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Recently, Lanny Davis wrote about how twenty years ago former San Franciso Mayor Willie Brown described Kamala Harris to him a “bad ass law-and-order prosecutor” while she was San Francisco district attorney. (Willie Brown, who boosted the career of Harris through appointments to positions in San Francisco’s high society, carried on a years-long affair with Harris while he was still married, but Davis does not mention that.) Harris’s presidential campaign ads are now casting her, indeed, as a “bad ass” law-and-order type. On the day, Joe Biden “withdrew” from the race and endorsed her, Harris claimed that her experience prosecuting sex abusers and for-profit colleges enabled her to know Donald Trump’s “type.” In her acceptance speech for the Democratic presidential nomination (after getting zero primary votes), Harris waxed on about how she decided to become a lawyer after learning that her best friend was being molested by her stepfather. She bragged about how as a prosecutor she stood up for “women and children.” She presented President Trump as a lawless insurrectionist, falsely accusing him of “send[ing] an armed mob to the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, where they assaulted police officers.” She charged, “Donald Trump tried to throw away your votes.”
But during her run for State Attorney General in California, her opponent Steve Cooley, on election night, November 2, 2010, claimed victory. The next day’s Sacramento Bee reported that he was leading her by 48 percent to 44 percent. But by November 24 Harris squeaked by on a 0.8 percent margin. She claimed in her autobiography, “we knew that it was too close to call… It took twenty-one days for all the ballots to be counted and for me to be declared the winner. Every vote counts!”
According to newspaper reports, late results coming from the large urban area of Los Angeles (sound familiar?) showed the gap narrowing significantly, even though Cooley was so popular that he had been the first Los Angeles District Attorney in 70 years to win three consecutive terms.
The November 17 Los Angeles Times reported that over the previous five days Cooley’s aides had been filing complaints alleging that Los Angeles County elections officials had held private meetings with Harris officials. They also alleged that election workers were not “taking adequate time to verify voter signatures on the unprocessed ballots.” A Harris official accused the Cooley campaign of trying to disqualify Harris voters.
In her run for state law enforcement office, according to the November 25 Los Angeles Times, Harris was “buoyed” by the influx of Latinos. Endorsing her were labor unions, the abortion-rights group NARAL, and Barack Obama—but not law enforcement. Police supported Cooley. Harris’s relationship with police has not been positive. In 2004, as San Francisco District Attorney, when the Police Officers Association demanded that she hand over to the state the case involving the murder of police officer Isaac Espinoza because of her opposition to the death penalty, she refused. In 2019, the now Harris-worshipping news outlet CNN ran a lengthy feature about how she snubbed Espinoza’s widow. And there lingers a cold case from 1970 potentially involving Bill Ayers, the unrepentant leader of the domestic terrorist group Weatherman (which became Weather Underground), who was a very close “pal” to Obama. Ayers, to this day, remains “free as a bird” after being on the lam for eleven years with Charles Manson-admiring wife Bernardine Dohrn for admittedly participating in the bombings of New York City Police headquarters in 1970, the Capitol building in 1971, and Pentagon in 1972. Ayers never served time because of government surveillance error and was rewarded with a fast-track tenured position as professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he radicalized future teachers.
Another bombing, in 1970, of a police station in San Francisco killed Police Sergeant Brian V. McDonnell. In 2009, Cliff Kincaid, president of America’s Survival, Inc., tried to reopen an investigation into the case, along with Vietnam War veteran Larry Grathwohl, who had infiltrated the Weather Underground for the FBI. Grathwohl had presented evidence to the grand jury and the U.S. Senate that Ayers and Dohrn were involved in that bombing.
Grathwohl and ASI’s call for continued investigation, as part of the “Justice for Victims of Weather Underground Terrorism,” included demands for forensic reexamination of bombs and bomb debris, review of grand jury testimony from Ayers and Dohrn, retesting of tools and materials from the bomb-making, and a questioning of then-district attorney Kamala Harris, along with then-Police Chief Heather Fong and Obama Attorney General Eric Holder, among others. In his recently released report, “Kamala Harris and the Weather Underground,” Kincaid accuses Harris and Fong with involvement in the effort to “gag” the police union for supporting ASI’s investigation and of promoting “disinformation that indictments would be forthcoming” in order to derail efforts. Fong is now an official in the Biden-Harris Department of Homeland Security and Holder has been working on the Harris campaign.
Grathwohl, who risked his life to infiltrate the Weather Underground after risking his life in Vietnam, never got to see justice for Ayers before he died in 2013. Kincaid’s organization was attacked by private and government entities—a development becoming more familiar to Americans as a legacy of the Obama administration. Without notice, ASI’s videos were taken off YouTube; the organization was smeared by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR); and defunded by new liberal leadership at the Scaife Foundations.
Ayers, however, has been enjoying the lifestyle of a retired radical professor. This spring he addressed anti-Israel protesting students at the University of Chicago, provided commentary on a Chicago Fox News affiliate with a host who provided nary a challenge about the same kind of claims put forward in 2008 that distanced himself from Obama and the bombings, and on Real News Network, Democracy Now! and CBS gave a historical perspective on the 1968 convention in Chicago, and his participation in the Days of Rage against the Vietnam War the following year (when the poor baby spent a night in the Cook County Jail). Ayers, who has been teaching writing at Stateville Prison, was given space in the Chicago Sun Times for an op-ed arguing to end mass incarceration.
Fortunately, the ASI videos disappeared by YouTube have recently been recovered and placed on Rumble. After a period of inactivity, ASI released their report on Kamala Harris and Ayers’ terrorist group.
Kamala Harris has only become more anti-law-and-order. In 2020, she famously raised money for a bail fund for the George Floyd rioters. A woman was just raped by one of the career criminals freed as a result of that very same fund.
A “bad ass” standing up for “women and children”?
Ask the widows and children of murdered police officers. Ask the victims of rapists she helped free.