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Kamala Harris Plagiarized Pages of Congressional Testimony From a Republican Colleague. Plus, a Fictionalized Story About Human Trafficking.
Washington Free Beacon ^

Posted on 10/22/2024 10:25:04 AM PDT by TigerClaws

On April 24, 2007, Kamala Harris testified before Congress in support of the John R. Justice Prosecutors and Defenders Incentive Act of 2007. The bill, which was introduced that year but never passed the upper chamber, would have created a student loan repayment program for state and local prosecutors, and Harris, then the district attorney of San Francisco, argued it would draw top legal talent to offices like hers.

In a written statement to the House Judiciary Committee, she described how debt-addled prosecutors often decamp to the private sector a few years into the job, lured by the prospect of higher pay that could be used to pay off law school debt. That dynamic had left many district attorneys' offices short-staffed, she said, forcing them to put rookie attorneys on complex cases.

"There are numerous criminal cases that are particularly difficult because of the dynamics involved," Harris wrote. "To name just a few—child abuse, elder neglect, domestic violence, identity theft and public corruption. The stakes are simply too high to allow any attorney other than experienced prosecutors to handle these matters."

By repaying the loans of prosecutors and public defenders, Harris argued, the bill, which had been introduced with bipartisan support, would provide an incentive for lawyers to enter public service, or at least diminish the incentive to leave it.

The statement was simple and pragmatic. But Harris wasn’t the first person to make it.

Virtually her entire testimony about the bill was taken from that of another district attorney, Paul Logli of Winnebago County, Illinois, who had testified in support of the legislation two months earlier before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Both statements cite the same surveys, use the same language, and make the same points in the same order, with a paragraph added here or there. They even contain the same typos, such as missing punctuation or mistaken plurals. One error—a "who" that should have been a "whom"—was corrected in Harris’s transposition.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: harris; kamalaharris
Comparison showing the copied material at link.

She really is Ho Biden.

1 posted on 10/22/2024 10:25:04 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

n excerpt from her newest children’s book:

” The grandmother lived out in the wood, half a league from the village, and just as Little Red Riding Hood entered the wood, a wolf met her. Little Red Riding Hood did not know what a wicked creature he was, and was not at all afraid of him.

“Good-day, Little Red Riding Hood,” said he.

“Thank you kindly, wolf.”

“Whither away so early, Little Red Riding Hood?”

“To my grandmother’s.”

“What have you got in your apron?”

“Cake and wine. Yesterday was baking-day, so poor sick grandmother is to have something good, to make her stronger.”

“Where does your grandmother live, Little Red Riding Hood?”

“A good quarter of a league farther on in the wood. Her house stands under the three large oak-trees, the nut-trees are just below. You surely must know it,” replied Little Red Riding Hood.”


2 posted on 10/22/2024 10:39:41 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: TigerClaws

Plus she went to Law School on a program meant for low income disadvantaged students when her parents were upper middle class (College profs). She lied on the application. She’s been a phony for a long time. She flunked the bar exam the first time while 80% passed.


3 posted on 10/22/2024 10:39:58 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I may have flunked high school but the pigeons have accepted me as their leader, so I have that.)
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To: TigerClaws

She’s a loser. Time for Melania to start planning what she will wear Inauguration Day.


4 posted on 10/22/2024 10:49:19 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: TigerClaws

Low-IQ kamala is incapable of doing anything original! And she’s backed by the war lobby!

Vote Trump/Vance!


5 posted on 10/22/2024 10:53:10 AM PDT by Honorary Serb
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To: TigerClaws

She lied on her law school applications to take the seat of an otherwise disadvantaged applicant. She was living in the most expensive suburb in Montreal, traveling the world, with the incomes of 2 professors, and claimed she was a person of color and therefore, disadvantaged. RedState.com put out the post yesterday.


6 posted on 10/22/2024 11:34:50 AM PDT by RideForever (Damn, another dangling par .....)
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To: TigerClaws

She’s only accomplished in one thing. And she was Willie successful in it.


7 posted on 10/22/2024 12:12:32 PM PDT by Old Yeller (On judgement day, you’ll wish you were biblically correctly, not politically correct.)
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To: TigerClaws

What a fraud she is. Such a disgrace.


8 posted on 10/22/2024 1:19:10 PM PDT by Tommy Revolts (,,)
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To: Bob434; Eleutheria5; GOPJ; Sarah Barracuda
CNN also covered this story, but their "plagiarism expert" says "It’s definitely not a serious case of plagiarism"

Megyn Kelly Details Bombshell New Reporting About Serious Evidence of Kamala Harris' Past Plagiarism

9 posted on 10/22/2024 11:12:33 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: TigerClaws

BFD. She and a Republican colleague are lobbying for the same legislation, he in the Senate, and she in Congress. So they corroborated lazily and used substantially the same words in corroborated companion articles. I’d love to have yet another accusation to level at Kamala, but this ain’t it.


10 posted on 10/23/2024 3:17:56 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5
I'm not sure how they produce the Congressional record text. I would say Kamala should have attributed the matching part of her speech speech to Logli's original speech, but she and her staff naturally produce sloppy or vacuous language, to be read or memorized. I wouldn't be surprised to see more shameless copying in books she is going to publish. She has already stolen several of Trump's idea like no tax on tips, social security etc.

Biden lost an election when he ripped off a famous Kinnock speech, but one could argue that Kamala was just supporting Logli in this case.

11 posted on 10/23/2024 7:11:20 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

...but one could argue that Kamala was just supporting Logli in this case.

Yeh. Not that that raises her in my esteem one jot. You can say the same about the MSM anchors’ constant parroting each others’ key phrases, too. Not “plagiarism,” any more than the sheep in Animal Farm were plagiarizing each other by repeating the same mindless phrases over and over. “Four legs goood. Two legs baaadd.”


12 posted on 10/23/2024 7:24:15 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5
You can say the same about the MSM anchors’ constant parroting each others’ key phrases, too.

They think nobody notices they copied see the Bat Signal.

13 posted on 10/23/2024 7:46:22 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: Eleutheria5

If this were the only time she plagiarized or copied directly from someone else’s work with no attribution, I could agree with you.

Is this the only time she did that ?


14 posted on 10/23/2024 8:23:21 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The loudest person in the room is also the dumbest )
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To: UCANSEE2; Eleutheria5
From the 2nd half of the article:

But as California attorney general, she didn’t just copy boilerplate language without attribution. In one of the lengthier passages reviewed by Free Beacon, she lifted a fictionalized story about a victim of sex trafficking—and presented it as a real case.

15 posted on 10/23/2024 10:51:35 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Thanks for the ping.


16 posted on 10/23/2024 10:56:27 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrat voter fraud votes the people who don't show up to vote. Everything else is red herring...)
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