February 28, 2019
Has Kamala Harris made one blunder too many?
By Monica Showalter
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/has_kamala_harris_made_one_blunder_too_many.html
Favorite Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris misrepresented her record again as a prosecutor in San Francisco, this time on illegal aliens, and for the first time, CNN has called her out.
The problem, CNN notes, is that it wasn't an "unintended consequence"; it was the actual policy, and when leftists on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors tried to end it, Harris opposed them.
What was this likely about? I'm gonna guess MS-13 gangbangers wreaking havoc in the South of Market and the Mission District and angry hipsters trying to gentrify the area wanting something done about it. Since I used to live there in the 1990s, I can tell you that those thugs were very much a presence and, through their involvement in the drug- and human-trafficking trades, brought a lot of blight to the area. This included hookers and drug-dealers, surrounded by bums buying their "products" but also a lot of robbery and violence. I remember once jerking back behind a cement warehouse wall when I saw muzzle flashes from firing weapons on a street whose buildings were covered with MS-13 graffiti.
Harris would have been taking the side of the progressive hipster entrepreneurs over the gangbangers at the time (you can see here that it's always an ongoing struggle) and for that reason, she would have wanted to turn the underage gangbangers over to ICE as a local prosecutor to cool things down a bit.
Now she's changed her tune as she runs for president, and, in line with the current progressive mantra, says she's against turning anyone under 18 here illegally over to ICE after he's been picked up by the cops for some foul crime, including murder, until after a jury convicts. Maybe not even that. She's relabeling herself as that, using this stumbling argument from the same CNN report:
CNN, which supports the national progressive line of no consequences for illegal aliens, apparently found this too much, and came out with its critical piece highlighting Harris's inability to stick to her story.
It's not the first time she's done that, either. It's got to be tough work to try to de-market oneself as a tough prosecutor, and have it all ways with the left, but here she is. Reason's Hit & Run blog has the best write-up of the complicated twists and turns of the self-described progressive's stands:
The reality here is that she was involved in San Francisco's utterly wretched blue-on-blue politics, and she blew with the prevailing winds at the time. What we learn from this Reason list is that she will take the side of whichever progressive line seems most powerful, which at that earlier time seemed to be to get rid of the gangbangers so that the businesses (and San Francisco tax base) could flourish, and that would explain why she would have supported deportations of under-18s picked up by the cops for criminal activity at the time. Now that the trend has shifted, and Democrats have moved to open borders over all other priorities, she misrepresents her record, saying she that was never in favor of deportations of "unaccompanied minors."
Which is pretty weird when you think about it. Harris actually could use her record to show she's a moderate of sorts on matters of law and order, and that she has responded to neighborhood requests to throw out illegal alien gangbangers as a prosecutor. Yet she doesn't. In fact, she misrepresents her record in that same pattern and she's done it often enough that she's getting noticed for it.
Now CNN, which, along with the New York Times, has been her fiercest booster, has called her out. It's possible that this outlet is trying to recover its own reputation for impartial news by delivering the hit on Kamala, after that adoring tweet from a CNN correspondent showing reporters picking out Harris's clothing in a boutique. But that doesn't make the critical call-out any less valid.
And what it shows is that Harris is not really ready for prime time. Up until now, Harris has been a hothouse flower of a candidate, cossetted by reporters and coming up through the political ranks in San Francisco's one-party state, ushered in by her relationship with political kingpin Willie Brown. That's not a background that makes for a tough politician able to withstand a lot of pressure from opponents or take tough questions from real reporters. Up until now, she's had it good.
Now with her record exposed as phony, we are seeing Harris herself finally being exposed as phony. Apparently, she's made one mistake too many.
Has Kamala Harris made one blunder too many?
By Monica Showalter
A
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/has_kamala_harris_made_one_blunder_too_many.html
Favorite Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris misrepresented her record again as a prosecutor in San Francisco, this time on illegal aliens, and for the first time, CNN has called her out.
The problem, CNN notes, is that it wasn't an "unintended consequence"; it was the actual policy, and when leftists on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors tried to end it, Harris opposed them.
What was this likely about? I'm gonna guess MS-13 gangbangers wreaking havoc in the South of Market and the Mission District and angry hipsters trying to gentrify the area wanting something done about it. Since I used to live there in the 1990s, I can tell you that those thugs were very much a presence and, through their involvement in the drug- and human-trafficking trades, brought a lot of blight to the area. This included hookers and drug-dealers, surrounded by bums buying their "products" but also a lot of robbery and violence. I remember once jerking back behind a cement warehouse wall when I saw muzzle flashes from firing weapons on a street whose buildings were covered with MS-13 graffiti.
Harris would have been taking the side of the progressive hipster entrepreneurs over the gangbangers at the time (you can see here that it's always an ongoing struggle) and for that reason, she would have wanted to turn the underage gangbangers over to ICE as a local prosecutor to cool things down a bit.
Now she's changed her tune as she runs for president, and, in line with the current progressive mantra, says she's against turning anyone under 18 here illegally over to ICE after he's been picked up by the cops for some foul crime, including murder, until after a jury convicts. Maybe not even that. She's relabeling herself as that, using this stumbling argument from the same CNN report:
CNN, which supports the national progressive line of no consequences for illegal aliens, apparently found this too much, and came out with its critical piece highlighting Harris's inability to stick to her story.
It's not the first time she's done that, either. It's got to be tough work to try to de-market oneself as a tough prosecutor, and have it all ways with the left, but here she is. Reason's Hit & Run blog has the best write-up of the complicated twists and turns of the self-described progressive's stands:
The reality here is that she was involved in San Francisco's utterly wretched blue-on-blue politics, and she blew with the prevailing winds at the time. What we learn from this Reason list is that she will take the side of whichever progressive line seems most powerful, which at that earlier time seemed to be to get rid of the gangbangers so that the businesses (and San Francisco tax base) could flourish, and that would explain why she would have supported deportations of under-18s picked up by the cops for criminal activity at the time. Now that the trend has shifted, and Democrats have moved to open borders over all other priorities, she misrepresents her record, saying she that was never in favor of deportations of "unaccompanied minors."
Which is pretty weird when you think about it. Harris actually could use her record to show she's a moderate of sorts on matters of law and order, and that she has responded to neighborhood requests to throw out illegal alien gangbangers as a prosecutor. Yet she doesn't. In fact, she misrepresents her record in that same pattern and she's done it often enough that she's getting noticed for it.
Now CNN, which, along with the New York Times, has been her fiercest booster, has called her out. It's possible that this outlet is trying to recover its own reputation for impartial news by delivering the hit on Kamala, after that adoring tweet from a CNN correspondent showing reporters picking out Harris's clothing in a boutique. But that doesn't make the critical call-out any less valid.
And what it shows is that Harris is not really ready for prime time. Up until now, Harris has been a hothouse flower of a candidate, cossetted by reporters and coming up through the political ranks in San Francisco's one-party state, ushered in by her relationship with political kingpin Willie Brown. That's not a background that makes for a tough politician able to withstand a lot of pressure from opponents or take tough questions from real reporters. Up until now, she's had it good.
Now with her record exposed as phony, we are seeing Harris herself finally being exposed as phony. Apparently, she's made one mistake too many.