Presidential candidate Kamala Harris to speak in Cleveland April 28, editor Kathy Wray Coleman previously interviewing Harris, who would beat President Trump if the 2020 general election were held today, early polls show....Read her one-on-one interview with editor Kathy Wray Coleman here....Who will Democratic U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown of Cleveland endorse for president?....An Obama ally, find out what Harris, who is Black, stands for...Will Obama endorse Harris or his former vice president, Joe Biden, the front-runner expected to announce his bid for president next week, and who is ahead of Bernie Sanders, who is second in the polls for the Democratic nomination, with Harris third or fourth, polls show?.....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog
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| 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. A candidate for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, |
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.
By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief Coleman is an experienced Black political reporter who covered the 2008 presidential election for the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio and the presidential elections in 2012 and 2016 at Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com
CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND, Ohio - California Democratic U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris, who is among a crowded field of hopefuls for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020 and would likely beat President Trump if the general election were held today, is the keynote speaker at the annual dinner for the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party on April 28, 2019 at 5pm at the Hope Ballroom at the Hilton in downtown Cleveland. (Editor's note: Read the previous one-on-one interview with Harris by editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com below
11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, a Warrensville Heights Democrat and one of two Black in congress from Ohio is expected to introduce Harris at the event, and Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, a Democrat and the city's third Black mayor will be among other dignitaries there. organizers said.
11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, a Warrensville Heights Democrat and one of two Black in congress from Ohio is expected to introduce Harris at the event, and Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson, a Democrat and the city's third Black mayor will be among other dignitaries there. organizers said.
A former California attorney general, Harris trails potential candidate former vice president Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders in polls regarding 12 Democratic candidates for the Democratic nomination that were polled, but is ahead of Beto O'Rourke and Sen Elizabeth Warren, Sanders, O'Rourke and Harris beating President Trump, a Republican, if the general election were held today, polls shows.
Sen Cory Booker, the other Black running besides Harris, is in seventh place.
U.S. Rep Tim Ryan, a Youngstown, Ohio area Democrat who announced his bid for president two and a half weeks ago with a campaign war chest of hardly $5,000, did not make the poll of the top 12 Democrats and is in the bottom tier of more than 20 Democratic indicates.
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U.S. Sen Sherrod Brown, a Cleveland Democrat and senior United States senator who toyed with a run for the precedence in 2020 but later announced he would not run, had Harris keynote his luncheon last year, and is Ryan's ally too, pundits say
Harris was the keynote speaker at Brown's fundraiser last year in Cincinnati for the Ohio Grassroots Victory Fund, a federal political committee that supports candidates for federal office, like Brown, who soundly won reelection last year over former Ohio congressman Jim Renacci, a Republican.
She also keynoted last year's annual dinner of the Ohio Democratic Party in Columbus.
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 four-year 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 in 2012. And he endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016, Clinton winning the Democratic primary over Sanders and going on to lose the general election to Trump, a real estate mogul and former television personality.
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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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