The fledgling campaign for Kamala Harris is reportedly
seeking to frame the 2024 presidential election as a prosecutor versus
convicted felon narrative.
The initial observation here is that the “felon” in this story is actually not the bad guy.
If the vice president wants to push her record as district
attorney in San Francisco and later as California attorney general, she
does so at her peril.
Doing so would expose her as an inept investigator, a champion of jailing poor minorities, and an avid supporter of defunding the police while funding criminals.
Let’s
take a look, shall we? We’ll start with her issues struggling to
connect with minority communities, something Democrats are relying on in
making headway in the race against Donald Trump.
A
video from an appearance at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco in
2010 shows Harris gleefully relaying a story about threatening parents
with jail time if their kids skipped school.
“I believe a child growing without an education is tantamount to a crime,” Harris told the crowd in attendance. “So I decided I was going to start prosecuting parents for truancy.”
The
video shows a smiling and laughing Harris sharing this story, noting
that she had the political capital to try and “get those kids in school”
by threatening their parents.
Critics were quick to point out that those most vulnerable
to Harris’s over-zealous prosecution of parents were low-income minority
families.
Harris, in another clip, can be heard describing how she tried intimidating a single homeless mother of three kids.
The
Democrat can be seen laughing about sending her office’s homicide and
gang prosecutors to school to meet with the struggling woman.
“When you go over there, look really mean,” she recalled.
Harris
would later suggest she was simply trying to connect parents to the
resources they needed. Then, the charges would be dropped.
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Another sticking point for minority voters has been Harris's history of expanding convictions of marijuana users in California.
As California attorney general, Harris oversaw thousands of marijuana-related convictions. Critics argue that these convictions disproportionately affected black and brown communities and that Harris's office fought against efforts to reduce sentences or expunge records.
Harris later came under additional fire for that prosecutorial record when she claimed she smoked weed in high school, with some branding her a hypocrite.
While
Kamala has little in the way of street cred due to her record as a
malicious prosecutor, Trump’s own street cred has been amplified by
being the victim of malicious prosecutors.
Craig Scott, who described himself as a "Black Robinhood" in a Newsweek op-ed,
argued “Trump’s repeated run-ins with the law, and what seems like an
unfair obsession with catching him and punishing him disproportionately
for his so-called ‘crimes,’ reminds a lot of us of what was done to us”
in the black community.
“He’s literally been in my shoes. No other president can brag on that,” Scott said. “And believe me, he will brag about it.”
Harris
doesn’t have near the cachet with certain voting blocs that Democrats
hope she does. Bring on the prosecutor v. felon push from her campaign.
When
she wasn’t targeting poor minorities in the Golden State, Harris was
failing women in her own office. As Attorney General, Harris
ignored an accusation and lawsuit alleging sexual harassment by a top
aide in her office.
That complaint involved “gender
harassment” perpetrated against her aide’s former executive assistant,
along with allegations that she was forced into “demeaning behavior.”
The case ultimately led to a $400,000 settlement and the resignation of that aide who had been described as one of Harris’s closest professional confidantes. The then-AG feigned ignorance of the whole accusation and lawsuit despite it being reported years earlier.
Only an inept prosecutor would completely miss a harassment case in her own office. But then, ineptitude defines Kamala.
In 2006, she granted probation
to a man who went on to murder two people. At the height of the 2020
race riots, Harris encouraged people to contribute to a bail fund to
free violent rioters. One of those freed ended up being charged with murder.
She continues to raise money for that bail fund.
When
she isn’t jailing people for minor offenses and bailing out those with
violent criminal records, Harris has been a vocal supporter of defunding
the police.
She supported the movement and said we need to "reimagine" public safety, even applauding the Los Angeles Mayor for slashing police funding by $150 million as the riots were ongoing.
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Harris
also backed abolishing ICE, the agency that arrests and deports
dangerous criminals, insisting that “we need to probably be thinking
about starting from scratch.”
You read that right. The woman Joe Biden tapped as border czar wanted to abolish the one enforcement mechanism for prosecuting criminal illegal aliens.
Kamala
Harris was never qualified to be San Francisco DA. She was even less
qualified to be California’s AG. It’s not even a question when it comes
to the White House.
Even on the heels of one of the most
incompetent presidencies in history, Harris's history as a prosecutor
and the very few things she was tasked with as Veep illustrates she’s
not exactly an upgrade over Biden.
