Category: Election 2024

Victoria (Tori) Verber Salazar, one of the introductory speakers at Kamala Harris’s border event in Arizona on Friday night, is a former California District Attorney who was ousted by voters after a tenure of failure. In 2022, Verber Salazar was rebuked by dozens of local attorneys in her own office in San Joaquin County, who declared they had “no confidence in their boss, DA Tori Verber Salazar, to effectively manage prosecutions.” 

She lost a re-election bid just two months later.

The National Pulse can also reveal that Verber Salazar, who described herself as a Republican while introducing Harris in Douglas, Arizona, on Friday afternoon, has been a Harris donor since at least 2016, contributing to her Senate election fund. She was also an active participant in the nationwide, often violent Black Lives Matter protests in the summer of 2020. There is no evidence of her contributing to any Republican candidates.

SOFT TOUCH SALAZAR.

First elected in 2014 and re-elected uncontested in 2018, Verber Salazar became synonymous with a soft-touch approach to crime in Stockton, California. 

Her own rap sheet of failure includes a plea deal with businessman Lyle Burgess, who sexually assaulted a 5-year-old. Burgess pleaded no contest to unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, but Salazar and her team let him off easy, with just 90 days in jail and five years of probation. Stunningly, Burgess was not required to register as a sex offender thanks to the plea deal.

Another example is that of Tyrone McAllister, who robbed and beat a man but took a plea deal with Salazar that saw him serve just six months in jail. Two months after his release, McAllister was charged with shooting a man in Oakland, California.

Salazar’s soft touch approach is also believed to have been responsible for the murder of an infant by its own father during the COVID-19 pandemic.

BRENNAN CENTER.

Linked with far-left national political organizations, Salazar is believed to have adopted the Soros-funded Brennan Center’s 21 Principles as “a blueprint for elected prosecutors seeking to move away from past, incarceration-based approaches.”

The principles include seeking “diversion” (no incarceration) for serious felonies, supporting legislation to reduce sentence lengths, eliminating mandatory minimum sentences, and more far-left criminal justice reforms.

In 2021, the Stockton Police Association President, Chuck Harris, described Salazar as having “pro-criminal alliances,” adding: “A vote of no confidence is usually given by those who work directly for a specific individual they’ve lost confidence in. We will leave that vote to those directly affected by District Attorney Verber Salazar’s decisions and behavior.

“However, based on District Attorney Verber Salazar’s recent pro-criminal alliances, the SPOA is not confident that District Attorney Verber Salazar has victim rights in mind any longer.”

ONGOING INVESTIGATIONS.

At the beginning of 2024, Salazar and her now-evacuated office were the subject of a fraud probe that continues to this day.

“Today, District Attorney Ron Freitas alerted the California Department of Insurance and the Office of the California Attorney General to the findings of potential fraud uncovered in the handling of the Auto Insurance Fraud Grant Program dating back to 2017 under the prior District Attorney’s Administration,” a statement from May 2024 reads.

That Harris and her campaign team would place Salazar at the forefront of their campaign with just 35 days to go is likely indicative of their own approach to crime should Harris accede to the Oval Office.