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“Kamala demands a life of luxury,” a former aide revealed. “She treats the campaign like a personal checking account to fund a lifestyle she aspires to,” another aide warned.
“Staff has always worried about Kamala’s spending, but she is adamant about using campaign money as she wants,” that aide on her former Senate campaign said.
“She wants to live the life of someone in the White House,” a strategist described Kamala in 2015, “and she hasn’t even won the Senate yet. Her hanging around the president and first lady”, referencing the Obamas, “it’s gotten her hooked. She thinks it’s her birthright and it’s not.”
Kamala was raising and spending massive amounts of campaign cash. Much of it on herself.
While Kamala falsely claimed that she was raised in “a middle-class household”, she was actually the “privileged child of foreign grad students” who traveled the world, and grew up surrounded by wealth. Her career as a prosecutor failed to satisfy her taste for luxury so she turned to Willie Brown: the first in a series of men who would support her in high style.
San Francisco Mayor Brown put her on taxpayer-funded boards where she earned $400,000 for showing up, flew her around the country and the world, and gifted her a BMW. Kamala mingled with Nob Hill elites in San Francisco and posed “in a fashion spread, shown wearing $565 boots, a $975 skirt and a $1,095 coat, all made by Burberry” difficult to imagine on a Deputy DA’s salary while living it up and partying in one of the most expensive cities in the world.
Brown also bought her a political career and her lifestyle by backing her run for the city’s DA. Despite polling in the single digits, money from San Francisco’s elites poured into the unknown candidate’s campaign. At events, her finance director described how “we’d go around with the bag and collect the money.” Kamala’s fundraising blew through the spending cap leading to a record fine. She paid the fine with the campaign’s pocket change and bought her first election.
The state attorney general’s race was a replay with Kamala behind in the polls and up against a well known DA, but backed by endless money from wealthy donors. And by the time Kamala ran for Senate, she had learned to live large on the millions coming in from donors.
But Democrats were paying closer attention and were getting uncomfortable with the spending.
The National Journal ran a story describing Kamala’s habit of staying at luxury hotels. The campaign spent $1,886 to put Kamala up for the night in D.C.’s St. Regis hotel as part of a string of stays at out-of-state luxury hotels in Houston, Chicago and D.C. for a state race.
Tens of thousands of dollars were being spent on “luxury car services” like a private car service in Martha’s Vineyard, and first class airline tickets. The campaign had burned millions of dollars even though Kamala had no actual Republican opponent and she couldn’t possibly lose.
But Kamala had learned the lessons that Willie Brown had taught her in San Francisco.
Politics was not about change, but luxury. Brown had claimed that he needed to drive luxury cars because “my body would reject a Plymouth.” Kamala’s body would reject anything less than a thousand dollar hotel room, a BMW, a first class airline seat or a $975 skirt. Donor money from the elites allowed her to buy access to their lifestyle in exchange for buying access to her.
Disgusted aides and campaign workers headed for the exit. In a familiar story, the National Journal mentioned that she was on her “second campaign manager and third finance director”. A strategist complained that “she’s spending that way to support her diva lifestyle.”
After raising over $15 million and outspending her opponent almost 4 to 1, while enjoying the lavish perks of the lifestyle donors were buying her, she became Senator Kamala Harris.
When she ran for president, the donors who had invested so much stayed with her and blew through $40 million to finance a trainwreck of a presidential campaign abandoned by her top staffers and eventually by Kamala herself who never actually competed in a single primary.
Once again, Kamala had been spending beyond the campaign’s means. And while that had not been a fatal problem four years earlier when she had no real opponent, it left her with no cash on hand for the actual business of campaigning as the primaries loomed on the horizon.
By September, there was no money left for TV ads and by December and, the campaign couldn’t even afford to buy Facebook ads.
“Where did the $35 million go?” CNN quoted someone “close to Harris”.
While the millions in donor money didn’t buy Kamala the top spot, it did buy her the vice presidency. What actually made Biden pick Kamala as his VP? Kamala’s fundraiser for Biden topped every other Democrat fundraiser, including Hillary’s, with the exception of Obama’s.
The failed presidential candidate raised at least $5 million for Biden. CNBC noted, “her addition to the ticket could help push the Biden campaign over the top in the cash race with Trump.”
In 2024, donors, many of whom had backed Kamala, revolted against Biden’s debate performance, ousted the party’s actual nominee, and replaced him with their protege.
