You learn what you can about candidates. Want to be fair and thorough. After all, we’re interviewing people for the most important job in the country, if not the free world. And after Trump’s destruction of all things good — what will be the most demanding job on the planet.
Who ever we hire is going to need stamina that doesn’t quit, a creative intellect that goes far beyond bumper sticker cliches, a compassion that never leaves anyone behind, executive experience in taking on powerful interests, and an indomitable will.
The job isn’t for the clueless, faint of heart, or those who think they’re owed the position.
So we do our research. We listen and learn. We read and then read some more. And no matter how long I’ve been doing it, Kamala still surprises, moves, and inspires.
Didn’t know until yesterday that she was in leg braces when she was a little girl. She never mentions it. She wouldn’t. She doesn’t like talking about herself. She prefers to focus on others. But that experience coupled with her deep empathy may explain Kamala being the only candidate who has created a plan to help the disabled.
Her mother spoke about Kamala’s growing up in an interview with Joan Walsh.
….Gopalan Harris also told me that when Kamala was young, she had to wear leg braces and orthopedic shoes—two hardships that undermined the image of effortless glamour the young attorney projected. Her parents divorced, and Gopalan Harris and her daughters wound up in the Berkeley flatlands, where, famously now, she was bused to tony Thousand Oaks Elementary in the wealthy white Berkeley hills. “I assume the divorce was very hard,” Gopalan Harris told me. “I’m sure Kamala suffered. We did not have an orderly television family life. I was always working.”
Something else her mother confirmed was the family’s shock at her daughter’s decision to become a district attorney. “People from our background become public defenders!” she declared. But Harris had spent a law school summer clerking at the Alameda County DA’s office, and she was hooked.
“I saw the discretion the district attorney has—who to prosecute, what to charge, how to run a courtroom,” Harris said, “and I realized it was important that people who care about social justice work on that side.” Now-retired Alameda County DA Tom Orloff told me she was “a very good deputy, she worked hard, she had good judgment.” As part of his sex crimes unit, “she tried several very difficult child molestation cases, and she won them all.”…..
She still wins. She fights for those who have been left behind, abused, and abandoned. She fights for the Earth. After all, Kamala was nurtured by activists. She grew up with the fight for social justice, absorbing it like a sponge. That drive for justice has informed every aspect of her career — beginning with an ironing board, duct tape, and posters at the local grocery store.
When she decided to run to be San Francisco’s District Attorney, everyone told her she didn’t have a chance. No way a Black Woman was going to defeat a Progressive White Male DA.
She ignored the naysayers, set up her ironing board “desk” with her duct taped posters at the front of the local grocery store, and introduced herself to everyone who walked by. She listened to all they had to say. She still does.
It shows in everything she does, including her Climate Plan.
Caring about the environment, seeing the links between people’s well being and how the environment is treated is not new for Harris. She’s been fighting for environmental justice for years.
Know that the post has a great deal to read and process but wanted to provide a range of voices on Kamala’s climate plan, a plan grounded in her lived history. She has been fighting for us and this beautiful blue world for a long time. She is the leader we and Earth need.
Upcoming Events —
Londonderry Town Hall w/ Kamala Harris
Mack's Apples
230 Mammoth Rd
Londonderry, NH 03053
Senator Kamala Harris will be coming to Londonderry, New Hampshire for a Town Hall on Friday, September 6! Join fellow supporters to hear directly from Kamala on her vision for America.
Doors open at 3:15pm and program begins at 3:45pm.
Join Kamala Harris in Boston!
Saturday September 7th, 2019
Time: 3:30 pm
Address: Kings - Back Bay, 50 Dalton Street
Boston, MA
Saturday, September 7, 2019 at 3:30 PM – 6 PM Sold Out
3rd Democratic Debate — September 12th in Houston, TX from 8pm to 11.
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Upcoming schedule:
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Group Guidelines
The Kamala2020 community group has been created to positively support Senator Kamala Harris, and not to engage in negativity towards other Democrats running in the 2020 primaries.
All should be made to feel welcomed here. What’s not welcomed here is petty bickering over any of our preferred candidates, or personal attacks on fellow Democrats. We’re not responsible for the actions of others who may offend, insult or attempt to sow discord and disunity — that’s on them.
What we are responsible for are our own words and actions — that’s 100% on us.
I’d like to ask all group members, as well as those dropping by who support or are interested in Kamala’s bid for the nomination, that we not respond to negativity from other campaign’s supporters with even more negativity. Let’s do better than our best and respond with respect, humor or try to hold our peace. Recipes and cat pics work, too 😃
Doing no harm costs us nothing... pie-fights will cost us everything.
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I came upon a child of God
He was walking along the road
And I asked him, where are you going
And this he told me
I'm going on down to Yasgur's farm
I'm going to join in a rock 'n' roll band
I'm going to camp out on the land
I'm going to try an' get my soul free
We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden
Then can I walk beside you
I have come here to lose the smog
And I feel to be a cog in something turning
Well maybe it is just the time of year
Or maybe it's the time of man
I don't know who l am
But you know life is for learning
We are stardust
We are golden
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden
By the time we got to Woodstock
We were half a million strong
And everywhere there was song and celebration
And I dreamed I saw the bombers
Riding shotgun in the sky
And they were turning into butterflies
Above our nation
We are stardust
Billion year old carbon
We are golden
Caught in the devil's bargain
And we've got to get ourselves
Back to the garden
Songwriters: Joni Mitchell