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Kamala Harris

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2009

    California Courts to Prostitute Recruiters: If She's Already Hooking, Go for It!

    Now my only troubles are with the fashion police.In November, San Francisco failed to pass Proposition K , which would have decriminalized prostitution -- indicating a majority of city dwellers still think it should be illegal to pay or be paid for sex. Yet in a ruling handed down in state court las ... More >>

  • News

    June 14, 2006

    Sistah Kamala

    Now my only troubles are with the fashion police.In November, San Francisco failed to pass Proposition K , which would have decriminalized prostitution -- indicating a majority of city dwellers still think it should be illegal to pay or be paid for sex. Yet in a ruling handed down in state court las ... More >>

  • News

    October 8, 2003

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of October 8, 2003

  • News

    September 24, 2003

    Kamala's Karma

    She's smart, she's experienced, and she's running for DA. But she's Willie Brown's ex-girlfriend, and her opponents are trying to crucify her for that.

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2009

    Kamala Harris Benefit Announced

    Cali's Next Top Cop? Kamala D. Harris It takes a lot of cojones to stand up for what you think is right in the political world, especially when faced with high-level pressure. Though she's generated controversy and made a few formidable enemies in law enforcement circles, SF DA Kamala Harris ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2009

    Kamala Harris Hasn't Made Friends With S.F. Cops -- But That May Not Cost Her in the End

    Kamala Harris​In many American towns, the debate over the merits of Chevy or Ford pickup trucks is no laughing matter. In a nerdier milieu -- one less likely to cause a bar fight at least -- Apple and PC partisans snipe at each other smarmily. And here in San Francisco, we have our own endless, ta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2010

    In Wake of Unpleasant Poll, Kamala Harris Trumpets Fund-Raising Totals

    'One million dollars!'​According to a press release Attorney General candidate Kamala Harris fired off about an hour ago, her campaign raised more than a million bucks in the last half of 2009. But according to a poll leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle -- she'll need it. The J. Moore Methods su ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2010

    Dwindling Dollars in Attorney General Race May Not Be Due to Recession

    Do I have any money? Not for you!​Guess what? Jackie Speier isn't running for Attorney General. Who knew? Now that we've gotten that out of the way, on to the article. We thought it was interesting last week when the campaign of San Francisco District Attorney -- and would-be AG -- Kamala Harris s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2010

    Poll: Harris Is AG Front-Runner -- Until Pollster Starts Talking Dirty

    With how much salt shall we take Ted Lieu's new poll?​It's not every day that a political candidate eagerly publicizes a survey revealing he's polling in the single-digits and trails the leader by double-digits. And yet, this has turned out to not be a typical Attorney General's race. Would-be AG ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2010

    DA Announces Sweeping Broke Niggas Thievin' Gang Indictment

    ​District Attorney Kamala Harris announced today that 10 members and associates of the notorious Bayview street gang known as Broke Niggas Thievin' have been indicted by a San Francisco criminal grand jury for dozens of felonies, including three murder charges.The indictment came after three month ... More >>

  • News

    March 10, 2010

    Stalker threatens D.A. (an opponent of the death penalty) with the electric chair

    ​District Attorney Kamala Harris announced today that 10 members and associates of the notorious Bayview street gang known as Broke Niggas Thievin' have been indicted by a San Francisco criminal grand jury for dozens of felonies, including three murder charges.The indictment came after three month ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2010

    Social Networking Site Tagged.com Slapped With $650K Fine By S.F.

    Don't push that button!​A B-reel social networking site known as Tagged.com has been hit with a $650,000 fine from the San Francisco District Attorney's office for sending tens of millions of e-mails that duped recipients into unwittingly sharing private information.District Attorney Kamala Harris ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2010

    Pelosi Endorses Kamala Harris in Attorney General Race

    Kamala Harris​House Speaker Nancy Pelosi threw her support behind San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris in the California Attorney General's race today, the latest in a string of prominent endorsements for the Democratic front-runner.The announcement comes on the heels of new polling that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2010

    Drug-Skimming Crime Lab Tech Deborah Madden Now Attorney General's Problem

    The party at the SFPD drug lab may soon be over​The California Attorney General's office will handle any criminal charges filed against former San Francisco crime-lab technician Deborah Madden for her alleged role in tampering with narcotics evidence, District Attorney Kamala Harris announced toda ... More >>

  • News

    May 5, 2010

    A Lack of Conviction

    As D.A. Kamala Harris campaigns to be attorney general, her success rate in felony trials has dropped below that of any big-city prosecutor in California.

