‘A Bully with a White Board Who Is in This for Power and Her Ego’: Ex-Dem Congressman Goes Nuclear On Katie Porter

A former Democratic California congressmen is urging Golden State voters to repudiate Rep. Katie Porter’s (D-CA) campaign for the Senate.

Harley Rouda served in the House of Representatives with Porter from 2019-2021, and wrote in a scintillating op-ed for the Orange County Register that he was surprised to learn that he had become a key figure in Porter’s political biography.

In her memoir, Porter tells readers that Rouda once mistook her for a valet at a fundraising event, and makes him out to be an antagonist of hers in the House.

“Before he was in office, Harley was a rich guy. In Congress, he ballooned into Representative Rich Guy. That transformation changed my occasional envy of him into institutional outrage,” explained Porter, who also accused him of buying a “DC penthouse for millions weeks after the election” and cast aspersions on his wife’s visits to him in the capital.

“Those are all unadulterated lies and that makes you a liar,” declared Rouda in his reply, decrying “her whiteboard everywoman act.”

“Katie Porter built her brand around being a minivan driving, single mom, but the truth of the matter is she’s a boarding school, Harvard, and Yale grad,” observed Rouda. “Katie had more choices and more privilege than virtually everyone else. She lives in a deeply subsidized home – worth about two million dollars – courtesy of UCI and California taxpayers, because she is on ‘leave’ from being a professor.”

But he waited until his conclusion to go for the kill:

As I read your book, one thing became very clear through all your lies. You say you want to be our next senator to provide, “a voice for the minivan drivers and parents who silently lament $20 field trip fees.” But that’s not your true desire. Like your own staffers have said, you’re in this for power and position, the ability to bully, and be in the spotlight. Your book revealed your true nature. Your minivan is a prop, and your life is of your choosing. As they say, you made your bed. But Californians still have a choice.

If you’re not Katie Porter, I hope you vote for someone with character, stability, and wisdom. To me, Katie’s not that person, she’s no better than a bully. A bully with a white board who is in this for power and her ego. The last thing we need is more self-centered politicians like Katie Porter.

This is not the first time Porter has been accused of being a bully. Back in 2022, an ex-staffer accused Porter of a number of unprofessional and mean-spirited actions, including making fun of people “whose parents passed away from Covid-19” as well as a staffer who reported sexual harassment in Porter’s office.

“She has made multiple staffers cry and people are generally so anxious to even staff her because if ANYTHING goes wrong she flips out on whatever staffer is present,” revealed the ex-staffer and Navy veteran.

Another anonymous staffer submitted that Porter “thinks she knows better and talks s— about other members, leadership, staffers, local [elected officials], etc., at full volume, in public, and to literally [anyone] who will listen.”