Governor Tim Walz calls Vice President Kamala Harris a ‘Young Prostitutor’

| Written by Jessica Wright | Hits: 7

While giving a speech about Presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, the woman atop the ticket, Vice President candidate, Governor Tim Walz recounted the early years of her career.

Kamala's career "started -- and I love this story -- as a ‘young prostitutor’, Kamala Harris talked about going in that courtroom for the first time."

In case you don't know the context here -- and the Harris campaign has desperately attempted to make sure nobody does -- back when she was in her 20s, Harris dated former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, who was then in his 60s and the speaker of the California Assembly.

Mr. Brown was a flamboyant figure in California politics, best known for a procession of girlfriends who were definitely not his wife.

"A 1994 Los Angeles Times report about then-California Assembly Speaker Brown's 'rush to hand out patronage jobs' described Harris as Brown's 'frequent companion' and said several people referred to her as Brown's girlfriend," USA Today reported.

Kamala Harris also garnered a new nickname called “Heel Up Harris”.

"That report also cited a column from the Chronicle's Herb Caen that called Harris 'the Speaker's new steady.' When they met, she was 29 and Brown was 60."

In a letter to the San Francisco Chronicle in 2019, Brown admitted he "may have influenced her career by appointing her to two state commissions when I was Assembly speaker."

Harris would acknowledge that her relationship with Brown was an "albatross hanging around my neck," in part because of the patronage scandals and in part because of other corruption allegations that he faced during his time in office, according to USA Today.

"His career is over; I will be alive and kicking for the next 40 years. I do not owe him a thing," she told SF Weekly when she was running for San Francisco district attorney in 2003. "If there is corruption, it will be prosecuted."

It's worth noting that, while they had broken up eight years prior, Brown also still supported her in that race.

"I have also helped the careers of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Gov. Gavin Newsom, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and a host of other politicians," he said in the letter to the Chronicle.

Yes, but to the best of my knowledge, he didn't give any of them a BMW -- which he did with Kamala Harris.

That being said, if entering into such a relationship with Willie Brown ensured you the same career trajectory as Kamala Harris, California would have 573 U.S. senators, all female.

However, it doesn't hurt to get leg up at the beginning of one's career from a man who was old enough that someone once mistook Kamala for his daughter, according to the New York Post.

Tim Walz is under fire after making the comment that Kamala Harris was a Young Prostitutor.

Twitter commented: “No wayyyyyy.  Tim Walz just said Kamala started her career as a "young prostitutor."

“Talk about Freudian slips, Kamala started her career as a "young PROSTITUTOR".  Is Walz speaking from experience? Priceless.”






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