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Letter: Katie Porter is the fighter we need

[Note: This letter first appeared in the Davis Enterprise online on Apr 6 and in print on Apr 12]

Davisites, let’s throw our support behind Katie Porter for CA Governor — now, when we can really make a difference.

California has a “top two” primary, meaning that the top two candidates from the June election will be the candidates we vote on in November. Right now, there are so many Democrats in the race that there is a serious risk of splitting the vote so badly that we will end up having a choice between two Republicans.

We cannot let this happen. Thus far most candidates, even those with low polling numbers, won’t drop out. So we have to coalesce around one of the Democrats.

I urge that we coalesce around Katie Porter.

Porter is most known for her fiery whiteboard talks, holding corporate CEOs accountable, especially with regard to health care and big pharma. As a US congressperson, she passed laws that reined in the greed of the health care industry.

She has a strong environmental record and will fight to expand clean energy and defend our clean air laws. She has pledged to protect our wildlands, open spaces, and oceans.

She will work for federal funding for housing and to foster CA businesses.

She has been endorsed by the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals, the Orange County Employees Association, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and California’s Amalgamated Transit Union.

Porter will bring the fight that we need in these difficult political times. Please write a letter or send a donation now to register your support.

Roberta Millstein

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9 responses to “Letter: Katie Porter is the fighter we need”

  1. ->KeiTh

    Katie “Get out of my f’ing shot” Porter is a total Karen.
    She’s exactly what California doesn’t need.

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    1. Roberta Millstein

      That incident was really overblown. Most of the videos that were shared cut out the beginning and the end of the video. With the context included, you can see that she herself is making a policy video, then sees her staffer walk into the background of the shot! So yeah, she’s irritated that her video is ruined and now has to be redone. The staffer explains that something that Katie was saying wasn’t quite correct — a staffer’s job — and so then Katie says OK, I will redo it.

      Look, it isn’t right to curse at a staffer. But we’re all human, and it’s pretty easy to imagine all kinds of reasons why she would react like that: she’s overworked, she’s tired, she’s under a deadline, she’s had issues with this staffer before, etc.

      If we excluded people who blew up when they were taken by surprise like that (as I would be if someone walked into the background of a video I was making for work!), we would basically be excluding everyone.

      This is a nothing burger, but the corporate press likes to make a big deal of it because Katie takes on the big corporations.

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      1. ->KeiTh

        Yeah, Katie is a real gem of a person. Just ask her former husband whom she dumped hot mashed potatoes on. Then there was that interview on CBS where she got mad at a simple question and ended up walking out. She’s a total Karen.
        https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-10-17/katie-porter-videos-behavior-governor

      2. Roberta Millstein

        I’ve seen this before from you, Keith. You make a problematic claim, I debunk it, but you never acknowledge that, instead offering more things. Well, these are problematic too.

        Katie has said that she requested a temporary restraining order following documented violence by her then-husband, but on the morning of the hearing for that restraining order, her then-husband’s lawyer filed a reciprocal request for protection. Katie’s lawyer noted: “This common defensive tactic is designed to intimidate a victim” saying that “Her then-husband later admitted, as evidenced by the attached document, that ‘he regretted making these allegations.’” I don’t have the “attached document,” and he later said to Fox News that he didn’t regret the allegations, but presumably her lawyer would not tell the judge that she had a document that said something it didn’t say. And the story seems to change from mashed potatoes to hot boiling potatoes (which would have left a big burn). So, the story is hesaid/shesaid at best, not credible at worst.

        As for the interview, Katie said several times that she didn’t want to answer the question, but the interviewer kept insisting. So Katie ended the interview. However one thinks about that, it’s not something that is disqualifying for being governor.

      3. -.KeiTh

        “I’ve seen this before from you, Keith. You make a problematic claim, I debunk it”

        As I’ve seen from you that you claim to debunk it but that’s just your opinion.

      4. Roberta Millstein

        And yet you have no reply to any of the things I have said, unlike on the Vanguard where you give reply after reply. I think if you had something to say, you would say it.

      5. ->KeiTh

        How often have you changed your position on here when someone presents you their thoughts or a different set of facts? I haven’t seen it, but maybe I missed it. Here’s another article this time from Medium, hardly a right leaning publication:

        “Her road to self-destruction began when CBS News released an interview proving she’s a cross between “Karen from HR” — the worst boss ever —and a rare combination of arrogance, selfishness, and incompetence.”

        View at Medium.com

      6. Roberta Millstein

        I already addressed that incident: “As for the interview, Katie said several times that she didn’t want to answer the question, but the interviewer kept insisting. So Katie ended the interview. However one thinks about that, it’s not something that is disqualifying for being governor.” I disagree with Medium and I stand by that.

  2. Ron O

    Honestly not too supportive of any candidate for governor. At this point, they’re all supportive of YIMBYs and sprawl, and they’re all supportive of giving away land that would otherwise be public to tribes.

    There’s a state park in Del Norte county that’s being partially proposed for transfer to a tribe by a Democratic assembly member right now (AB 2356, Democratic Assembly Member Ramos). This is nowhere near the only example of land being privatized for tribes (including casino-owning tribes).

    Democrats are becoming worse than Republicans, at this point. Newsom appointed the leader of a casino-owning tribe to the UC Board of Regents, as well. The same tribe that received several hundred acres for free (which I believe includes a ranch house) along the Marin coast.

    So I think you might see why I’m not too excited to publicly support any candidate in particular. I might not even vote for any of them, at all (for what that’s worth).

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