In a sermon last month, the Rev. Frederick D. Haynes III told worshippers at his Dallas church about two encounters he had with his longtime criminal justice reform comrade-in-arms, Kamala Harris, after her ascension to the Democratic presidential ticket.
“Yo, you could have given your boy a ride on Air Force Two,” Haynes claims he jokingly told the vice president when they met backstage at an American Federation of Teachers conference in Houston on July 25. They had crossed paths just the day before at a black sorority conference in Indianapolis, Haynes said.
Harris and Haynes, the pastor of Dallas’s Friendship-West Baptist Church, have known each other for more than two decades. They worked together “in the early days of the criminal justice reform movement,” Harris said at a conference for the Rainbow PUSH Coalition on July 16, 2023.
“I am so confident in his leadership and his ability to carry on the greatest traditions of this organization and to meet the challenges of this moment,” said Harris. “Congratulations, Reverend Haynes.”
And they have remained in close contact all the way through Harris’s rise to the Democratic nomination. Haynes has visited the vice presidential residence and attended a roundtable discussion that Harris convened at the White House on February 29. Haynes told the Washington Post this month that he maintains contact with Harris and speaks to her about how to apply her religious faith to her government role. […]
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