California Attorney General Kamala Harris looks foolish today. She’s reduced to arguing that she had no idea that her office went into court and argued that they could not comply with a court order to reduce the prison population because they needed the cheap labor to combat wildfires.
“I will be very candid with you, because I saw that article this morning, and I was shocked, and I’m looking into it to see if the way it was characterized in the paper is actually how it occurred in court,” Harris told BuzzFeed News in an interview Monday. “I was very troubled by what I read. I just need to find out what did we actually say in court.”
I actually believe that she is being candid and that she did learn about what her lieutenants had done by reading it in the paper. But, unless she fires them, I won’t believe that she actually disapproves.
I don’t characterize this as looking foolish. I applaud her candor. Nobody can know every single thing that’s going on in a company or a bureaucracy that one heads. That would be micromanagement.
Agree about the candor, but the question is Now What? Booman nails it here:
agree, and hope she does.
I agree to an extent. But it is inexcusable on matters such as this. Are you telling me that her underlings didn’t tell her about what they were doing giving where this case has been argued so far? What exactly is she paying attention to, if not? Who decided to appeal this decision? Harris, obviously. It doesn’t speak very well to her management skill if she didn’t know what was going on. This isn’t making sure there is enough TP in the bathrooms.
Who signed off on the appeal? That would be a major point. If her office is robo-signing stuff, she might consider halting that practice.
I’m in California, and this whole affair doesn’t mesh with what I had heard of Harris before now. Most of us have been pretty happy with her work. I don’t have any clue what actually happened, but I hope she does the right thing from here on out. Just thought I’d mention that being here doesn’t make this situation make any more sense.
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Why not both?
Yes. Not only evil (keep people in jail to use them for slave labor) but stupid, too. How on earth can it be cheaper to keep people in jail all year long just to use them for slave labor during fire season?
How are the folks who argue in court for the attorney general’s office selected?
It’s highly unlike that Kamala Harris appointed all of them or has exclusive and arbitrary control over their firing.
Nonetheless, she should now do everything in her power to make the nitwits who delivered these papers lose their jobs. If she indeed has exclusive authority over their jobs, they should have been gone five minutes after she read about their action in the news media.
Some control she has over her office… But yeah. I think this is more stupidity on her part and perhaps evilness on the part of her lieutenants.
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