82gradDLSdad said:
I worked at a grocery store for one month in 1980. I got the job as a second job (parked cars at the other one) because I had just dropped out of Cal due to falling so far behind in classwork while playing JV baseball. Guess I pissed the grocery union off because the store fired me in a month. I had no idea why. Not sure if those records are around but I was getting a formal paystub and having taxes and such taken out. You'd think they could find Kamala's work records if they wanted to. Maybe it's a Canada thing and it's just not worth the effort. Just as easy to throw out baseless allegations. Now why would any honest political group do that?
Exactly. I worked at a gas station the summer before I started Cal and a bit into my freshman year. (It was the car wash one, near Bertolas and Kasper's Hot Dogs). Said station no longer exists, but I am able say the exact location and approximately the period that I worked there, even after 40+ years.
All she needs to do is supply the specific information (what McDonalds and when) and that would be it. While I doubt she's fabricating this, maybe she worked there for such a short period of time that it would be a little embarrassing to be claiming it, if the specifics were revealed.
No, it's not a huge deal, but she's supposed to be the candidate that
doesn't make s*** up, right? People like me are going to vote for her anyway, but some folks on the margins base their votes on not-really-well-informed impressions.
Useful idiot that I am, I am disappointed with the vague way that Harris and Walz answer a lot of questions. I used to be a big fan of Walz... less so since he flubbed that experiences-in-China question during his debate. There are better, more direct ways of responding to some of the "gotcha" questions that they are asked....
For example:
- "five years ago, you said you were for _____, but now you're not"
- "how will your administration differ from Biden's"
- any question about why she didn't solve the problems of the world as Vice President
- any question that blames Biden for the inflation we had
Are Trump and the Republicans even worse? Sure they are, but
we could be doing better, is my point. All that said, I think VP Harris has performed decently well the past three months.