‘Bad Ass Law-and-Order Prosecutor’ Kamala Should Be Asked About Her Record and ElectionsWhat the real - and highly disturbing - record says.September 9, 2024 by Mary Grabar Recently, Lanny Davis wrote about how twenty years ago former San Franciso Mayor Willie Brown described Kamala Harris to him a “bad ass law-and-order prosecutor” while she was San Francisco district attorney. (Willie Brown, who boosted the career of Harris through appointments to positions in San Francisco’s high society, carried on a years-long affair with Harris while he was still married, but Davis does not mention that.) Harris’s presidential campaign ads are now casting her, indeed, as a “bad ass” law-and-order type. On the day, Joe Biden “withdrew” from the race and endorsed her, Harris claimed that her experience prosecuting sex abusers and for-profit colleges enabled her to know Donald Trump’s “type.” In her acceptance speech for the Democratic presidential nomination (after getting zero primary votes), Harris waxed on about how she decided to become a lawyer after learning that her best friend was being molested by her stepfather. She bragged about how as a prosecutor she stood up for “women and children.” She presented President Trump as a lawless insurrectionist, falsely accusing him of “send[ing] an armed mob to the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, where they assaulted police officers.” She charged, “Donald Trump tried to throw away your votes.”
But during her run for State Attorney General in California, her opponent Steve Cooley, on election night, November 2, 2010, claimed victory. The next day’s Sacramento Bee reported that he was leading her by 48 percent to 44 percent. But by November 24 Harris squeaked by on a 0.8 percent margin. She claimed in her autobiography, “we knew that it was too close to call… It took twenty-one days for all the ballots to be counted and for me to be declared the winner. Every vote counts!”
According to newspaper reports, late results coming from the large urban area of Los Angeles (sound familiar?) showed the gap narrowing significantly, even though Cooley was so popular that he had been the first Los Angeles District Attorney in 70 years to win three consecutive terms.
The November 17 Los Angeles Times reported that over the previous five days Cooley’s aides had been filing complaints alleging that Los Angeles County elections officials had held private meetings with Harris officials. They also alleged that election workers were not “taking adequate time to verify voter signatures on the unprocessed ballots.” A Harris official accused the Cooley campaign of trying to disqualify Harris voters.
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