Posted on 01/26/2019 10:23:52 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown addressed his past extramarital relationship with U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris in his weekly column Saturday, saying he may have boosted the presidential hopeful's career.
"Yes, we dated. It was more than 20 years ago," Brown wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle.
"Yes, I may have influenced her career by appointing her to two state commissions when I was [California] Assembly speaker. And I certainly helped with her first race for district attorney in San Francisco."
Brown, 84, pointed out that he also helped the careers of other prominent California Democrats, such as U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Gov. Gavin Newsom and U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
"The difference is that Harris is the only one who, after I helped her, sent word that I would be indicted if I 'so much as jaywalked' while she was D.A.,” Brown wrote. "That's politics for ya."
Brown appointed Harris -- about 30 years younger than Brown and just a few years out of law school – to two well-paid state commission assignments on the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and the California Medical Assistance Commission, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
"Whether you agree or disagree with the system, I did the work," Harris said in a 2003 interview with SF Weekly. "I brought a level of life knowledge and common sense to the jobs."
The former mayor also connected Harris with campaign donors, which helped her outraise her opponent for San Francisco district attorney, Business Insider reported. Brown's involvement in her election raised questions as to how Harris would remain impartial, given his enormous political clout.
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“However, I lived in CA while he was a state assemblyman and then mayor, and he really wasn’t bad.”
And he was the SINGLE REASON that California voted in term limits - so as to get him out of his kingdom as Assembly Speaker.
Not that term limits did California any good in the long run, which is why I don’t really get excited about it at the national level.
The corruption of Willie Brown was never addressed back in the 1970s and 1980s. His corruption was well known back then, but nobody did anything about it. So, his corruption metastasized, just like it did with Bill Clinton.
This inaction is like letting an abscess fester. It only gets worse. But the was no political will to call Willie Brown to task, back in the day. He is black and untouchable, just like Obama was and Harris is.
Nobody who is going to vote for the Democrat in 2020, and nobody who would consider it, cares about this story in the least.
It is a zero impact story, and posting about it makes posters look stupid.
Indeed. Corruption ( when not removed and punished) spreads - evil or greedy - inclined people see that “it works” as a path to their personal aspirations
Gives her extra points for the libs. She’s black, she’s a woman, she’s a powerful voice and she used a man to get to the top. Never mind she’s not NBC.
Lying. Cheating ..stealing ..is part of the culture of leftist.
So, its okay.
You are correct. Not only is there no advantage to talking about this, but talking about this might well be disadvantageous.
“Get it out there now so by 2020 it’s old news.”
That’s exactly what they are doing.
Thanks Willie for mentoring three leftist idiots and your personal “assistant” who have done great damage to California and to the nation!
“It is a zero impact story, and posting about it makes posters look stupid.”
If it’s in the news, I’ll post about it here.
Sorry if that bothers you.
BobbyL wrote: “It is a zero impact story, and posting about it makes posters look stupid.”
I take it because “it’s only about sex.”? Long for the Bill Clinton days, eh BobL?
Wait! Maybe Jim wrote it.
Sorry.
Trump would destroy Harris in a debate lol
Given how raw this exchange is, my guess is that #Karamela was going to attempt to introduce plausible deniability this week about what kind of hoopdy-hump she was for Big Brown, he got wind of it, and decided to wave Willie in her face -- again.
Yes I wrote it.
The Lewinsky matter was a huge win for Bill Clinton.
Who was never able to exceed Cali's gravity. And once-upon-a-time pictured himself nationwide on the level of an Obama, when he never even rose to the level of Clintonite Vernon Jordan.
That's why he's calling out #Karamela -- in part to shade her as a shifty ho, and part jealous jive to remind her to stay in her lane -- California hasn't had a national influencer since Reagan.
No problem Mike - but I was wondering why I was being ganged up on!
Not sure how this helps her....
I am frequently out of my mind.
I believe if you don’t raise the question you will never have the answer. My position is to keep the issue out front in social media hoping someone with power will have some balls. Your position is to lay on your back and expose your jugular.
So you might reconsider who is out of their mind. My money says surrender monkeys.
Will have some balls...and do WHAT, exactly?
Do you imagine a nation that has killed 70 million babies in the service of fornication will object to a whore being President?
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