MICHELLE
MALKIN
THE
CORRUPT AND EVIIL DEMOCRAT PARTY’S WRECKING MACHINE.
FEINSTEIN,
BRIBES BOXER, KAMALA HARRIS, MAXINE WATERS, ELIZABETH WARREN, NANCY PELOSI ……SHOULD
THESE WITCHES OF KAVANAUGH BE BURNED AT THE STAKE AND THEN BOILED IN GREASE?
It is my contention that this grand unearth-and-destroy spectacle was planned, coordinated and facilitated by (Sen. Dianne Feinstein) Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats and their staffers.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/10/michelle-malkin-witches-of-kavanaugh.html
Does Church Fund Kamala Harris? And Her Other Shady Shenanigans
https://kamala-harris-sociopath.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-case-of-corrupt-california-lawyer.html
During her
decade-and-a-half tenure as a chief prosecutor, Harris would fail to prosecute
a single case of priest abuse and her office would strangely hide vital records
on abuses that had occurred despite the protests of victims groups. PETER
SCHWEIZER
She somehow served as
San Francisco district attorney from 2004 to 2011, and then as California
attorney general from 2011 to 2017, and never brought a single documented case
forward against an abusive priest. PETER SCHWEIZER
According to San
Francisco election financial disclosures, high-dollar donations to Harris’s
campaign began to roll in from those connected to the Catholic Church
institutional hierarchy.” PETER SCHEIZER
“However, I would like to encourage my fellow Democrats to
approach Senator Harris with a healthy dose of skepticism. As a prosecutor and
California State Attorney General, Harris has engaged in blatantly unethical
behavior for her profession and embraced positions that actively hurt her
constituents.” JESSER HOROWITZ
Harris has
often been described as a "politician on the make," someone who will
do whatever is expedient. Writing for RealClearPolitics, Debra
Saunders calls Harris a "progressive
opportunist." Yves Smith, looking through her less than
progressive record as California prosecutor, would alter that to "opportunist to the
core." JEFFREY FOLKS
The
best-case scenario is that she’s a progressive who repeatedly violated her own
principles so that she could promote her career. In the worst-case scenario,
she’s just another corrupt, rotten, regressive prosecutor. JESSER HOROWITZ
How
come you wouldn’t prosecute Catholic priests for sexual and child abuse? Where
was your empathy? JACK HELLNER
Whatever
happened to Kamala Harris?
by Emily
Larsen, Political Reporter & Naomi
Lim, Political Reporter |
Kamala Harris was widely thought to be a
likely “attack dog” for Joe Biden.
The former prosecutor earned a reputation for
rising to the moment during high-stakes situations, such as her
grilling of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during his 2018
confirmation hearing and even, awkwardly, when
she confronted her now-running mate in the first round of Democratic primary
debates last summer.
But the California senator has kept a conspicuously
low-profile since Labor Day, declining to make news-shaping statements or
upstaging the two-term vice president and 2020 Democratic presidential nominee.
Harris did
generate headlines after she was unveiled as Biden’s No. 2 last month and
has led the campaign’s minority voter outreach efforts. However, it’s her light
footprint on the trail that’s now starting to receive attention.
NBC News reporter Deepa Shivaram, for instance, called out
Harris’s lack of media access this week in a tweet.
“A reminder that it has been 42 days since Harris was
tapped as the VP pick. There are 42 days until election day. The senator has
not once formally taken questions from the press,” Shivaram wrote Tuesday.
Shivaram noted in a follow-up tweet that she was referring
to Harris not answering queries in an official conference setting.
Harris got in some hot water when she said in a CNN
interview earlier this month that she doesn’t trust Trump alone on a coronavirus
vaccine’s safety. Critics said that
stokes dangerous anti-vaccine sentiment.
And in a Today show
sit-down, she beat Biden in calling
for the police officer who shot Kenosha, Wisconsin, man Jacob Blake to be
charged.
Yet in most of her public appearances and interviews,
Harris has hardly strayed from campaign talking points.
