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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she got where she is by shining Willie Browns knob.
I doubt it. No California Democrat will be able to withstand the scrutiny nationwide. The rest of the country isn't nearly as friendly. Even a fawning media won't be able to hide her massive negatives and loathsome disposition.
She's Hillary Clinton without the cash, connections, or fanbase. She's angry, scowling, uninspiring. She'll do just as bad as Hillary did with male voters and even worse among white women. She doesn't have children. That may fly in Europe but it won't here.
They're already running ads telling us she's likable. If you have to tell us a candidate is likable, they're not likeable. She'll get torn to shreds.
If the Democrats want to win, they'll rally behind someone like Beto who is optimistic and doesn't have the negatives but he has a white male problem so they won't.
A sure winner. Barack Obama, with the added benefit of a front hole.
tearing a minority female to shreds would inflame the #metoo jihadists — currently in charge of the dem base, and, therefore, the primary process.
she gets a pass. on everything.
There is no crucible.
San Francisco is a machine town in a machine state.
Do the boss’s bidding and you have a cakewalk.
Slept her way to the top. Sucking brown willies.
That was completely what stuck out at me. They think this is a positive thing, which shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who follows Leftist politics.
It is pure Alinsky, a man who replaces God for them. The ends justify the means.
turns out that most of Hilary’s 2016 campaign has signed up with team KH. the people that still think that the HillaryMonster will jump out of the shadows should adjust their thinking.
Willie Brown’s penis is a crucible? That’s rather odd.
I didn’t realize that “crucible” is a synonym for Williams Browns penis.
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Many things can be ‘fixed’ in politics but how will she fix the fact that neither one of her parents were citizens at the time of her birth?
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