He didnt respond to a request for comment. Porter said she eventually realized the whisper campaign was suggesting that she did things during her divorce that were disqualifying to her as a candidate: Basically, dont endorse her because shes got this shady background, she summarized. Porter was speaking to students at Concordia University in Irvine, a private Lutheran college nestled atop a hill overlooking Orange County, California, 10 km inland from the Pacific Ocean. Although Porter mightve preferred that her candidacy tell a different story, its now become an object lesson in the comprehensive failures of Americas domestic violence response. In the same year, they divorced. Real estate? asked Carson. She felt the divide on the campaign trail, too. This bill would let people running for the House or Senate use campaign donations to pay for healthcare premiums, care for older people, care for children, and care for people who depend on them. Who planned this? Porter says. Youre going to love thisI stepped in dog poo, she says, taking off one green Converse and flashing it to the camera. Gavin Newsom to appoint a Black woman to replace Kamala Harris, who vacated her seat representing California in the Senate after her election as vice president. In an interview at the time with L.A.s Fox 11 affiliate, Bass noted that without Harris, the Senate would have one African American Democrat, one African American Republican, no African American women., I do believe that there should be an African American woman in the Congress, she said. I feel bad for the governor. A politician, professor of law, and attorney from the United States, Katherine Moore Porter currently represents Californias 47th congressional district after serving as its representative from 2019 to 2023. Porterran for re-election to the U.S. House. Katie Porter is 49 years old. A middle-class mom who dresses like Batgirl when she votes on an impeachment inquiry because it also happens to be Halloween. I mean, my sixth-grade textbook said, One day man may reach the moon, she says. I feel bad for the governor. She asked for a restraining order against him in 2013. When Representative Katie Porter's face appears on my laptop screen, . I feel much better.. She has worked as a law professor at the University of California at Irvine, as a consumer and bankruptcy lawyer for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the World Bank, the Federal Judicial Center, and the Uniform Law Commission, and as a legal assistant for Judge Richard S. Arnold of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. She makes history as Kansas's first LGBTQ member of Congress and the first gay Native American woman elected to Congress. He had a policy of writing back to every single constituent and doing what they call the Full Grassley, which is visiting all 99 counties in Iowa every year, she says. Porter and Hoffman had separated the previous month but continued to live together while they figured out what to do. What happens here matters, because voters around the country are gonna see does this mean you cant run for office, because youve been hurt or a victim? Porter said. According to Federal Election Commission filings, a Kevin Matthews in Denver has donated $2,000 to the campaign of Dave Min, Porters leading primary opponent. Fons & Porters Love of Quilting was started by her mother, Liz. On MSNBC, Rep. Katie Porter argues that rising inflation rates reinforces the 'need' for abortion amid Roe v. Wade's potential overturning FIRST ON FOX: California Democrat Rep. Katie. [Pelosi] said she wore it that day because it was clean. Hearings are not conversations between two people in power, she says. During this time, Porter also worked as a Chuck Grassley intern. Liz Porter's legacy is well-known to most quilters. She was less prepared to talk about her own experience with domestic abuse. Its a tough decision to make.. Afterward, Porter enrolled in Harvard Law School, where she served as the notes editor of the Harvard Womens Law Journal and a member of the Board of Student Advisers. She said, You found your voice. And then theres my first apartment in DC: I had no closet, no cable, no Wi-Fijust a mattress on the floor., What it boils down to is this: There is a class divide in Congress, Porter says. Many delegates were reluctant to speak to the media. As it was reported, during an argument Matthew punched Katie and shoved their one-year-old daughter across the kitchen. Liz, her mother, helped establish Fons & Porters Love of Quilting. But the marriage ended in divorce in 2013 after she became the victim of domestic violence inflicted by her then-husband. And when she heard about reports of domestic violence during the pandemic, she felt that, too. Hang on. He couldnt answer because he was riding his Peloton and had to get off because he was out of breath, she says of the $2,000-plus exercise bike, with a pointed stare. On April 12, the same day I first began reaching out to delegates, the Orange County Democratic Party handed down a warning. The couple married in 2003 before deciding to part ways in 2013. Under the state partys rules, because Min won by such a small margin, his opponents could