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Last week, given the difficulties President Biden was having just getting through an incomprehensible townhall meeting, we took a look at what Vice President Kamala Harris brings to the Oval Office if (when) the 25th Amendment is used to “retire” him. It’s not encouraging news, as you know if you read it.

https://www.mikehuckabee.com/latest-news?id=01A2837A-8710-4A6B-9A96-3021399FE349

Of the many reader responses we received, a couple of them pointed to a report on her that appears in the book PROFILES IN CORRUPTION, by Peter Schweizer. In fact, she’s Chapter 2.

http://www.jack-ass.net/art/pic/pic2a.html

The chapter begins with a story that shows the close connection between Harris and President Obama. She first supported him when he was running for the Senate in Illinois in 2004. Then, after he was elected, he flew to San Francisco to attend a fundraiser to help retire her campaign debt after being elected San Francisco district attorney. In 2007, when Obama announced he was running for President --- SO SOON after winning the Senate --- Kamala and several family members joined his campaign and, as Schweizer described it, worked tirelessly. When Obama won, Kamala was there in Chicago’s Grant Park for the celebration.

As Schweizer wrote, “Harris is widely admired in progressive circles as the ‘female Obama.’ Smooth, polished and confident” –- this was obviously written before that unnerving cackling began –- “she has worked hard to ‘cultivate a celebrity mystique while fiercely guarding her privacy.

What we wrote concerning her early life and Marxist influences is confirmed in Schweizer’s reporting.

And, yes, Harris’ political rise is tied to “one of California’s most corrupt political machines,” namely, the one connected to former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown, Jr. As Schweizer put it, “Kamala Harris’s entre into the corridors of political power largely began with a date.” At the time, he was Speaker of the State Assembly, the second most powerful political figure in California. Brown’s relationship with Harris was well-known; as Schweizer reports, “Their affair was the talk of San Francisco in 1994.” Though he was married, her own mother is quoted as defending the affair: “Why shouldn’t she…?”

Schweizer has detailed the various boards and commissions Brown put her on; these did not require approval from the legislature. These were an extremely lucrative way to pad her salary of $100,000 a year as a county employee. He also bought her a new BMW. But most important of all was the access he gave her to “his vast network of political supporters, donors and sponsors. Soon she was arm in arm with Brown in the most elite circles of San Francisco, including lavish parties and celebrity galas.” And this was before he was even elected mayor.

In fact, it was shortly after Brown became mayor that he and Kamala split up; details aren’t known. She started dating TV talk show host Montel Williams. She and Brown were still political allies, though, and he continued helping her career, through “the most powerful political machine in California,” which he ran.

Kamala went on to head the Career Criminal Unit in San Francisco, and apparently the DA who hired her, Terrence Hallinan, soon regretted his decision. When he didn’t give her a promotion she had wanted, hiring someone else instead, she ended up with Brown’s political machine backing her to run against HIM, and, as Schweizer wrote, “the flow of money directly into her campaign was unlike anything the district attorney’s race had ever seen.” The SAN FRANCISCO WEEKLY said, “She’s hauling in money like there’s no tomorrow.” The San Francisco elite with whom she’d connected while dating Brown forked over the big bucks. Schweizer’s chapter details the various ethical conflicts concerning this money and her use of city employees to do political work.

Harris outspent Hallinan two-to-one and came in second behind him in a three-person race. But in the run-off, she won and was sworn in as San Francisco DA. She took her oath on a copy of the Bill Of Rights rather than the Bible. Given her party’s anti-constitutional proclivities, I doubt the Bill Of Rights was any more honest for her to use than the Bible would have been.

Schweizer’s chapter also tells of Harris’s unimpressive history with the issue of sexual abuse of children by priests. This was a widespread scandal in California. Hallinan, as her predecessor, had uncovered documents going back 40 years, previously sealed by the Church, and had prosecuted numerous cases of child sexual abuse by priests.)

It turns out that according to San Francisco election disclosures, the Catholic Church donated big-time to Kamala Harris’s campaign against Hallinan, though she had no particular ties to the Catholic Church or Catholic organizations. And once she became DA, even though she had prosecuted sex crimes earlier in her career, she oddly moved in the opposite direction of Hallinan and worked to cover up the records. Victims’ groups wanted those records made public and were outraged that she wouldn’t do it.

From 2004 to 2011, when she was San Francisco DA, and then from 2011 to 2016, when she was California attorney general, she never brought a single documented case forward of an allegedly abusive priest.

There’s much more in Schweizer’s chapter about her performance in these jobs, and it is not pretty. He provides numerous examples of her selective enforcement of the law, to benefit friends of her “ex,” Willie Brown, and also of her husband, after she married Los Angeles attorney Doug Emhoff. We’ve also heard from readers in California who told us of her dismal performance there. Recall that when she ran for President, she bowed out even before her own state’s primary. She didn’t win one primary. And yet here she is, virtually destined to be the next President of the United States.

