Posted on 08/29/2024 3:37:49 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
WHOA - now that would be a game changer... Liz have you heard this one?
Just another lie from a democrat. They lie about everything all the time. McDonald’s is a fine establishment to start one’s career. Democrats have knocked the fast food job as long as I have been alive. I would trust a McDonalds employee to run the country over that whore.
Well, she should be flipping burgers... The world would be a much better place.
Oh... You just made me throw up a little in my mouth. Shame on you!
Upon further investigation. I’m very skeptical of the story as presented. Still....you’d think McDs could confirm or deny employment.
That’s what Willie Brown called it.
First I heard it was BS for her to claim she was raised middle class. Her parents were Stanford professors, who make at least twice middle class income. Next, what do we call Trump political nicknames? Trump truly got Lying’ Kamala’s nickname right on the money!
It’s a flat out lie
One never starts out as a cashier no one touches money at any job until you’ve been there awhile
Harris Didn’t Tout McDonald’s Experience-——excluding her
summer job from application to a district attorney’s office
By Nikki McCann Ramirez,August 29, 2024, rollingstone.com
WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 22: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during an NCAA championship teams celebration on the South Lawn of the White House on July 22, 2024 in Washington, DC. U.S. President Joe Biden abandoned his campaign for a second term after weeks of pressure from fellow Democrats to withdraw and just months ahead of the November election, throwing his support behind Harris.
The McFlurry machine is always broken, and so are some of the brains looking for dirt on Kamala Harris.
On Thursday, the right-wing outlet The Free Beacon published an article suggesting Harris may be lying about a brief employment stint at a McDonald’s during college.
Harris has often spoken of her time working as a cashier, fry-maker, and ice cream server during the summer of 1983 in Alameda, California, while still a student at Howard University. The summer job has featured in campaign materials, and Bill Clinton even joked during the Democratic National Convention last week that Harris might “break my record as the president who has spent the most time at McDonald’s.”
In 2019, Harris joined a picket line of McDonald’s workers in Las Vegas, Nevada, striking for a $15 minimum wage. She recalled that while she “did the french fries and the ice cream” at the Golden Arches, at the time “there was not a family relying on me to pay the rent, put food on the table, and keep the bills paid by the end of the month.”
Earlier this year, Harris spoke about working at McDonald’s on The Drew Barrymore Show. “I did fries, and then I did the cashier,” she said.
But for some on the right, Harris has not provided enough documentation to definitively prove that she spent a summer slinging fries and soft-serve in California. The publication took issue with the fact that Harris had not mentioned her time at McDonald’s in her 2010 or 2019 memoirs.
The Free Beacon also cited a copy of a 1987 job application Harris submitted to the Alameda County district attorney’s office for a position as a law clerk.
On the application, Harris lists her educational background, her references, as well as her past work experience at various legal firms and the Federal Trade Commission. McDonald’s is nowhere to be found, which the Free Beacon finds suspicious. After all, how will the district attorney of Alameda County know if she’s good at frying potatoes? Does she know how to load a soft-serve machine? How can she expect to clerk without this skillset?
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She worked there right next to Tim Walz.
‘I Did Fries’: Kamala Harris Claims She Worked at McDonald’s
She Never Mentioned It Until She Ran for President.
Did She Really Toil Beneath the Golden Arches?
Harris’s résumé a year after she graduated college makes no mention of McDonald’s
Joseph Simonson, Chuck Ross and Andrew Kerr
August 29, 2024
Washington Free Beacon
The first all-female audience ever on The Drew Barrymore Show was whooping and cheering for Kamala Harris, its guest of honor, this April when Barrymore’s sidekick, Ross Matthews, threw a softball at the vice president.
“I heard a rumor that you worked at McDonald’s?”
“I did. Yes, I did work at McDonald’s,” laughed Harris. “When I was at school … I did fries. And then I did the cashier.”
“I didn’t know that about you,” gasped Barrymore.
Neither did anyone who followed Harris’s long career in public life—that is, until she ran for president in 2019 and began to make the job a centerpiece of her biography.
