Harris Whacks Chris Kelly in New Web Video

The Kamala Harris campaign, which went on the air last week with positive TV ads, is hitting back at fellow Democratic AG candidate Chris Kelly with a video that tells the "whole story" about her rival.

Kelly had poked Harris with a similar web video more a month ago. There seems to be no love lost between the two candidates, who are widely believed to be at the top of the AG's race.

Here's the memo sent out by Brian Brokaw, the Harris campaign manager:

"As multimillionaire Chris Kelly takes to the airwaves with a resume-inflating TV ad airing statewide, the Kamala Harris for Attorney General campaign today released a web-video telling the "whole story" behind Chris Kelly and his many misleading and exaggerated claims. 

Click here to view the video <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWr5YEFUGMc> .

Kelly started spending his millions by introducing himself - or at least the campaign-version of himself - to California voters last week in a statewide TV buy. The ad misconstrues Kelly's record and inflates his resume - a cynical yet understandable strategy given Kelly's lack of any qualification to serve as California's top law enforcement officer.

Among the dubious claims is one in which Kelly also says he "worked with all 50 Attorneys General to crack down on online sexual predators." Of course, Kelly did so "only after one Attorney General subpoenaed the company and others threatened legal action," as the San Francisco Chronicle reported <http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-04-20/news/20856512_1_users-more-control-facebook-social-networking-site> .

Kelly's claim is about as bold a whopper as if a BP executive were to declare himself an environmental champion because he's out in the Gulf of Mexico skimming oil.

Over the past weekend, "Mini Meg" Kelly wrote himself another $1.6 million check, bringing the amount he has given himself to close to $10 million. While Kelly accompanied each of his previous multi-million dollar contributions with press releases spinning his self-financing as an "investment in California's future," (see here <http://www.kelly2010.com/node/662>  orhere <http://www.kelly2010.com/node/637>  for the most recent examples) he pulled off his latest contribution <http://cal-access.sos.ca.gov/PDFGen/pdfgen.prg?filingid=1486921&amendid=0>   with a Friday evening money-dump, without any sort of public announcement.

The bottom line is, Chris Kelly continues to run from his tenure as Chief Privacy Officer at one of the least private companies on the planet. Kelly can and will continue to pour his Facebook fortune into the race in an attempt to buy the Attorney General's office, and grossly inflate his resume in the process, but he'll never be able to escape his fundamental weakness in this race. "

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