"I haven’t read it fully yet, but there's no question
that Breonna Taylor and her family deserve justice yesterday, today, and
tomorrow,” she told congressional reporters Wednesday after a Louisville,
Kentucky, grand jury charged an ex-detective with
three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment, tangentially related
to Taylor’s death.
Part of the strategy behind Harris’s minimal profile could
be to ensure that she
doesn’t outshine Biden at the top of the ticket. Her septuagenarian
teammate has stumbled on the stump, attracting criticism for relying
too heavily on teleprompters and note cards during public events and interviews.
And laying low helps insulate Harris from critics asking
who is directing their partnership.
When Biden offered Harris the job, he told her she would
always be the last person in the room before he made any major decision.
Republican messaging accuses Harris of being
the duo’s real power source, amplifying recent mistakes from both Biden
and Harris in which they accidentally refer to a Harris
administration. She and Biden also issued separate statements last week
to mark Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death.
But Republican strategist Cesar Conda, who used to advise
former Vice President Dick Cheney, attributed Harris’s downsized role to
electoral politics.
“I think they have figured out that Harris and her extreme
liberal profile is a liability in the handful of critical Midwestern states
that they must win,” he told the Washington
Examiner.
Harris is set to become a central figure in the Senate as
the chamber considers whomever President Trump picks as his third Supreme Court
appointee on Saturday. Harris still sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and
Republicans on the panel will help shepherd Trump’s nominee through the
confirmation process. It was Harris’s pressing of Kavanaugh that catapulted her
to national prominence, following up her performance during other hearings,
including with Attorney General Bill Barr.
Harris’ pared-down campaign schedule still echoes Biden’s
though.
Biden and Harris’s quiet bid may be exacerbated by the
coronavirus pandemic and other responsibilities, such as debate preparation.
The Trump campaign has largely ignored COVID-19 public health restrictions. Yet
similar time pressures haven’t stopped Trump or Vice President Mike Pence
notching up significant air miles as they crisscross the country looking to
shore up support.
Biden has organized very few multistate days on his public
itinerary. Meanwhile, Trump will visit Florida, Georgia, and Virginia on
Friday.
Does Church Fund Kamala Harris?
And Her Other Shady Shenanigans
August
14, 2020 1.1K
Now that Kamala Harris is going to be the Democrat Party’s
vice-presidential candidate, I am plugging here excerpts from a book that I had
tweeted about a few months back. Sadly, I don’t think a single Indian news site
or portal has reviewed or covered it.
So here goes:
Kamala Devi Harris was born to Donald Harris, her Jamaican-born
father and Dr. Shyamala Gopalan, her Tamil Brahmin mother from India. Her
father is a Marxist economist who taught at Stanford University.
Who Is Willie Brown And What’s The Connection?
“In 1994, she met Willie Brown, who at the time was the
second-most-powerful man in California politics. As Speaker of the State
Assembly, Brown was a legend in Sacramento and around the state.
Brown was under investigation several times,by the State Bar of
California, Fair Political Practices Commission,the FBI.
In 1986 …as California Assembly Speaker, he “received at least $124,000 in
income & gifts…from special interests that had biz before the Legislature.”
Now this is neither here nor there for me, except for the
political angle:
“Brown was sixty at the time he began dating Kamala, who was twenty-nine. Brown
was actually two years older than her father. Their affair was the talk of San
Francisco in 1994.
Kamala’s mother defends her daughter’s decision – and offered
choice comments about Brown. “Why shouldn’t she have gone out with Willie
Brown? He was a player. And what could Willie Brown expect from her in the
future? He has not much life left.
He (Willie Brown) put Kamala on the State Unemployment Insurance
Appeals Board and later the California Medical Assistance Commission. The MAC
paid $99k a year in 2002.. UIAB ~$114k. Both posts were part-time. At the time,
she was working as a county employee making ~$100k”
During his tenure, Brown came under FBI investigation twice for
corruption involving lucrative contracts flowing from the city to his political
friends.