Harris’s work at McDonald’s, which allegedly took place at a franchise in the California Bay Area the summer after her freshman year in college, is a recent addition to her carefully curated life story. For decades, Harris never mentioned it, not on the campaign trail nor in two books. It’s absent from a job application and résumé she submitted a year after she graduated from college. Third-party biographers did not write about it. Not until Harris ran for president in 2019 and spoke to a labor rally in Las Vegas did she mention the job, telling the crowd that she “was a student when I was working in a McDonald’s.”
McDonald’s boasts that one in eight Americans has worked at the fast food chain, and Harris, whose campaign is light on policy and heavy on image, has been using her fast food job to portray what the Washington Post, in a credulous piece this month on the Harris-McDonald’s connection, described as “her humble background.” (Harris is the daughter of an eminent cancer researcher, whom her campaign calls “a working mother,” and a tenured Stanford economist, who split when Harris and her sister were children.)
Early this month, Harris’s campaign said she used her McDonald’s wages to pay for college. “Vice President Harris is the daughter of a working mother and worked at a McDonald’s to put herself through college,” campaign spokeswoman Lauren Hitt said this month. A pro-Harris super PAC ad said she “work[ed] her way through school at McDonald’s.” And former president Bill Clinton, at the Democratic National Convention, joked that “she’ll break my record as president who has spent the most time at McDonald’s.”
At the same time, however, Harris’s image makers tweaked the story ever so slightly. According to an August 14 item in Politico, an early cut of a Harris campaign ad said she worked at McDonald’s to “pay her way” through college. Aides changed the script to reflect that “she really took the summer job just to earn a bit more spending money,” as Politico put it.
The Politico story, which was published just hours after the Washington Free Beacon reached out to the Harris campaign with a series of detailed questions about Harris’s claims regarding her job at McDonald’s, didn’t say when exactly—or where—Harris worked at the restaurant. The campaign did not respond to the Free Beacon’s inquiries.
It is possible that Harris did indeed work at McDonald’s in the early 1980s. But the absence of that detail in public records and her campaign’s coyness and refusal to provide any further details raise questions about what is now a foundational narrative.
On Monday, the New York Times reported without attribution that Harris, who was born in Oakland, Calif., and moved to Montreal with her mother and younger sister when she was 12, “return[ed] to the Bay Area for a summer during college when she worked at a McDonald’s in Alameda, a city next to Oakland.” Harris was attending college at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
If some details of the job have varied, while others are murky, that might be because there is no record of Harris mentioning the McDonald’s job before that labor rally in Las Vegas in June 2019.
The job goes unmentioned in both of her memoirs, published in July 2010 and January 2019.
The Truths We Hold, published ahead of her maiden presidential bid, does include a passage on the “many jobs” she held in college, with no reference to McDonald’s. It also devotes a chapter to the struggles of the working class and assails the service industry’s “starvation wages.” Harris’s McDonald’s job is similarly absent from her 2009 book, Smart on Crime: A Career Prosecutor’s Plan to Make Us Safer.
Two biographies written about Harris make no mention of the job, either. A 2021 memoir by Stacey Johnson-Batiste, Harris’s lifelong friend who grew up with her in California, does not mention McDonald’s anywhere in the text. Dan Morain, who authored Kamala’s Way: An American Life, told the Free Beacon he was “not aware” of her job at McDonald’s.
During Harris’s nomination speech at the Democratic National Committee earlier this month, which was framed by multiple news outlets as a “reintroduction,” she made no reference to McDonald’s. At a rally in Milwaukee that same week, Harris omitted any mention of the Golden Arches as well.
The Free Beacon also obtained a copy of Harris’s October 1987 job application for a law clerk position in the Alameda County district attorney’s office. On that form, Harris, who was in law school at the time, listed several jobs—including a month-long clerical job at a stock brokerage—in a section that asked her to list every position she held in the last 10 years. McDonald’s is absent.
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pics of Harris app below
Is there anything a Democrat won’t lie about?
For everyone, except those who eat at her restaurant.
You can have a Coke.
I'm guessing either she made up the story or, like the rumor, was fired for theft. Here's what we know for sure: the MSM doesn't give a damn because Harris has a "D" by her name.
Made it up for sure b/c lotsa voters she desperately needs, worked there, too.
So this was before she sat on Willie Brown’s staff?
McDonalds used to brag that it was the first-employer to millions and that someday a President of the US would have McDonalds listed as his first employer. The silence of McDonalds, which you know has ways of finding out who worked where and when, seems accusatory.
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