Kamala Harris''qualifications'.
Everyone knows that Harris' solequalification for the VP pick was the intersectionality of her skin colour andgender.
But how many of your readers are awarethat Kamala got a leg up or a head start, if you'll pardon the puns, in thetime-honoured tradition by tending to Governor Willie Brown'sbrown willy...?
[before they scrub it from wikipedia]...
Therewere plenty of surprises in store for the 50,000 revelers who flocked toFisherman's Wharf to see flamboyant California DemocratWillie Brown sworn in as San Francisco's first black mayor.
Butit wasn't the elaborate firework display, the 10,000 meals dished out to thehomeless, nor the gushing congratulatory phone call from President Bill Clintonbroadcast live over the public address system that piqued the Bay City'sscribblers.
Thepress has expected the maverick politician to parade his attractive younggirlfriend, Kamala Harris,an ambitious deputy district attorney 31 years Brown's junior and his 'constantcompanion' on the campaign trail.
Totheir puzzlement, he was instead joined on stage for the 1996 inauguration byhis estranged wife Blanche, despite announcing years earlier that the two hadamicably split.
Whencolumnist Herb Caen declared 'It's all over!' the next day he was referring toBrown and Harris, whom Caen had tipped to wed.
'Thisnews came as a shock to many, including those who found Kamala Harrisattractive, intelligent and charming,' Caen wrote in his 'Willie Watch' columnfor the San Francisco Chronicle.
'Alsoflabbergasted: the brain-trusters who found Kamala the perfect antidote towhatever playboy tendencies still reside in the mayor-elect's jaunty persona.'
Thefling may have fizzled long ago, but in the decades since, Harris has struggledto shirk her association with Brown, whom she has described as 'an albatrosshanging around my neck'.
WhenDailyMail.com reached out to Brown's wife Blanche Vitero (pictured) this weekto ask what she thought of Harris being named as Biden's presidential runningmate she broke into laughter
Scrutinyof their relationship and suspicions that her career benefited from hispolitical patronage, are likely to intensify now she has been unveiled as JoeBiden's running mate.
Whenthey met around 1993, Brown, a noted lawyer and civil rights leader, was thespeaker of the California assembly and regarded as one of the State's mostinfluential legislators.
Hehad turned 60 while Harris was 29.
Brownwas notorious for his love of Jaguar sports cars, flash designer suits – a lookhe dubbed 'bold conservative' despite his liberal leanings – and for beingnamed one of the world's ten sexiest men by Playgirl magazine.
Hehad also been seen with a 'succession' of beautiful women despite having beenmarried for decades. No wonder then that Clinton once dubbed Brown 'the realSlick Willy.'
'Themeasure of his flamboyance is he'll go to a party with his wife on one arm andhis girlfriend on the other,' James Richardson, a reporter for the SacramentoBee told People Magazine in 1996.
Brown insisted that his dates should'absolutely be the best-dressed woman in the room,' added Richardson, whopublished his own biography of Brown later that year.
