrove resident Allan Henderson and his family to the area earlier in the week for a sneak peek – and boy, did they get an eyeful.
As they were having lunch at the Dead Fish restaurant in Crockett, watching the construction crews put the finishing touches on the $500 million span, a giant motorcade started heading north across the bridge.
"There must have been 16 to 18 CHP motorcycles," Henderson said, plus a half-dozen squad cars and a couple of unmarked sedans.
The motorcade stopped midspan, and all the bridge workers descended on the parade, bringing construction to a standstill.
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A surprise visit by Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger, perhaps – or maybe outgoing Gov. Gray Davis getting a preview tour before he cut the ribbon Saturday?
Hardly.
"It was a photo op," says Department of Transportation spokesman Bart Ney.
In this case, the CHP snapping some public relations shots of themselves.
"Because once the bridge opens, they'll never have that opportunity again, " Mey said. "It should be a good picture."
Going south: After the raucous Rock the Vote debate this past week, Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean took all kinds of flak and ended up having to apologize for saying he wanted to attract white voters who drove pickup trucks and had Confederate flag decals.
But as Chronicle political reporter Carla Marinucci noted, Dean's comments weren't new.
Far from it.
Back in March, Dean told the California Democratic Convention in Sacramento that "I want to go to the South, and I'm going to say to white guys that drive pickup trucks with Confederate flag decals on the back of their car, 'We want your vote, too, because your kids don't have health insurance either. ' "
Back then, Dean's speech which got a standing ovation from the 1,800 delegates was hailed as a triumph, and Dean was labeled a rising star by both Democrats and the media.
This week, pundits are saying he's stumbled badly – citing the same remarks.
Talk about politics being fickle.
Once the Supremes strike it down, they all lose their bans
>WTF happened to him
When you suddenly realize all of these people are meat puppets and nobody can be trusted
Tweet sauce so can obtain full size image
> lower court judges should lose their seats for being repugnant to the constitution.
If there are any left after the indictments that would be a good preventive future legislation
You Can’t Make This Up: Left-Wing Influencer Embarrassingly Deletes Tweet After Mistaking Kamala Harris’ Pitiful Crowd Size for Trump’s Rally
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/you-cant-make-this-up-left-wing-influencer/
Left-wing influencer William LeGate found himself the butt of online jokes after he mistakenly roasted Kamala Harris’ crowd size, thinking it was from a Trump rally.
In a now-deleted post, LeGate lashed out at former President Donald Trump, claiming that Trump had “ordered” his team to cover up thousands of empty seats with black cloth to avoid the appearance of a sparse crowd.
The problem? The rally was not Trump’s but rather Kamala Harris’ event, which was met with a dismal turnout.
As the tweet began to gain traction, social media users quickly pointed out the blunder, leading LeGate to delete his post amid the embarrassment.
Meanwhile, Kamala Harris’ campaign seems to be adding to the pile of embarrassments. The official Kamala HQ X account was caught sharing a video clip from Trump’s rally in Montana, taken two hours earlier in the day, and passing it off as live footage.
The timestamp on the video clearly shows it was taken at 7:36 pm Eastern time, while actual live footage from 9:35 pm shows a fully packed arena, contradicting the campaign’s narrative.