http://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2020/09/17/wildfire-victims-accuse-kamala-harris-gavin-newsom-of-unlawfully-using-familys-loss-for-a-photo-opportunity-to-push-their-political-agenda/
Earlier this week, Democratic *presidential* vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris ventured out with California Gov. Gavin Newsom to areas that have sustained significant damage due to wildfires:
Gavin Newsom ~ Climate change is real.
No, you buffoon ... wildfires are real; man-made global warming is a libtard hoax.
Kamala Harris ~ Spent time surveying a burn site with @GavinNewsom in an area that has been devastated by the recent wildfires in California. I’m incredibly grateful for the courage of our brave firefighters and those who have come near and far to help those fleeing the destruction.
But apparently Harris and Newsom were a little too busy posing for dramatic photos to make sure the property owners were OK with them being there:
I did not and will not vote for him. Calm down. ~ Auberry family says Harris and Newsom trespassed in damaged home for photo op.
More:
The home on Auberry Road is still under an evacuation order, so the owners have not been able to check up on their property themselves yet.
“This isn’t just devastation, this is our lives. This is where we grew up, these are our memories. And to not have that – to feel so helpless – and I guess that’s what we’ve all been thinking, is that we were so helpless. Because we weren’t there, we haven’t gotten to deal with our loss. Instead, we’re having to watch it play out on social media and news.”
Senator Harris told reporters filming her around the property, “These are the stories behind these fires.”
But Harris and Newsom weren’t interested in the stories. Which means it’s up to the actual victims to tell those stories.
Apparently, Kamala isn't too quick on the uptake about showing up in places where she is not welcome ... yesterday, it was the story about the Venezuelan restaurant in Florida where she was not welcome, and today's story is about her trespassing uninvited on this family's burned out property in California. I'm sure she was real good at reading the cues on when to get down on her knees or spread her legs for Willie Brown, but she's really, really cluelessly oblivious otherwise.
Here are relevant Facebook posts from the property owners’ children, Trampas and Bailee Patten (via Fox 26 News):
Trampas Patten
September 15 at 9:52 PM
For the friends of mine that don’t recognize the fireplace in the background, that is what is left of my parents house! What has me really frustrated right now is the fact that these two politicians used my parents loss for a photo opportunity to push their political agenda! Political party wouldn’t have made a difference in this moment. Decent human beings that have character and class, wouldn’t air someone else’s misfortune on national television! Think about this when you go to the polls in a few weeks to vote. Look at this picture closely, imagine it is what is left of your hard work, hopes, dreams, place of sanctuary. Do you want this kind of leadership, using you and your loss for political gain?!
For the record, my parents haven’t even been let back in yet themselves, to sort through what is left of their lives, but these two felt the need to go traipsing around my parents property without permission. I guess those property taxes my parents pay allow politicians to do this! Private property doesn’t exist in California anymore!
Bailee Patten
on Tuesday
Dear Governor Newsom you don’t know me but I’m one of your CA citizens. That truck you are standing by is my dads work truck. He has had that thing for as long as I can remember. That land with all the rubble your standing next too, that’s my house I grew up in. You never got my parents permission to go on our property, nor did you ask if we needed help. What you did do is take my families loss and parade it all over social media and news networks to push your agenda.
That agenda can wait, right now you should be caring about the families of this state. Thankfully this community is #mountainstrong and we will thrive.
Just gross. But not at all surprising given who we’re dealing with.
Drew Holden ~ This is so painfully on brand for Newsom that it hurts.
On-brand for both of those phony jerks.
Turbo ~ These two people couldn't be more in love with themselves.
Mike a.k.a. Proof ~ Never let a crisis go to waste!
Allison ~ Garbage people gonna garbage.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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