I thought it was only in Third World countries that people were
forced to pay bribes to get services they’re entitled to from their
government,” said U.S. district judge Charles Legge about the rampant
corruption under Brown. “But we find it right here in San Francisco.
In January 2003, shortly after announcing her campaign, (Kamala)
Harris had signed a form saying that she would stick to the city’s $211,000
voluntary spending cap for the campaign (for the San Francisco district
attorney election).
Harris signed the pledge-and then blew right past the spending
limit. By the end of Nov, she had raised $621,000…
The San Francisco Ethics Commission vote to fine Harris was unanimous. Her
campaign had to pay a $34,000 fine, a record in city elections.
Moving On To The Next, And By Far The Most Disturbing Aspect:
Church Sex Abuse Scandal
Harris often recounts her background as a sex crimes prosecutor
earlier in her career to attack others for their legal failings in this area.
During her decade-and-a-half tenure as a chief prosecutor, Harris
would fail to prosecute a single case of priest abuse and her office would
strangely hide vital records on abuses that had occurred despite the protests
of victims groups.
Harris’s predecessor as San Francisco district attorney, Terence
Hallinan, was aware of and had prosecuted numerous Catholic priests on sexual
misconduct involving children. And he had been gathering case files for even
more.
Hallinan’s office had launched an investigation and quickly
discovered that the San Francisco Archdiocese had extensive internal records
concerning complaints going back some seventy-five years.
In spring of 2002, Hallinan demanded the church turn them over to
his office. A month later, the archdiocese reluctantly complied.
The secret documents were explosive and reportedly contained the
names of about forty current and former priests in the San Francisco area who
had been identified in sexual abuse complaints.
Hallinan used the information from the files to begin pursuing
legal cases against them. In nearby San Mateo and Marin County, prosecutors
obtained the same church records and those in Marin charged Father Gregory
Ingels in 2003
But by June 2003, Hallinan and other prosecutors had hit a
roadblock: the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that California’s law extending the
statute of limitations for priest abuse cases was unconstitutional.
The records that Hallinan had in his possession touched on
well-connected institutions at the heart of California’s power structure. St.
Ignatius College Preparatory School, in the Archdiocese of San Francisco,
counted California governor Jerry Brown … as alumni.”
Now Comes Church Sexual Abuse And The Kamala Connection
According to San Francisco election financial disclosures,
high-dollar donations to Harris’s campaign began to roll in from those
connected to the Catholic Church institutional hierarchy.”
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.
Victims’ groups wanted the documents released and Harris was stopping it.
They’re
full of shit,” said Joey Piscitelli, the northwest regional director of
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP), the largest and most
active victims’ group. “You can quote me on that. They’re not protecting the
victims.
With the outcry of victims groups, Harris’s office then attempted
to shift blame, claiming that the idea of burying the evidence had been first
suggested by her predecessor, Hallinan.
But he [Hallinan] responded angrily to her claims. “I told Jack
Hammel [the archdiocese’s legal counsel] in no uncertain terms that I wouldn’t
go along with anything like that.
James Jenkins..the founding chairman of the archdiocese’s
Independent Review Board… resigned from the board… 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, a journalist with the San Francisco Weekly asked
for the records through California’s Public Records Act. Harris’s office denied
the request, offering conflicting explanations as to why they could not provide
them.
In 2019, I requested those records through a California attorney.
The San Francisco district attorney’s office responded that they no longer had
them in their possession. Were they destroyed? Were they moved somewhere else?
It remains a disturbing mystery.
She somehow served as San Francisco district attorney from 2004 to
2011, and then as California attorney general from 2011 to 2017, and never
brought a single documented case forward against an abusive priest.
To put this lack of action in perspective, at least fifty other
cities charged priests in sexual abuse cases during her tenure as San Francisco
district attorney. San Francisco is conspicuous by its absence.
The Next One: Prostitution But No Prosecution
At San Francisco’s adult entertainment clubs, dancers were taking
customers behind closed doors and having sex for money. … After repeated
complaints … the San Francisco Police Department decided to take action.
