Posted on 09/20/2024 3:03:42 PM PDT by bitt
At splashy weddings, charity balls and all the right restaurants, she hobnobbed with San Francisco’s moneyed elite—and made lasting allies who backed her at every stage of her political career.
SAN FRANCISCO—In the summer of 1999, in the monied Napa Valley north of here, a bejeweled bride rode sidesaddle on a speckled horse into what the press would label “the Bay Area’s version of an outdoor royal wedding.” The lavish nuptials of Vanessa Jarman and oil heir Billy Getty—replete with red carpet, hundreds of flickering votives, and “a fair amount of wine,” according to one deadpan attendee—featured a 168-person guest list stocked with socialites and scions, philanthropists and other assorted glitterati.
This coterie of the chosen included, as well, a 34-year-old prosecutor who was all of a year and a half into her job in the San Francisco district attorney’s office. And she wasn’t just some celebrity’s all but anonymous plus-one. She was featured in the photo coverage of the hot-ticket affair, smiling wide, decked out in a dark gown with a drink in hand.
“Kamala Harris,” the caption read, “cruised through the reception.”
Well before she was a United States senator, or the attorney general of California, Harris was already in with the in-crowd here. From 1994, when she was introduced splashily in the region’s most popular newspaper column as the paramour of one of the state’s most powerful politicians, to 2003, when she was elected district attorney, the Oakland- and Berkeley-bred Harris charted the beginnings of her ascent in the more fashionable crucible of San Francisco. In Pacific Heights parlors and bastions of status and wealth, in trendy hot spots, and in the juicy, dishy missives of the variety of gossip columns that chronicled the city’s elite, Kamala Harris was a boldface name.
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Almost exactly how Obama was anointed. Democrats, driven by emotion and symbols.
Clinton: Boxers Or Briefs?
Harris: Spit Or Swallow?
“the mattress” wasn’t launched, she was used.
She knows she is so far in over her head that she doesn't have the slightest idea how to answer questions.
Not that she doesn't try at times to speak. We all know she tries because she produces gibberish with great regularity.
She wants the job of President because, like Mt. Everest, it's there. She hopes someone can carry her if she wins...but she is scared spitless.
Please keep this circulating ... I keep posting it on social media
We have a country & way of life to save!
ASK YOURSELF...two primary questions:
Are you safer now with two world wars waging, China looming, and an open border than you were four years ago?
Is your family better off financially, considering the cost of food, gasoline, utilities, housing, etc., than they were four years ago?
Let’s cut through the emotion, political smears, issues, and records. What’s most important: a president’s job performance or personal life. When choosing a heart surgeon, do you care most about the surgeon’s skills or character flaws?
In politics, as in life, you don’t always get everything you want. Vote anyway. This election is truly the most consequential in our, and possibly our children’s, lifetime.
Excerpt from a published letter in The Epoch News Opinion page...
written by Michael Anderson, Ohio
How many (honest, ethical) women of her “working class background” grow up in an elite gated community outside of Quebec Canada, then gets educated at Berkeley California to go to elite red carpet weddings at wineries in the Napa Valley?
/daughter of a high caste, segregated Indian mother and a slave-holder-family, plantation-owning Jamaican father
Stunning how all-white the San Francisco social circles used to be until very recently. Not even Asians were seen. So much for progressivism.
I like the flair with which Willie Brown unfurled the napkin he was about to put on his lap.
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