challenge his win on the convention floor by gathering 300 signatures and forcing a new vote. Matthew came to the limelight of his tumultuous relationship with Katie. Do you see it? Dave and Jane support victims with their hearts, their time and their charitable contributions. We need her as a senator and we need more Katie Porters. On November 8, 2022, she won the general election. We recognized instantly that the biggest shortagemore than TP, more than ventilatorswas going to be accurate and trustworthy information, she says. She looks him in the eye and says, in that guilt-inducing tone every mom has mastered, Dr. Part of HuffPost Politics. I mean, what part of Me Too isnt soaking in?. In March 2020, she asked Robert R. Redfield, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, five questions to get him to agree to use the agencys legal power to make COVID-19 testing free for all Americans. She endorsed him in February. It isnt gratuitous. Rep. Katie Porter's Top 10 Legislative Accomplishments of 2022 January 1, 2023 Rep. Katie Porter Breaks Down Her Budget Requests for Fiscal Year 2023 July 20, 2022 Rep. Katie Porter, Sick with COVID-19, Urges Congress to Protect Abortion Rights July 14, 2022 Porter, who spent years investigating banks and home foreclosures under Warren and Harris, has the endorsement of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. The election of Porter shocked many. To be made to feel like Ive done anything wrong Im just outraged, Porter said. Katie is currently single. The week before, she had sent a letter to his boss, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Alex Azar, urging him to take action to ensure COVID tests were affordable and accessible, but hadnt received a reply. I said, Okay, I guess. Their mother has not revealed their names. More importantly, she invested most of her time either serving the community or taking care of her children. They focused a lot on UC Irvine, says Brooke Staggs, a reporter who covers Porter for the Orange County Register. And I wanted to say, Where were you in February? She now has custody of her and her ex-husband's three children: Luke, 14; Paul, 12; and Betsy, 8, who is named after . Thats what I should be campaigning on. She says it will be an adventure when they visit and she may move them to Washington eventually. Lee, of Oakland, trailed Schiff and their fellow House Democrat, Rep. Katie Porter of Irvine, in a recent UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll on the Senate race. A lot of people have been inquiring lot about Katie Porter and making various research about her on the internet. Katie Porter is a democratic politician who has a net worth of around $1.5 million. Considering that they were married for three years before having a kid . He has been telling people shes unelectable., I heard from a few people that Dave said her divorce was disqualifying, said Bowen, the former campaign manager for Forde, and that shes a really nasty woman with character issues. Bowen said he is 100 percent confident the whispers originated with Min and not with Forde or Hamadanchy: I ran Brian Fordes campaign Kia never ran anything but a positive campaign, publicly and privately. It was just impossible. Hoffman is accused of assaulting Porter, pushing her 1-year-old daughter across the kitchen, threatening to commit suicide, and using derogatory language toward Porter's family. Everybody was like, This is outrageous! When Porter ran for Congress, she did not take money from corporate PACs. Bass endorsement in what is expected to be a hotly contested race was being watched closely following her victory in last years mayoral race, which elevated her to national prominence as the first woman to lead Californias largest city. Its still rare to hear a congressional candidate or elected official come forward as a domestic abuse survivor Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) became one of the first to do so in 2012, and Oregon Gov. She endorsed him in February. In 2003, Katie Porter married Matthew Hoffman at the age of 29. All registered. In the U.S., call 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) for the. It just goes to show you, if I, as a lawyer who went to Harvard and knows Elizabeth Warren, hears it that way, what happens to millions of other women who are not lawyers? Porter asked. On April 12, the same day I first began reaching out to delegates, the Orange County Democratic Party handed down a warning. Katies Twitter account boasted 211.2k followers reacting to tweets she made. I do not understand why being a victim is disqualifying. We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we back. In the newly redistricted 47th congressional district in California, she won reelection in 2022 by outpolling the Republican contender Scott Baugh by a margin of 51.6% to 48.4%. Bass, a fellow Democrat who served in Congress with Lee for over a decade, endorsed her former colleague and friend in the contest to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein, also a Democrat, who announced in February that she would retire when her current term ends in January 2025. 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