HARRIS IS A REMINDER THAT LAWYERS ARE SOCIOPATHS AND PATHOLOGICAL LIARS!
Kamala Harris: ‘I Worked Behind the Scenes’ to Make Sure Transgender Prisoners Could Get Transition Surgery
By CNSNews.com Staff | August 14, 2020 | 10:04am EDT
Sen. Kamala Harris (D.-Calif.) said in an interview with the National Center for Transgender Equality Action Fund that was posted on YouTube on Oct. 18, 2019 that she “worked behind the scenes” as California attorney general to make sure a transgender prison inmate got transition surgery.
This was despite the fact that her office handled a case for the state that opposed providing transition surgery.
“When I was attorney general, I learned that the California Department of Corrections, which was a client of mine—I didn’t get to choose my clients…they were standing in the way of surgery …for prisoners,” said Harris.
“And there was a specific case, and when I learned about the case I worked behind the scenes to not only make sure that that transgender woman got the services she was deserving,” said Harris.
“So, it wasn’t only about that case--I made sure that they changed the policy in the state of California so that every transgender inmate in the prison system would have access to the medical care that they desired and need,” Harris said.
“And I believe it was not only—I know it was historic in California—but I believe, actually, it may have been one of the first, if not the first, in the country, where I pushed for that policy in a department of corrections,” Harris said.
“So, you can just look at all the work I’ve done over the years to know I feel very strongly about this,” Harris said. “And at it’s core, it’s a civil rights issue, it’s a justice issue, and it’s an issue of humanity.”
On Jan. 21, 2019, The Blade published an article about a question it asked Harris about this issue at a press conference. The Blade reported:
“In her first news conference after announcing her 2020 presidential run, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said she takes “full responsibility” for legal briefs as California attorney general seeking to deny gender reassignment surgery for transgender inmates and called for a “better understanding” of needs — medical or otherwise— for transgender people.
“Harris made the comments during a news conference Monday at Howard University in D.C. in response to a question from the Washington Blade, asking her about representing the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation in seeking to deny gender reassignment surgery prescribed to two transgender inmates in the California state prison system.”
But, according to the report, Harris told The Blade that she “worked behind the scenes” to make sure “transitioning inmates” got “the medical attention they required:”
“Harris indicated she also helped the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation come to an agreement to set up a process where transgender inmates could obtain transition-related care, including gender reassignment surgery. That’s similar to what her office later told the Blade in response to an article about concerns over her legal support for the position of the agency.
“‘On that issue I will tell you I vehemently disagree and in fact worked behind the scenes to ensure that the Department of Corrections would allow transitioning inmates to receive the medical attention that they required, they needed and deserved,’ Harris said.”
Here is a transcript of the part of Harris' interview with the National Center for Transgender Equality Action Fund where she talks about working behind the scenes to make sure transgender prisoners "would have access to the medical care that they desired:"
Kamala Harris: “So, look at my record to know. When I was attorney general, I learned that the California Department of Corrections, which was a client of mine—I didn’t get to choose my clients—
Mara Keisling: “A client of the attorney general.
Harris: “A client of the attorney general, of the office of attorney general, that they were standing in the way of surgery.”
Keisling: “For prisoners.”
Harris: “For prisoners. And there was a specific case, and when I learned about the case I worked behind the scenes to not only make sure that that transgender woman got the services she was deserving. So, it wasn’t only about that case. I made sure that they changed the policy in the state of California so that every transgender inmate in the prison system would have access to the medical care that they desired and need.
“And I believe it was not only—I know it was historic in California—but I believe, actually, it may have been one of the first, if not the first, in the country, where I pushed for that policy in a department of corrections.
“So, you can just look at all the work I’ve done over the years to know I feel very strongly about this. And at it’s core, it’s a civil rights issue, it’s a justice issue, and it’s an issue of humanity.”
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In addition to campaign
donations from multiple law firms defending San Francisco priests against abuse
claims, Schweizer observed that “board members of San Francisco Catholic
archdiocese-related organizations and their family members donated another
$50,950 to Harris’s campaign.”
Kamala Harris Failed to Prosecute
Priest Sex Abuse Cases Despite Victims’ Pleas
AP Photo/Eric Risberg
12 Aug 2020603
Joe Biden announced Tuesday he has chosen Sen. Kamala Harris
(D-CA) as his running mate, a person the presumptive Democrat nominee described as a “fearless
fighter for the little guy, and one of the country’s finest public servants.”
During Harris’s tenure
as San Francisco’s chief prosecutor, however, she showed no signs of fighting
for “the little guy” when she failed to prosecute any of the sexual abuse
claims brought against Catholic priests in the city, despite outcries from
victim groups.
