ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: Republican Vows to End Kamala’s Taxpayer-Funded Security Racket
California taxpayers are bankrolling a security detail for Kamala Harris’s book tour—and it ends in November if Steve Hilton becomes governor.
The failed presidential candidate has been crisscrossing the country and globe with California Highway Patrol officers in tow, pulling vital law enforcement resources off California streets to protect her vanity project. This is government waste at its most brazen.
The Democrat Money Machine Strikes Again
Hilton delivered a clear message to California voters: this taxpayer-funded gravy train stops the moment he takes office.
“The Kamala Harris book tour is obviously part of her presidential campaign,” Hilton declared. “Her donors—if she has any—should be paying for her security, not Californians who already pay the highest taxes in the country for the worst results.”
He’s absolutely right. California families are drowning in taxes while their streets become less safe by the day. Now they’re expected to foot the bill for a rejected politician’s publicity tour?
A Corrupt Freebie for a Failed Politician
This arrangement reeks of insider dealing. President Biden signed off on Harris’s federal security through July 2024. President Trump rightfully ended that gravy train in September. But California’s Democrat machine immediately stepped in with state resources.
“This is yet another example of the Democrat political machine siphoning off taxpayer cash into their bottomless money pit of waste, fraud and abuse,” Hilton stated with justified fury. “We are sick of it. As governor I will immediately cancel this corrupt Kamala freebie.”
The numbers tell a damning story. Dozens of CHP officers have been reassigned from crime-fighting duties since September to shadow Harris on her global publicity tour. These are trained law enforcement professionals California desperately needs on its streets.
Law Enforcement Resources Squandered
“Our brave CHP officers have enough on their plate dealing with the Democrats’ crime wave without having to traipse around after a failed and rejected machine politician who can’t bear to be out of the limelight,” Hilton emphasized.
The California Association of Highway Patrolmen confirmed awareness of the detail but admitted they don’t even know how many officers are assigned or what it’s costing taxpayers. That’s how little transparency exists in this arrangement.
State officials are stonewalling. They refuse to disclose the number of officers protecting Harris or the total price tag. But retired CHP officer and Republican Assemblyman Tom Lackey didn’t mince words: it’s “significant.”
“All I know is it’s a lot, it is a significant amount of money,” Lackey confirmed.
A Global Junket on California’s Dime
Harris launched her memoir “107 Days”—a self-congratulatory rehash of her disastrous presidential campaign—with a 15-city tour that began September 24. She’s hit New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Houston, Atlanta, Chicago, Portland, Nashville, and Miami.
But Harris didn’t stop at American borders. California taxpayers are funding her international publicity tour to Toronto and London.
After selling out 2025 dates, Harris added 18 more stops for 2026, running from New Orleans to Anaheim through April. That means California’s overstretched law enforcement will continue babysitting a book tour for months.
No Credible Threat, No Justification
The entire justification for this arrangement collapses under scrutiny. State law allows protection for California’s former attorney general only when credible threats exist.
The Secret Service conducted a threat intelligence assessment. The verdict? No credible evidence of any threat to Harris whatsoever.
This protection detail isn’t about safety. It’s about status. It’s about a politician who cannot accept that voters rejected her maintaining the trappings of power at public expense.
California Deserves Better
Californians face the highest tax burden in America. They endure rampant crime, failing schools, crumbling infrastructure, and an exodus of businesses fleeing the state’s hostile environment.
Meanwhile, their tax dollars protect a failed politician selling books about her failed campaign.
This is government by the connected, for the connected. It’s the swamp at the state level—and California Republicans are done tolerating it.
Hilton’s pledge represents more than fiscal responsibility. It’s a declaration that California’s resources belong to California’s people, not to Democrat insiders looking to maintain their lifestyle after voters showed them the door.
The choice for California voters is crystal clear. Continue funding the political class’s lifestyle, or elect leaders who will fight for taxpayers.
November cannot come soon enough.
