Kamala Harris – What a Story We Have to Tell

One of the brightest and best-equipped national figures to ever run for president and with a sterling resume that makes her eminently qualified to be our president. 

• Graduated at the top of her class at Howard and earned her law degree from UC-Hastings

• Served as California’s top prosecutor as Attorney General 

• Served as US Senator from the largest state in the union where she served on high-powered committees

• Senate Judiciary Committee

• Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

• Select Committee On Intelligence 

• Budget Committee

As Vice President

Has been a key partner with the president in enacting some of the most transformative legislation in decades. 

• TheBi-Partisan Infrastructure Act – first administration in 50 years to be able to pass this long-overdue legislation to address neglected road and bridges as well as internet deserts in rural areas – which has created hundreds of thousands of jobs and is improving lives all across Wisconsin and the United States

• The Clean Energy Bill which not only commits to 65 percent renewable energy sources by 2035 and a 45 percent decrease in carbon emissions by 2030 but is already creating hundreds of thousands of good union jobs and using Buy America provisions.   

• She has helped take on Big Pharma, which for  the first time ever is forced to negotiate with the government to bring down key prescription drug costs for seniors, including an insulin cap of $35 a month for seniors.

• She has overseen a US economy that has created 16 million jobs – nearly one million of those in manufacturing – while the United States has gone from a near-certain recession to robust economic growth and wage growth that is well ahead of inflation. Recently a dozen nobel prize economists declared the US economy by far the best in the world.

• She has been the face of reproductive freedom in the administration and is promising national legislation returning women’s reproductive and health freedoms.

• She has been on the forefront of protecting and strengthening the Affordable Care Act that the Republicans want to overturn immediately if they get the chance, making some 20 million Americans immediately uninsured 

• Vice President Harris has had meetings with over 150 world leaders and bolstered vital alliances against tyranny abroad

As attorney general 

• Secured $20 billion from banks for middle class homeowners facing foreclosure during the Great Recession. 

• Won $1.1 billion from predatory college lenders, helping students and veterans who’d been scammed. 

• Took on child predators as the state prosecutor 

• Fought to require insurers to cover contraception and other reproductive health services.

• Though a tough prosecutor she also helped put in place what has become the national model for reducing recidivism with her Back on Track program that gave first-time drug offenders the opportunity to earn high school diplomas and get jobs