The police action caught the attention of newly installed district
attorney Kamala Harris, and her staff sent the message to hold off on the
enforcement.
Meanwhile, in response to continued complaints, the police
conducted a pair of sting operations. Three undercover officers went into each
of the two clubs and were quickly solicited by female employees for paid sex.
At both the Market Street Theater & New Century Theater, it
happened “within minutes.”
When the operations were done, 9 women were arrested, as was the GM of the New
Century. The cops claimed that they were “slam-dunk cases. But Kamala Harris
dropped the cases.
It
just leaves me in amazement,” said San Francisco Police Department vice captain
Tim Hettrich. It was “almost legalizing prostitution.
Harris’s strange objections to prosecuting prostitution cases
connected to these raids have a possible explanation. The owner of both the
Market Street and New Century theaters was a company called Déjà Vu.
An owner of Déjà Vu, Sam Conti, had a long history with Willie
Brown. Conti had first hired Brown as his defense attorney back in 1977. They
remained friends. At Conti’s 2009 funeral, Brown delivered a videotaped eulogy.
Next One: Construction And Conflicts Of Interest
Ricardo Ramirez ran a cement and concrete company called Pacific
Cement. As of 2003, a full one-third of the public works projects in San
Francisco used Pacific. … Those contributions often went to the Willie Brown
machine and were not always legal.”
39/51″In 1997, state officials found that Ramirez had illegally contributed
$2,000 to Brown’s 1995 mayoral campaign.
…
Ramirez never faced charges for delivering substandard concrete. Instead,
Harris’s office settled for a plea deal involving a single environmental count,
illegally storing waste oil at one of his production facilities.
Harris & her office refused to offer an explanation as to why
they were going so light on Willie Brown’s friend & donor. “Harris’ office
had no explanation for why it dropped the concrete case,” – the
Chronicle.””Kamala Harris’s signature program as San Francisco district
attorney was called Back on Track-a program designed to give first-time drug
offenders an opportunity to avoid a criminal record.
Those (in the program) included were not just nonviolent,
first-time offenders who had committed a single drug offense. Some were illegal
immigrants and violent criminals such as Alexander Izaguirre.
Amanda Kiefer was walking down the street when Izaguirre snatched
her purse and jumped into a waiting SUV. Rather than drive off, the SUV sped
toward Kiefer to run her down. Kiefer jumped on the hood and saw Izaguirre and
the driver laughing.
The driver slammed on the brakes throwing Kiefer to the ground.
The impact fractured her skull.
…
Harris did not offer an explanation. Instead, she simply explained that
enforcing federal immigration law was not her job.
Next One: Nutrition Companies And Kamala’s Husband
In 2015 the attorneys general from fourteen other states,
including New York, launched an effort to investigate nutrition companies on
the grounds of false advertising and mislabeling.
The Obama administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) was also
going after dietary supplement producers, charging them with exaggerated claims
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) opened an investigation into
Herbalife in March 2014. In July 2016, the FTC won a $200 million settlement
against Herbalife. But Harris never even investigated the company.
It is worth noting that those corporations in question all
happened to be clients of her husband’s law firm, Venable LLP. GNC, Herbalife,
AdvoCare International, Vitamin Shoppe, and others were represented by Venable.
In 2015, prosecutors from Harris’s own attorney general’s office
based out of San Diego sent her a long memorandum arguing that Herbalife needed
to be investigated. … Harris declined to investigate or provide the
resources-and never offered a reason.
These excerpts are from @peterschweizer‘s 2020 #1
bestseller, “Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive
Elite. A pity this book’s not received the coverage it deserves in India.
amzn.to/3iCKPt9 Feature
Image Credit – Breitbart
Disclaimer: views expressed are personal.
