[[Kamala Harris]]'s began her career in politics at the age of 29 by having an extra-marital affair with the corrupt 60-year-old California politician Willie Brown.<ref>https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Sure-I-dated-Kamala-Harris-So-what-13562972.php?t=c1bc437ba8</ref> As [[San Fransisco]] mayor, when they were having their affair, Brown was dogged by conflict of interest accusations, and as speaker of the California Assembly was investigated by the [[FBI]]. When the tryst began, she was a low level clerk in a city office of Mayor Brown's political machine.<ref>http://www.citireport.com/2012/04/inside-the-willie-l-brown-money-machine/</ref> Mayor Brown gave her a brand new 1994 [[BMW]]. As Speaker, Brown appointed her to high paying jobs on the California Medical Assistance Commission and Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board.<ref>https://amgreatness.com/2018/04/21/poontronage-when-kamala-met-willie/</ref> During her first bid for electoral office as [[district attorney]] of [[San Francisco]] in 2003, which Speaker Brown supported with donations, she excused the gift of a brand new BMW away, telling reporters she traded it in for a 1997 BMW which she then drove.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20170805043948/http://www.sfweekly.com/news/kamalas-karma/</ref> | [[Kamala Harris]]'s began her career in politics at the age of 29 by having an extra-marital affair with the corrupt 60-year-old California politician Willie Brown.<ref>https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Sure-I-dated-Kamala-Harris-So-what-13562972.php?t=c1bc437ba8</ref> As [[San Fransisco]] mayor, when they were having their affair, Brown was dogged by conflict of interest accusations, and as speaker of the California Assembly was investigated by the [[FBI]]. When the tryst began, she was a low level clerk in a city office of Mayor Brown's political machine.<ref>http://www.citireport.com/2012/04/inside-the-willie-l-brown-money-machine/</ref> Mayor Brown gave her a brand new 1994 [[BMW]]. As Speaker, Brown appointed her to high paying jobs on the California Medical Assistance Commission and Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board.<ref>https://amgreatness.com/2018/04/21/poontronage-when-kamala-met-willie/</ref> During her first bid for electoral office as [[district attorney]] of [[San Francisco]] in 2003, which Speaker Brown supported with donations, she excused the gift of a brand new BMW away, telling reporters she traded it in for a 1997 BMW which she then drove.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20170805043948/http://www.sfweekly.com/news/kamalas-karma/</ref> |