The media gushed over the announcement that Kamala had raised $81 million in the first 24 hours and $200 million in the first week after the donor coup. It glowingly reports each fundraising total as if it were a validation of the candidate rather than an indictment of a political campaign fueled by donors, not the 14 million who actually voted for Biden in the primaries.
And it asks no questions about where the money is coming from. Or where it’s going.
Once again a Kamala campaign is outraising her opponent. Projections are that she will raise $1 billion between the donor coup and Election Day. But Kamala has already burned through about half of the half a billion dollars she raised. The money machine is grinding up millions.
Kamala’s political career was never powered by charisma or conviction, but by cash.
Her current race, like her past races for DA, AG and Senate, is mired in contradictory messaging, no coherent platform and a dysfunctional campaign. Kamala has never learned how to run for office. What saw her through each race were political connections, identity politics and, above all else, the wealthy donors that invested unlimited amounts in her career.
While the donor coup against Biden was underway, Kamala spoke at a San Francisco fundraiser. “It all started here,” she said, mentioning Mark Buell, her original fundraising chair who had gone around “with the bag” to “collect the money” and who had helped her raise “a whopping $250,000”.
Kamala quoted an elected official “I’m not going to say who, but it was a big personality who we all know” who told her “show me you can raise some money, and maybe people will take you seriously.” That “big personality” was Willie Brown whose name she could only mention in code
The donors in the room, Kamala said, “have been on this journey with me from the very beginning.”
A few days before the donor coup against democracy, the New York Times quoted Mark Buell criticizing Biden and asking, “Do we have time to put somebody else in there?”
That someone was always going to be Buell’s protege and that of the money machine.
“We thought we’re ready for the next generation,” Buell told ABC News, and claimed that there would be a “data driven” process “to see what horse we’re going to ride to the finish line.”
The data was dollars and cents. Kamala had sold herself to donors a long time ago. The donors got America and Kamala got a BMW, a few outfits and a night at the St. Regis.
The question that is begging to be asked is why people are so happy to throw buckets of money at the cackler when she has no actual achievements.
What is she promising, and maybe delivering?
Interesting question. The same can be asked of a married man who goes to a nudie bar.
Here is how Kamala gets her money 💰 …
Good song. I liked it.
sexy black woman, mostly virtue signal worth gold
Not black-3/4 Indian and 1/4 Irish
Yes, Heels Up Harris is an even phonier black than Bareback Hasbeen Osama.
Sexy? Where? Who?
Sexy ? — Yes
Where ? — Between her hips
Who ? — multitudes
Nasty blow jobs from her ugly face.
What do these donors get for their investment?
The better question is: what is Kamala Harris offering? Perhaps I’ve grown a little too long in the tooth and been around the block a few times too many because I know better than to ask a question of that sort about an old whore like Kamala Harris!
In life, there are some questions you’re better off not knowing the answers to.
major virtue signaling… What else though?
😃 bastards to die for ~
Excellent coverage, must have been a lot of work digging through that history, thanks Daniel !!!
The Berkeley Schools in the 1960s and such were the elite schools in the East Bay, thanks to the influence of the many top quality professors at UC Berkeley, who were mostly quite liberal. The idea of segregation in the Berkeley schools of that period is mind-boggling.
Woo Hoo Harris must think she is a Queen maybe the Evil Queen maybe shew should try making herself into a Old Hag just watch the Raven hide in the skull
Money is Kamala’s Achilles heel? Good.
She can be had.
It is not apparent to me, that the half of the population who plan to vote for her, see anything flawed in this person.
Don’t believe polls, it’s cheating and illegal aliens voting.
As 1920s newspaper columnist HL Mencken said: “democracy is that theory of government whereby the common people get what they want, good and hard.”
What you’re implicitly saying is that she can be bought just like the Chicoms bought Joe Biden and family. For that matter, how do we know that she hasn’t already been bought & paid for?
Given how she got to where she is today, I kinda think Kamala is fairly cheap. Old whores like Kamala can’t command a premium price. They have to be realistic and value themselves at bargain basement prices.
That said, the Chicoms likely paid a bargain basement price for Kamala’s impending “services” should she become president.
Oh, she already has, check out the connections the husband and brother in law have with the CCP through their “legal” activities.
And check out Walz’s CCP connections too, while you’re up…
Appears this greedy bitch has much in common with another grifter – Fanny Willis.
Kamala is representative of what happens when you have a democracy untethered to the moral law of God –not just a woman to rule over us, but a foolish woman of unbridled lusts for power and greed.
