Oct 07, 2020 · Wayne Pacelle, Humane Society of the U.S. president 2004-2018, now heading Animal Wellness Action, also praised Kamala Harris for her work as California attorney general. In particular, Pacelle singled out Harris in January 2015 for having “defended a series of pioneering animal protection laws,” winning “four separate challenges to ...
May 10, 2018 · Kamala Harris Finally Endorses the Marijuana Justice Act. US Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) on Thursday announced her support for legalizing cannabis at the federal level, signing on to congressional legislation that would remove cannabis from the US Controlled Substances Act and take initial steps to address the lasting consequences of the drug war. “Making marijuana …
Oct 03, 2014 · Although Harris receives the Los Angeles News Group’s endorsement for the Nov. 4 election, this has a lot to do with the sparse credentials of opponent Ronald Gold.
Feb 01, 2012 · On October 1, 2011, the Wall Street Journal reported, “California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris pulled out of settlement negotiations with …
Feb 16, 2018 · (AP) — California U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris has endorsed Gavin Newsom in the race for California governor. Harris gave her fellow Democrat …
Kamala D. Harris, 32nd Attorney General. Born and raised in the East Bay, Kamala is the daughter of Dr. Shyamala Gopalan, a Tamilian breast cancer specialist who traveled to the United States from Chennai, India to pursue her graduate studies at UC Berkeley.
After attending public schools, Kamala's strong commitment to justice and public service led her to Howard University, America’s oldest historically black university, and then to the University of Cali fornia, Hastings College of the Law.
Kamala Devi Harris (b. October 20, 1964, in Oakland, California) is the 49th vice president of the United States, taking office on January 20, 2021, in President Joe Biden 's (D) administration. Harris is the first Black woman and person of South Asian descent to serve as vice president.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) was elected vice president of the United States on November 3, 2020. She received 306 electoral votes in the Electoral College on December 14, 2020, along with former Vice President Joe Biden on the Democratic presidential ticket.
At the beginning of the 115th Congress, Harris was assigned to the following committees: 1 Committee on Intelligence (Select) 2 Committee on the Budget 3 Committee on Environment and Public Works 4 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 5 Committee on the Judiciary
Biography. Harris was born in Oakland, California, in 1964. She earned a bachelor's degree in political science and economics from Howard University in 1986 and a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings, in 1989.
Harris won election to the U.S. Senate in 2016. During that election cycle, Harris' campaign committee raised a total of $13,507,961 and spent $9,499,117. This is less than the average $10.08 million spent by U.S. Senate winners in 2016.
Passed 74 to 20 in the U.S. Senate on November 20th, 2019. U.S. Sen. Harris voted for: U.S. House Resolution 755.
Biden announced Harris was his running mate on August 11, 2020. Harris is a former member of the U.S. Senate, representing California from 2017 to 2021. She is also a former attorney general of California. She served in the position from 2011 to 2017.
Harris continued that she “supports legislation to prohibit monkeys, chimpanzees, and other primates from being shipped across state lines for the pet trade, ” and “will support legislation such as the Big Cats and Public Safety Protection Act to limit the breeding of lions, tigers, and other big cats to accredited zoos.”
Harris specifically endorsed the Safeguard American Food Exports (SAFE) Act , promoted by the Humane Society of the U.S., “to ban exports of horses for slaughter in other countries, and prevent horse slaughter plants from re-opening in the U.S.”
Also in 2016 Harris responded to allegations of frequent civil rights violations and misuse of force, including misuse of police dogs, by the Bakersfield Police Department and Kern County Sheriff’s Department––the two largest law enforcement agencies in the county.
Harris pledged to “protect the rights of animals by supporting humane legislation, opposing government programs that use taxpayer funds to harm animals, supporting initiatives to protect animals and for adequate enforcement of animal welfare laws, and opposing inhumane laws or those which weaken current protections.
SAN FRANCISCO ––U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, named vice presidential running mate to Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden on August 11, 2020, brings to the election campaign both a strong record on animal protection and a mixed record in response to dog attacks.
Long before doing any of the things that Block, Amundson, and Pacelle remembered Kamala Harris for doing, she led the San Francisco legal response to fatal and disfiguring dog attacks, including pit bull proliferation.
Harris was working in that capacity when on January 26, 2001 two Presa Canarios belonging to San Francisco attorneys Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel fatally mauled St. Mary’s College lacrosse coach Diane Whipple, 33, at the door to her apartment.
Harris pulled out of settlement negotiations with the nation’s biggest banks over alleged foreclosure abuses , calling the proposed deal ‘inadequate for California homeowners.'” This came after months of talks.
Sharon Kyle is a former president of the Guild Law School and is the publisher and co-founder of the LA Progressive. For years before immersing herself in the law and social justice, Ms. Kyle was a member of several space flight teams at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory where she managed resources for projects like Magellan, Genesis, and Mars Pathfinder. Sharon sits on several boards including the Board of Directors of the ACLU. She is a contributing writer to Black Politics Today and is on the editorial board of the BlackCommentator.com. Follow @SharonKyle00