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Number one: Harris pushed for a new statewide law that lets prosecutors charge parents with misdemeanors if their children are chronically truant. https://bit.ly/2SUyHHN
Number two: Harris strongly supports “familial DNA searching,ˮ in which police take DNA samples from crime scenes and compare them to existing databases to look for not just any direct matches in criminal databases, but any familial matches. https://bit.ly/2SUyHHN
Number three: Harris also has been a strong advocate of civil asset forfeiture. https://bit.ly/2SUyHHN
Number four: As the Los Angeles Times put it, “Harris’ office had been allowing Izaguirre and other illegal immigrants to stay out of prison by training them for jobs they cannot legally hold.” https://bit.ly/2SUyHHN
Number five: In 2012, Harris submitted a brief supporting an illegal immigrant’s application for a law license. The California State Bar’s rules state that it is disqualifying professional misconduct to commit a criminal act. https://bit.ly/2SUyHHN
Number six: In her first speech on the Senate floor, Harris declared, “An undocumented immigrant is not a criminal.”
Under existing U.S. law, entering the country without permission carries criminal penalties. https://bit.ly/2SUyHHN
Under existing U.S. law, entering the country without permission carries criminal penalties. https://bit.ly/2SUyHHN
Number seven: in 2010, SF Weekly reviewed the work of her office and concluded that “felony convictions for cases that actually go to trial and reach a jury verdict... have declined significantly over the past two years.” https://bit.ly/2SUyHHN
Number eight: In October 2017, Harris declared that she would rather shut down the government than vote for a spending bill that did not address the DACA program and ensure those covered by the program would not be deported. https://bit.ly/2SUyHHN
Number nine: In April 2018, Harris urged the Senate Appropriations Committee to “reduce funding for beds in the federal immigration system,” reject calls to hire more Border Patrol personnel, and “reduce funding for the administration’s immigration enforcement operations.”
Number ten: In 2010, a CA Superior Court judge declared that as SF district attorney, Harris violated defendants’ rights by hiding damaging information about a police drug-lab technician and ignored demands that that the lab account for its failings. https://bit.ly/2SUyHHN
Number eleven: In 2005, while she was San Francisco’s district attorney, Harris rebuffed a public-records request by SF Weekly to release personnel files from the Archdiocese of San Francisco - despite victims urging her to do so. https://bit.ly/2SUyHHN
Number twelve: After Harris declined to seek the death penalty after a cop killing, Sen. Dianne Feinstein told reporters that if she’d known Harris was against the death penalty, she probably wouldn’t have endorsed her for D.A. in the first place. https://bit.ly/2SUyHHN
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Number thirteen: Harris negotiated a deal with large banks giving roughly 33,000 homeowners an average reduction of $137,280 on their first mortgage. That sounds like a lot, but more than 600,000 Californians received a foreclosure notice in 2009. https://bit.ly/2SUyHHN
Number fourteen: Harris did not pursue charges against OneWest, whose CEO was… Steven Mnuchin.
In 2016, Mnuchin — who would soon be Trump’s nominee to run treasury — donated $2,000 to Harris’s Senate campaign. She voted against his confirmation. https://bit.ly/2SUyHHN
In 2016, Mnuchin — who would soon be Trump’s nominee to run treasury — donated $2,000 to Harris’s Senate campaign. She voted against his confirmation. https://bit.ly/2SUyHHN
After Harris prosecuted gun shops for using images of handguns in ads, a judge ruled “the government has provided no evidence directly linking [the law] to reduced handgun suicide or crime,” concluded that the law was “unconstitutional on its face.” https://bit.ly/2SUyHHN
Number 16: Early in 1994, Willie Brown named Harris as his appointee to the state’s Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, a job that paid $97,088 a year. Six months later, he named her to the California Medical Assistance Commission, a post which paid $72,000 a year.
Number 17: Late in 2018, Late last year, Los Angeles city officials asked why “armed, plain-clothes LAPD officers were dispatched to California cities outside of LA at least a dozen times to provide security for U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris at public events.” https://bit.ly/2SUyHHN
Number 18: In 2009-2010, Harris contributed to the liberal blog Daily Kos, characterizing opposition to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor as “bigotry and narrow-mindedness,” warned that Texas oil companies were “invading” California by funding efforts to repeal an initiative.
Number 19: Harris wanted to repeal all of the 2017 tax cuts for earners making more than $100,000. https://bit.ly/2SUyHHN
And finally… number 20: When Ellen Degeneres asked, “If you had to be stuck in an elevator with either President Trump, Mike Pence, or Jeff Sessions, who would it be?” Harris replied, “Does one of us have to come out alive?” https://bit.ly/2SUyHHN
