KAMALA HARRIS

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FOCUS: When Kamala Was a Top Cop 

Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic
Friedersdorf writes: "When Senator Kamala Harris is criticized for actions she took as San Francisco’s district attorney or as California’s attorney general, the Democratic presidential hopeful responds in two ways."
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Sen. Kamala Harris speaks at Trinity Washington University in Washington, D.C., June 17, 2019. (photo: Alex Wong/Getty)

Lee Fang | Kamala Harris Continues to Receive Donations From Big Pharma Executives Despite Claiming Not To 
Lee Fang, The Intercept 
Fang writes: "Federal Election Commission campaign finance records show that the California senator has received thousands of dollars from executives at drug companies this year, most of which has not been returned." 
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FOCUS: Kamala Harris's Phony Medicare for All Plan 
 
Tim Higginbotham, Jacobin 
Higginbotham writes: "Kamala Harris has long claimed to be a supporter of Medicare for All. But the rollout of her new health-care plan finally gives us clarity: she will fight on behalf of insurance companies, not against them." 
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Kamala Harris says Israel meets human rights standards ‘overall’ (days after its forces wound 92 Palestinian civilians at protest)

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Kamala Harris Was Not a 'Progressive Prosecutor' 

Lara Bazelon, The New York Times
Bazelon writes: "The senator was often on the wrong side of history when she served as California's attorney general."
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Kamala Harris Might Be Surging - but Her Record Will Soon Catch Up With Her 

Bhaskar Sunkara, Guardian UK
Sunkara writes: "Kamala Harris isn't just not leftwing enough to be the Democratic party's nominee, she's also not bold enough to win a presidential election and bring about the change we desperately need."
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Kamala Harris is a prosecutor and this Debate Performance was carefully scripted and rehearsed.

FOCUS: Frank Rich | Kamala Harris's Debate Performance Should Scare Trump 

Frank Rich, New York Magazine
Rich writes: "Like most everyone else, I did not see the Kamala Harris rocket takeoff coming before last night. Her ascent was easily the most energizing spectacle of the campaign thus far."
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) fields questions at the Asian and Latino Coalition at the Iowa Statehouse on February 23, 2019, in Des Moines, Iowa. (photo: Stephen Maturen/Getty)

Kamala Harris Wants to Halt State Abortion Bans Before They Start
Li Zhou, Vox
Zhou writes: "Kamala Harris has a new plan to limit state-level abortion restrictions, and it's modeled after the Voting Rights Act."
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Senator Kamala Harris. (photo: Irfan Khan/Getty Images)

If William Barr Won't Answer Kamala Harris' Questions, Maybe the Inspector General Will
Zack Ford, ThinkProgress
Ford writes: "Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) is calling on the Justice Department to investigate whether President Donald Trump has ever asked Attorney General William Barr to open an investigation into his political opponents."
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Senator Kamala Harris. (photo: Irfan Khan/Getty)

Kamala Harris Announces Plan to Fine Companies That Pay Men More Than Women
Chelsea Janes, The Washington Post
Janes writes: "Sen. Kamala D. Harris on Monday announced a plan to force corporations to pay women as much as men for comparable work, promising to go further on that issue as president than any of her competition for the Democratic nomination."
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- "Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren sell differing messages in each other's backyards," by Liz Goodwin and Jess Bidgood, Boston Globe: "Does the party want a standard-bearer like Harris, who tells a story of a fundamentally good nation that she promises to put back on track? Or is this a moment to elect a change agent like Warren, who wants radical reforms to fix a problem she says is much bigger than Trump? They are fundamental questions, framed by two senators from deep blue states who visited each other's backyards as presidential candidates for the first time Monday. In Los Angeles, voters who sent Kamala Harris to the Senate lined up around the block to hear Warren's scathing diagnosis of the country's problems, while New Hampshire voters who have been Warren's neighbors for years squeezed in to hear Harris's emotional and uplifting call for a restoration of the nation's loftier instincts."

