Touching upon the almost two decades of history between herself and Kamala Harris, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass used an approximately one-minute speech at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago Monday to tout the vice president’s commitment to youth and families of California and across the nation.
Bass has known the Democratic presidential candidate since Bass was speaker of the Assembly from 2008-2010. Harris swore in Bass into office as Los Angeles’ first woman mayor in 2022.
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“Our bond was forged years ago, by a shared commitment to children. A belief that it is everybody’s responsibility to care for every child — no matter where they come from or who their parents are,” Bass said. “Kamala knows that each generation has an obligation to the next.”
Bass noted that when Harris was California’s attorney general from 2011-17, she created the state’s Department of Children’s Justice and worked to give youth in the juvenile justice system resources and support they needed…