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July 26, 2021
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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.

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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.

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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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  • carole braden

    07/27/2021 12:04 PM

    to think she cud be our next president makes me cringe

  • Joseph Healy

    07/27/2021 11:01 AM

    Dear Gov. Mike:
    I think the leftist minority is overconfident and ignorant of the mood among average, middle, working class American's who make up the majority. Now they seem to be telegraphing their intent to reinstate virus restrictions, masks, etc. With all their other malicious acts over the past 6 months, I feel there could be a second, (hopefully) peaceful American Revolution brewing below the surface. Even the Europeans are rebelling against vaccine "passports" and they're used to being dictated to by the unelected technocrats in Brussels!

  • Jeffrey Beson

    07/27/2021 06:51 AM

    We’ll Mike, my blood pressure just skyrocketed. I have to remember that our God is still in control and that this is part of His plan. I’m conflicted with my walk with Jesus and the oath I took as a U.S. soldier ,”to defend the constitution against all enemies ,foreign and domestic”.I consider the entire Democratic Party to be an enemy of the constitution and this country. This truly is a time when “ men ought always to pray and not to faint “. ( Luke 18:1). Thanks Mike for staying in the fight.

  • Nancy Cornillie

    07/27/2021 12:53 AM

    Thank you for that article about Kamala Harris and Barack Obama. I hadn’t been able to figure out for the life of me how she was chosen for Vice President. The only reason I had been able to come up with was it needed to be someone who didn’t outshine Biden, and that could account for Kamala Harris.

  • Larry J De St. Jeor

    07/27/2021 12:06 AM

    Back when Harris was thinking of running for president, I heard some bay area DAs who had worked under her say that in their 30-35 year careers they had never run across anyone as dishonest and power abusive as her. Behind her back she was known as Satan's sister.

  • Carl T Smith

    07/26/2021 11:30 PM

    The parallel between harris-biden to Truman- Franklin Delano is striking to this old man. The MACHINE knew FDR would Never survive his fourth term and Needed someone they could CONTROL! The haberdasher from MO fooled them. This will not be the case when Kamila is called on to take the reins from the Demented One! She is as pliable as wet putty and as she has shown is just a better READER of the Teleprompter than Uncle Joe! The ONLY CHANCE the REPUBLIC has is to stave off the Socialist and PRAY and VOTE to ensure the House and Senate is REMOVED from the Hate America Group! They know the Party is in trouble and it's why they are pushing for as much SOCIALISM as possible before the Communist MEDIA WAKES UP!

  • Marlene M Paquet

    07/26/2021 08:18 PM

    This saddens me beyond belief. Our country is in so much danger from the current administration. I pray for the USA every day and that soon all the truth about them will be revealed, but I know if it's only in God's plan. The United States put Donald Trump in as President, and I voted for him, but I really think they started worshipping him instead of God and that is possibly the reason why he "lost" no matter how it seemed to the world. Thank you so much for your continual care for the US.

  • Gary Tracy

    07/26/2021 07:33 PM

    Mike, it is particularly frustrating that nothing can or will be done about Kamala Harris, Joe Biden and Barak Obama stealing the presidential election 2020. It’s maddening that these crooks can run the country into the ground with no consequences. It’s disheartening to know the truth but also to know that no one is going to do anything about it. We have a corrupt FBI, a corrupt CIA a corrupt Democrat party, a rotting Republican party, police departments being defunded, illegal aliens overrunning our nation with government permission, inflation due to printing money hand-over- fist and thus devaluing everyone’s savings. Why is a corrupt government of cheaters, allowed by most of the nation, to rule with an iron fist? I’ve never been so angry.

  • Pat Self

    07/26/2021 06:50 PM

    I just can not see an end to the corruption. How will it ever get stopped. Voting does seem to be the answer.

  • Glenda Rice

    07/26/2021 06:48 PM

    You are 100% correct. IF things continue as they are she will be president very soon. Our only hope is first to get rid of Pelosi, then Harris, and then declare Biden incompetent (which clearly he is). May God help us!

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