Harris claims she “achieved landmark results” by “fighting the Wall Street banks” and winning a large settlement following the Great Recession. In fact, her office refused to prosecute blatant foreclosure fraud being carried out by OneWest Bank, run by then CEO Stephen Mnuchin, now Trump’s secretary of the treasury.
BLOG EDITOR: STEVE MNUCHIN IS KNOWN AS THE ‘FORECLOSURE KING’.
Harris’s office never pursued the matter.
In her 2016 senate bid, Harris was the only Democratic candidate
for Senate to whom Mnuchin donated money. He
was joined by at least one other OneWest investor, billionaire George Soros.
AS ATTORNEY GENERAL OF
CALIFORNIA KAMALA HARRIS ANNOUNCED THAT NEARLY HALF OF ALL MURDERS IN
MEXIFORNIA ARE NOW BY MEX GANGS. THAT DIDN’T END HER AMNESTY.
KAMALA ALSO HAS SERVED
DIANNE FEINSTEIN’S CRIMINAL BANKSTER PAYMASTER WELLS FARGO, THE VERY BANKSTERS
THAT CAUSED THE MORTGAGE MELTDOWN AND WALKED OFF WITH BILLIONS IN NO STRINGS
BAILOUTS SO THEY COULD BUY THEIR COMPETITORS. KAMALA HARRIS MADE SURE NO WELLS
FARGO EXEC OR OTHERWISE WENT TO PRISON FOR THEIR ECONOMIC CRIMES. WELLS FARGO
HAS BEEN VERY GENEROUS TO KAMALA HARRIS AS SHE HAS AND WILL SERVE HER
PAYMASTERS AS WELL AS DIANNE FEINSTEIN AND THE OBAMA-BIDEN BANKSTERS REGIME
DID.
Wasn’t
Kamala Harris the one who put tons of blacks into jail for excessive sentences
when she was a prosecutor in California?
Harris
sees that, which is why she's jumping at the chance. Ever since her
days as Willie Brown's mistress, sleeping her way to the top in politics, she's
known a good opportunity when she's seen one.
LIKE
OBAMA – BIDEN, KAMALA HARRIS WILL SERVE THE BANKSTER CLASS AND THE DEMOCRAT
PARTY’S RICH
Her rise, however, was propelled in and by a very
different milieu. In this less explored piece of her past, Harris used as a
launching pad the tightly knit world of San Francisco high society, navigating
early on this rarefied world of influence and opulence, charming and partying
with movers and shakers — ably cultivating relationships with VIPs who would
become friends and also backers and donors of every one of her political
campaigns, tapping into deep pockets and becoming a popular figure in a small
world dominated by a handful of powerful families.
Kamala #HeelsUpHarris ascends to the top of the Biden VP list:
What could go wrong?
The trends on Twitter are in and
Kamala Harris has risen to the top of Joe Biden's heap for vice presidential
picks.
Kamala
Harris is trending today. Is it because people remember she laughed about
locking up poor parents for their children's truancy? Or is it because she
tried to cancel Joe Biden a few months ago based on his segregationist ties..? #VA10https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kamala-harris-truancy-initiative_n_5c50b08ee4b0f43e410bcbc4 …
Kamala Harris
Defends Controversial Truancy Initiative In Newly Resurfaced Video
Some
random responses, none good:
Weird
that "I'm white and I want Kamala Harris for VP" is trending. Never
seen millions of white people want a cop in power before.
So wait,
Joe Biden put together a crime bill that specifically targeted Black male
citizens and Kamala Harris made sure those same people did extra time in jail?
And now they want to run together on the Democratic ticket for POTUS?
If Black Lives Matter THIS will never happen!
If Black Lives Matter THIS will never happen!
Wasn’t
Kamala Harris the one who put tons of blacks into jail for excessive sentences
when she was a prosecutor in California?
Shhhhh. Don’t tell anyone until she gets the Vice Presidential nomination.
Shhhhh. Don’t tell anyone until she gets the Vice Presidential nomination.
congratulations
to kamala harris, the establishment's choice who dropped out before the
primaries even began, for becoming the next president. they always find a wayhttps://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1273809696168841221 …
please
do not fall for @KamalaHarris she speaks with a forked tongue https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1272519084362563584 …
She's
black, and she's female, which is Biden's criterion for picking a vice
president. And unless he wants to go Norbit with
Stacey Abrams, Harris might just be all he's got, given how he's boxed himself
in.
Given
how Biden is showing greater signs of senility than ever, they might as well
even declare her the real president if, heaven forbid, Biden should win.
Harris
sees that, which is why she's jumping at the chance. Ever since her
days as Willie Brown's mistress, sleeping her way to the top in politics, she's
known a good opportunity when she's seen one.
Harris,
recall, is the one who tried to pander to black voters and guilt-minded whites
to the effect that she, in all her Berkeley, California and
Canadian upbringing, had suffered through her upbringing in the midst of
some kind of Klan country. Her yearbook photos from her high
school showed otherwise.