In fact, as Breitbart
News senior contributor Peter Schweizer, president of the Government
Accountability Institute, observed in his book titled Profiles in Corruption:
Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite, during her 13-year
tenure as district attorney and then attorney general, Harris failed to
prosecute even one case of priest sexual abuse, though during that same period
at least 50 major cities had brought charges against priests.
At the same time Harris
failed to pursue prosecution of cases of priest sexual abuse, her office “would
strangely hide vital records on abuses that had occurred,” Schweizer revealed.
The bombshell details
show that while Harris’s predecessor, former San Francisco District Attorney
Terence Hallinan, had launched an aggressive investigation into priests of the
Archdiocese of San Francisco accused of sexual abuse, Harris’s campaign to
unseat Hallinan showed an unusual influx of unparalleled donations from
high-level officials of the Catholic Church.
Schweizer wrote:
Harris had no
particular ties to the Catholic Church or Catholic organizations, but the money
still came in large, unprecedented sums. Lawyer Joseph Russoniello represented
the church on a wide variety of issues, including the handling of the church
abuse scandal. He served on the Catholic Church’s National Review Board (NRB)
of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The purpose of the NRB was to
review Catholic Church abuse cases. Russoniello was also a partner in the San
Francisco law firm Cooley Godward. Russoniello donated the maximum amount by
law to her campaign, $1,250, and his law firm added another $2,250. He also sat
on Harris’s advisory council when she was San Francisco district attorney.
Another law firm, Bingham McCutcheon, which handled legal matters for the
archdiocese concerning Catholic Charities, donated $2,825, the maximum allowed.
Curiously, Bingham McCutcheon had only donated to two other candidates running
for office in San Francisco before, for a total of $650. As with Russoniello,
their support was unusual.
In addition to campaign
donations from multiple law firms defending San Francisco priests against abuse
claims, Schweizer observed that “board members of San Francisco Catholic
archdiocese-related organizations and their family members donated another
$50,950 to Harris’s campaign.”
As Schweizer noted,
Harris’s ties to those working to block exposure of the archdiocese’s secret
documents containing information about priests accused of sexual abuse were
extensive.
The author explained
that attorney Paul Renne of Cooley Godward was the husband of former San
Francisco city attorney Louise Renne, a mentor to Harris. Paul Renne worked
with lawyer Joseph Russoniello, who, as Schweizer wrote, “negotiated the
agreement to bury the abuse records from public view.”
Though Harris has
touted her early career as a sexual crimes prosecutor, after she won her
run-off campaign against Hallinan, her office actually worked to cover up the
records of claims of sexual abuse by priests of the San Francisco archdiocese.
According to Schweizer:
Hallinan’s office had
used the archdiocese files to guide its investigations and talked publicly
about releasing the documents after removing victims’ names and identifiers.
Harris, on the other hand, abruptly decided to bury the records. For some
reason, she did not want the documents released in any form. Harris’s office
claimed that the cover-up was about protecting the victims of abuse. “District Attorney
Harris focuses her efforts on putting child molesters in prison,” her office
claimed. “We’re not interested in selling out our victims to look good in the
paper.”
Victims’ groups,
however, were quite eager for the documents to be released.
“They were outraged by
her actions,” Schweizer noted. “Far from protecting victims, they argued, the
cover-up was actually protecting the abusers by keeping their alleged crimes
secret.”
“They’re full of shit,”
Joey Piscitelli, the northwest regional director of Survivors Network of Those
Abused by Priests (SNAP), said, reported Schweizer. “You can quote me on that.
They’re not protecting the victims.”
Similarly, attorney
Rick Simons, who represented victims of clergy sexual abuse, said Harris’s
action of covering up the documents “shows a pattern and practice and policy of
ignoring the rights of children by one of the largest institutions of the city
and county of San Francisco, and in the Bay Area.”
When Harris attempted
to shift the blame for hiding the records to Hallinan, her predecessor
responded that she engaged in “the kinds of deals that have allowed the church
sex scandal to go on as long as it has.”
As a result of Harris’s
efforts to cover up the documents, Schweizer wrote that psychologist James Jenkins,
who founded the archdiocese’s Independent Review Board – which oversaw the
methods to handle abuse claims – “abruptly resigned from the board”:
He accused the church
of “deception, manipulation and control” for blocking the release of the
board’s findings. Jenkins argued that Harris’s deal with the archdiocese not
only denied the rights of known victims, it also prevented other possible cases
from coming forward.
In April 2010,
Schweizer reported Harris’s office denied a request from a San
Francisco Weekly journalist who sought the archdiocese’s abuse
records. Similarly, Schweizer wrote he requested the same documents in 2019,
through an attorney in California.