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    D.A. Kamala Harris Wins Fewer Felony Trials Than Any Big-City Prosecutor in California

    ​Recent weeks have brought plenty of headaches for San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris, including a scandal at the SFPD crime lab and questions over her office's failure to disclose police officers' criminal pasts. In this week's cover story, SF Weekly reports on a longer-brewing problem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2010

    Is Kamala Harris Scared of Chris Kelly?

    Hey, Kamala Harris...​In politics, as in life, smart folks pick their battles. If you're winning the race, it doesn't do to get caught jawing with some little-known also-ran. So the recent, persistent efforts of Kamala Harris -- the Democratic front-runner in the Attorney General's race -- to deep ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2010

    Tyra Banks Endorses D.A. Kamala Harris for Attorney General

    Tyra and Kamala, BFF​San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has been dealing with a storm of bad publicity lately, with revelations that her office's felony trial conviction rates have dropped precipitously and that local prosecutors' failure to disclose police officers' criminal background ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2010

    Kamala Harris' Failure to Report Cops' Criminal Backgrounds Now Fodder in AG Race

    "I'm here to attack the issues, not another candidate."​San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris' failure to disclose the criminal backgrounds of cops testifying in cases her office prosecuted "calls into question ... whether she has the judgment necessary to be California's next attorney gen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    Judge Blames D.A. Kamala Harris for Crime-Lab Scandal

    D.A. Kamala Harris has some explaining to do​A San Francisco Superior Court judge has blamed San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris for the debacle that has grown out of misconduct at the San Francisco Police Department crime lab, saying Harris' office ignored its constitutional obligation ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2010

    Kamala Harris Complaint: Chris Kelly Illegally Financed Campaign with Facebook Stock

    Shady financier?​San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has filed a complaint with state regulators, crying foul over the method former Facebook honcho Chris Kelly is using to direct millions into his campaign for state Attorney General.In a letter sent today to the state's Fair Political P ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2010

    New Chris Kelly Ad Attacks Kamala Harris' Conviction Rates, Crime-Lab Blunders

    D.A. Kamala Harris is pushing back hard against a new television ad from Chris Kelly -- one of her opponents in the upcoming Democratic primary for state attorney general -- that capitalizes on a blitz of negative coverage Harris has received in the local media this month.The ad, titled "Kamala Harr ... More >>

  • News

    June 2, 2010

    A Secrecy Fetish

    District Attorney Kamala Harris is going too far in protecting Catholic pedophiles.

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2010

    Kamala Harris Takes A Stand on Internet Pedophiles, Coddles Pedophile Catholic Priests

    As long as the pedophile is online, Kamala Harris is there to protect you​Matt Smith's column this week revealed how District Attorney Kamala Harris is essentially protecting Catholic pedophiles in her refusal to turn over the San Francisco Archdiocese files on clergy abuse. Oddly, she's also come ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2010

    Big Day in Court for Candidate Harris

    This is what a sexy prosecutor candidate looks like​With her solid victory in last night's Democratic primary for the vaunted post of attorney general, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris proved that she can deflect accusations of being soft of crime. At least when they come from other D ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    Kamala Harris Attack Ad: Steve Cooley a Sexist Coddler of Child Molesters

    D.A. Kamala Harris​San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris today released an online ad targeting her Republican opponent in the race for state attorney general. The ad (view after the jump) assails Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley, in so many words, as a sexist coddler of child mol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2010

