A week ago, I wrote an essay Kamala Harris: a dangerous Democrat. On the Cusp schooled me with the comment "what Democrat isn't dangerous?" Being at a loss for words, I decided to show why K. the Camel Harris particularly dangerous. To OtC et. al., this does not mean that most Democrats are not dangerous.

This new paragon of faux liberal Democrat has earned her ascent in the good ole American way for a "time honored" route to influence. Another article expands on this in a less fierce way: Kamala Harris' boyfriend gave her a political start.

Kamala Harris got her political start as the girlfriend of California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown. She was 29, he was 60 and he helped advance her career with political patronage....

Harris’s ties to Brown came up during her bid for San Francisco District Attorney in 2003. San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen once called Harris “the Speaker’s new steady.” Brown went on to become the first black mayor of San Francisco.

As Brown’s time as speaker drew to a close in 1994, he named Harris to the California Medical Assistance Commission, a job that came with a $72,000 annual salary. Brown had previously appointed her to the state Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board.

Being a quick learner, the Camel knew that the quickest way to a politician's heart (oxymoron alert), if you're not engaging in sexual acts with them, is through "campaign contributions" (synonym: bribery). So, she befriended Maxine "Auntie Maxine" Waters with a couple of campaign donations.

Campaign committees for Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif.) twice paid tens of thousands to campaign committees for Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters (Calif.) in exchange for placement on a mailer announcing Waters's endorsement of Harris, according to Federal Election Commission records.

Harris—who has garnered media attention and earned speculation that she is positioning herself to run for president in 2020 following her performance during recent Senate hearings, including that of former FBI Director James Comey—has kicked $63,000 to the campaign of Maxine Waters, the congressional face of the anti-Trump movement, in exchange for placement on the endorsement mailers.

The payments were made from Harris's campaign committee and transferred to Waters's campaign committee through a lucrative "slate mailer" operation run by Waters's daughter, a program that has proved profitable for both her daughter and the campaign.

And of course Barack Hussain Obama had nice things to say about California Attorney General Harris.

The instant national chortling Thursday over the fact that President Obama had called California’s Kamala Harris the “best-looking” state attorney general ended up being more about seeing the usual slippery standards on political correctness.

You see, it's okay when BHO says something sexist, but not when anybody else does it.

Okay, we need to get beyond all the ad hominems and deflections from political issues. So what are the Camel's political accomplishments?

According to the L.A. Times are the following:

1. Helped broker mortgage relief settlement.
True enough, but most of the money stayed in the banks' coffers

2. Refused to defend ban on gay marriage

3. Refused to seek the death penalty against a cop killer
Consistent with an anti-death penalty person--so why does she applaud the ongoing multi-war neocon agenda? It's okay to protect our murderers, because we are ourselves murderers but it's also alright to murder thousands of innocent people in faraway nations who haven't killed anybody.

4. Delays in confiscating guns from dangerous Californians.
Even the NRA is against gun ownership for dangerous felons and the mentally ill. But that bit of logic seems to have gone into one hump and out the other.

5. Sued for-profit Corinthian Colleges for misleading students. Reasonable, yes.

6. Increased transparency on in-custody deaths BUT opposed independent investigations of police shootings.
The first part is laudable and should be adopted nationwide.
The second part is pure Obama-style baloney: Here a person of color opts not to investigate police shootings of citizens of which a large minority are of persons of color.

7. Launched back on Track program to reduce recidivism--with one flaw.

In 2005, while she was San Francisco district attorney, Harris launched the “Back on Track” program to reduce recidivism by offering nonviolent, low-level drug trafficking defendants job training and other life skills education as an alternative to jail...

In 2009, Harris said that allowing immigrants who were in the country illegally into the job training program when they could not legally employed was a "flaw in the design” of the program and that it was quickly fixed. People who could not be legally employed in the U.S. were barred from the jobs program.

Hmmm. Four years to figure out that there's a problem with the plan. The Camel isn't a quick study when it comes to policy--although is proven adept at conniving as described above and expanded upon below.

8. Veteran of tough campaigns.
Wow! Is that ever an endorsement. Fighting ferociously--for what? Josef Stalin was a hard-core hand to hand fighter in the Russian Revolution, helping ensure Bolshevik success. Adolph Hitler was a brave fighter in World War 1, winning the Iron Cross. So, according to the article's author, that make the Camel virtuous.

Now that we have delved into the highlights of the Camel's political career prior to gaining her senate seats (thanks Maxine, Nancy, and Jerry), we shall examine some pesky details that reflect not so admirably upon KH's career.

Slavery

Here is a woman of color upholding slavery, technically forced labor with abysmal payment by California's numerous prison population. Many in this population, disproportionately actually, ar people of color. Hypocrisy warning:

Note the stunning duplicity in her stance on wage slavery.