Despite living a life of unearned and luxurious privilege, Kamala stupidly perceives she is aggrieved and so justifies punishing the very people whose ancestors made this great nation.
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She climbed The Ladder on her Knees. More photos of her looking like a prostitute are on the net. (Did she ever go to Diddy’s mansion?) That laugh… !
THEY always act like they are the Party of The Poor but according to Open Secrets, their Com-Left poor like ACT BLUE, and many others are in the Top 25 on most lists, all donating to Democrats. Zuckerberg, $450,000,000, is sticking it out this year? “Trust… but verify!” de Souza was sent to prison for $15,000? NO, they do not buy elections!
THAT SMILE is scary and evil. “BEWARE of the Person with the Never-Ending Smile, for when you turn your back, they show their FANGED TEETH!” I wrote that for Obama, Michelle, Hillary, Ellen, and then added Kamala who actually has a psychotic illness, “SMILE MASK SYNDROME!” She even has the smile when talking about a serious issue, then realizes it and slowly releases it. I guess that SMILE GOT HER PLACES!
“Why are you voting for Kamala?” “Because she’s Black and I want her to help our people as the First Black and female President.” (With that same reasoning, did they vote for Sarah Palin?) “What are her qualifications?” “She’s not Trump.” (There’s a political cartoon on Fox: “Their Campaign: Trump has America First. Kamala has Hate Trump.”
ANYONE KNOW HER TIES TO, OR MEMBERSHIP, IN ANY CPUSA FRONT from her ’80s college days? Pro-Sandinista and FMLN? Castro’s? Zapatistas? (Most Democrats can be traced to these fronts and support of our enemies!)
I don’t think it was just that smile in play !
It was the smile and the fact that she could lick her eyebrow at the same time!
A true sense of entitlement.
If all is true, then she fits right into the Democrat model for a candidate: Brainless, emotionally driven, and corrupt.
Pardon me sir but I must remind you that those are prerequisites for being a democrat politician. One cannot succeed as a democrat politician without those inherent traits.
The fact that Kamala cackles like a barnyard hen is what makes her stand out as a democrat. And her word salads….!! Umm umm umm! Is to die for if you’re a pea brain democrat dumbass who lives vicariously through politicians!
Democrats are liars, cheaters and traitors. They only care about power and are destroying America.
Meh… You say that as if sometime in the past, they weren’t liars, cheaters and traitors. I’ve been on this planet for nearly 70 years and I can’t recall a time when that wasn’t true about democrats.
By the way, democrats are also two-faced backstabbing bastards. Just ask any republican.
Kamala’s relationship with Willie, if seen as totally objective and replaced her name with Jane Doe, would be considered a call girl service. A very expensive call girl service. The scariest part of this article is that Harris could be in control of trillions of dollars. If she spends other people’s money like a drunken sailor, why would she respect the taxpayer’s money?
I wish the whole of Harris supporters could read this but I’m not sure the Swifties and Israel hating campus kid can read
It’s the democRAT way, as they destroy America.
Kamala Harris is a cackling-unhinged-nasty-trollop. A ditzy-uninformed-malevolently-banal crazy-unqualified-nebulous-trainwreck. -signed, AcronymAngus
You can take her out of the Ghetto, but you can’t take the Ghetto out of her
ALL DEM POLS SERVE THE 1% and therefore are ultimately entitled to live like the same.
How many mansions do the Obama’s have again? And despite Michelle’s howling about whites not moving into ‘black’ hoods, not one of the Obama’s multi-million dollar spreads are in black community.
What was it about Obama’s $62 million dollar ‘book deal’ after his administration gave the rich BIG PUBLISHER a $320 million ‘grant’??? Tidy bit of corruption.
Let’s not forget: “at some point you’ve got enough monah.” To make it worse, I saw an add the other day where Mooch was at a Walmart or something hawking her new “sports drink” or kool-aid or some shit. I guess it must be the inflation.
you mean our sociopath gamer lawyer kamala is the ‘evita’ of the democrat party???
and who would have thought her ethics would have pointed elsewhere???
Not a word about ActBlue and their possible fraudulent fundraising…….? Lazy…..
Like crooked Hillary
Don’t worry, I am sure she will be very careful with our tax money.
Surely you jest!!
Sounds like George, Alex and their Open Societies Foundation must be in for a couple hundred million or so by now.
No question about THEIR goals.