Posted on 08/06/2024 8:14:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
As recently as last week, Kamala Harris appeared to be on the cusp of picking Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.) as her running mate. Despite the progressive backlash against him and a slew of scandalous leaks, he was the runaway frontrunner in the betting odds as conventional wisdom held that Kamala needed a "moderate" swing state Democrat to help expand her path to 270 Electoral College votes.
Shapiro's chances remained high even after he faced serious allegations by a fellow Democrat of covering up harassment in his office. The sexual harassment cover-up didn't take Shapiro out of contention, and neither did another cover-up — this one involving murder.
In 2011, 27-year-old Ellen Greenberg, a first-grade teacher, was found dead in the apartment she shared with her fiancé, Sam Goldberg. Her body was discovered on the kitchen floor with a knife in her chest and 20 stabs and slash wounds, half of which were in the back of her neck and head. Initially, Philadelphia Assistant Medical Examiner Marlon Osbourne ruled her death a homicide. However, after police publicly challenged this finding, Osbourne changed the ruling to suicide without explanation.
Related: Why Did Kamala Harris Pick Tim Walz?
In 2019, then-Pennsylvania Attorney General Shapiro supported the suicide determination when the case reached his desk—and many speculate his connection to the fiancé's family was the reason. Shapiro, for his part, seemed to be actively campaigning for the job, going so far as to abandon his faith and principles to help make himself palatable to the progressive, antisemitic wing of the Democratic Party.
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Why not Shapiro? By contrast, Pennsylvania Gov. JOSH SHAPIRO’s team felt that his own interview with Harris did not go as well as it could have. There was “not a great feeling” coming out of it, according to a person in touch with Shapiro’s advisers. A person familiar with the selection process told our colleagues that, after their meeting on Sunday, Shapiro called Harris’ team and made clear that he was “struggling with the decision to leave his current job as governor, in order to seek the vice presidency.”
Does anyone believe that Shapiro was "struggling with the decision to leave his current job as governor"? Of course, he wasn't. This sounds like Shapiro realized that the risk of joining the Harris ticket was too high after the terrible jobs report on Friday and the subsequent stock market crash on Monday.
In other words, he dropped out.
If Shapiro was really having difficulty with the idea of leaving his current job, he would have taken himself out of contention around the same time that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.) and Gov. Roy Cooper (D-N.C.) did. Cooper claimed he wants to run for the Senate in 2026 — because it's totally normal to pass on the chance to be vice president. Like Cooper, Shapiro, who obviously wanted the job, likely read the tea leaves and bailed.
2028 candidate.
Harris didnt pick Shapiro because she didnt want to piss off the pro hamas base of the Democrat party. The democrat party is the party that despises the Jews, PERIOD..and even with Shapiro groveling to the hamas left and denouncing his own Jewish faith and identity, he still couldn’t get the job
She goes to PA to announce the Gov of MN? Yeah, that is a bit of egg on the face.
Odd, when I look at Kamala and Walz I can only picture
Hillary and Tim Kaine.
Losers, the four of them!!!
Jee who told you this ?!?
Hmmm?!
Who told you Shapiro would not tie himself to this fustercluck?!?
There is no such office as philly attorney general but the number looks like harrisburg so it is probably the state AG number. Still weird but Krasner is a commie so he knows a lot of people stab themselves multiple times to commit suicide. Many of his leaders Stalin for ex told him so.
9 out of 10 people who take a job working for Harris quit. Shapiro just proactively quit before he was hired.
Re: That young woman’s death by multiple knife wounds.
I recall reading about it. If anyone with an open mind takes a good look at that line drawing diagram showing the overview of a female’s profile, with multiple knife entry points front and back, many directly behind her head, it’s obvious she could not have held a knife at that angle and stabbed herself with enough force to die from it.
Shapiro should have recused himself from effecting any judgement on that case, since he was a close aquaintance of the plaintiff’s family. Any honorable man would have done so.
We could be overthinking this.
Maybe he got to spend some time with Harris and really did not like her.
If she starting acting bossy with him that might have been enough right there.
Even Hillary and Tim Kaine doesn’t drop down to the level of unintelligent and unqualified as Harris/Walz and that takes some doing.
It’s unbelievable that they think the country is stupid enough to elect those two marxist morons. I think it’s the weakest ticket in history.
Yep. The most ambitious Dems are holding out for 2028 rather than waste precious political capital on what many have quietly concluded is a hopeless 2024 election. Once it’s over, Harris and her hapless running mate will likely never be heard from again.
Since he made the decision against the family’s wishes, I’m thinking he had some other motive in making the decision.
Wow, she was hot. Unfortunate.
“I think it’s the weakest ticket in history.”
That is probably fair.
I was thinking Mondale/Ferraro but at least Mondale had some brains. He was just an awful public speaker and an arrogant jerk—reminded me of some of the worst college professors I had. “Heidegger was an important philosopher.” O....kay...then why couldn’t I stay awake in class?
:-)
“20 stab wounds”
There’s stab wounds, and there’s STAB WOUNDS.
Why Did Kamala Harris Pick Tim Walz?
because finding somebody in public office that isn’t much smarter than the Hyena to show her up is no small feat
So she wasn’t “stabbed stabbed”?
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