Being
half east Indian, she's not typically black, though she'd have you think she
was. Here's how she acquired that "credential":
Kamala Harris wanted to go to a black school.
That’s what black folks called Howard University in the early 1980s when Harris
was a teenager considering her future.
Harris, she would say later, was seeking an
experience wholly different from what she had long known. She’d attended
majority-white schools her entire life — from elementary school in Berkeley,
Calif., to high school in Montreal. Her parents’ professional lives and their
personal story were bound up in majority-white institutions. Her father, an
economist from Jamaica, was teaching at Stanford University. Her mother, a
cancer researcher from India, had done her graduate work at the University of
California at Berkeley, where the couple had met and fallen in love. And
Harris’s younger sister would eventually enroll at Stanford.
Her rise, however, was propelled in and by a very
different milieu. In this less explored piece of her past, Harris used as a
launching pad the tightly knit world of San Francisco high society, navigating
early on this rarefied world of influence and opulence, charming and partying
with movers and shakers — ably cultivating relationships with VIPs who would
become friends and also backers and donors of every one of her political
campaigns, tapping into deep pockets and becoming a popular figure in a small
world dominated by a handful of powerful families. This stratum of San
Francisco remains a profoundly important part of her network — including not
just powerful Democratic donors but an ambassador appointed by President Donald
Trump who ran in the same circles.
Harris, now 54, often has talked about the
importance of having "a seat at the table," of being an insider
instead of an outsider. And she learned that skill in this crowded, incestuous,
famously challenging political proving ground, where she worked to score spots
at the some of the city's most sought-after tables. In the mid- to late '90s
and into the aughts, the correspondents who kept tabs on the comings and goings
of the area's A-listers noted where Harris was and what she was doing and who
she was with. As she advanced professionally, jumping from Alameda County to
posts in the offices of the district and city attorneys across the Bay, she was
a trustee, too, of the museum of modern art and active in causes concerning
AIDS and the prevention of domestic abuse, and out and about at fashion shows
and cocktail parties and galas and get-togethers at the most modish boutiques.
She was, in the breezy, buzzy parlance of these kinds of columns, one of the
"Pretty Thangs." She was a "rising star." She was
"rather perfect." And she mingled with "spiffy and powerful
friends" who were her contemporaries as well as their even more
influential mothers and fathers. All this was fun, but it wasn't unserious. It
was seeing and being seen with a purpose, society activity with political
utility.
After
that, she became "cop Kamala" as the lefties say, or a pretty dirty
prosecutor, both in San Francisco and as California's attorney
general. She always put the needs of the Democratic establishment
above the people she said she was "helping." Here's
something from an item I wrote about earlier:
So here's a new one, from California watcher
Susan Crabtree at RealClearPolitics, reporting Harris's
soapboxing at the second presidential debate:
"So in my background as attorney general of California, I took
on the big banks who preyed on the homeowners, many of whom lost their homes
and will never be able to buy another," Harris said in late July during
the second round of Democratic debates in Detroit.
In fact, she and several other state attorneys general were
instrumental in negotiating a $25 billion national settlement with five of the
top U.S. mortgage lenders to provide debt relief and other financial services
to struggling homeowners. But in 2012, just months after Harris secured those
funds along with the other state AGs, then-California Gov. Jerry Brown diverted
$331 million from California's portion of the settlement to pay off state
budget shortfalls incurred before the housing crisis.
Although Harris initially spoke out against Brown's diversion of
the funds, she remained silent on a subsequent court battle that began in 2014
— even after she left the attorney general's office and for the last year and a
half while serving as senator and during her presidential bid this year.
She shook down some banks
in the name of 'the people' and then went and used the money for something
else. No wonder she's always been popular with the Democratic one-party
blue-state establishment. I have a full blog on that here.
And being part of that
establishment, she protected that establishment - such as a sex harrasser,
Larry Wallace, who happened to be a top aide during her stint as
California attorney general, and whose transgressions forced the state to shell
out more than a million dollars in compensation to his victims while he
was on the job.
Harris
claimed she didn't know a thing about it. Establishment,
see, protects its own. So much for #MeToo.
Here's another corrupt
little manuever - she managed to obtain a Los Angeles Police Department
Praetorian guard that followed her wherever she went across the state. Police
for me, but not for thee. Not her first corruption rodeo.
How
exactly is that kind of establishment record - sucking up to the rich,
protecting Democratic operatives, using all matter of executive privilege,
etc., going to win over Bernie Sanders supporters? If Joe Biden picks Harris,
he can write them off, these are their hot-button issues.
Worse
still is her record as a criminal prosecutor, the Tulsi Gabbard takedowns
described - the very takedowns that sank Harris's presidential bid before she even got
to the primaries. In Tulsi's words:
There are too many examples to cite but she put
over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked
if she ever smoked marijuana.
