Co-chairwoman of Obama campaign visits Youngstown

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

California Attorney General Kamala Harris, a national co-chairwoman of Barack Obama’s campaign, visited Youngstown to meet with about 30 local black and civil-rights leaders, urging them to do everything they can to help the president get re-elected in the fall.

Harris praised Obama, a fellow Democrat, for the auto bailout and for his administration’s assistance in the $25 billion settlement in February with the nation’s five largest mortgage-service companies over foreclosure abuse, fraud and improper practices.

Harris met Tuesday at Holy Trinity Missionary Baptist Church on the city’s South Side with the local leaders.

“We talked about a strategy to get out the vote,” said Jamael Tito Brown, Youngstown City Council president, who attended the meeting. “You have to make sure voters are registered. We have transient residents moving from one side of town to the other.”

Harris, California attorney general since January 2011, previously served seven years as San Francisco’s district attorney.