Posted on 08/11/2020 7:35:29 PM PDT by TBP
Kamala Harris’ first significant political role was an appointment by her powerful then-boyfriend Willie Brown, three decades her senior, to a California medical board that has been criticized as a landing spot for patronage jobs and kickbacks.
Then 30, Harris was dating 60-year-old Willie Brown, at the time the Democratic speaker of the California State Assembly, when he placed her on the California Medical Assistance Commission in 1994. The position paid over $70,000 per year, $120,700 in current money, and Harris served on the board until 1998.
The medical commission met twice a month, and Harris, a United States senator for California since 2017 and now a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, missed about 20% of the meetings each year, according to commission records obtained by the Washington Examiner.
The seven-member board was largely comprised of late-career former state officials who were semi-retired or biding time before retirement. At 30 years old, Harris was the youngest appointee by some three decades.
Sounds like a great gig if you are qualified
Let’s face it. . .these dems are banking on a stupid electorate.
I guess flat on your back and heels-up qualified you in Willie’s professional opinion.
SloJoe and Willy’s Ho.
I’m thinkin dream ticket heah...
It was 70k and in the Bay Area that’s more like 210k a year now.
“And the hits just keep on coming.” ——Casey Kasem
Patronage job, eh?
Willie was the patron who received a “job”.
No wonder the country’s going bankrupt...multiply this by thousands.
Meetings 2 times a month for 100 grand.
What a pick in these times where half the jobs lost in March have not come back yet, and may never come back. This is not a full V shaped recovery.
Many of these lost jobs were held by females. Contrast there hardships now with Kam’s ascent in 1994.
“..Let’s face it. . .these dems are banking on a stupid electorate...”
They always have...starting with Tammany Hall.
The fringe benefits were hard to beat.
Any woman knows the way to a man’s heart is...
Dirty Cop Harris put real blacks in jail. No justice here.
She got ahead the old-fashioned way.
Kameltoe is as qualified to be VP as AOC the Pole Dancer.
Talk about crooked!
“dating”. Ha.
Willie Brown’s brown willie.
Or you could say "She got a head the old fashioned way"
JOE / BLOW 2020
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