Kamala Harris' Record of Public Service

     Just as President Biden brought a lifetime of public service to counteract the rookie former president with nothing but four years of hate and division to show, Vice President Harris brings a lifetime of public service as a prosecutor to bear against a running mate who is now an adjudged rapist and liar, a man found liable for charitable and financial fraud, and a convicted felon.

     That may be the key to Kamala Harris's campaign as it has been the key to every position she has held in public life. A prosecutor is who she has always been. She served as a prosecutor and city attorney from 1990 to 2004, the San Francisco DA from 2004 to 2011, the attorney general for California from 2011 to 2017, a U.S. Senator from 2017 to 2021, and vice president since 2021.

     Here are some highlights of her 35 years of public service:

1. 2004: Sought higher bail for gun-related defendants, tightened loopholes used by defendants, sought minimum sentences in gun cases, and set up a gun crimes unit to reduce gun violence in San Francisco.
2. 2004: Recruited civil rights activist Latifah Simon to create the San Francisco Reentry Division, a first-of-its-kind initiative to help young, nonviolent, first-time offenders that required parenting classes, community service, college credit, and employment and helped reduce recidivism rates by 80 percent among hundreds of offenders.
3. 2005: Created a San Francisco Environmental Crimes Unit.
4. 2006: Created a hate crimes unit that successfully prosecuted the four men involved in the murder of transgender teenager Gwen Araujo. 
5. 2007: Successfully prosecuted Board of Supervisors member Ed Jew for perjury he committed related to residency requirements to run for office.
6. 2008: Prosecuted parents for the chronic truancy of their students for the first time in San Francisco history.
7. 2010-2015: Declined to defend Prop 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage; filed an amicus brief in support of same-sex marriage; and co-sponsored legislation to ban the gay and trans panic defense.
8. 2011: Became the first female, first African-American, and first South Asian-American Attorney General of California in history.
9. 2011-2017: Secured billions of dollars in settlements in emissions and oil spill-related cases as part of a prioritization of environmental cases. 
10. 2012: Reached a landmark consumer privacy agreement with Apple, Amazon, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Research in Motion, and Facebook.
11. 2012: Cleared California's DNA testing backlog for the first time.
12. 2013: Introduced the Homeowner Bill of Rights, one of the strongest protections against aggressive foreclosure in the nation.
13. 2013: Launched the California Justice Department's Division of Recidivism Reduction and Re-Entry.
14. 2015: Obtained a $1.2 billion settlement against Corinthian Colleges for targeting vulnerable students and misrepresenting post-graduation job placement rates.
15. 2016: Made the California Department of Justice the first statewide agency in the nation requiring officers to wear bodycams.
16. 2016: Made the historic arrest of Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer on charges related to child sex trafficking.
17. 2017: As a new senator from California, earned media attention for her questioning of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein over the role he played in the firing of James Comey, and questioned Attorney General Jeff Sessions on the same matter a week later, with Sessions saying the questioning "made him nervous."
18. 2018: Repeatedly questioned Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen for favoring Norwegian immigrants and claiming to be unaware that Norway was a predominantly white country as well as on Donald Trump's family separation policy and became the first senator to call on Nielsen to resign.
19. 2018: Questioned Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on reproductive rights, allegations of sexual assault, and his ties to attorneys defending Trump in the Mueller probe, with Kavanaugh deflecting most of her questions.
20. 2018: Led Senate passage of the Justice for Victims of Lynching Act, which would die in the House but later be signed into law by President Biden as the Emmett Till Antilynching Act in 2022. 
21. 2019: Called on the resignation of Attorney General Bill Barr for refusing to answer her questions related to the Mueller Report and accused him of doing so to avoid opening himself up to perjury charges.
22. 2019: Led a group of 12 Democratic senators in demanding the resignation of Stephen Miller after leaked emails revealed Miller's frequent promotion of white nationalist literature.
23. 2020: Successfully convinced Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham to pause the confirmation of Trump's judicial nominees during his impeachment trial.
24. 2021: Became the first female vice president, the highest-ranking woman in American history, the first black vice president, the first Asian-American vice president, the highest-ranking Asian-American in history, and the second vice president of color.
25. 2021-2023: Cast 33 tie-breaking votes, the most of any vice president in American history, including the votes that passed the historic American Rescue Plan Act and Inflation Reduction Act.
26. 2021: Became the first woman to serve as acting president while President Biden underwent a colonoscopy.
27. 2021-present: Led the Biden Administration's work to address the root causes of immigration from the Northern Triangle countries; securing billions of dollars in public and private investments, creating task forces on corruption and human trafficking, and creating a women's empowerment program.
28. 2021-2023: Became the first woman to give commencement speeches at the United States Naval Academy and West Point.
29. 2021: Met with Emmanuel Macron to strengthen U.S.-French ties after the cancellation of a major submarine program and strengthen ties across civil, commercial, and national security sectors.
30. 2021-present: Chaired the National Space Council; expanding its membership; adding 34 countries to the Artemis Accords; awarding the first Congressional Space Medals of Honor in nearly 17 years; announcing a unilateral ban on anti-satellite missile testing; and countless other historic actions.

     These are just brief summaries of some of her biggest accomplishments. A full list would probably number in the hundreds. Anyone who attacks her as unqualified is either lying of being a bigot. She's more qualified than Bush Jr., Obama, and Trump were. With age being a  primary concern among voters as it related to President Biden, her relatively-young age of 59 should be a refreshing change, if anything. She'll add a lot more to this list as president. To help Kamala make history, donate here.