Throughout her career, Kamala has used her associations with powerful people to help her move forward, so it’s not surprising that her closeness to former President Obama would have led her to her current position. Before Biden was nominated in 2020, some had thought Michelle Obama might be the choice. (One of my staffers went on record with that prediction, writing at length about why she believed this would happen.) Certainly if Michelle had wanted it, she would have been the nominee and probably the next President, as the fawning media would have made sure of that. But the Obamas managed to accomplish the same thing, in a way that would still allow Michelle to sit at the beach with friends, sipping exotic drinks with little umbrellas. They did this by putting the woman known as “the female Obama” –- the far-left woman who shared their views in every way but who could never have even made it to her party’s nomination –- on the ticket with “moderate” (ha) Biden, knowing that Biden would never make it through a first term.

At this point, Biden can hardly make it through a town hall meeting.

What the left has done to our country through this scheme will not be forgotten --- or forgiven.

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  • Sherry Glascock aka Sharon and Gary Glascock

    07/26/2021 06:01 PM

    Gov. Mike, we know that Biden is not going to make it through 4 years in the WH but I would like to know how we Middle Class Americans can remove Kamala Harris at the same time as Biden walks out that door, or remove both as of yesterday? I nor my Husband voted for either one and I know that the voting was rigged with overloaded votes for them and all anyone seems to do is talk about the illegal voting that was done. Here is another information for you, Our Son Todd is a Part time Policeman in Morton IL and they tried to make them remove their fire arms and still work the job. That did not go through but just think about all the Police that are working with their hands tied , this is scary.

  • Ed Thompson

    07/26/2021 05:55 PM

    Imagine if you will, Joe Knows Nothing has a major medical issue and can not continue to fulfill his duties as President. As bad as he has shown to be making sense and policies, take a long long look at the backup, waiting in the wings! I can’t even begin to imagine what that woman, —yes I still use proper gender to describe a human, — would do to America. I shudder to think about that. Maybe she would be so stoned on pot she would miss all or most of the meetings that she would be needed at, listening to Snoop Dog or Tu Pac getting high, like she says she did in college— interesting that they were not making any music yet at the time she was in college but there ya go, another lie from another Democratic! What’s new with that? We need real honest to goodness adults to run America, people who actually understand how to run a successful business, like Donald Trump did. This country needs no more lifetime politicians, we have enough of them now, some even know how to keep America going in the right direction while others are in it for the power trip and the benefits and money! Not working for the people, just themselves , incompetent as they are, able to bamboozle enough people to keep getting voted in. Sad. Today’s generation is being ripped off badly and I know a few young people who actually understand that. Keep the faith that there are families out there who understand truth and hard work and honesty AND have Faith in God will be the ones that come to the need of our great nation. Anything less is unthinkable!

  • Carmine Pescatore

    07/26/2021 05:48 PM

    She is going to be like the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland if she gets annoyed with anyone.

  • Paulette Sandefur

    07/26/2021 05:30 PM

    Will she become President or can Biden pick someone else? I shudder to think who that might be. I really appreciate all you do to keep us informed Mr. Huckabee.

  • Beatriz Romero

    07/26/2021 05:01 PM

    I think you are hitting on an essential point of the problems we have now.
    No doubt former President Obama favors Muslims, so does V-P Harris favor and actively open the way for muslim power:
    1. They want to populate the world, facilitate no-births to non-muslims;
    2. Disregard, nullify children's rights, developmental theories, child psychology, use them as Muslims do, denying children -specially women any respect and inclusion, because of their ignorance of children's developmental and psychological theories which were structured by Western society as a result of the Religious Reform; they are not worth thinking about them, but using them yes!
    3. Ideologically they do have more human oriented economic theories, and they are not supposed to have a casts system, but practically they work with an upper class-low class society like in India, and many other countries.
    In America they have worked strongly to convert blacks, Asians, others; implementing every measure that weakens the American Spirit and makes Americans vulnerable.
    So I do believe the relation Obama-Harris correlates in propitiating a Muslim state and world if we don't forget their aim of a One World Government -that will take so many wars to achieve.

  • PETER BURNHAM

    07/26/2021 04:33 PM

    Hi Governor,
    It's too bad that the US of A can't impeach her and treat her like an illegal. Leave her somewhere till she either changes her mind inpolitics or that the Communistic party ( alias Democrat) is a smaller percentage and Bidens handler, Obama is Sent packing back to Kenya.

  • Mary Seelbach

    07/26/2021 04:22 PM

    It makes me feel a little better knowing that you know all this. It is horrifying but God is still good

  • Stephen Mitchell

    07/26/2021 04:21 PM

    My comment , as I've commented before is , " the Democrats have out foxed , out thought , and out lied the Republicans on every issue . They have methodically installed their agenda over the years , and the Republicans have been asleep on " their watch " !

  • Barry Spinka

    07/26/2021 04:13 PM

    The public may not forgive or forget but it also may be too late. Voters should have been concerned in Nov 2020; not now.

  • Kathleen Kemmer

    07/26/2021 03:51 PM

    Mike, I am so happy you had the two-part story of this radical, Kamela Harris. I did not know these facts about her rise to power using the bedroom and selective justice. I have a friend who was killed by a druggie, along with her daughter. They were each stabbed over 30 times in the head. The murderer thought it was funny, and was laughing throughout the trial when we went to court to push the charges. Despite being charged with the death penalty, the court case was pleaded down to a 10-year sentence. There will be no justice in America when the power-hungry no-talented abrasive personality that is Kamala Harris replaces Biden. I pray to my Jesus for real justice and liberty. Am supporting Sarah for her race for Governor. Keep up the great work!

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