Barbara Lee Speaks For... Kamala Harris

I cheerfully voted for Kamala Harris for Senate and would do so again for President in a year's time -- I will vote for any Democrat, including awful superannuated white males like Biden or Bernie if it comes to that -- but this is too early for me to sign on to an endorsement this time around. Please, fauxvolutionaries, refrain from "informing" me in comments of the many reasons Harris is "canceled" etc etc. I already know well and disapprove much of Harris's law-enforcement history, and I respect if that's a line too far for anybody so long as that line is then applied judiciously (Biden may be more execrable on this score than Harris and Klobuchar deserves comparable scrutiny she doesn't usually get, eg -- and none of this makes ANY Democrat worse than a Donald Trump "re"-"election" and I would hope all such critiques, all efforts to productively pressure future Presidents to progressive policies and accountability, on whatever issues, would remain better attuned by now to reactionary opportunism in a time of ascendant authoritarianism amid climate catastrophe -- not that I put anything past preening parochial bros once the purity cabaret begins again). Anyway, nearly every day I post some news item under the title "Barbara Lee Speaks For Me Daily" because I am that rarest and luckiest of citizens, an anti-racist democratic eco-socialist feminist queer atheist vegetarian aesthete who gets to live in the most beautiful and diverse city in America, Oakland, California, represented by one of the most actually-progressive Democrats in the Party, Barbara Lee. When Lee endorses my Senator for President, you better believe I stand up and pay attention to that... but for a little while at least, Barbara Lee is speaking in this case, just for herself. I want to see what Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, and Sherrod Brown have to say for themselves for a few months as well...

I am thrilled to endorse @kamalaharris for our next President of these United States. She has dedicated her life to the pursuit of equality, fairness, and dignity for all. I know Kamala will be a president truly of the people, by the people, and for the people. pic.twitter.com/HSPjr5N0Yo

— Barbara Lee (@BLeeForCongress) February 15, 2019