Wednesday, July 01, 2020

Senator Harris is the only qualified Democrat with an extensive history of police reform. Critics will always exist.

I think some of the resistance to Senator Harris during her presidential run was her laughter. She tends to smile and laugh at times when perhaps is best expressed with a more serious tone. I know she finds challenges to her ideas amusing because they are well thought out, but, a response that incurs a smile should be curtailed to a serious attitude that takes on the challengers rather than dismissing them.

I wish her great luck in pursuing the VP post. I think she is great and will be greater as Vice President.

June 29, 2020
By Jeffery Taylor

Kamala Harris’s push (click here) for police reform in the Senate is shaping up as an audition for the job of Joe Biden’s vice president, as she makes herself a highly public voice for change after years as a no-nonsense prosecutor.

By promoting a bill to ban police chokeholds and make other changes -- and by publicly clashing with a senior Senate Republican over the legislation -- Harris has put herself front and center in the debate over congressional efforts to change police behavior.

The reform debate burnishes the former San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general as a social-justice activist. It also protects the Biden campaign from potential criticism of her efforts while in those jobs to slow innocence bids and punish parents whose children were truants, among other contentious actions....