Kamala Harris Guts Barr Like a Fish, Leaves Him Flopping on the Deck 

Bess Levin, Vanity Fair
Levin writes: "Imagine: you're the Attorney General of the United States and have a big decision to make, in this case whether or not to charge the president with obstructing justice."
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Senator Kamala Harris. (photo: Irfan Khan/Getty)

Kamala Harris on Potential Presidential Bid in 2020: 'It's Going to Be Ugly'
Jay Connor, The Root
Connor writes: "In recent months, the California senator has seen her profile rise."
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Kamala Harris (D-CA), accompanied by Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), questions Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, January 16, 2018, in Washington. (photo: Jose Luis Magana/AP)

Kamala Harris, Cory Booker Lead Charge to Advance Anti-Lynching Law in Senate
Clarissa Hamlin, News One
Hamlin writes: "All three of the nation's Black senators won a victory Thursday in the ongoing battle to criminalize lynching-related offenses for the first time in American history."
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DEMOCRATIC 2020 CANDIDATES PROMISED TO REJECT LOBBYIST DONATIONS, BUT MANY ACCEPTED THE CASH ANYWAY

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., has also collected donations from registered corporate lobbyists in South Carolina, New York, and California. Several technology lobbyists from San Francisco have given to her campaign. Another Harris donor, Robert Crowe, from the firm, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, is a federal lobbyist who has worked to influence Congress on behalf of pipeline firm EQT Corporation and Alphabet, the parent company of Google.

The Harris campaign received the most registered lobbyist donations of any Democratic presidential campaign that has said it would not take the cash.

The long list of state- and municipal-registered lobbyists giving to the Harris campaign includes Leecia Eve, a Verizon lobbyist in New York; Alex Tourk, an Airbnb lobbyist in San Francisco; Alexander Clemons, who represents AT&T; Cliff Berg, registered to lobby on behalf of Novartis, Cemex, and Visa; Darrell Campbell, a South Carolina lobbyist for Pfizer, Juul, HCA health care and Duke Energy; Emily Giske, a former Democratic National Committee superdelegate who lobbies for Cigna, IBM, and Google; Jennifer Wada, a charter school lobbyist; and Justin Ross, a Maryland construction and real estate lobbyist.

Other lobbyists who gave to Harris fall into the gray area of unregistered influence peddlers. William Castleberry is not technically registered, but he is an influential Facebook lobbyist who oversees the Menlo Park, California, company’s expansive state-level government affairs operations; he gave $2,700 to Harris. Matthew Gerst, who gave $500, falls into similar territory: He leads the regulatory lobbying for CTIA, a trade group for wireless-telecom companies, such as Verizon and AT&T, but is not registered to lobby.

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Senator Kamala Harris. (photo: Irfan Khan/Getty)

Harris Makes a Big First Impression in Iowa
David Siders, Politico
Siders writes: "Harris' Iowa itinerary has taken on significance for national Democrats as a measure of Harris' mettle in a high pressure campaign."
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Senator Kamala D. Harris. (photo: WKYT)

Kamala Harris Enters 2020 Presidential Race
Matt Viser, The Washington Post
Viser writes: "Sen. Kamala D. Harris of California joined the 2020 presidential contest on Monday, thrusting a daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India into the Democratic race two years after she arrived in the Senate."
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RSN: Norman Solomon | Corporate Team of Rivals: Harris Now in Top Tier With Biden to Prevent a Progressive Nominee 

Norman Solomon, Reader Supported News
Solomon writes: "Among the Democratic presidential candidates, the viable alternatives to the Biden and Harris corporatist duo are the progressive candidate Elizabeth Warren and the more progressive candidate Bernie Sanders." 

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Harris — who co-sponsored a bill to withhold U.S. dues to the United Nations because of a UN Security Council resolution that condemned illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank — pandered to AIPAC while delivering 2017 and 2018 speeches to the Israel-can-do-no-wrong organization. While acquiescing to requests from MoveOn and other groups that presidential candidates not speak to AIPAC’s 2019 conference in late March, she pulled off a smooth maneuver, as Mondoweiss pointed out: “Harris is a very pragmatic politician, and the conference came to her yesterday! She met leading AIPAC officials at her office and then tweeted her devoted support to Israel.”

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