    DA Kamala Harris' Challenge to Crime Lab Ruling Rejected

    Kamala -- you've been judged.​Prosecutors in the office of District Attorney Kamala Harris have failed in their efforts to prove a bias claim against the judge who reprimanded the DA's office for its handling of a scandal at the San Francisco Police Department's drug-testing lab. In May, San Franc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2010

    District Attorney Kamala Harris Makes Oprah's 2010 'O Power List'

    Big guns are backing Kamala Harris​District Attorney Kamala Harris is nothing if not resilient in her campaign to be elected California's next attorney general. Just when she's getting slammed in the press for hypocritically holding on to a convicted felon's campaign donations, Harris' campaign re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2010

    George Lopez Hosting Kamala Harris Cocktail Soiree -- You Can Still Make It!

    We laughed. We cried...​For Attorney General candidate Kamala Harris, it's either up, up, up, or down, down, down. She spent much of this summer suffering the slings and arrows of her spectacular mishandling of the city's crime lab drug scandal. After attempting to nail Republican rival Steve Cool ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2010

    GOP to Hammer Harris on Death Penalty with $1 million in TV Ads as Election Nears

    Close observers of the 2010 California Attorney General's race probably saw this one coming. With less than two weeks remaining until election day on Nov. 2, Republican activists are going to spend about $1 million blanketing the airwaves with commercials attacking San Francisco District Attorney Ka ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2010

    Dianne Feinstein Was Against Kamala Harris' 'Strong Track Record' Before She Was For It

    An unlikely ally?​In an effort to combat the mudslide of Republican money pouring into California to fund attack ads on San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris in the California Attorney General's race, the Harris campaign today released a "statement" from U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein."Kamala ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2010

    DA Kamala Harris' Office Has ID'd at Least 76 Police Employees With Problem Backgrounds

    D.A. Kamala Harris​The San Francisco District Attorney's office has so far notified Public Defender Jeff Adachi in writing of 76 police department employees with criminal or disciplinary backgrounds requiring disclosure.The letters come in response to a judge's order that D.A. Kamala Harris move q ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2010

    Attorney General Race Too Close to Call; Results Could Be Weeks Away

    Kamala Harris​Californians can expect to hurry up and wait for final results in the undisputed nail-biter statewide election of 2010, the attorney general's race between San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris and Los Angeles D.A. Steve Cooley.With all voting precincts reporting, Harris hold ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2010

    Gary Scott Holland Charged With Murder and Attempted Rape of Kathleen Horan

    Kathleen "Kate" Horan​The alleged murder of Kathleen Horan has taken an even more macabre turn with the announcement of the charges against suspect Gary Scott Holland this morning. Not only does the parolee face murder and robbery counts -- but also attempted rape.District Attorney Kamala Harris a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2010

    Kamala Harris: Take a Maalox

    The cure for political heartache? ​To those tormented by the stunningly close Attorney General's race between Steve Cooley and Kamala Harris, San Francisco's district attorney offers a bit of medical advice: "Take a Maalox." Harris made her impromptu pitch for a particular brand of heartburn medic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2010

    Elections Overtime: The Races That Haven't Finished

    ...And we're counting​Funny thing about Instant-Runoff Voting: The results often aren't so instant. A number of elections around the state are still undetermined. What does the future hold? Gnashing of teeth, threats of litigation, and, of course, counting, counting, and recounting. In an Instant- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2010

    AG's Race Gets Nasty as Harris, Cooley Spar Over L.A. Vote Counting

    Kamala Harris​It's always comforting when the race to become the state's top law-enforcement official devolves into Jerry Springer-esque paroxysms of finger-pointing and cheap campaign tactics. But that's what appears to be happening in the final stretch of the California attorney general's race, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2010

    Kamala Harris Appears Set to Cinch Victory in Attorney General Race

    Looking ahead to bigger things​Pardon us, gentle reader, for the intolerable hedge in the above headline. Lacking the statistical prowess of some other observers, we're still going to play it safe -- yet it appears that San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris is on the verge of victory in th ... More >>

