NONE of the following is my work, but it is an excellent bio published today in the Wall Street Journal (behind the pay wall), and a good followup to my post yesterday [Presidential eligibility]. I will add, as I did in yesterday’s post, that both of Ms Harris’ parents were born in other countries, and she spent her formative years (ages 7-18) living in Canada. She graduated from high school in Montreal. Her mother was born in India, and her father in Jamaica. Her parents divorced when she was 7.
California Senator Kamala Harris dove into the race for President on Monday, as everyone who knows her expected. Though she’s been a Senator for only two years, the victories by Barack Obama and Donald Trump have shown that ambition beats national experience as a qualification to get to the White House, if not necessarily to succeed as President.
“I love my country and this is a moment in time where I feel a sense of responsibility to fight for who we are,” Ms. Harris declared on Good Morning America. So professes every Democratic aspirant #metoo. Though a longtime member of the Democratic elite, the 54-year-old seems ready to run as a progressive populist.
In her new memoir “The Truths We Hold,” Ms. Harris reminisces about her “close-knit neighborhood of working families who were focused on doing a good job, paying the bills, and being there for one another.” Her Indian grandmother, she notes, was a “skilled community organizer” who took in domestic violence victims and educated women about contraception.
But as progressives like to say, Ms. Harris grew up privileged. Her Indian-born mother was a breast cancer researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and her Jamaican father was a Stanford economist. Amid the Democratic obsession with identity politics, Ms. Harris’s biracial background will be a selling point.
She was also raised politically by the Democratic machine. After law school, Ms. Harris went to work in the Alameda County district attorney’s office. Despite failing the state bar on the first try, she was allowed to continue working until she passed.
Her book jacket summarizes her rise: “She progressed rapidly to become the elected District Attorney for San Francisco, and then the chief law enforcement officer” of California. The longer version is that she dated Willie Brown, the longtime state Assembly Speaker who was three decades her senior. Mr. Brown appointed her to government sinecures and connected her to Democratic donors, though he isn’t mentioned in her book.
Ms. Harris also received substantial support from unions she repaid as Attorney General. At the Service Employees International Union’s urging, she blocked Prime Healthcare’s bid in 2015 to rescue an insolvent Catholic hospital network. Last year the over-leveraged hospitals declared bankruptcy, jeopardizing pensions for thousands of workers.
Ms. Harris also employed prosecutorial powers for political purposes such as her assaults on for-profit Corinthian Colleges and Exxon Mobil . She sought to force the disclosure of conservative donors but was blocked by a federal court. She is running as a criminal-justice reformer, but she declined to support two state referenda opposed by public-safety unions that aimed to reduce incarceration.
Her Senate career has been unremarkable, though she garnered publicity with her inquisition of Brett Kavanaugh. She’s now running on a redistributionist’s dream platform of Medicare for All, a $6,000 guaranteed income for households earning less than $100,000, and tax credits for renters who spend more than 30% of their income on rent.
While a prolific fundraiser—she raised $1.5 million within 24 hours of declaring for President—her financial jaunts to the Hamptons and penchant for first-class travel will draw criticism from rivals. But what makes Ms. Harris formidable is that she synthesizes all the varieties of current Democratic politics.
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Between the “dating” Willie Brown… ahem ahem… and her parents not being born here, she shouldn’t even be eligible or desirable as a candidate, but to the left… she’s perfect.
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The left will particularly love her because she has NO European blood that we know of.
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PS: I’m pretty sure her father does.
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SMH 🤦♀️
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She has other attributes that they will love………she is hateful and nasty. A plus plus. 🙄
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Mazie Hirono is even more hateful and nasty, but not enough people would vote for her because she is also obviously stupid. Sort of like Maxine Waters.
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Despicable, isn’t it?
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Did nothing as a Senator, wrote a memoir while she was a nobody, not legally allowed to be President by nature of not being born an American… It’s like Obama all over again.
If the Republican Party doesn’t crucify her for trying to run for president as the child of non-citizen foreigners, it will be time to take the Republican Party out and crucify them. I’m very tired of the idea that any foreigner who wants to be President should be allowed to run
The definition of insanity is allowing people who were not born in this country to citizen parents to run for so much as dogcatcher.
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She was born in California. Her parents are immigrants.
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Did her parents have legal right to be on US soil when she was born?
I don’t care anymore. It should be law these days that if you want to run for any government office, you have prove that the last two generations before you were born American.
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Her mother was a scientist with a PhD employed at Berkley, and her father was an economist at Stanford. I would imagine that they were legal immigrants.
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Thanks for the info, stella. I didn’t know that.
I still don’t think she’s qualified and I don’t like her.
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Student visas. Not Citizens.
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True?
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/aj5085/kamala_is_not_eligible_to_be_presidentneither/?utm_source=reddit-android
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I question it. Even if her parents were here illegally, Kamala Harris was born in California and is, therefore, a US citizen. Yes, she lived in Canada with her mother from age 7 to age 18.
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She (Kamala) was born here, but her parents were not Citizens in any form when she was born. Sorry……it’s Obie all over again. NOT CONSTITUTIONALLY QUALIFIED.
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Do you have the details? You’re probably right, but it would be good to know for sure.
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I’ve been reading all over the place about this and many say her parents were not citizens. They are usually basing that on the on the fact? that it takes five years to become a citizen. Kamala was born before either of her parents were here for five years. I have yet to find an article with proof, one way or the other.
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Gopalan has two daughters, senator Kamala and lawyer Maya.[2] She insisted on giving her daughters names derived from Indian mythology to help preserve their culture identity.[8]
That’s from wikipedia. Gave me a smh chuckle considering the border issue. I’ll link what I have found on the mother. What I find odd, is no matter where I look, I can’t find a simple answer as to whether or not she was a citizen. I have to be doing the search wrong. Will research Kamala Harris’s father next.
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?n=shyamala-g-harris&pid=125330757
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Long article here about her father’s beliefs on economies in Haiti and so on, but well worth the read. Her parents seem to have been remarkable people. Her mother did groundbreaking research into breast cancer and discovered things previously unknown which contributed to the care and well being of patients. Extremely intelligent people who were very hardworking. Kamala doesn’t have that work ethos and she seems to have cherry picked from her father’s work without fully understanding it, or she is simply using pieces of it to fit her agenda, while ignoring his very valid points. Still haven’t found when her parents became citizens.
https://news.stanford.edu/pr/94/941019Arc4089.html
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This is the most I found about the mother too. Didn’t find much about dad either.
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http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/logandaily/obituary.aspx?pid=184411755
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Sorry, ignore this. Wrong man.
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Just out of curiosity, if they weren’t here legally, wouldn’t she be DACA? LOL
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She was born here, so no.
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https://web.stanford.edu/~dharris/professional_career.htm
This says he was a citizen of US by naturalization, but doesn’t list the year.
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Sorry Stella, don’t know how that went as a stand alone comment, was replying to you above.
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