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Posted on 01/22/2019 10:45:11 AM PST by jazusamo
When Kamala Harris looks back on her first campaign, a run for San Francisco district attorney, she remembers a brutal awakening.
“San Francisco is hard-knocks politics,” the freshly declared 2020 White House hopeful once said in an interview. “People sling mud. They punch the gut.”
San Francisco is indeed a crucible that has forged state and national political leaders in numbers far out of proportion to the city’s relatively small size, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Harris’ fellow U.S. senator, Dianne Feinstein.
If she wins, Harris, 54, who announced her candidacy Monday, will be the first to take the lessons of San Francisco close-quarters combat and apply them at the presidential level.
Her rivals could soon see the mix of cold calculation, relentless fundraising and force of personality that drove Harris’ quick rise, starting with the overthrow of her old boss in the prosecutor’s office. It set her on a path to statewide office and, barely two years into her Senate term, a top-tier try for the White House.
To win that first campaign in 2003, Harris overcame steep odds and weathered stinging personal attacks; perhaps none rankled as much as winking allusions to a past romance with the city’s kingmaker, former Assembly speaker and Mayor Willie Brown.
But she gave as good as she got, even crossing a line or two. The city Ethics Commission fined Harris $34,000 for breaching a spending cap she promised to honor, and her campaign manager was caught impersonating a volunteer for a rival in a bungled attempt to gain inside information.
San Francisco Dist. Atty. Terence Hallinan had hired Harris in 1998 to lead his career-criminal unit. He shared her liberal views on crime-fighting, including opposition to the death penalty.
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Photo of the two of them at a dinner in 1995 in article.
that’s their nominee. take it to the bank.
If by ‘crucible’ you mean, Wiilie Brown’s willie, then yeah.
Otherwise maybe not so much.
Yep, I don’t doubt that in the least.
Kamala Harris resembles what’s found on San Francisco sidewalks.
Ah, the “crucible” of sleeping your way to the top with an aged Willie Brown.
She was formed by the crucible of servicing Willie Brown.
crucible is what they call that now? Was the crucible erect?
Whee!! They write about her crimes as if its all good oldtime gamesmanship, but if it was a Republican doing those things, they would demand removal from office and conviction. If it was Trump, they'd demand his execution and the imprisonment of his children and grandchildren.
Right on!...The LA Slimes writes like her corruption is no big deal, they’re used to it and will cheer her on in the upcoming primary.
In other words: she’s a corrupt Commie
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#metoo was her career path.
The “crucible” Leftists refer to is actually ceramic and filled with water most of the time.
You bowl me over....
Her career was largely shaped in her personal crucible.
Brutal awakening.
Willie Brown woke her up at 5:00 AM for a lewinski before he got into the shower.
That's brutal.
So that would mean expanding the entire nation to sanctuary status. She will never get to 271 if that realization is published.
There is no crucible.
San Francisco is a machine town in a machine state.
Do the boss’s bidding and you have a cakewalk.
Good point and you may well be right.
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