Character matters. That’s why Katie Porter is unfit for the United States Senate

From Harley Rouda's scathing oped:

Katie Porter built her brand around being a minivan driving, single mom, but the truth is she’s a boarding school, Harvard, and Yale grad. Katie had more privilege than virtually everyone else.

She spent a grotesque amount of her time in the House keeping notes, keeping score, and lying about her peers.

Her whiteboard everywoman act is a fake. She is, at heart, an accomplished actor who stages classless photo opps on the House floor.  

Porter boasts about taking on powerful special interests – using her whiteboard prop to scold executives – but in reality she “has accepted tens of thousands of dollars worth of contributions from powerful people with influence at the highest echelons of Wall Street.” Talk about hypocrisy.

From the Orange County Register:

Anyone but Katie Porter for U.S. Senate from California. Seriously, anyone.

At least the other Democratic members of Congress who seem interested in the seat have the common courtesy to wait for Feinstein to retire before announcing their intentions.

This alone should give voters pause in supporting Porter, as the Senate is an institution that values seniority and courtesy. The entire place runs on unanimous consent — if she doesn’t want to work with people with whom she disagrees, the Senate is not a good fit. Porter is promising to be a “fighter,” but the Senate doesn’t need another Ted Cruz. One is plenty.

Porter is best known for lecturing and bullying congressional witnesses, who aren’t in a position to fight back, with faulty arguments on a whiteboard she brings to committee. Though often inaccurate, these moments make for compelling social media content she uses for online fundraising.

Porter says she does all this for “Orange County families,” even though a mere 0.46% of her campaign contributions came from within the district she represents, according to Open Secrets.

Congress has too many so-called “fighters” already and not enough leaders. There are countless reasons not to support Porter for Senate. I urge voters to pick their favorite and go with it.

Pro PAC is committed to supporting Adam Schiff, Barbara Lee, or other viable Democrats who may come forward at a more appropriate time.

Katie Porter isn't the candidate Democrats need in this important race.