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After she got a high-paying no show patronage job from Willy Brown, the crafty, opportunistic Kamala went on to greener pastures.

Although Brown supported Harris in her successful 2003 run for San Francisco DA, she tried to distance herself from him in that race, telling SF Weekly that Brown – whose career was dogged by corruption allegations – was an “albatross hanging around my neck.”

“His career is over; I will be alive and kicking for the next 40 years. I do not owe him a thing,” she told SF Weekly, vowing, “If there is corruption, it will be prosecuted.”

Among the issues that followed Harris from her time with Brown was the allegation of cronyism in his appointment of Kamala to two well-paying posts.

“I appointed her to two state commissions when I was Assembly speaker,” Brown wrote. Brown was the speaker from 1980 to 1995, prior to his stint as San Francisco mayor.

Brown appointed Harris to the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and then to the Medical Assistance Commission – positions that paid her more than $400,000 over five years, according to SF Weekly. Brown also gave Harris a BMW.

“And I certainly helped with her first race for district attorney in San Francisco,” he said. “I have also helped the careers of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Gov. Gavin Newsom, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and a host of other politicians,” he added.

“The difference is that after I helped her, Kamala sent word that I would be indicted if I so much as jaywalked.”

Brown later questioned her suitability for higher office.