Attorney General Kamala D. Harris and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) have signed a cooperative agreement to crack down on employer wage theft and other illegal labor practices. The Memorandum of Understanding signed by both agencies will facilitate the sharing of information and enhance enforcement of labor violations.

“Wage theft is a crime that hurts our economy and robs hard working Californians of their livelihoods,” said Attorney General Harris. “This agreement allows our agencies to better investigate and prosecute those who exploit workers and deny them the pay and benefits they deserve. I thank the Department of Labor for their partnership and commitment to protecting the rights of workers.”

Hurray, what a champion for the downtrodden--unless they even more repressed.

The Camel has become a proven get tough administrator.

California Attorney General Kamala Harris told ThinkProgress Wednesday she is concerned her department created a perception that the state’s prisons have a goal of “indentured servitude.” Harris was responding to revelations that lawyers in her office argued in court without her knowledge that a program to parole more prisoners would drain the state’s source of cheap labor.

Oh, but wait, isn't she the boss? How dare those mutinous underlings do such a thing behind her back! Maybe she was too busy campaigning to notice. But the story gets better.

So let's talk about wage slavery and prison reform a bit more. In a November 17, 2014 article, KH said she was shocked, SHOCKED she tells us about the malignant California Department of Corrections, which as attorney General she was the overseer, was fighting against the early release of prisoners.

California Attorney General Kamala Harris told BuzzFeed News she was “shocked” to learn that the lawyers in her department had argued against parole credits because they wanted to retain their labor force. “I will be very candid with you, because I saw that article this morning, and I was shocked, and I’m looking into it to see if the way it was characterized in the paper is actually how it occurred in court,” Harris said in an interview with BuzzFeed published late Tuesday. “I was very troubled by what I read. I just need to find out what did we actually say in court.”

Darn those pesky deputy attorneys and the State's frugal beancounters! Obstructing the early release of prisoners, tsk, tsk. Perhaps she was spending too much time at Auntie Maxine's home having champagne and bon bon's to notice that her department, of which she had been the head for 5 years was doing all this behind her back.

But, wait! There's more. Okay, it's not quite as heartless as her abondment if prisoners who have served their time--but the next item certainly reeks of greed.

Hospital wheelings and dealings.

The California attorney general's office oversees the sale and purchase of nonprofits and their assets. In most cases, the office required that any company purchasing a healthcare provider nonprofit had to maintain the nonprofit's current level of services for at least five years. Harris expanded that requirement to 10 years in the case of Prime's attempt to purchase the Daughters of Charity Health System.

Prime contended that the change made the planned $843 million sale "financially unviable" and was done deliberately by Harris to undermine it as part of a "quid pro quo" with SEIU. "The only time Attorney General Harris veered from that pattern (of requiring five years) was with respect to Prime and the 10 years condition for the first time," said Prime's attorney John Mills.

Emphasis mine. The Camel uniquely extended a requirement that a nonprofit hospital maintain service for 5 years after purchase to the 10 year requirement she imposed upon Prime Healthcare. Wonder why she did that?

We can get a glimpse at the Camel's motivation here.

“Prime alleges that the attorney general’s 10-year conditions were unprecedented and rendered the proposed transaction operationally and financially unviable, requiring Prime to operate the financially failing hospitals at a loss for 10 years,” court records show.
The conditions were a de facto denial, Prime says, and it withdrew its bid to purchase the Daughters of Charity Health System Hospitals.
The healthcare corporation speculates Harris will approve Blue Mountain Capital Management’s bid to purchase Daughters of Charity Health System Hospitals and will likely impose five-year, instead of 10-year, conditions.

For a more recent review of the situation, look here.

Ancient history or a taste of things to come? Let's look at some her recent forays into governance, with the evident early intention to be Auntie Maxine's Impeach Trump campaign. She has participated in a number of televised debates, which reveal her nuanced, polite questioning of witnesses, allowing them to fully answer the rapid fire questions she throws at them.

Questioning Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein (4:36)

Questioning HS sec. John Kelly (3:41)

Questioning CIA director Pompeo (6:15)

Questioning Jeff Sessions (3:56)

The fawning MSM, hoping to ;preen the Camel's future as POTUS, has been playing the misogynist card; likely soon to follow will be the racist card. For those of you patient enough, you might enjoy the Hard Bastard's sympathetic response to Kamala Harris's questioning techniques (27:24)

As a reminder, though dealt with in my first Camel essay, Jimmy Dore inquires as to the Steve Mnuchin get out of jail free card (7:22).

Now, permit me to preview the Camel's political theme song:

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iudmMgbAAmI]