Although it certainly helped to be sliming around with Willie "Juice Politics" Brown, her real first political action action, upon which she built her entire career, was covering up decades' worth of child sexual abuse. The SF DA that preceded her had built enormous amounts of investigative files and personnel records, spanning approx 70 years of abuse by the SF Archdiocese, as well as records of how the diocese had handled the complaints internally (eg silencing witnesses and moving perps on, including one who went on to abuse an estimated over 50 children, and another and was transferred to overseeing a orphanage in Mexico,) and he was working with the survivors to bring cases forward. The minute Harris took over, she refused to release the records that were needed for those cases, met with the diocese, but refused to ever meet with the victims.
The Catholic Church is very powerful in San Francisco, and it earned her the backing of a lot of very influential local Dem party powerbrokers.
Like the usual case of "those who shout loudest," after she went from SF DA to CA AG to Senator & pres candidate, she claimed to be a great defender of sexual assault victims. She now has the backing of the richest Clinton donors, and is being floated as VP to Biden. What more evidence do we need of her dedication to and hard work on behalf of underaged victims sexual abuse? She's the perfect fit.
Oh pede, it is so much worse than that.
Although it certainly helped to be sliming around with Willie "Juice Politics" Brown, her real first political action action, upon which she built her entire career, was covering up decades' worth of child sexual abuse. The SF DA that preceded her had built enormous amounts of investigative files and personnel records, spanning approx 70 years of abuse by the SF Archdiocese, as well as records of how the diocese had handled the complaints internally (eg silencing witnesses and moving perps on, including one who went on to abuse an estimated over 50 children, and another and was transferred to overseeing a orphanage in Mexico,) and he was working with the survivors to bring cases forward. The minute Harris took over, she refused to release the records that were needed for those cases, met with the diocese, but refused to ever meet with the victims.
The Catholic Church is very powerful in San Francisco, and it earned her the backing of a lot of very influential local Dem party powerbrokers.
Like the usual case of "those who shout loudest," after she went from SF DA to CA AG to Senator & pres candidate, she claimed to be a great defender of sexual assault victims. She now has the backing of the richest Clinton donors, and is being floated as VP to Biden. What more evidence do we need of her dedication to and hard work on behalf of underaged victims sexual abuse? She's the perfect fit.