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‘Ruthless’: How Kamala Harris Won Her First Race
An ambitious young prosecutor. A mayor with a machine. And a political crucible for a future presidential candidate.
By DAVID SIDERS
January 24, 2019
Politico MagazineSAN FRANCISCO—Before a campaign forum that would help to define her nascent political career, Kamala Harris, then a 38-year-old prosecutor, was bracing for questions about an uncomfortable topic: her relationship with the mayor of San Francisco, Willie Brown.
Harris’ consultant, Jim Stearns, had warned his candidate that her opponents would dredge up her ties to Brown, and the moment arrived at a church in the city’s gentrifying Noe Valley neighborhood. The race for San Francisco district attorney was still in its infancy, and Harris, who had never before run for public office, was polling in single digits. But she had an uncommon touch for fundraising and a biography that appealed to women and nonwhite voters. Her opponents took her seriously, but they also saw a weakness that could hobble her political ambitions.
In the mid-1990s, Harris had dated Brown, who was investigated by the FBI when he was speaker of the California Assembly and as mayor was dogged by conflict of interest, and she had benefited from his political patronage. As the speaker of the state Assembly, Brown had named Harris to well-paid posts on the California Medical Assistance Commission and Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board. As mayor of San Francisco in 2003, Brown was supportive of her district attorney campaign although they were no longer dating. Critics—including her opponents—were bemoaning cronyism at City Hall. ...
Eric Jaye, a political strategist in the city, said Harris’ emergence from San Francisco politics reminds him of Andy Dufresne, the Tim Robbins character from The Shawshank Redemption. “Andy Dufresne,†he said, quoting a line from the movie, “who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side.†...
More on how "ruthless" she is and how she openly played the race card to get elected at Politico (https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/24/kamala-harris-2020-history-224126)
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She's the kind of woman who climbed the ladder of success - wrong by wrong.
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Instead of Shawshank more like Lilly from Barfly, "Nobody in this neighbourhood can
swallow paste like I can".
https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=barfly (https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=barfly)
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She's immune.
This country is going to get everything it deserves.
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In other words, like Evita, she slept her way to the top.
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In other words, like Evita, she slept her way to the top.
She had her legs apart so often they will need to bury her in a "y" shaped coffin.
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She had her legs apart so often they will need to bury her in a "y" shaped coffin.
That's horrible (but I laughed).