“The San Francisco
district attorney’s office responded they no longer had them in their possession,”
he noted.
“Were they destroyed?
Were they moved somewhere else?” Schweizer asked. “It remains a disturbing
mystery.”
August 14, 2020
Let's hope
Catholics remember what Kamala said
We have
something interesting in the Biden-Harris ticket. He claims to be a
Catholic, and she has a history of attacking ruthlessly the Knights of
Columbus, a Catholic men's group.
In the
interest of full disclosure, I am a member in my parish. My late
father was also a member way back to his time in Cuba.
The "Knights" feed the poor, raise money for
natural disaster victims, and participate in many community programs.
Senator
Harris's bigotry needs to be shared with Catholics in all of those battleground
states. This is from Alexandra
Desanctis:
In late 2018, while
evaluating the nomination of Brian Buescher to serve as a district judge in
Nebraska, Harris posed a series of questions insinuating that his involvement
in the Knights of Columbus -- a charitable Catholic fraternal organization
-- disqualified him from serving on the bench.
Here's one of her
written questions:
Since 1993, you have
been a member of the Knights of Columbus, an all-male society comprised
primarily of Catholic men. In 2016, Carl Anderson, leader of the Knights of
Columbus, described abortion as "a legal regime that has resulted in more
than 40 million deaths." Mr. Anderson went on to say that "abortion
is the killing of the innocent on a massive scale." Were you aware that
the Knights of Columbus opposed a woman's right to choose when you joined the
organization?
That's pretty
rough, and I remember it quite well. By the way, what
does Harris thinks happens to all of those babies who are aborted?
My guess is
that former V.P. Biden has quite a few friends who are
"Knights." Will he get a question about
this? He should.
PS:
You can listen to my show (Canto Talk) and follow me on Twitter.
Catholic Abuse Survivors: Kamala
Harris ‘Chose Not to Prosecute a Single Abusive Priest’
Alyssa
Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, Pool
14 Aug 202023
5:55
The executive director
of a national network of survivors of sexual abuse by priests said in a
statement sent to Breitbart News that then-District Attorney Kamala Harris
(D-CA) “chose to ignore an opportunity” to investigate priests in San Francisco
for abusing children.
Zach Hiner, the
executive director of Survivors Network of Those Abused by
Priests (SNAP), corroborated the bombshell details about Harris revealed by Breitbart News
Senior Contributor Peter Schweizer in his book Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of
Power by America’s Progressive Elite.
Linking to a video
by The Intercept that profiles Harris’s conduct as San
Francisco’s district attorney, Hiner said:
Senator Kamala Harris,
as the District Attorney of San Francisco, chose to ignore an opportunity in
2004 to continue the work of her predecessor, Terence Hallinan, who was
compiling dossiers about abuse in the Archdiocese of San Francisco with the
intention of investigating and cracking down on that archdiocese. Despite the
work that Hallinan had done, when Harris assumed office she stopped cooperating with
victims and chose not to prosecute a single abusive priest.
WARNING: Graphic Video
Schweizer, the president
of the Government Accountability Institute, exposed in his book that, during
her 13-year tenure as district attorney and then attorney general, Harris
failed to prosecute even one case of priest sexual abuse, though during that
same period, at least 50 major cities had brought charges against priests
identified as pedophiles.
The author detailed
that while Harris’s predecessor, former San Francisco District Attorney Terence
Hallinan, had launched an aggressive investigation into priests of the Archdiocese
of San Francisco accused of sexual abuse, Harris’s campaign to unseat Hallinan
showed an unusual influx of unparalleled donations from high-level officials of
the Catholic Church.
In addition to campaign
donations from multiple law firms defending San Francisco priests against abuse
claims, Schweizer observed that “board members of San Francisco Catholic
archdiocese-related organizations and their family members donated another
$50,950 to Harris’s campaign.”
As Schweizer noted,
Harris’s ties to those working to block exposure of the archdiocese’s secret
documents containing information about priests accused of sexual abuse were
extensive.
Hiner continued:
Later, as Attorney
General, Senator Harris was silent about advocating for clergy abuse victims,
surely in part because her boss, Jerry Brown, expressed his disdain for
windows of justice that involved his church — he was a Jesuit Seminarian.
Not surprisingly, with
no crackdown, San Francisco remains one of the last few archdioceses in the
nation to refuse to provide a list of abusers. We believe that the San
Francisco list would contain hundreds of names of sexual predators who are yet
publicly unknown, leaving communities in California unprotected. Had Hallinan’s
policies been pursued, that list would likely already be published, with
crucial information that would safeguard the community and help victims heal.
