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Kamala Harris at center of Dems' galaxy of stars
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 12/1/10 | Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross

Posted on 12/01/2010 8:16:23 AM PST by SmithL

No sooner did Attorney General-elect Kamala Harris declare victory than the stargazers of the political universe begin speculating where she will end up in California's Democratic constellation.

Right in the center, was the short answer.

"She is going to have an incredibly long reach," said former state party Chairman Art Torres. "Her office will be in the forefront of everything from civil rights to the environment to consumer issues.

"She will certainly have no problem making national impact," Torres said.

Judging by her victory speech Tuesday, Harris is already thinking big.

Her bipartisan transition team features no fewer than two former U.S. secretaries of state - George Shultz and Warren Christopher - plus ex-Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton and Constance Rice, an L.A. civil rights attorney.

"She is really the exciting one to watch," said Bill Whalen, a former speechwriter for Gov. Pete Wilson and Hoover Institution fellow. "The question is, how much of a workhorse is she, versus a show horse?"

If Harris falls short, there's no shortage of Democrats hoping to be at the center of things.

First up, there's Gov.-elect Jerry Brown, who has spent most of his adult life attracting national attention.

Then there's Lt. Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom, who many feel is already running to replace what could be a one-term governor.

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


TOPICS: Editorial; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: antibusiness; antideathpenalty; attacklawyer; attorneygeneral; goldenstate; kamalaharris; rat
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Y'all can laugh at the crazy things that happen out here in California. But I can pretty much guarantee that Kamala Harris will do something during her term as Attorney General that will directly affect you, no matter where you live.
1 posted on 12/01/2010 8:16:30 AM PST by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Does she have an amazing ‘narrative’? Isn’t that what counts in Dem circles?


2 posted on 12/01/2010 8:18:35 AM PST by Oratam
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To: SmithL

Interestingly, the pro wrestler Kamala the Uganda Giant was born James Harris.


3 posted on 12/01/2010 8:19:28 AM PST by wideawake
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To: wideawake

So, what do her friends caller? “Kammie”?

I am quite ceertain that Ms. Harris is just a garden variety socialist who will try to make CA’s government even more intrusive and expensive.

CA voters are brain dead.


4 posted on 12/01/2010 8:26:43 AM PST by RexBeach
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To: SmithL

The main thing is you can see the so-called Republicans that are involved with her. This just illustrates more than ever it’s the elite political class against the rest of us.

They are all pimps and hacks.

Our work has just begun.


5 posted on 12/01/2010 8:27:17 AM PST by headstamp 2 ("My Boss is a Jewish Carpenter")
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To: RexBeach

I’ve a feeling the next two years of Omullah’s rein will be far more dangerous than the first two.


6 posted on 12/01/2010 8:28:48 AM PST by headstamp 2 ("My Boss is a Jewish Carpenter")
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To: Oratam
Isn’t that what counts in Dem circles?

Hmmmmmmm.....

I think Kamala Harris is the DEMS answer to Sarah Palin. Don't be surprised to see her picked for VP.

7 posted on 12/01/2010 8:29:46 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: RexBeach
CA voters are brain dead.

American voters are brain dead...

8 posted on 12/01/2010 8:31:58 AM PST by latina4dubya ( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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To: UCANSEE2

9 posted on 12/01/2010 8:32:00 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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To: RexBeach
I am quite ceertain that Ms. Harris is just a garden variety socialist

I believe she's far to the left of your garden variety socialist. More like a sewer rate variety socialist....

10 posted on 12/01/2010 8:37:47 AM PST by Crichton
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To: SmithL

She does have a mean look about her.


11 posted on 12/01/2010 8:38:09 AM PST by Postman
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To: Oratam

She is Barack Obama in a skirt. Do NOT underestimate her, the MSM is going to pump her up the same way they did Barry. Bi-racial like Barry, Harvard educated like Barry, attorney like Barry pretended to be. Rides the racial grievance gravy train like Barry, Al, and Jesse, she is another going to be a threat on the national scene, lark my words.


12 posted on 12/01/2010 8:39:24 AM PST by milwguy
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Could be.

Perhaps Mr. Obama will try to do an end run around the Congress by the active use of executive orders? That could muck up things nicely.


13 posted on 12/01/2010 8:45:14 AM PST by RexBeach
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To: milwguy

Thank you. It appears she has a ‘narrative’ to beat the band.


14 posted on 12/01/2010 8:47:10 AM PST by Oratam
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To: milwguy
The difference is that Obama is male and came across as a magisterial "uniter" and "healer" with soothing and inspiring rhetoric and demeanor.

She comes across as a very aggressive and impatient individual.

She will not get the pass that Obama did.

15 posted on 12/01/2010 8:47:40 AM PST by wideawake
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To: SmithL

That’s just what the country needs, another Obama from the Land of Socialist Failure, California. This woman just squeaked out a win, and they’re already pumping her up for big things? The politics of this country become more of a farce all the time.


16 posted on 12/01/2010 8:49:01 AM PST by popdonnelly (Class warfare is Obama's thing.)
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To: SmithL
"She is really the exciting one to watch," said Bill Whalen, a former speechwriter for Gov. Pete Wilson and Hoover Institution fellow. "The question is, how much of a workhorse is she, versus a show horse?"

Well... considering the lineage ...


17 posted on 12/01/2010 8:51:06 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (What's black and white and red all over? HINT: Think White House)
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To: SmithL

How is the AG of Cali going to effect a gun toting hillbilly in PA?


18 posted on 12/01/2010 8:53:01 AM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: SmithL

I wondered what Kamala was doing since leaving professional wrestling.


19 posted on 12/01/2010 8:53:13 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: Oratam; milwguy
Thank you. It appears she has a ‘narrative’ to beat the band.

Unlike Obama, she did not have an absent father, a distant mother and a globe-trotting upbringing.

Her father is a professor, her mother an oncologist and she grew up in an affluent two-parent home in the San Francisco suburbs. Her narrative is closer to John Kerry's than Obama's: "coddled child of privilege turns college radical."

Also she did not go to Harvard, but to Howard for undergrad and UC Hastings for law school.

20 posted on 12/01/2010 8:53:58 AM PST by wideawake
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