  • News

    December 1, 2010

    Don't worry, America. San Francisco knows what's best for you

    Looking ahead to bigger things​Pardon us, gentle reader, for the intolerable hedge in the above headline. Lacking the statistical prowess of some other observers, we're still going to play it safe -- yet it appears that San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris is on the verge of victory in th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2010

    Kamala Harris Declares Victory -- In Los Angeles

    Perhaps Kamala Harris made her 'major announcement' in L.A. because of the George Lopez factor...​As expected, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris declared victory in her race for Attorney General this morning in her "major announcement" this morning in Los Angeles. "I stand before you t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2010

    Gavin Newsom to Let Kamala Harris Name Own Successor?

    Here's betting Kamala Harris doesn't tab Tyra Banks to succeed her. But you never know. ​Update: Mayor's office claims reports Gavin Newsom will allow Kamala Harris to name own successor not entirely accurateReports that Mayor Gavin Newsom has decided to let District Attorney Kamala Harris name he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    DA Kamala Harris Says She Never Saw Report Criticizing Crime Lab

    Kamala Harris​SFPD Chief Also Denies Awareness of Critique Written by Prosecutor and DNA ExpertDistrict Attorney Kamala Harris and San Francisco Police Chief George Gascón both said today they have never seen and were not aware of a report in which a renowned prosecutor says he criticized the sup ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2011

    Kamala Harris Wants Federal Appeals Court To Allow Gay Marriages Now

    Harris: Let the people marry​Supporters of same-sex marriage just got a powerful ally: California Attorney General Kamala Harris. The newly minted AG is urging the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to allow gay couples to marry while it considers a federal appeal over the constitutionality of Propositi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2011

    Kamala Harris Files Brief Supporting Federal Health Care Reform

    This won't hurt a bit...​California Attorney General Kamala Harris has filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit seeking to aid the defense of President Barack Obama's landmark health care legislation.The so-called Affordable Care Act, perhaps Obama's most significant legisla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2011

    Kamala Harris Dishes on 'Big-Girl Panties' with Bush White House Flak Dana Perino

    And on fashion​California Attorney General Kamala Harris didn't enjoy the coziest relationship with local press outlets during her final days as San Francisco's District Attorney. Through various scandals stemming from her handling of problems at the San Francisco Police Department crime lab, Harr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2011

    East Bay Gang Bust: Cops Seize 135 Pounds of Meth

    ​Cops busted a gang in Contra Costa County, arresting 35 people and seizing 135 pounds of crystal meth, the office of Attorney General Kamala Harris announced today.So-called Operation Red Reach, which concluded today, was a coordinated effort by state and local law-enforcement authorities. Police ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2011

    AG's Office Warns of Gang-and-Drug Armageddon If State Budget Passes

    Kamala Harris​As lawmakers prepare to finalize the state budget today, another government agency has joined the chorus of groups declaring that spending cuts in the plan will be disastrous: the office of California Attorney General Kamala Harris.Harris, who has been on the job in Sacramento for si ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2011

    Law Enforcement to Round Up Homeless Sex Offenders Tonight

    Homeless Sex Offenders: smart on crime? ​California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced trick-or-treaters will be safer since cops will keep homeless sex offender parolees indoors tonight in San Francisco. That announcement comes even while Harris' office is defending Jessica's Law -- the bal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2012

    State DNA Lab Backlog Eliminated, Attorney General Kamala Harris Says

    Attorney General Kamala Harris​California Attorney General Kamala Harris issued a statement today asserting that a backlog of DNA evidence has been eliminated at state forensics labs, speeding the analysis of evidence in criminal cases.Harris said in the statement that "routine analysis" of DNA ca ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2012

    Brazilian Blowout Hair-Products Company Hit with $600,000 Settlement by AG's Office

    ​The office of California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced today that a popular manufacturer of hair products, Brazilian Blowout, has admitted that some of its merchandise emits formaldehyde gas and will pay $600,000 in fees, penalties, and costs as a result.The website for Brazilian Blowo ... More >>

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