Kamala Harris
Fundraises off Senate Interruptions
by Joel B. Pollak 19 Jun 2017
Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) has become notorious over
the past several weeks for interrupting witnesses testifying on Capitol Hill — or,
to her liberal fans, for being “silenced” by her white male Republican
colleagues. Now she is turning those confrontation into campaign dollars.
Harris’s campaign Twitter account, @KamalaHarris, has pinned a tweet to the
top of her profile that refers to her being “silenced,” and links to a
donations page:
The women of
the United States Senate will not be silenced when seeking the truth. Fight
back: https://t.co/5KpQ4wBykN
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) June 13,
2017
At the donation page, Harris claims: “t’s happened to me,
Elizabeth Warren, and countless others. Too often women are silenced in society
and in the Senate. Make a contribution to defend the women of the Senate and
fight back.”
While she claims she was “silenced,” in each case Harris
was actually the silencer, talking over witnesses such as Secretary of
Homeland Security John Kelly, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and Deputy
Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. In each case, the witnesses protested that she
was not letting them answer her questions. Sessions in particular complained
that by cutting him off, she was exposing him to legal risk of not telling the
whole truth.
Harris’s campaign account has also re-tweeted a link to a
petition by the far-left Color of Change organization,
which is evidently collecting email addresses and contact information using
Harris’s interruption episodes.
It is not unusual for members of Congress on both sides
to use confrontations on Capitol Hill to raise money, though in Harris’s case
she is using an example that is at odds with what actually happened in the
Senate.
Color of Change organization
Van
Jones was a co-founder of the ColorOfChange.org,
and a senior fellow at the Center for
American Progress.
Note: Center
for American Progress calls for heightened “Gun Safety, Gun Control” for guns.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Center
for American Progress, and the American
Constitution Society.
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, was a contributor for MoveOn.org, a supporter for the Center for American Progress, the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and a benefactor
for the Harlem Children's Zone.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Center for American Progress, the Harlem Children's Zone, and the Sundance Institute.
James Rucker was
a director of grassroots mobilization for MoveOn.org,
and is a co-founder of the ColorOfChange.org.
Van
Jones was a co-founder of the ColorOfChange.org,
and a senior fellow at the Center for
American Progress.
Madeleine K. Albright
is a director at the Center for American
Progress, an advisory board member for the Truman Center for National Policy, and an advisory board member for
the Truman National Security Project.
Kamala D. Harris
is an advisory board member for the Truman
Center for National Policy, a U.S.
Senate senator, and was an advisory board member for the Truman National Security Project.
Gabrielle
Giffords is an advisory board member for the Truman
Center for National Policy, an advisory board member for the Truman National Security Project, and a
co-founder for the Americans for
Responsible Solutions.
Americans
for Responsible Solutions is a “Gun
Safety, Gun Control” PAC for guns.
Michael R.
Bloomberg was a contributor for the Americans
for Responsible Solutions, and a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone.
Covington
& Burling LLP was the lobby firm for the Americans for Responsible Solutions.
Eric H. Holder Jr.
is a partner at Covington & Burling
LLP, was an attorney general for the U.S.
Department of Justice, and a board member for the American Constitution Society.
Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is a division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and a
Government Bureau for “Gun Safety, Gun
Control” for guns.
Mario M. Cuomo was
a board of adviser’s member for the American
Constitution Society, and Maria
Cuomo Cole’s father.
Maria Cuomo Cole
is Mario M. Cuomo’s daughter, a
trustee at the Brady Center to Prevent
Gun Violence, and married to Kenneth
D. Cole.
Brady
Center to Prevent Gun Violence is a “Gun
Safety, Gun Control” group for guns.
Kenneth D. Cole
is married to Maria Cuomo Cole, and
a trustee at the Sundance Institute.
Robert Redford is
the founder & president for the Sundance
Institute, and was a director at the Apollo
Alliance.
Van
Jones was a director at the Apollo
Alliance, a senior fellow at the Center
for American Progress, and a co-founder of the ColorOfChange.org.
Center
for American Progress calls for heightened “Gun Safety, Gun Control” for guns.
James Rucker is a
co-founder of the ColorOfChange.org,
and was a director of grassroots mobilization for MoveOn.org.
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