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In reply to the discussion: Willie Brown advises Harris to turn down VP offer. [View all]whistler162
(11,155 posts)3. I hope you are jesting?
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I'm not ashamed of being ignorant. I'll make sure to never ask you for information.
abqtommy
Aug 2020
#32
Willie Brown is one of the most influential and consequential African American politicians of the
totodeinhere
Aug 2020
#72
I agree and would like to see Rice w/Harris as AG, also the other option. They're all great. n/t
monmouth4
Aug 2020
#37
She is in her 50s with an accomplished career. Not some 20 or 30 something starting out
JI7
Aug 2020
#22
Point is, the Veep has no explicit powers of her own. She cannot do anything without...
TreasonousBastard
Aug 2020
#34
They still do not have the independent authority of someone like an AG or Interior Secretary...
TreasonousBastard
Aug 2020
#52
That's actually my point-- she wouldn't get much of a chance to make her mark as Veep, but...
TreasonousBastard
Aug 2020
#54
Yeah, but there's more likelihood than normal that the VP will one day be president. nt
LAS14
Aug 2020
#12
It's damn insulting as well. Don't even put their names in the same sentence, Willie.
Budi
Aug 2020
#39
Him sticking his nose in just brings up the "Willie Brown's Mistress" talk to surface yet again
Baclava
Aug 2020
#65
But Willie Brown was talking to an audience of one and the one is Joe Biden. n/t
totodeinhere
Aug 2020
#58
I wonder if he gave Joe Biden this same advice days before Obama selected him
StarfishSaver
Aug 2020
#60