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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.”
Schweizer: Kamala Harris Has ‘Deeply
Troubling’ Past with Fundraising
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Schweizer,
author of “Profiles
in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite,” said
he believed Biden selected Harris based on her fundraising ability, but
explained she has a “deeply troubling” way of raising money that is related to
not prosecuting certain sexual abuse cases involving rich and powerful families
and lawyers representing the Catholic schools in the crosshairs of
investigations.
“This has been an issue that’s been bubbling forth in San
Francisco since the early 2000s,” Schweizer advised. “There are plenty of people on the political left that have been
critical of Kamala Harris of her handling of sexual abuse claims against
Catholic priests. I think what helped Kamala Harris in this particular case, as
I talked about in the book, she has a long history with the Obamas going back
to before Barack Obama was a U.S. Senator. I think that certainly helped. I
think her ability to raise money was a factor. Joe Biden’s not a great
fundraiser, Kamala Harris is. Now, the problem is the way in
which she raises money is often related to the manner in which she chose to
prosecute or not prosecute cases both in Sacramento and San Francisco. So, it is deeply troubling, There is no easy
explanation for it. Her claim that she would not release these records because
she was protecting the victims — the victims are absolutely furious at that
explanation, so she simply does not have a good explanation for this.”
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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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FNC’s Hilton: Trying to Brand Kamala Harris a Far-Left Radical ‘Won’t Work’ — ‘She Is Not Principled Enough’
Fox News Channel’s Steve Hilton opened his program on Sunday with an analysis of Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), former Vice President Joe Biden’s running mate for the November 3 presidential election.
Hilton indicated there was much to be desired about Harris as a candidate. However, he warned trying to make her out to be a radical would not work giving her willingness to change political stripes whenever necessary.
Transcript as follows:
HILTON: The election battle lines drawn as Joe Biden picks his running mate, California Senator Kamala Harris.
In a moment, we’ll give you a special swamp watch investigation with shocking examples of Kamala’s corruption that would be leading every news outlet if she were a Republican vice presidential nominee, but she is a Democrat, so the media, a part of her campaign team and are forced to us to bring you the truth about the Democratic ticket for November.
Before we get to the politics, though, I want to say something personal about Kamala Harris.
I was seated next to her at a small dinner a few years ago and I liked her actually. I thought she was smart and warm and human.
I appreciated her efforts then to combat truancy by withholding welfare payments from delinquent parents. And I do think it’s great to see someone with her background in such a prominent role. Representation does matter.
But when you move from the personal to the political, it isn’t clear what Kamala Harris represents. She was for banning private healthcare then against it, then for it, then against it again. She was against legalizing drugs, then she was for it.
She insinuated that Joe Biden was a racist, but now, she says, he’s a champion of racial justice.
She believed that women accusing him of sexual abuse, but now, she believes his denials.
I live in California and know a lot of Democrats. It literally goes with the territory.
Here’s the striking thing. The Democrats who know Kamala Harris cannot stand her. They all say the same in private. She lacks personal integrity and is only interested in one thing — herself.
There are also consistent accounts of abusive behavior towards people who work for her. We’ll have more on that later in the show.
If Kamala Harris is, as the Democrats who know her say, an untrustworthy, flip-flopping, narcissistic tyrant, that’s nothing new in politics.
But for months, we were told that Biden would select a running mate he was simpatico with. Biden knows what being Vice President is all about, so he wants someone he can really trust and work with.
Well, that all turned out to be total BS. Biden and his team were told very clearly by Democrats what Kamala Harris is really like that he couldn’t trust her as far as he could throw her, that she is a total nightmare to work with. He knew all of that, but he picked her anyway.
Instead of simpatico, he got ultra-political. That tells you how weak he really is.
As President, he wouldn’t be a leader. He’d be a follower led by the different factions in the Democratic Party, and the person he has just put on his ticket would be one of the loudest voices.
We deserve to know what Vice President Harris would be saying to President Biden after everyone else has left the room.
We don’t need to speculate. We can see it in her record. In 2013, as California Attorney General, Harris improperly intervened in a vital ballot measure that would have saved billions from the state’s budget, avoiding massive tax rises, and even the blue state bailout Nancy Pelosi is demanding today.
Kamala Harris scuppered reform by altering the actual language on the ballot. Why? Because she was bribed, of course. Sorry, because political donations from public sector unions who have been the biggest roadblock to reform.
Half a million dollars in union donations for her first statewide campaign a decade ago. Another million dollars for her reelection in 2014. Double the payoff once she had fixed the ballot measure.