SNAP’s executive
director, however, expressed praise for Harris’s successor as California
attorney general, Xavier Becerra (D), and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D). He said
Becerra has “opened a statewide investigation into Catholic Church practices
and has ordered all California bishops to preserve sex abuse files.”
Hiner added Newsom
“signed into law a three-year ‘window of justice’ that already has attracted
hundreds of lawsuits that name predators and enablers, known and unknown.”
“These are monumentally
positive moves for victims of clergy abuse and all citizens,” he said. “When
predators are named, parents can protect their kids. We believe that what
Becerra, Newsom, and the California legislature have done should be replicated
nationwide.”
“It is clear that
survivors from San Francisco who tried to work with Kamala’s office feel like
they were betrayed and hung out to dry,” Hiner added. “Survivors today can look
to the work done by AG Xavier Becerra and feel more confident that their top
law enforcement official cares about ending the scourge of child sexual abuse,
and we hope that Kamala learns from his example.”
As a guest on Sirius
XM’s Breitbart News Daily on Thursday with host Alex Marlow,
Schweizer noted that victims’
rights groups condemned Harris’s cover-up of the documents detailing
allegations of sexual abuse against priests.
“The victims’ rights
groups snapped,” Schweizer remarked. “Some of the … groups went absolutely
ballistic, and you can understand why. Kamala Harris claimed that she sealed
those records to protect victims. The victims call that outrageous and wrong.”
Schweizer pointed out
former Gov. Jerry Brown’s (D) alma mater, Saint Ignatius Prep, was one of the
“elite-connected” institutions whose supporters contributed to Harris’s
campaigns.
“That school has also
educated several generations of the Getty family, the very wealthy family that
made its money in oil,” he also said, as Marlow observed Newsom’s father served
as general counsel for Getty Oil.
“Gavin Newsom is also
very passionately supportive of this school,” Schweizer said as well. “Members
of the Getty family sit on the school’s board of directors, and, of course, the
Getty family were huge backers of Kamala Harris’s run for this office.”
“Once Kamala Harris
took that position as San Francisco [district] attorney, these victims were
completely shut out by and all cooperation ended,” the author said. “This is a
story that needs attention. It demands her being asked about it and her
answering questions about it.”
Will California go pedo?
California state
senator and radical gay activist from San Francisco Scott Wiener introduced
a bill (SB 145) that would decriminalize men having sex with young boys and no
one blinked. If this passes, California parents will have no legal recourse
against men who rape, grope, molest, seduce, sexually assault, or proposition
their sons. No one is suggestion all gay men are predators as Wiener
would have you believe, but the fact is, any man of any
sexual proclivity who touches a young boy is a predator whose only place of
residence should be a penitentiary where he can never touch a young boy
again. Forever. The state is obligated to protect our children
against this kind of predatory sexual behavior -- not encourage or reward it --
whether the perps are priests, teachers, straight or gay, male or female.
And parents are duty-bound to fight against this kind of asininity. In
the meantime, if you live in the Golden State, watch your sons like a hawk and
plan to move.
Perhaps not
ironically, president of the Government Accountability Institute Peter Schweizer details in his book Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by
America’s Progressive Elite and revealed on Tucker Carlson, that Kamala Harris neglected to
prosecute anyone in the church sexual abuse scandal during her tenure both as
San Francisco district attorney from 2004-2011 and California attorney general
from 2011-2017. Schweizer reported “[O]f the 50 largest cities in
America, all 50 of them prosecuted at least one case during that time period,
except for Kamala Harris.”
What does this
have to do with Scott Wiener? Both he and Harris are part of a subculture
in California that advocates what every parent knows is criminal behavior
endangering the mental and physical wellbeing of our boys, all in the name of
LGBTQ equality. Wiener and his fellow travelers in the Bay Area have
stifled any rational discussion about the bill with preemptive accusations that
it would be rank homophobia. Given today’s cancel culture, people are
afraid to speak out lest they be labeled with a giant H for “homophobe,”
descended upon by angry hordes, and lose their jobs, maybe even their
lives. But every caring parent knows this ain’t woke; it’s broke.
Maybe Kamala Harris would feel differently if she had children.
Maybe then she would know the constant worry parents face not only for their
daughters but now, their sons, too.
Once again,
California is the canary in the coal mine: what starts out as a fringe
San Francisco subculture that makes any sane person cringe, will soon be
mainstreamed into California law and eventually end up on Nancy Pelosi’s
desk. With Harris’ mishandling of the church sex-abuse scandal, we should
not be surprised if she introduces California’s brand of noxious and
permissible sexual predation to the nation as a whole.
It’s up to Trump
and Pence to hold her accountable for her past sins of neglecting the victims
of pedophilia, and they should put her on the spot regarding Wiener’s bill: is
she for the children who are the victims, or the men who prey on them?
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