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CA House Representative, Katie "Badass White Board Goddess" Porter, just announced her candidacy for US Senate.
Senator Dianne Feinstein is almost 90 and will be retiring.
Here's what Katie wants you to know about her:
I'm running for the U.S. Senate because Californians deserve a warrior fighting for them in Washington. In the House, I've stood up to leaders of both parties"as both the only Democrat to oppose earmarks and as one of just a dozen Members of Congress to reject lobbyist and corporate PAC money.
I'm not a career politician. I'm a single mom of three school-aged kids in Orange County and I drive a minivan. Plenty of people know me as the "woman with the whiteboard." I've used it to break down the math behind important issues, like how corporate greed is driving inflation and how pharmaceutical companies are ripping off patients.Prior to being elected in 2018, I was a consumer protection advocate and professor at UC Irvine. Much of my work centered around the housing crisis that rocked Orange County and many other parts of the country. Before the crisis, I was one of the first to sound the alarm about how the biggest Wall Street banks were preying on homeowners. And when the crisis hit, I was appointed by then Attorney General Kamala Harris to work directly with California families who were cheated by the five biggest Wall Street banks.
The five banks had promised to help homeowners who had been harmed, and it was my job to hold the banks' feet to the fire. My team won thousands of victories against the banks, forcing them to pay billions to families. And our work helped tens of thousands of Californians move forward with their lives.But for so many families across the country, the harm had already been done. Politicians in Washington bailed out the banks in a matter of days, but middle-class families waited years for help from Washington"help that never came.
Over a decade after the crash, California families still find themselves stuck. Profits are surging for major corporations, but middle-class wages are stagnant. And the cost of things that matter most for families"affording childcare, sending your kid to college, paying for your prescription"are skyrocketing, while the high cost of housing is pushing families to the brink.
California needs a warrior in the Senate to stand up to Mitch McConnell, big corporations, and the special interests that try to rig the rules against our families. I'll fight to protect our environment, to restore the nationwide right to an abortion, and to finally hold corporate special interests accountable to lowering costs for families.
We're just getting started...
Katie Porter
If you are involved in the fiber arts, you know of Liz Porter (now retired, of the Fons & Porter quilt magazine and TV show). Liz is Katie's mom, and I give big kudos to Liz for raising such an amazing person!
I love Katie Porter and I just donated to her campaign here.
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