And it wasn’t just favors for the unions. Earlier, when Kamala Harris was District Attorney in San Francisco. She let a notorious conman, Ricardo Ramirez off the hook, even though he endangered the lives of San Francisco residents with compromised construction projects.
Ramirez was a crony of former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown who was having an affair with, you guessed it, Kamala Harris.
But the story we are about to tell you is much more disgusting than any of that.
Harris has repeatedly posed as a supporter of the #MeToo movement and claimed to be an ally of sexual assault victims.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SEN. KAMALA HARRIS (D-CA), PRESUMPTIVE DEMOCRATIC VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: So let me be clear about it. The statistics are clear. You know, there’s been a lot of talk about well, why is she now coming forward? Why didn’t she report it?
Over 60 percent of sexual assault victims never report the crime against them.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HILTON: Interesting. Kamala Harris’s predecessor at the San Francisco DA’s office, prosecuted a number of cases of child sexual abuse by Catholic priests.
But in 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court ended that with its ruling that extending the statute of limitations in these instances was unconstitutional. So, the victims requested the DA’s case files so they could take it to Civil Court.
The files confirmed that the San Francisco archdiocese had in its possession internal records of abuse, stretching back decades, reportedly including the names of past and present members of the clergy who had been identified in a litany of sexual abuse claims.
But when Kamala Harris to go to with the DA’s office in 2004, she blocked the release of the case files and even claimed that it was to protect the victims.
But that was a lie. Those very same victims said the exact opposite.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They were pestering her office and then what they got was this false statement that they were protecting victims.
It’s just a flat out insult. She could have redacted the names, blacked out the names and left them out.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HILTON: It wasn’t just covering up past abuse. During her tenure as DA, Harris didn’t prosecute a single new case. It’s possible of course that none were reported, but when you look at the numbers from the Government Accountability Institute, showing that all of the largest cities in the country had at least one prosecution during that time, it looks like Harris caved to her city’s politically powerful Catholic establishment.
Why would Kamala Harris do something like that? Let’s see. During her campaign for DA, she received unprecedented amounts of cash from the Catholic establishment in San Francisco.
All told, more than $60,000.00 in donations. In return, she covered up their sexual abuse scandal.
As far as I’m concerned, there is no worse crime than the sexual abuse of children. And yet Kamala Harris sided with the abusers against the victims. That is sickening.
Amy Klobuchar’s vice presidential hopes were killed by something she did as District Attorney for which frankly, she had a far better explanation than Harris does for this.
It shows that in the modern Democratic Party, identity politics trumps everything, even child sexual abuse.
How could Biden’s vetting let this go? Kamala Harris should be thrown off the ticket in shame for what she did. But that’s not the world we’re in. And if like me, you think that a Biden-Harris win would be a disaster especially for working Americans. The only question that matters is, as Kamala Harris herself would put it, what is best way to prosecute the case against her and her mentally malfunctioning figurehead, Joe Biden?
So here’s this week’s campaign memo. What I’ve learned over many years running political campaigns is that when you criticize your opponent, to be effective, it has to be something that a reasonable person would agree with. And it has to be something specific, with practical consequences for voters.
Trying to brand Kamala Harris a far left radical won’t work. She is not principled enough to be radical anything. Targeting her personally won’t work either, calling her a phony, going on about her flip flops on issues, even the corruption we’ve laid out tonight.
In the end, most voters are just going to say, so what? All politicians do that.
In any case, there’s a simple truth about this election. If it’s about personality, Trump will lose. If it’s about policy, Trump will win.
Here are the three things to focus on. One, look at the first Biden-Harris policy announcement: compulsory mask wearing nationwide including outdoors. What unscientific authoritarian, bureaucratic, centralizing nonsense.
Imagine the nanny state nightmare that would inflict on our country. Armies of busy bodies bossing us about from morning until night. Two, they are so keen to get into power they’ve made lots of promises. The regulations would cut jobs. The spending would raise taxes.
The Trump campaign needs to get specific saying $4 trillion in new taxes means nothing to an individual voter. Add up the promises, work out the cost for the average taxpayer. We will bring your own calculations soon.
And three, free healthcare, welfare and education for illegal immigrants. That would lead to a huge increase in low wage immigration, all of it waived through by a Vice President in Kamala Harris who has described ICE as the Ku Klux Klan.
The headline is a simple message to an America reeling from health and economic crisis. Recovery with Trump or relapse with Biden.
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