Black Democratic U.S. Senator Kamala Harris, an Obama ally, speaks in Ohio and did an interview with Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman when she was campaigning previously in Ohio, the one-on-one interview of which is reprinted herein.....Harris, of California, and of whom called new U.S Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh a disgrace, is the only Black woman in the U.S. Senate....Harris' visit to Ohio on October 6, 2018 was relative to a women's summit and was spearheaded by U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown of Cleveland....She was also the keynote speaker Oct 6 at the Cincinnati Freedom Fund Dinner and she keynoted the ODP Dinner in Columbus, Ohio on October 7, 2018.... By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com

From left: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown of Cleveland, U.S. Senator Kamala Harris of California, and former United States president Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president
Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.

CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CINCINNATI, Ohio - California Democratic U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, a former California attorney general and the only Black woman in the United States Senate, headlined the free public summit for Ohio women hosted by Ohio Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Cleveland and the Ohio Democratic Party on Oct. 6, 2018 at Xavier University in Cincinnati. (Read her 
one-on-one interview with journalist Kathy Wray Coleman below, an interview done previously when Harris visited Cleveland, Ohio for a campaign stop). 

Harris is also the keynote speaker for the Ohio Democratic Party Dinner on Sunday in Columbus.

And she was was the featured speaker Oct 6 at the NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner in Cincinnati.

She voted against the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court and has called him "a sham and a disgrace."
This year dubbed 'Together We Rise,'  the aforementioned luncheon and event was  in its fourth year.
"This is a great opportunity for us to come together and discuss the challenges facing women across the country, share ideas, and be inspired," Harris said in a press release issued by Brown's office relative to the luncheon.
A former president Barack Obama ally, Harris, then California's attorney general, did a one-on-one interview with editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , when she was campaigning in Cleveland, Ohio for Obama's reelection bid for president in 2012. (Read the full article below) 
A Democrat and the nation's first Black president, Obama won the presidency for a first term in 2008 over then senator John McCain, the Republican nominee, and with a record number of Black voters supporting him across the country.

He won reelection against Republican nominee Mitt Romney four years later.
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ONE-ON-ONE INTERVIEW BELOW BY JOURNALIST KATHY WRAY COLEMAN WITH NOW U.S SENATOR KAMALA HARRIS, THEN CALIFORNIA'S ATTORNEY GENERAL, AN INTERVIEW UNDERTAKEN WHEN HARRIS WAS CAMPAIGNING IN CLEVELAND, OHIO FOR THEN PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S SUCCESSFUL 2012 REELECTION BID FOR PRESIDENT AGAINST MITT ROMNEY, THE REPUBLICAN NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT

THE ARTICLE BELOW IS RE-PRINTED AND WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED ON AUGUST, 17, 2012 AT Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, OHIO'S MOST READ DIGITAL BLACK NEWSPAPER AND BLACK BLOG.
CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio-California Attorney General Kamala Harris, the first Black to win a statewide election there, flew to Cleveland from San Francisco last week (in 2012) to thank Obama campaign volunteers, and to warn Blacks that Mitt Romney's proposed tax plan is what she dubs elitist and hostile to middle class Americans and the Black community, particularly in comparison to the tax platform the president offers.

California's chief elected law enforcement officer, famous in part for winning a $29 million lawsuit as attorney general on behalf of the state and its people against foreclosure fraud and mortgage malfeasance by prominent banks and mortgage companies such as J.P. Morgan Chase Bank and Wells Fargo, Harris took the time for a one-on-one interview with Cleveland Urban News.Com.

"The president has created jobs outside of the corporate tax policy and wants tax reform, and Mitt Romney wants to raise taxes on the middle class, cut taxes for the richest Americans, and eliminate cuts to college tuition." said Harris, who added that she is African American and proud of it, a comment that came after Cleveland Urban News.Com asked what nationality she claims, given that she is Black and of Chinese and Indian American descent.

Labeled the female Obama by some of her admirers, and possibly by her political foes, Harris said that Romney, the presumptive nominee for president for the Republican Party, wants middle class Americans to bear the brunt of the fallout from the failed economic policies of the George W. Bush administration.

Obama's tax  plan, she says, is not deficit driven as is Romney's, and it stops the Bush tax cuts and keeps tax cuts in place for middle and working class people.

Volunteers at Obama's campaign office at the Shaker Square location in the majority Black city of Cleveland were elated that Harris thought enough of their public service to stop through and say thanks.

"Attorney General Kamala Harris laid out the stark contrast between President Obama and Mitt Romney, especially when it comes to building an economy from the middle out rather than the top down," said Frances Hunter, a volunteer with the Obama for America Campaign. "Like President Obama, I believe that we can no longer ask everything from the middle class and seniors like myself while asking nothing from  the top, and it is not fair that folks like me pay a higher tax rate than millionaires and billionaires like Mitt Romney.'"

California Attorney General Kamala Harris, below, speaks to Obama campaign volunteers at the Obama for America  Shaker Square campaign office in Cleveland
in 2012.

Asked if her visit to Ohio had anything to do with it being a key battleground state for presidential elections Harris, 47 and single, who pledged with the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority at Howard University in undergraduate school and received a law degree from the University of California Hastings College of Law,  said yes, emphatically.

"Yes, Ohio is pivotal," said Harris, who served two terms as San Francisco district attorney before winning the California attorney general election  in 2010. "And that is why I got on an airplane and rode all night long from California. We need everybody to go to the polls to vote in November, and take your mother, your father, your sisters, your brothers, and your aunts, uncles, cousins, neighbors and friends."

Harris agreed that Cleveland is a political gold mine, having elected the first Black mayor of a major American city in electing the late Carl B. Stokes in 1967, and she said that current Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman. who is also Black, is a political friend.

Asked what Obama has done for the Black community since taking office, the Democratic attorney general had a lot to say.

Harris bragged of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the first legislation that the president signed into law when he took office, legislation that extends the statute of limitations for filing lawsuits on equal pay and  complaints with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to the last act of alleged discrimination.

And, said Harris, he signed into law legislation that precludes disparities in sentencing of crack and powder cocaine, legislation that Obama championed when he sought the presidency for his first term in 2008 and during an interview that year with Cleveland Urban News.Com associate editor and publisher Kathy Wray Coleman, then a journalist for the Call and Post Newspaper.

Obama said during that interview that the U.S. Supreme Court decision that held that the sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine are outright unconstitutional should have been retroactively applied, a posture that the Democratic primary presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who is now the U.S. Secretary of State, did not support, and an instance were the two differed in addition to the No Child Left Behind Act where Clinton wanted the act abolished and Obama wanted it modified.

Harris said that Obama established the first office of urban affairs, fought against illegal foreclosures, bailed out the automobile industry to help working class people, and supported federal legislation against unnecessary fees by banks and mortgage companies.

She said that Obama is simply the better choice over Romney, especially for minorities, women, and the poor.

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.



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