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Kamala Harris did have a relationship with Willie Brown, who later served as San Francisco’s mayor, between 1994 and 1995 (
here Los Angeles Times first linked the pair in 1994 (
here her career in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office (
here 29 and Brown, speaker of the California State Assembly (
here;), was 60 (
here;
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Although Brown was legally married at the time, he had reportedly been estranged from his wife, Blanche Brown, since 1981, according to People magazine (
here;
As reported (
here;) by the San Francisco Chronicle, Harris and Brown broke up in 1995. On Dec. 26, 1995, reporter Herb Caen wrote in his daily column that the couple had split, adding the “news came as a shock to many, including those who found Kamala Harris attractive, intelligent and charming.”
Brown went on to serve as mayor of San Francisco from 1996 to 2004 (
here 2003, Harris would become the district attorney of the state and county of San Francisco (
here;
The claim Harris “had an affair with a married man” is technically true. But given Brown had been separated from his wife for more than a decade, the claim is misleading. Haris and Brown’s relationship was not secret and they made public appearances as a couple (
here;
In a 2003 interview during her campaign for San Francisco attorney general, Harris told SF Weekly that she refused “to design my campaign around criticizing Willie Brown for the sake of appearing to be independent when I have no doubt that I am independent of him — and that he would probably right now express some fright about the fact that he cannot control me.” (
here;
On Jan. 26, 2019, Brown published a short op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle with the headline “Sure, I dated Kamala Harris. So what?” (
here;). Brown said he had recently “been peppered with calls from the national media about my ‘relationship’ with Kamala Harris, particularly since it became obvious that she was going to run for president. Most of them, I have not returned. Yes, we dated. It was more than 20 years ago.”
Further reporting on Harris and Brown’s relationship can be found
here .
T: Reuters
Ei me kauheasti tästä olla mekkalaa pidetty, enempi vasemmiston juttuja tuomita ihmiset tällaisten perusteella. Olen Kamalan bimboudesta puhunut ja tarkoittanut enempi pyrkyryyttä ja todellisen halun ja kiinnostuksen puutetta pressan hommaan, ulkopolitiikkaan ja maan asioihin, ehkäpä se tässä kampanjassa ja tuloksessakin sitten lopulta näkyi.