Being in absentia, whether answering questions or taking responsibility for policy, is nothing new for Vice President Kamala Harris.
According to a new report, after Harris was appointed to serve on the California Medical Assistance Commission by her then-lover, California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, she missed 23 of 111 CMAC meetings, the most absent commissioner on the board, The Daily Mail reports.
Harris “missed about 20% of the meetings each year, according to commission records,” The Washington Examiner originally <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/1014836/kamala-harris-launched-political-career-with-120k-patronage-job-from-boyfriend-willie-brown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in 2019, adding that Harris and Brown “started dating in the spring of 1994.” Harris, then 30, was appointed by Brown, then 60, in November 1994.
In 2003, talking to leftist writer Joan Walsh in an interview for San Francisco City Journal magazine, Harris boasted of her career, “I did the work. &#8230; I’ve worked my a** off for everything I have,” according to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13882851/kamala-harris-appointed-willie-brown-work.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Mail</a>, which added, “On other occasions the minutes reveal that Harris arrived after commissioners started the meetings and already conducted some of their business.”
“The relationship benefitted her mightily, leading to commission appointments that netted her more than $400,000 over five years, and a gift of a BMW,” SF Weekly <a href="https://www.sfweekly.com/archives/looking-back-on-kamala-harris-record-in-california/article_10316c0c-29e1-5ba4-a9c3-aea9effe926c.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> of her romance with Brown.
“I may have influenced her career by appointing her to two state commissions when I was Assembly speaker,&#8221; Brown <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019/01/27/willie-brown-kamala-harris-san-francisco-chronicle-letter/2695143002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acknowledged</a> in 2019.
“Brown, exercising his power even as his speakership seems near an end, named attorney Kamala Harris to the California Medical Assistance Commission, a job that pays $72,000 a year,” The Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-11-29-mn-2787-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in November 1994. “Harris, a former deputy district attorney in Alameda County, was described by several people at the Capitol as Brown’s girlfriend. In March, San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen called her ‘the Speaker’s new steady.’”
“Both boards are reserved for political payback or occasionally for personal rewards for personal service,” former State assemblyman Brett Granlund, who worked with the commission, <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/1014836/kamala-harris-launched-political-career-with-120k-patronage-job-from-boyfriend-willie-brown/">stated</a>. “The boards are considered plumb appointments as they require no work, no policy credentials, and are paid the equivalent of a full-time [state] senator for arriving at a one- to two-hour meeting each month. &#8230; Screwing the speaker has its rewards.”

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‘I’ve Worked My A** Off’: Kamala Claimed, But Missed More Meetings Than Anyone At Her ’90s Job

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The former lover and mentor of Kamala Harris, Willie Brown, who served as mayor of San Francisco, had an <a href="https://lamag.com/politics/willie-brown-kamala-harris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">extra-marital affair</a> with Harris, and appointed her to two positions when he was California’s Speaker of the Assembly, has advised her to keep her actual ideology fuzzy so she can keep voters “continually guessing” in a recent interview.
POLITICO conducted the <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/31/willie-brown-kamala-harris-campaign-column-00171885">interview</a> and wrote that Brown felt Harris should embrace the fact that her ideology is fuzzy because “if she keeps people continually guessing then she can adjust the interpretation of your guess every time she sees you.”
Brown acknowledged that Harris had “the Hillary syndrome” and that “people don’t like her,” POLITICO reported. The outlet added that Brown “fretted it was not fixable.”
Harris dated Brown in 1994 and 1995, when Harris was assistant district attorney in Alameda County. In 1994, Brown appointed Harris to the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, later appointing her to the Medical Assistance Commission. Harris ended the relationship in 1995.
“[I]n what was San Francisco’s cloistered high society, before the tech money came to town, he was her entree to many of the city’s most prominent figures and donors,” POLITICO noted of Brown’s impact on Harris’ career.
Harris has rapidly reversed herself on left-wing positions she had held for years in order to appear more moderate. She had called for banning fracking during her 2019-20 presidential run; last Friday her campaign stated she would not ban fracking if elected president. She c0-sponsored Bernie Sanders’s “Medicare-for-all” bill in 2017, but now, as The Telegraph <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2024/07/30/kamala-harris-reverses-liberal-positions-republicans-attack/#:~:text=Kamala%20Harris%20has%20changed%20her,were%20attacked%20by%20Donald%20Trump." target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>, “has since toned down her views, instead suggesting that private medical debt cannot be used to formulate a credit score.”
She <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/harris-2020-redirect-resources-police/story?id=112378103#:~:text=In%20one%20of%20the%20interviews,mentioning%20schools%20and%20small%20businesses." target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> in 2020 that cities should “redirect resources” away from police departments toward other areas of government, saying, “For too long, people have confused achieving public safety with putting more cops on the street.” In another interview that year, she said during nationwide protests, “This whole movement is about rightly saying, we need to take a look at these budgets and figure out whether it reflects the right priorities.” She continued by saying American cities were “militarizing police.”
Now Harris <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harris-attacks-trump-as-a-predator-claims-shes-tough-on-immigration?topStoryPosition=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boasts</a> that she’s always been tough on crime, bragging, “I was a courtroom prosecutor. So in those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds.”

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