"On a recent appearance on MSNBC, U.S. Rep. Colin Allred was asked how Vice President Kamala Harris’ presumptive rise to the top of the party’s ticket was affecting his campaign in Texas to unseat U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz.

Allred’s response was polite, but muted: “Vice President Harris was a member of the congressional Black Caucus and I’ve known her for some time and I support her nomination.”

That five-second comment was all the time Allred spent discussing Harris. He quickly pivoted for the rest of the seven-minute segment to attacking Cruz for blocking bipartisan border security and immigration bills, opposing abortion access and leaving the state for Cancun when millions of Texans had lost power in their homes in 2021.

Harris’s impending nomination has injected the November election with renewed enthusiasm among Democrats, who are hoping the historic nature of her candidacy as a woman of color could also boost down-ballot candidates. But in Republican-dominated Texas, Allred — who has been running his campaign as a centrist — is not flocking to her side."

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[–] minnix@lemux.minnix.dev -5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (11 children)

Who can blame him? Harris locked up over 1500 for pot and then laughed about it when asked if she ever smoked herself, blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts literally forced her to release it, kept people locked up beyond their sentences to use them as labor slaves for the state, and on and on. She's a cop of the worst kind, draconian, ruthless, and power hungry. You think Allred really wants to associate himself with this kind of conduct? Meanwhile the media is screaming "You go girl!!" just because she's running against Trump. Her past has been conveniently memory-holed.

[–] Frog@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago (10 children)

"Who can blame him? Harris locked up over 1500 for pot and then laughed about it when asked if she ever smoked herself,"

As attorney general, Kamala Harris would not have personally prosecuted drug cases. Local district attorneys would generally prosecute such cases so to say Harris "put ... people in jail" as state attorney general is not accurate.

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/analysis-tulsi-gabbard-kamala-harris/

But the attorney general’s office doesn’t directly prosecute the vast majority of drug cases in the state. That’s up to the individual district attorneys in each county, and it’s wrong to say Harris put those people in jail.

Still, Harris did directly prosecute marijuana cases as San Francisco district attorney from 2004 through 2010. The DA’s office has not yet released data about pot convictions during that time period.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/08/01/democratic-debate-kamala-harris-tulsi-gabbard-joe-biden-fact-check/

"blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts literally forced her to release it,"

Did she hold the evidence herself or was it held in evidence and was previously tested already?

[–] root@precious.net 3 points 3 months ago

My understanding is that they withheld evidence and fought a court order to turn it over. It wasn't an accident.

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