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   Kamala Harris Got Her Start Through Her Affair With Willie Brown   
      
   We now have the prospect of electing a woman president of the   
   United States whose political career was powered at its launch   
   by a sexual affair with a top political boss.   
      
   Would Sen. Kamala Harris have made it in politics without the   
   patronage of her lover former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown?   
   It's a question her sudden rise to prominence begs us to ask.   
      
   Harris had a publicly acknowledged affair with Willie Brown —   
   the legendary boss of San Francisco — in the early 1990s while   
   Willie Brown was the speaker of the California State Assembly.   
   During their romance, he appointed her to the California   
   Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and also to the Medical   
   Assistance Commission. Both of these well-paid positions   
   supplemented Harris' income as a deputy district attorney in   
   Alameda County, California.   
      
   But Willie Brown's influence was on full display in 2003 when   
   Harris left her job in the office of San Francisco District   
   Attorney Terence Hallinan, after two years, to run against her   
   boss. In a tough election — with Willie Brown's help — she beat   
   Hallinan.   
      
   Hallinan made an issue of Harris' relationship with Willie   
   Brown, painting her as "indebted to her onetime boyfriend and   
   political sponsor, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown."   
      
   Willie Brown, for his part, confirmed his influence in his   
   protege's career. "Yes, I may have influenced her career by   
   appointing her to two state commissions when I was Assembly   
   speaker," Willie Brown wrote in a San Francisco Chronicle op-ed.   
   "I certainly helped with her first race for district attorney in   
   San Francisco."   
      
   Defending himself against the charge that he was bestowing   
   favors on a former lover, Willie Brown noted that he has "also   
   helped the careers of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Gov. Gavin   
   Newsom, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and a host of other politicians."   
      
   He helps all the girls.   
      
   Would an assistant of the district attorney have stood much of a   
   chance pitted against a two-term incumbent who happened to be   
   her boss without the fundraising momentum and endorsement of   
   Willie Brown?   
      
   Once elected district attorney, Harris was off, capitalizing on   
   her exposure in San Francisco to get elected attorney general of   
   California in a tough race in 2010 — again with fundraising   
   assistance from Willie Brown's organization.   
      
   Mediavine   
   There is nothing unprecedented, God knows, in a political boss   
   helping an aspiring politician on the way up. Harry Truman would   
   never have made it without the help of boss Tom Pendergast of   
   Kansas City. But with the advent of female candidates, we now   
   have the additional factor to consider of whether sexual   
   intimacy was a basis for the relationship.   
      
   Consider the broader circumstances of Harris' rapid rise to   
   fame. She ran for state attorney general in 2010 as all eyes   
   were focused on Jerry Brown's return to the governorship. Facing   
   wealthy and powerful Republican Meg Whitman, Jerry Brown was   
   decisively elected.   
      
   Less noticed was Harris' squeaker victory as attorney general.   
   So close was the contest that Cooley did not concede until the   
   next day.   
      
   After a pro forma re-election in 2014, Harris ran for Senate in   
   2016 — this time, under the new rules that now govern California   
   elections. Candidates all run together, and the top two face   
   each other in a runoff, regardless of party (assuming nobody got   
   a majority in the first round).   
      
   With the Republicans not fielding a serious candidate, the race   
   featured Harris against Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez.   
      
   With the seat going Democratic anyway, it attracted only local   
   interest.   
      
   And so Harris arrived in the Senate. Elected district attorney   
   as Willie Brown's protege and lover, she was elected attorney   
   general in a race few noticed in the wake of the big story:   
   Jerry Brown's defeat of Whitman in that same election. Then, she   
   won the Senate seat with only nominal GOP opposition against a   
   weak opponent.   
      
   So, really, without scrutiny and never having had a tough   
   battle, Harris entered the Senate in January 2017 and was   
   immediately swept up in speculation about a presidential run.   
      
   After serving in the Senate for only two years, we are asked to   
   consider seriously her presidential candidacy and the dubious   
   circumstances that led to her ascension to high public office.   
      
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