Kamala Harris Refused to Prosecute Priests’
Sexual Abuse After Church’s Lawyers Funded Her Campaign
ROBERT KRAYCHIK (BREITBART)
Peter Schweizer, author of Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive
Elite and president of the Government Accountability Institute,
discussed with host Alex Marlow of Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Daily on Thursday that
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), while San Francisco’s district attorney (DA),
refused to prosecute cases of priests’ sexual abuse.
Harris
was the only DA among those from the top 50 metropolitan cities not to lay
charges against clergy for sexual abuse, said Schweizer, reflecting
on Harris’s tenure as the San Francisco DA between 2004 and 2011.
Schweizer
stated, “The numbers are pretty stunning. From 2004 to 2011, Kamala Harris was
the San Francisco [district attorney] responsible for all prosecutions and the prosecution
team in the San Francisco area. Between 2004 and 2011, she did not prosecute a
single case of priests’ sexual abuse–period.”
Schweizer
continued, “To put that in the context of how stunning that is, if you
look at the top 50 metropolitan areas in the United States at that time, all 50
prosecuted at least one case, the sole exception being Kamala Harris in San
Francisco.”
Breitbart · Breitbart News Daily – Peter Schweizer – August 13, 2020
After
being elected as San Francisco’s DA, Harris terminated her predecessor’s plans
to publicly release “clergy abuse files” naming names of priests
accused of sexual abuse. Terence Hallinan, the former DA of San Francisco, had
slated the files for public release against the wishes of the Archdiocese of
San Francisco.
Schweizer
described Harris’s suppression of the above-mentioned documents as “stunning.”
“[The
Archdiocese of San Franciso wasn’t] real happy to share hundreds of pages
of complaints that had been made about priests in the area,” Schweizer said,
“and according to [Hallinan’s] account, there were at least the names of 40
current and former priests who had been accused of molestations by people in
that archdiocese.”
Schweizer
went on to say that “Terence Hallinan talked about the fact that he was going
to pursue prosecutions. He also wanted to have victims’ groups go through [to]
redact names, and then he wanted to release the records to the public, which
had been done in so many other areas. Well, he lost in the 2003 elections to
Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris came in; she deep-sixed those documents. She
basically put it under seal so that it could never be released publicly.”
Victims’
rights groups criticized Harris’s suppression of the documents detailing
allegations of sexual abuse against priests, Schweizer noted.
“The
victims’ rights groups snapped,” Schweizer remarked. “Some of the other 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. They used language that I couldn’t use on radio.”
Schweizer
determined, “The bottom line is [Harris] has a terrible, atrocious record on
this specific issue, and it’s a little bit baffling because she proclaims to be
somebody who’s a victim’s advocate, but she has this horrible record of
covering up and failing to prosecute these crimes.”
Harris
received political campaign donations from lawyers and law firms representing
the Archdiocese of San Francisco.
Schweizer
assessed, “Many of the law firms and lawyers who were representing the
archdiocese on a variety of legal matters — including priests that had been
identified as possible culprits — gave large contributions [to Harris’s
political campaign]. Some of them had never given contributions to a race like
this before, but they loaded up her campaign coffers.”
Schweizer
went on. “When you look at some of the [Catholic] institutions that were in the
gun sites at the time, these are some very powerful and elite-connected
organizations. One of them is a school called Saint Ignatius Prep. This is the
alma mater of former California Gov. Jerry Brown — who talks very eloquently
and passionately about how important that school is to him. That school has
also educated several generations of the Getty family, the very wealthy family
that made its money in oil.”
Marlow
pointed out that Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) father was the general counsel for
Getty Oil.
Schweizer
replied, “Gavin Newsom is also very passionately supportive of this school.
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.”
“[Harris]
has never given an explanation of why she handled this the way that she did,”
Schweizer stated.
Schweizer
concluded by contrasting Harris’s reversal of Hallinan’s pursuit of sexual
abuse allegations against clergy. “Once Kamala Harris took that position as San
Francisco [district] attorney, these victims were completely shut out by and
all cooperation ended,” he said. “This is a story that needs attention. It
demands her being asked about it and her answering questions about it.”
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