A Primer On The Electoral History Of Kamala Harris During Her Political Career In California -- A Horror Story

Harris has run one time -- ONCE -- in an election where she was opposed by a well-funded opponent from an opposition party. She won but it did not go well.

Harris is the product of Northern California politics -- a one-party self-perpetuating political ecosystem that is every bit the equal of any similar one-party big city system anywhere else in the country, with the added feature that the Gay/Lesbian community has always played an outsized role among the various liberal/socialist/communist components of the party. San Francisco is the "Manhattan" of the West Coast.

Harris is infamously known for having emerged from the political pack in San Francisco as Willie Brown's girlfriend for a time. In his 60s at the time, Brown was the long-time leader of the California Assembly, having been first elected in 1964 and serving as Speaker of the Assembly from 1980 to 1995. He represented an urban San Francisco Assembly District for his entire tenure.

The basic outline of Kamala Harris' political career can be found on her Wiki page -- basically accurate for the most part. She born in California but her family moved to Illinois when she was 2. Her mother brought her and her sister back to Berkeley when she was 6, but moved to Montreal, Quebec when she was 12 years old. She attended Howard University in Washington D.C., graduating in 1986.

She then enrolled at Hastings Law School (UC San Francisco), graduating in 1989. In 1990 she was hired as an entry-level Deputy District Attorney in Alameda County. Four years later Willie Brown -- with whom she was romantically involved -- appointed her to the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and the California Medical Assistance Commission. The Appeals Board position paid a salary of $97,000 a year -- far in excess of what she was making for the Alameda DA. She stayed in that position for only 6 months because the seat she filled had only 7 months left in its term. Her relationship with Willie must have lasted longer than six months, because with one month left in the term, Brown appointed her to the Medical Assistance Commission, a job that paid $72,000 a year, but with a full term of 4 years remaining. This came as Brown was about to be replaced as Speaker, with Republicans having captured a majority of Assembly seats for the first time in decades.

After 3 years as a newby Dep. DA, and four years as a Brown appointee on a medical commission, when her term was about to end she was hired by the San Francisco District Attorney to head up the “Career Criminal Division” of the Office -- supervising five experienced prosecutors — when Willie Brown was then the elected mayor of San Francisco.