Kamala Harris’ A.G. Office Tried to Keep Inmates Locked Up for Cheap Labor

[Cow Poke]

[seer]

That is going to go over big in the primary!

[Cow Poke]

That is going to go over big in the primary!

Odd that Trump was pushing for early release for non-violent offenders - showcasing that in his SOTUA - and it was the DEMOCRAT who had been pushing for keeping them in!

[Mountain Man]

Wow, and it was even reported by The Daily Beast?

I suspect the media is actively trying to thin the herd of Democrat candidates in order to prevent the primary from turning into a circus.

[Bill the Cat]

She's crooked as they come.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics...t-13562972.php

[Sparko]

So basically, it means California, the most liberal state, owned by Democrats is supporting slavery just like the Democrats did back in the day.

[Cow Poke]

So basically, it means California, the most liberal state, owned by Democrats is supporting slavery just like the Democrats did back in the day.

Sure - is there any doubt that the prison population in California is any less disproportionate racially than other prisons in the country? So ... "let's keep them on the plantation" is not such an extreme accusation.

[rogue06]

A bit more about Harris while she was a prosecutor revealed by the Blaze:

Source: Wait. Was Kamala Harris smoking pot while prosecuting people for smoking pot?

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said that she listened to the music of rap artists Tupac and Snoop Dogg while smoking marijuana.

Harris, who announced her candidacy for the 2020 presidential race earlier in February, recently became a proponent of legalizing the recreational use of the drug, saying that it is something that gives people "joy."

Her admission brings up a big question about the timing of her admitted drug use and her time as a prosecutor.

What did she say, anyway?

During a Monday interview with WWPR-FM's "The Breakfast Club," Harris said that she listened to Tupac and Snoop Dogg while smoking marijuana

"I have [smoked pot] and I inhaled, I did inhale," she admitted. "It was a long time ago, but yes. I just broke news."

She later added that she thinks there's joy to be found in smoking pot.

"Listen, I think that it gives more people joy," Harris said. "We need more joy."

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So what about the timing?while she was in college.

Here's the thing: Harris finished her schooling in 1989. Tupac didn't release an album until 1991.

As for Snoop Dogg, well, he didn't release his first album until 1993.

Harris did, however, start working as a deputy district attorney in Alameda County, California, in 1990, where part of her job would have been to enforce existing drug laws.

Anything else?

Oh yes.

During her time as a prosecutor, Harris was as hard-nosed on drug laws as you could get. And when Harris was California Attorney General, she opposed the legalization of marijuana "as late as 2014," according to Reason.

Reason's Justin Monticello and Katherine Mangu-Ward wrote:



Reason's Scott Shackford also wrote that Harris isn't being forthright when it comes to not previously being opposed to marijuana legalization.

"Harris has a lengthy history as a prosecutor in California of opposing marijuana legalization," Shackford explains. "She opposed Proposition 19, the first failed attempt in California to legalize recreational use of marijuana."

When Harris was running for attorney general in 2010, her campaign said, "Spending two decades in courtrooms, Harris believes that drug selling harms communities. Harris supports the legal use of medicinal marijuana but does not support anything beyond that."



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So while she was smoking pot she was energetically prosecuting people for smoking pot.

[Starlight]

Yup, she's got big issues. Interestingly though the establishment seems to have settled on her as their best chance at stopping Bernie from winning.

[Bill the Cat]

Yup, she's got big issues. Interestingly though the establishment seems to have settled on her as their best chance at stopping Bernie from winning.

Intersectional politics at their finest...

[rogue06]

Since this thread has become pertinent.

[firstfloor]

From the article.
Harris is undoubtedly God's pick for VP.

[rogue06]

From the article.


Harris is undoubtedly God's pick for VP.

So you think this signals the end of days then?

FWIU it was a judge that ordered the release of her slave labor force so it is hard to believe that she was "shocked" to hear of it, although I'm not the least surprised that she ordered people not to mention it.

[oxmixmudd]

KDS didn't have much of an incubation period.

[Starlight]

I'm not a fan of Harris, but I'm also tired of seeing conservatives work themselves up about every single different democrat. Their common denominator just seems to be their own character of hatred, and thus that they hate everyone and everything associated with Democrats in any way shape or form.

Muslim Obama, Transgender Michelle, Shifty Shift, evil Pelosi, Benghazi Rice, crazie Bernie, moron AOC, Indian Warren, Dementia Joe, etc... the conservatives seem always seem to manage to find something, real or not, to get worked up about or hate about that person.

And now, they find things to hate about Harris. What a surprise. Not.

So before going full-bore "Harris is basically the devil incarnate", please stop and think: Was there any democrat in the country Biden could have picked as his VP that you wouldn't have managed to find a way of demonizing?

And to reply in advance to the inevitable "but Dems say some bad stuff about Trump, so that's just as bad right?" No. That's one person. And by objective metrics Trump is doing unusually badly. Number of dead Americans: Unusually high. Economic slump in last quarter: Unusually high. Unemployment rates: Unusually high. Debt and deficit: Unusually high. Amount of time spent golfing: Unusually high. Amount of tweeting: Unusually high. Amount of involvement of his family and businesses in government: Unusually high. Amount of word-salads when he talks: Unusually high. Amount of falsehoods spoken: Unusually high. National favorability rating: Unusually low. International favorability rating: Unusually low.

There are a wide range of reasons a totally normal and totally reasonable person might legitimately say Trump is worse than other Republican presidents and Republican politicians. On all sorts of objective metrics he's worse. So Dems that take this position aren't being unreasonable, nor irrational, nor hate-filled, nor have TDS. He, compared to other Republicans, is actually doing badly.

Whereas what I am seeing from right-wingers here is like TDS applied to all dems. Every single dem is The Worst, and apparently is worse than every other Dem. The common denominator in that seems to be an unfortunate character flaw in the right-wingers themselves that causes such hatred toward such a vast number of people. Kamala seems to be the latest recipient. She's The Worst Ever, just like every other Dem before her and after he. It gets to the point where it reads like absurdist fiction and if you guys were characters in a book I'd criticize the writer for writing unbelievable 2-dimensional characters who were self-parodies that didn't have any nuance.