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WeekiWater's JournalThere is no hypocrisy when it comes to personal wealth and calling for higher taxes.
To put it into perspective.
Bill Clinton: My Life 15 million The top income tax rate when he took office was 28%. Under his leadership it was raised to ove 38%.
Hillary Clinton: Hard Choices 14 million One of her common themes was raising taxes on the wealthy.
Barack Obama: Dreams From My Father over 6 million. He made more than that from the combination of Audacity of Hope and Of Thee I Sing: A Letter To My Daughters. Obama and Democrats in Congress raised taxes on the wealthiest Americans almost immediately after he took office.
I don’t see any hypocrisy. I would point out the massive difference in demand.
Additionally, these individuals also received substantial income from other areas.
In a bit of irony, Sanders millions can be attributed to two strong women.
I would like to thank Clinton and Warren for him. They have set the stage for him to head off into retirement in a cozy waterfront home. He deserves it.
Bernie Sanders Released His Tax Returns. He's Part of the 1%.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/us/politics/bernie-sanders-taxes.amp.htmlKamala Harris: Superhero's Are Everywhere
Superheroes Are Everywhere
By KAMALA HARRIS
Illustrated by MECHAL RENEE ROE
ABOUT SUPERHEROES ARE EVERYWHERE
From Senator Kamala Harris comes a picture book with an empowering message: Superheroes are all around us–and if we try, we can all be heroes too. Now a #1 New York Times bestseller!
Before Kamala Harris became a district attorney and a United States senator, she was a little girl who loved superheroes. And when she looked around, she was amazed to find them everywhere! In her family, among her friends, even down the street–there were superheroes wherever she looked. And those superheroes showed her that all you need to do to be a superhero is to be the best that you can be.
In this empowering and joyful picture book that speaks directly to kids, Kamala Harris takes readers through her life and shows them that the power to make the world a better place is inside all of us. And with fun and engaging art by Mechal Renee Roe, as well as a guide to being a superhero at the end, this book is sure to have kids taking up the superhero mantle (cape and mask optional).
Praise for Superheroes Are Everywhere:
“This [book] offers a solid message: a superhero could be anyone, including you.” —Booklist
Penguin Random House
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https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1117482651341004806Kamala Harris: We will strengthen the middle class and ensure Medicare for All is a reality. We will fight for all Americans and make our democracy work for the people. Chip in today to join the fight.
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March 2018: The Black Press Honors Senator Kamala Harris with 2018 Newsmaker of the Year Award
United States Senator Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) received the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s (NNPA) 2018 Newsmaker of the Year Award, during a recent ceremony on Capitol Hill.
The NNPA is a trade group that represents more than 200 Black-owned media companies that reach more than 20 million readers in print and online every week. Dozens of NNPA member publishers traveled to Washington, D.C. to celebrate Black Press Week.
“The theme of this year’s Black Press Week is ‘Celebrating 191 Years of the Black Press of America: Publishing Truth to Empower,’” according to a press release about the gathering. “Black publishers, media professionals, civil rights leaders and lawmakers from across the country attend the annual event.”
Harris, a graduate of Howard University and the University of California Hastings College of Law, is the second African American woman senator in U.S. history.
Black Press USA
In photos: Presidential candidate Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris, a US senator from California who previously served as the state's attorney general, launched her presidential campaign in January and promised to be a fighter "for the people."
"We are here because the American Dream and our American democracy are under attack and on the line like never before," she said in her birthplace of Oakland. "We are here at this moment in time because we must answer a fundamental question. Who are we? Who are we as Americans? So, let's answer that question to the world and each other right here and right now. America: We are better than this."
Harris is the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants and grew up attending both a Baptist church and a Hindu temple.
Her allies believe that her life's work as a prosecutor will help set her apart from the crowded Democratic field. Her signs carry her campaign theme "Kamala Harris for the people," the words that she spoke each time she rose in the courtroom as a prosecutor.
CNN
Photo's at the link.
Today is kind of a big day for BS, oligarchs, liberal elites,...
The establishment, and corporate media. 
It’s tax day!
Seems the talk about Sanders taxes has died down since his uncomfortable and somewhat unclear comments about April 15th. They were just clear enough to let us know they were being released no later than today.
I think a couple of camps are a bit nervous about it. Both those who support him and those who don’t.
Unless something wipes it out it is going to be a big part of a full day of news and then discussed again over on the weekend shows.
If he is relentlessly attacked because he has become a multimillionaire off of book sales, he and Janes salary(depending on where that salary came from), and investments and pensions, I predict the Biden impact will come into play. Not only will his troops rally but so will others.
If we find out he has been a millionaire for some time(not sure we would know this as most of Janes major earning years were just outside of ten years ago), the Sanders were paying themselves and friends to do media buys and conduct polling, he releases corrected returns or redacts information, or worse.... I don’t want to be around for the war. It’s going to get bad. DU might blow up. It is also something that might have consequences going into the general.
I don’t like Sanders. I haven’t hidden that. But I’ve come to the opinion it is best to beat him at the ballot box. He is going scorched earth and if there is something truly egregious in his tax returns he will make sure the party pays a price. That is why I really hope he is correct. His taxes are boring.
There is only one thing I know for sure. His fund raising email this afternoon is going to be a work of art. Please post it when you get it.
Happy Tax Day!
Kamala Harris Takes Part In Reading King's Letter from Birmingham Jail On Senate Floor
King's Letter from Birmingham Jail Read On Senate FloorSen. Kamala Harris and others honored the work of the civil rights icon.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. may have written the “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” back in 1963, but his urgent call demanding racial equality and justice for Black Americans still rings true today.
Tuesday on Capitol Hill, the powerful words from the Civil Rights Movement leader—killed by an assassin’s bullet on April 4, 1968—were read aloud by a bipartisan, multiracial group of U.S. Senators. Among the guests watching and listening from the Senate gallery was the eldest son of Dr. King and Coretta Scott King.
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Kamala Harris and other 2020 contenders target health risks faced by pregnant black women
Tamara King was 28 weeks pregnant when a blinding headache took hold. By the time she got to the hospital, her blood pressure was high enough to set off the monitor’s alarm.
“It was like, ding-ding-ding! This person might die!” King said.
After three weeks’ hospitalization in Columbia, S.C., King had an emergency C-section when the baby’s heart rate flat-lined. Her daughter was born at 31 ½ weeks weighing less than 2 ½ pounds.
It was a harrowing brush with a baffling problem: the high risk of dying as an expectant mother in America, a danger that is especially acute for black women like King. The nation’s maternal health crisis has captured increasing attention in the media, in the medical community and in Congress.
LA Times
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