Kudos to the Los Angeles Times’ Michael Finnegan for skunking the Chron on the Kamala Harris story. It was a rather revealing piece of journalism that may make Kamala Harris the candidate to be Attorney General of California with the worst credentials ever.
Finnegan’s story reported on Harris’ “Back on Track” program to rehabilitate convicted first time criminals, some of whom wound up allegedly killing, intending to kill, and at the very least, robbing innocent citizens of San Francisco. Many were illegals, and several were definitely out of control repeat offenders who should have been behind bars instead of in back of the classroom.
Harris, the San Francisco District Attorney, attempted to soften the blow to her image and credibility by blaming the illegal immigration issue in general for the specifics of her lack of judgment. Referring to an allegedly vicious attack by one of the convicted criminal illegals in her program, she said, “The immigration issue, as it relates to the Izaguirre case, obviously is a huge kind of pimple on the face of this program.”
Izaquirre is accused of robbing and then attempting to run over a 29 year old woman on her way home from dinner in Pacific Heights. She was left bleeding in the street. Somehow I find this type of incident difficult to translate into the size of a zit on the face of failure.
Harris should be embarrassed, and the public should be on notice that Ms. Harris would do well to look into another field of endeavor, say, dermatology, before she continues her fight to be the number one law enforcement official for the 37 million people of the State of California.