She blocked evidence that would have freed an
innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so. She kept
people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the
state of California, and she fought to keep a cash bail system in place that
impacts poor people in the worst kind of way.
In
an era of protests against police brutality in one-party blue cities,
particularly from Black Lives Matter supporters, putting Harris on the ticket
with Biden makes about as much sense as Republicans putting Mitt Romney at the
top of the 2012 ticket in an age when Americans wanted to get rid of Obamacare.
Romney, recall, launched his own version of the government takeover prior to
President Obama's legacy program.
As
a Republican, perhaps this is all good opposition research fodder for President
Trump or Vice President Pence to hurl thunderbolts at in the upcoming
presidential election. Maybe we should snicker.
But
it just goes to show how hard up the Democrats are for untainted candidates who
can manage some kind of connection to normal people. If Kamala Harris is the
best Joe Biden has got, it's not happening.
More stiffing the little guy from haughty Kamala Harris
This
characterization, from Thomas Lifson last month, pretty well sums her
up every time a Kamala Harris story comes to light:
Kamala Harris is scary in her pathological
ambition, moral flexibility, comfort with deception, and sheer ruthlessness.
So
here's a new one, from California watcher Susan Crabtree atRealClearPolitics, reporting Harris's soapboxing at the
second presidential debate:
“So in my background as attorney general of
California, I took on the big banks who preyed on the homeowners, many of whom
lost their homes and will never be able to buy another,” Harris said in late
July during the second round of Democratic debates in Detroit.
In fact, she and several other state attorneys
general were instrumental in negotiating a $25 billion national settlement with
five of the top U.S. mortgage lenders to provide debt relief and other
financial services to struggling homeowners. But in 2012, just months after
Harris secured those funds along with the other state AGs, then-California Gov.
Jerry Brown diverted $331 million from California’s portion of the settlement
to pay off state budget shortfalls incurred before the housing crisis.
Although Harris initially spoke out against
Brown’s diversion of the funds, she remained silent on a subsequent court battle
that began in 2014 – even after she left the attorney general’s office and for
the last year and a half while serving as senator and during her presidential
bid this year.
Which
is pretty outrageous. Harris shook down some banks in the name of "the people"
and then like a crooked lawyer, didn't give the "winnings" to the
clients. Whoever got wronged in this mortgage-lending mess didn't see a penny
of the won cash. It all just went to other Democrat priorities within the
one-party state.
Sound
like the kind of lawyer you'd want to have if you got stiffed in some bank
deal? Whatever this is, it's not the doing of the consumer advocate she's
now painting herself to be.
Any
more than she's the prison-rights advocate she claims to be - she threw
thousands of them in jail for petty offenses during her time as State Attorney
General, kept people in jail beyond their sentences in order to retain them to
fight fires, and refused to disavow false testimony from prosecutorial
misconduct that would have freed prisoners. She's never been about the little
guy.
The
mortgage-payout story shows two distasteful things about Harris.
One,
she plays the old California political machine game (it probably happens in
other crooked one-party states, too) of amassing a vast pot of money for one
purpose, a virtue-signaling purpose, a purpose that press releases can be
released on, and political campaign speeches can be made ... and then spending
the same pile of cash on something thing else, something far less
salable to the voters, something that will cover up spending mismanagement or
fatten pensions. In California, this game is gotten away with all the time. Gas
tax is approved by voters to improve roads ... and ends up bankrolling
bureaucrat and administrative hiring sprees. Federal stimulus money is shoveled
into the state for shovel-ready bridges and road improvements --- and goes
to cover municipal budget holes brought on by mismanagement. Voters approve
bond measures in the name of hiring teachers and getting more school
supplies for kids in education -- and it goes to educrat pensions and union
siphon-offs. Harris is comfortable operating that way in taking on the big
banks, shaking them down -- and just letting the money head elsewhere.
Two,
she's still the teacher's pet of Democrats, the sidling, sucking-up,
get-along-to-go-along, slept-her-way-to-the-top errand girl the more powerful
Democrats like. Crabtree reports that Harris first protested the diversion of
the funds, and then went silent. Why would she do that? Obviouly, she heard
from more powerful Democrats, the kind who could make or break her career.
An Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez-style boat-rocker she was not. The money was won,
the cash was collected, the whole thing went to the government instead of
the little guys, and she went along.
Which
pretty well tells us what kind of leader she would be if heaven forbid she
should win the presidency. In winning the money and then allowing it to be diverted, she
failed the little guys she now says she was serving. And with that, she shows
she's never been about serving the people, she's about
obeying the greater interests of the Democratic political machine. No wonder she's so
popular in those circles - she's been kowtowing to these rich and powerful since the dawn of
her career. For voters, the real message, as she vows to take over their health
care, hand out reparations to black people, and offer free stuff for votes is
clear: That the cash she promises isn't going to get anywhere near
the little guys. Not even the illegal immigrants she's promising free health
care for can believe her.
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