The next Senator of California has Westmount High School to thank for teaching her real good.Kamala Harris lived in Montreal from around ages 12 to 18 and graduated WHS in 1982.
Harris was born in Oakland California in 1964 and moved to Montreal around the town of the '76 Olympics, as her mother became a breast cancer doc at the Jewish General.
Mom Shyamala Gopalan was from India and her father Donald Harris was a Jamaican American who taught economics at Stanford. Mommy and daddy divorced when she was seven.
Harris got into her first political action quickly upon arriving in Montreal, as she was informed at the age of 12 that kids were not permitted to play in a courtyard where she lived. She organized opposition to the ban and got it reversed.
Harris also gained attention when President Barack Obama noted in 2013 that she was not hard on the eyes, which some considered a politically incorrect comment.
Harris, a Democrat, now resides in San Francisco and serves as Attorney General of California.
She leads Loretta Sanchez by 23 percentage points in the race for the Senate seat.
She has been the focus of countless glowing profiles and one even described her as being "the female Obama" which implies that she could be presidential material.
All the best people went to Westmount High, needless to say. The class of 1980 was pretty much the best graduating year of them all. Leonard Cohen, Mila Mulroney, Stockwell Day, and Moshe Safdie are among the more memorable WHS grads.