SAN FRANCISCOâVice President Kamala Harris has long cast herself as a fearless pioneer of efforts…
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‘We’re unaware of environmental justice work done’
[Editor’s note: This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire.]
By Lee Fang
Real Clear Wire
SAN FRANCISCOâVice President Kamala Harris has long cast herself as a fearless pioneer of efforts to fight for social and environmental justice.
âWhen I was elected DA of San Francisco,â Harris told a gathering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta last year, âI started the first environmental justice unit of any DAâs office in the country.â
In her telling, the San Francisco District Attorney formed the special environmental justice unit in the early 2000s especially to protect the long-neglected community of Bayview Hunters Point, a predominantly African American and impoverished part of the city, which had become âa dumping ground for people from other places.â
In dozens of speeches and interviews in recent years, Harris has bragged that she went âafter pollutersâ and protected minority communities in San Francisco in novel ways as a local prosecutor.
The narrative has become a bedrock of Harrisâ political identity. She featured her DA environmental justice crimes unit in her first statewide television advertisement and she rarely missed an opportunity to tout the history during her presidential bid, during which she promised similar initiatives if elected.
But records from the San Francisco District Attorneyâs office and interviews with local environmental advocates point to a different, far less ambitious record…
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