(08-22-2019 01:35 PM)Rice93 Wrote: (08-22-2019 01:16 PM)tanqtonic Wrote: Considering all the issue coming back from you is the board equivalent of 'ignore that man behind the curtain' in light of the facts of the matter ---
What is *your* opinion of the Speaker of the Assembly appointing a person who is amazingly junior in a professional capacity to two statewide commissions, all occurring while the two were doing the horizontal tango? Funny, I havent heard a word from you specifically on that subject.
You seem to have great insight into the politics of this San Francisco DA's office in the early 1990s. Were these appointments truly out-of-left-field for somebody with Harris' background? Perhaps everything that you say is spot-on... perhaps it's not. Where are you getting this information from?
I learned quite a bit of the inside from personal friends who worked in the SF DA office at the time in question. But that is immaterial since I really havent posted those insights in the slightest, just the bald facts which are stupendously easy to verify.
The funny thing is that you squawk about everything I have posted as being supposition. If you bothered, everything I have said *is* spot on. I have only related cold, hard, easily verified facts. Which one of those facts do you disagree with? Or dont like?
What I *havent* related is the background in the DA's office at the time. Should I repeat those here so you actually have a reason to get all lathered up about background?
Now all I *have* said here is stuff that is easily verifiable. Like Harris' job title, the position in the DA's office that held, and the fact that she was doinking Willie at the time. And it is undisputed the dates that Slick Willie appointed her. Criminy, if you are so enraptured about the source and facts you can use Google for that level.
What I *havent* said is the massive actual political fallout in the DA office because of those appointments. But given the absolute and resolute resistance you show to actual verifiable and hard facts, my guess is that will *really* get your goat running wild.....
Please do tell where I have related 'insights into the SF DA office' from 1990 - 1995? I am at an utter fing loss which facts I have related show such 'insight' that you sardonically and sarcastically refer to. As noted before I will be more than happy to relate those as they were told to me from members of the SF DA at that time.
Quote:Quote:I find it rather fing unseeming to be honest. At both ends of the equation. At the very least. It smacks of a guy so enraptured by current tail that he has no qualms about the rather massive advancement provided. And it smacks of a person who is more than willing to accept the 'tail for commission seat' so provided. Not the first time I have seen it, probably wont be the last. How does it play to you?
I don't know what their relationship was like. You seem to be clear that she was having sex with him as a calculated maneuver for her political advancement. Are you sure?
All I noted was that she seemed more than okay with the appointments. It may not have been a calculated maneuver for 'political advancement'. Perhaps it was more of the extra 120k per annum that went into her pocket as a result of those appointments. Maybe she was just so bat **** smitten with Willie's willie that she didnt know what the fk was happening. Which do you think?
Quote:You condemn Harris for her actions without having any real insight into her motivations.
Funny, kind of *just like* you auto snark Trump (supporters, voters, followers). Amazing that, isnt it?
Truth be told, Harris knew damn well that Willie was handing her a political appointment and an extra 120k for jumping the guy. If she would be so naive as to not, then she has no fing business running for SF DA, CA Atty General, US Senate, or the presidency.
Do fault Willie? Sure. Following your d-ck to hand out political appointments is stupid, and reeks of non-fair play. Taking such an appointment knowing that your hooha played a role in it also has that air to it for me. The only way I would not continue with that fault on her part is if she were so slow as to be classified as mentally challenged and not being able to understand that context. For some odd reason, I dont picture her riding that particular length of bus.
Quote:Quote:'Slut' may be somewhat overboard, but 'tail for political gain' seems about spot on in this to me. Does that sound accurate to you? How would *you* characterize that apparent quid pro quo?
A rousing condemnation of the term slut as it applies to Harris. Also the strongest one yet from our neighborhood right-wingers.
And you still havent bothered to delienate how you feel about the situation. That is, aside from your (continued) 'maybe she was just head over heels and love and had zero realization of what had happened posit.' (Oh, and I forgot the catty remark about 'oh how do you know the inside scoop' over sheer, bald facts.)
Feel free to get back with me if you want some of the 'Inside the SF DA' story as I heard it. What I heard, Arlo was fing pissed that some junior ass underling in his office got that level of not just an appointment, but plural of that, as he had serious designs on state office. Led to serious bad blood between him and Willie in the long run. One guess who had a hand in shivving out Arlo when he ran for re-election in 94 or 95.
And from the next DA, Hallinan was apparently so scared of Harris and her 'helper' that she got serious kid glove treatment. Kind of worked out, because Hallinan wiped out about 80 per cent of Arlo's upper staff, which opened up a lot of room to move up people that *he* thought might help him politically. One of those people ended up running against him and ousting him. Double goodthink points if you can identify that person.
Once again, how would *you* characterize that apparent quid pro quo?
The running joke in the SF DA office in 2006-2011 was that Kamala threw the book at prostitutes and johns (she actually did), but there was definitely an upper limit for her where it was no longer sex for 'thing of value' (legal joke as it tracks the actual solicitation and prostitution statute that Kamala went ape **** in enforcing).
