Kamala Harris is positioning herself as a progressive prosecutor, whatever that is. But the former California attorney general’s record reveals that she’s actually tougher on innocent people than she is on crime, and that she’s never meant a reform she didn’t hate.
Dems Who Forget Hillary Are Doomed to Repeat Her
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Ms Harris was the CA State AG when that office not only refrained from prosecuting a CA bank involved on illegal foreclosure but also “declined to file a civil enforcement action against the bank” That it, did nothing to stop the practice.
This contemporaneous forging of an artefact of her AG legacy, identical to one of the major “achievements” among the truly hideous Obumma “legacy,” incontrovertibly qualifies her to be the Democratic presidential nominee.
The head of the bank is now His Hairness’s Secretary of the Treasury, Mnuchin. No not a munchin but a reprehensible, if all-too-typical capitalist, creature found deep in the slime remaining after the swamp was drained.
He was CEO of West One bank and “prosecutors at the California attorney general’s office … found over a thousand violations of foreclosure laws by his bank during” his tenure … “and predicted that further investigation would uncover many thousands more.”
One concession: Mnuchin is not Henry Kissinger. But Ms Harris has lots of time to rally support, I’m sure she learns fast and will find out whether Harris is the favored nominee of HRC if the “American Voldemort I” gives his endorsement. (Assuming HRC does not run herself – which I, at least, will not rule out at this point.)
The following link will fill out the issue: LINK
The quote fragments above are from a “The Intercept” article of 5Jan2017 that should turn up in the search at above link.
Thank you Ted and falco
I am always suspicious of the up and coming bright spots in the Democratic Party, seemingly like the bright kernels of corn in corn shits, and am happy to have my suspicions confirmed by facts that stand alone, absolving and immunizing me to accusations of prejudice.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/opinion/kamala-harris-criminal-justice.html
Glenn,
“like the bright kernels of corn in corn shits.” If I were a composition teacher, I’d give you an A for the semester just for that one alone.
Ted,
This is one of your very best. In 50 words (anti-reform is one word) you’ve displayed the hypocrisy of the current democratic party leadership. I realize you have a relatively small audience, but I find a tremendous amount of value in what you have to contribute to the discussion.
Anyway, that’s all the fawning kiss-uppery I’m doing today. Now I’ve gotta go hang around the subway stairs and push old people down them. …
“Dems who forget Hillary are doomed to repeat her.”
That could be a Mad Lib.
_(Party)_ who forget _(Politician)_ are doomed to repeat _(Pronoun)_
Dem / GOP / Nazi
Nixon / Reagan / Obama / Hillary
him / her / indeterminate
More on the topic:
LINK: “Malcolm X Warned About These Bourgeois Hustlers”