Authored by Debra Heine by way of American Greatness,
A California sheriff is slamming Kamala Harris over her ‘deceptive’ political advert that fraudulently touted her border safety report whereas utilizing his picture with out permission.
The video options Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux and different native and state regulation enforcement officers flanking then Lawyer Basic Harris throughout her go to to the Central Valley in 2014.
“In mild of a current political advert put out by Kamala Harris that includes Sheriff Boudreaux, in addition to different native regulation enforcement, the Sheriff needs to make it abundantly clear that his picture is getting used with out his permission, and he does NOT endorse Harris for President or some other political workplace,” the sheriff stated in a press release issued to Fox Information Digital.
Boudreaux has spent 37 years within the Tulare County Sheriff’s Workplace and is at the moment president of the California State Sheriffs’ Affiliation.
“As a matter of reality, I want to level out the deceptive info projected in that very same political advert. Within the advert, Harris claims to have spent many years preventing violent crime as a ‘border state prosecutor,’” Boudreaux said.
The advert claims:
“As a border state prosecutor, she took on drug cartels and jailed gang members for smuggling weapons and medicines throughout the border.” Harris’ marketing campaign advert additionally dubiously states that she is going to “rent hundreds extra border brokers and crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking.”
Boudreaux and different regulation enforcement officers in Southern California had been outraged that Harris would take credit score for preventing crime on the border when she allegedly solely “undercut” their efforts.
“How are you going to go in and promote that you simply had been this tight border particular person when all of the troops are coming throughout the border, and also you actually are eliminating all these process forces? I imply, that fully made us mad,” Boudreaux instructed Fox Information.
“If you see that commercial, if you perform a little analysis, you’ll discover that what she’s (Harris) touting goes fully in opposition to what was taking place on the time, so when she put that image on the market with me in it, I obtained actually upset, that advert is all smoke and mirrors,” Boudreaux stated. “I don’t assist her.”
Harris reportedly got here to the Valley in 2014 to take credit score for “a years-long investigation right into a multi-national drug operation, with ties to Mexican drug cartels and jail gangs,” that was finished by native regulation enforcement.
In response to the sheriff, 11 individuals had been arrested, together with suspected “kingpin” Jose Magana of Dinuba in that case.
“The reality is, Harris by no means cared in regards to the cartels and did nothing to cease individuals from illegally crossing the border,” Boudreaux stated.
The sheriff made notice of Harris’ haughty perspective in the course of the 2014 go to.
“We had been within the inexperienced room. She by no means got here in and stated whats up to any of us. She walked up entrance, gave her presser, actually walked out, by no means stated hello to any of us,” Boudreaux stated. “I’m disgusted as a result of, you realize, she didn’t shake fingers. She didn’t say whats up. And he or she’s taken credit score for all this work that the locals did.”
Boudreaux’s political motion committee, Golden State Justice, additionally issued a scathing assertion blasting Harris’ new marketing campaign advert.
“As Lawyer Basic, Kamala Harris undercut efforts by California regulation enforcement officers to cease criminals from flooding our state with weapons and medicines throughout the border,” the assertion learn.
“She repeatedly defunded and shuttered process forces designed to guard our residents, leaving the Valley and our state weak,” the assertion continued. “Kamala’s unhappy try to color herself as robust on the border by implying my assist – and the assist of neighboring regulation enforcement leaders—is pathetic.”
The assertion concluded by saying “a politician crowding the rostrum at a press convention clearly hasn’t solved our border disaster. Neither has Kamala Harris.”
Tulare County District Lawyer Tim Ward, who can also be featured within the advert, was additionally enraged by the video.
“The hypocrisy is aware of no bounds. It’s disingenuous and her marketing campaign advert, one way or the other now, touting her repute as a prosecutor as a constructive factor, she was legal professional normal beneath three of the worst tragedies that had befallen the residents of the state of California,” Ward instructed Fox Information.
Ward concurred with Boudreaux about utilizing their pictures in a marketing campaign advert with out permission, saying that it ought to have been a “skilled courtesy” to allow them to find out about it.
“We’re not exhausting individuals to search out or to contact. Easy skilled courtesy would have been warning us that it was going for use. And I believe that we’re nicely inside our rights to make clear the information,” Ward stated.
“Simply as Sheriff Boudreaux stated, I don’t in any means need using that photograph to be construed as assist of her (Harris) both in her candidacy, present candidacy, and even in her tenure as legal professional normal of the State of California.”
In an interview Tuesday with Fox Information, Boudreaux stated Harris confirmed up in 2014 “for a sound chew, didn’t shake anybody’s fingers and he or she rapidly left the briefing room.”
He stated regulation enforcement officers in Southern California are “very acquainted” with Harris’ report and her marketing campaign advert was “misleading to say the least.”
The sheriff added, “I simply wished to return out and say that for me because the sheriff or Tulare County searching for victims, on the lookout for somebody who’s going to assist felony justice and regulation enforcement, that’s greatest represented by Donald Trump, not Kamala Harris.”