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[FLASHBACK] Karen Bass rises as sleeper pick to be Biden’s VP
Politico ^ | 7/24/20 | Christopher Cadelago and Natasha Korecki

Posted on 01/11/2025 9:41:30 AM PST by cotton1706

She’s a politician who cringes at having her picture taken and is content to let others grab headlines. She repeatedly had to be dragged into taking risks to elevate her political career.

In many ways, Karen Bass is the anti-Kamala Harris.

And yet, the Californians have ended up in a similar spot: On Joe Biden’s vice presidential shortlist.

While the congresswoman from Los Angeles remains a long shot, her unassuming approach, muted ambitions and decades of advocating on health care and race issues while far outside the national spotlight have captured the interest of the Biden campaign.

A former physician assistant and nurse who now heads the Congressional Black Caucus, Bass has seen her profile rise of late amid the twin crises of the coronavirus pandemic and national reckoning with racism. Her standing in the VP search has improved based on private assessments shared with Biden’s team.

“The reason she’s gone from a name bandied about to a serious contender is because the more you look at her, the more you realize what a perfect choice for the time she is,” said former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. He started working alongside Bass in the early 1970s to coalesce Black and Latino activists around curbing police abuse and expanding immigrant rights.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: History; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 2020; bass; biden; california; elections; elekchunz; karenbass; lafires; losangeles; politico; pollutico
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1 posted on 01/11/2025 9:41:30 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

Woo wee is she coyote fugly! My cell phone screen just cracked


2 posted on 01/11/2025 9:45:44 AM PST by albie (U)
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To: cotton1706

Someone who’s actually a worse candidate than Kamala!


3 posted on 01/11/2025 9:47:37 AM PST by I want the USA back (Bye bye biden! You won't be missed, you mean old fart!)
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To: cotton1706

Where is her house?


4 posted on 01/11/2025 9:49:00 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "MURICA!")
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To: cotton1706

Karen Bass is Exhibit A1 of America’s woke, debt-fed, corrupt political economy

Raised a communist, has never repudiated her marxist ideals. Never had a real job. Became a congresswoman for a welfare district, gained fame by distributing printed, fiat money and government debt.

Jumped on the race-mongering bandwagon. Became head of Congressional Black Caucus, wormed her way into Congressional foreign-relations committee head of “Africa and development sub-committee.”

And now used her connections to run for Mayor of LA, a woke ideological post if ever there was one.


5 posted on 01/11/2025 9:49:18 AM PST by PGR88
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To: albie

I didn’t think someone would out ugly Maxine Waters, but she’s definitely right up there.


6 posted on 01/11/2025 9:49:23 AM PST by Blue Highway
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To: I want the USA back

Yes actually worse than Harris.


7 posted on 01/11/2025 9:49:30 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: cotton1706

With her and Kammy on the list, it speaks volumes to how bizarre the Democrat political minds work.


8 posted on 01/11/2025 9:50:28 AM PST by llevrok (Keep buggering on!)
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To: PGR88

Bass was a trained Marxist who brought students to Cuba for decades Lee ring Marxism and bomb making.

Was this a “long game” destroy America move by Castro etc.?

Or just Democrat incompetence?

It’s difficult to distinguish the outcomes of terrorism and leftists.


9 posted on 01/11/2025 9:51:33 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: cotton1706

Yet another pol dumb enough to protect Brandon from invoking the 25th Amendment.


10 posted on 01/11/2025 9:52:20 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: cotton1706

Article:

“advocating on health care and race issues”

Pacific Palisides was whitopia.

I guess burning out white people was part of her “advocacy”.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Palisades,_Los_Angeles

1% black out of 25,507 (former) residents


11 posted on 01/11/2025 9:52:34 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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decades of advocating on health care and race issues

Translation: She's an experienced race-hustling poverty pimp.

12 posted on 01/11/2025 9:56:49 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: cotton1706

https://www.1001flags.com/ghana-flag/


13 posted on 01/11/2025 9:59:52 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: albie

The slobbering praise from Politico for this DEI moron reads pretty funny now.


14 posted on 01/11/2025 10:06:10 AM PST by iamgalt
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To: cotton1706
Post just below this one:

‘Gross Mismanagement’: Petition for Urgent Recall of L.A.’s Democrat Mayor Karen Bass Hits 59,150 Signatures

15 posted on 01/11/2025 10:07:44 AM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: cotton1706

She’s going to be the next Governor.


16 posted on 01/11/2025 10:32:57 AM PST by Ge0ffrey
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To: cotton1706

She has most of the same qualities as Harris except she wasn’t on Willie Brown’s staff.


17 posted on 01/11/2025 10:45:29 AM PST by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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To: Ge0ffrey

“She’s going to be the next governor.”

That’s why she also is signing the the petition in the above post so she can move up.


18 posted on 01/11/2025 10:47:03 AM PST by Cold Heart (Government for moral and religious people. Democrat party is neither )
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Bass was in Ghana for the installation of a leftist president part of a political party that was Marxist and first came to power as part of a coup in the 1960s.

She was also part of a far-left group that brought youth to Castro’s Cuba to be trained in Marxism and bomb making.

Obama backed her - of course - in Los Angeles and said she’d be a “great mayor.”

Mission accomplished!


19 posted on 01/11/2025 10:51:46 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: cotton1706

“If you want something destroyed put a black woman in charge” - Jesse Lee Peterson, Amazin’


20 posted on 01/11/2025 11:08:12 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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