There are NO GOOD REASONS not to vote for Kamala Harris, so go watch the Olympics and cheer on Team USA.
Sure, some will say they have reasons, but are any of them good enough to return a racist, rapist, philandering Russian spy, fraud, Fascist, dictator-wannabe to the White House?
I think not.
Vice President Kamala Harris is a non-White female. Her mother was a brilliant cancer researcher from India, her father a prominent economist from Jamaica.
Harris is the trifecta of minorities.
After graduating from the University of California Law School in 1989 and being admitted to the California Bar in 1990, Harris was hired as a deputy district attorney in Alameda County, California.
In 1994, she was appointed to the state Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and later to the California Medical Assistance Commission.
In 1998, Harris landed a job as assistant district attorney in San Francisco, then became the chief of the Career Criminal Division.
In 2000, Harris took a job at San Francisco City Hall and ran the Family and Children's Services Division representing child abuse and neglect cases.
In 2002, Harris won 56 percent of the vote in the race for district attorney of San Francisco and in 2008, was elected Attorney General of the largest state in our nation, winning re-election in 2014.
In 2016 Harris overwhelmingly won the Senate seat previously held by Barbara Boxer as one of California's two senators.
After ending her presidential run in 2020, Harris was elected Vice President of the United States, alongside her running mate, President Joe Biden.
As Vice President, Harris has traveled to 120 countries and met with world leaders who once winced at the mention of America. She helped President Biden restore our place in the world and put together the coalition that has been supporting Ukraine’s efforts to repel an illegal, unprovoked invasion, despite opposition from Trumpanzee loyalists.
You can tell me that Vice President Harris is not an accomplished woman, but what you are really saying is that Vice President Harris is a woman. Mysogynist much?
Try to keep in mind that when you say disparaging things about women simply because of their gender, they don’t hear you. But your wife does. So do your sisters, daughters, sons, nieces and nephews.
Think about the message you're sending them. Is that who you want to be? Is that who you want them to be?
If your problem with Vice President Harris is about her race, she can't hear that, either, but, again, your loved ones can. Do you really want to be my father-brother-uncle-nephew, the racist piece of shit?
My daughter and I were having a discussion about race and gender and which one plays a greater role in a person's acceptance or rejection. I think that race trumps all, but she made some interesting points about gender. You can't argue that women are held to a different standard.
It was Hillary's pants suits, Kamala's laugh (which I find delightful and endearing) or the shrillness of their attacks; attacks that pale in comparison with anything regurgitated out of Donnie's cesspool of a mouth.
Simone Biles (G.O.A.T. gymnast) is a non-White woman, as is Amanda Gorman (poet laureate) and Chloe Kim (gold medal snowboarder). These women are not others, they are us. They are America’s future, to be celebrated, not feared.
Harris, Biles, Gorman and Kim are women who will lead America in the 21st Century. We need to protect their future and their rights as women and as fellow Americans.
The lying liars on Fox, apologists and phony Christians in Congress and our vile and corrupt Supreme Court only want to take us backward; far enough back to install a king.
Elections matter.
Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire were a great dancing team in the 1930’s, whose names mean nothing to many of you. Rogers once said of her abilities, I have to do everything Fred does, but do it backwards and in high heels.
Trump is a man who proved his antipathy toward our Constitution on January 6, 2021, trying to overturn an election and overthrow our government, which weren’t even his worst crimes.
He incited his minions to kill his vice president and has now EXPLICITLY pledged to end voting within the next 4 years.
James Donald Bowman or James David Hamel or James David Vance (JD Vance?) or whatever he calls himself now condemns homosexuality and childless people, all to overshadow his own homosexual issues.
I don’t know if there’s a name for having sex with a couch, but he’s that too.
While Vance is condemning the childless, Republicans are waging war on IVF (in vitro fertilization), which would prevent couples unable to conceive from having children of their own.
Confused? Don’t be. Their mission is only to make life miserable for anyone not in their church du jour.
As a man who wore the uniform, we must thank Mr. Vance, but let’s not get carried away. His job in the Marines was taking pictures and writing stories.
Vice President Kamala Devi Harris is eminently more qualified to lead the free world than either of the two jughead mutts challenging her.
She is also the only one out there working to preserve your right to vote against her next time.
Thanks. Sure would be nice if there were more we could do.
Right on! Thanks for such an insightful and supportive column.