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‘Poontronage’: When Kamala Met Willie (6 year old story)
American Greatness ^ | April 21, 2018 | Lloyd Billingsley

Posted on 08/13/2024 9:18:05 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom

As speaker of the California State Assembly from 1980 to 1995, Willie Brown was California's most powerful shot-caller. In 1994 Brown, 60, met Kamala Harris, 30 years his junior, and she became “the Speaker’s new steady,” Brown’s “girlfriend” and “frequent companion.” The two-year relationship worked out well for Harris.

Willie Brown appointed Harris to the state Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board ($97k a year). She served six months and Brown then appointed her to the California Medical Assistance Commission, which met only once a month but paid Harris $72,000. Call it “POONTRONAGE,” a politician’s appointment of his steady girlfriend and main squeeze to a lucrative government position requiring little work.

Brown raised money for Harris in her run for San Francisco DA in 2003. She defeated former boss Hallinan but promised never to seek the death penalty. She kept that promise the next year when gang member David Hill gunned down San Francisco police officer Isaac Espinoza. Even Dianne Feinstein took Harris to task, as she alienated police across the state.

In 2009...Harris found the number of nonviolent offenders “truly staggering” and put them at the top of her “crime pyramid.” The next year, Harris ran for state attorney general and the Sacramento Bee endorsed her Republican rival Steve Cooley. Harris won by less than one percentage point, but as the Bee saw it, “she could be more aggressive on public corruption cases, though her handlers might worry that would cause friction with fellow Democratic politicians.”

The new span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge—10 years late, $5 billion over budget and riddled with safety issues—had whistleblowers calling for a criminal investigation. Duly apprised of the fathomless corruption, Harris failed to launch any criminal probe. As with voter fraud and violent crime she simply looked the other way.

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


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: bj; harris; poontronage; sleaze
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This is a six year old story, but highly relevant to today as it shows what a sleaze bag Harris was in Calfornia, how she blew her way to the top, how she refused to fight corruption, and how she sped up the state's death spiral.

All of which are coming to the USA if she wins.

("POONTRONAGE" -- LOLOL)

1 posted on 08/13/2024 9:18:05 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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2 posted on 08/13/2024 9:19:13 AM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

My opinion:

This is a bad line of attack. She will be portrayed as the poor poor victim. A little girl who was used and abused by a powerful man. BUT... Willie’s girlfriend overcame the patriarchy and became the vice president ALL BY HER OWN hard work.

The stories are all written and once the trigger is pulled that’s all we’re going to hear about. And every woman will fall for it. There are more that will believe that lie than there are the can’t stand women who slept their way to the top.


3 posted on 08/13/2024 9:23:58 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

4 posted on 08/13/2024 9:25:44 AM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Can’t say I blame Willie. Young Kammie was smoking hot. Not surprised he picked her as a side piece.


5 posted on 08/13/2024 9:29:12 AM PDT by pburiak (You really think we can vote our way out of this? That’s so cute...)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Ah, thanks to her stupidity, ineptness and leftism, there is always MO we can get on the HO.


6 posted on 08/13/2024 9:32:42 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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Can’t say I blame Willie. Young Kammie was smoking hot. Not surprised he picked her as a side piece.

She was also Caucasian.

7 posted on 08/13/2024 9:33:31 AM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

of all of the things to hate K for - I don’t care about this. It says more about Willie the cheater than it does her.


8 posted on 08/13/2024 9:35:15 AM PDT by ronniesgal (have you even tried to mind your own business?)
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She fought the banks in 2012. Won 18 billion settlement for the state of Cali.

That is what she will run on. She will Blame her Bidenomics failures on big business greed. She will send her DOJ to attack every private business to shake down some money for her constituency.

Voters need to be reminded HER policies put people in poverty. Not a gym membership you can't cancel online.

Don't allow her be the tough prosecutor to rescue struggling families.
Define her as the person more cogent than Joe who is doing nothing to stop illegals getting all the money. Overcrowding inner city schools.

The woman who is encouraging the erasure of biological women and the woman encouraging men to beat up women in sports.

Everything she touches has turned to sh*t and now she wants to fix it? He** no!

If she has changed her tune, she'd have Schumer get some of her bills to the floor. Why has she no legislation? Only teleprompter speeches. Trump has a record on policies.

9 posted on 08/13/2024 9:39:21 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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10 posted on 08/13/2024 9:43:02 AM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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She's "climbing the ladder, baring it all" for success.

11 posted on 08/13/2024 9:46:39 AM PDT by Liz
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Like a lamprey climbing a fish ladder on a dam.


12 posted on 08/13/2024 9:48:56 AM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: pburiak

You must be attracted to Indian women.


13 posted on 08/13/2024 9:55:10 AM PDT by armourenthusiast (I capitalize everything related to South)
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“It says more about Willie the cheater than it does her.”

Yeah! The nerve of people thinking a woman, a lawyer no less, should have to be accountable for blowing a powerful guy to get a job. Everyone knows you can’t expect a woman to make choices and then be judged by them like men are... LOL. The poor wide eyed waif was a poor little victim of a “womanizer”.


14 posted on 08/13/2024 9:56:06 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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“It says more about Willie the cheater than it does her.”

Not really. It implies that she has no skills other than ... you know ... to elevate her to higher positions in her career. I care about it — a LOT!


15 posted on 08/13/2024 9:57:26 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Bannon didn't kill himself.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
In 1994 Brown, 60, met Kamala Harris, 30 years his junior, and she became “the Speaker’s new steady,” Brown’s “girlfriend” and “frequent companion.”

Our local communist Pacifica Radio (NPR) station in Berkeley started talking up Kamala Harris as a potential President of the US at just about that time or soon after.

16 posted on 08/13/2024 10:04:36 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: kiryandil


17 posted on 08/13/2024 10:06:04 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The article doesn’t mention that Brown promoted Harris as part of his feud with a rival over patronage.


18 posted on 08/13/2024 10:10:18 AM PDT by Thud
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To: kiryandil

I saw that cartoon the other day. Isn’t that hilarious? And 100% true.

I was talking with an ultra-liberal woman the other day and she went off on how “Trump hates women and is a misogynist. He raped that woman in NYC.” I should have asked her what she thought about Harris starting her career by servicing Willie’s Willy.


19 posted on 08/13/2024 10:14:10 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: Liz

Actually, she was climbing the “pole”


20 posted on 08/13/2024 10:19:52 AM PDT by wbslws
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