Calif. Sheriff ‘Really Upset’ Harris Featured Him in New Campaign Ad

A county sheriff in California is “really upset” that Vice President Kamala Harris featured him in a recent campaign ad without first consulting or getting his permission.

 

“In light of a recent political ad put out by Kamala Harris featuring Sheriff [Mike] Boudreaux, as well as other local law enforcement, the Sheriff wants to make it abundantly clear that his image is being used without his permission, and he does NOT endorse Harris for President or any other political office,” Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said.

Boudreaux has served 37 years in the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office and is now the California State Sheriffs’ Association President. The video footage used in the political ad was filmed in 2013 in California’s Central Valley when Harris was the California attorney general.

The ad attempts to portray Harris, appointed ‘border czar’ by President Joe Biden, as a hawk, claiming that, “as Vice President, she backed the toughest border control bill in decades.”

According to federal statistics, illegal crossings have regularly broken records under the Biden-Harris administration. She’s only visited the border once, and her attempts to deal with the “root causes” of illegal immigration resulted in a single trip to Central America, where many migrants came from.

For his part, Boudreaux called the day Harris visited in 2013 “smoke and mirrors.”

“We were in the green room. She never came in and said hello to any of us. She walked up front, gave her presser, literally walked out, never said hi to any of us,” said Boudreaux. “I’m disgusted because, you know, she didn’t shake hands. She didn’t say hello. And she’s taken credit for all this work that the locals did.”

“As Attorney General, Kamala Harris undercut efforts by California law enforcement officials to stop criminals from flooding our state with guns and drugs across the border,” the sheriff wrote.