"This race will come down to those who've earned it versus those who are trying to buy it." - Xavier Becerra
Former HHS Secretary and U.S. Rep. Xavier Becerra has been surging in the polls for California governor since former Rep. Eric Swalwell (D) left the race and the House in disgrace.
Taking a swipe at billionaire Tom Steyer, Becerra said, "This race will come down to those who've earned it versus those who are trying to buy it."
If Californians want a competent governor, they'll vote for Becerra. If they want someone resembling a screaming, shouting, name-calling, cussing boss, they'll vote for Katie Porter.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-10-17/katie-porter-videos-behavior-governor
Taking a swipe at billionaire Tom Steyer, Becerra said, "This race will come down to those who've earned it versus those who are trying to buy it."
If Californians want a competent governor, they'll vote for Becerra. If they want someone resembling a screaming, shouting, name-calling, cussing boss, they'll vote for Katie Porter.
Politico unearthed a 2021 video showing Porter barking at a staffer who had walked into frame while she was recording a conversation.
“Get out of my f—ing shot,” she told an employee, while recording an interview with then-Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm.
After the staffer pleaded their case, Porter doubled down with the demeanor of a DMV worker on her last nerve: “OK, you also were in my shot before that. Stay out of my shot.”
In 2013 divorce proceedings, for example, Porter’s husband alleges she dumped scalding mashed potatoes on his head, “routinely” called him a “f—ing idiot,” shattered a glass coffee pot because their house wasn’t clean enough and wouldn’t let him have a cellphone “because, ‘You’re too f—ing dumb to operate it.’”
If you’ve ever been warned to “Watch how your date treats the waitress, because eventually she’ll treat you the same way,” Porter is starting to look like a similar ticking time bomb.
Now, Porter’s defenders will say she’s just “tough” and that she’s not here to play nice. I mean, won’t Democrats need someone strong to take on President Trump and MAGA?
Sure, but there’s a yawning chasm between being tough on the Republicans and being cruel to the interns. Voters want a fighter. But they don’t want a jerk. Almost everyone has had a bad boss who made them dread Mondays — or every day. And they remember that trauma.
“Get out of my f—ing shot,” she told an employee, while recording an interview with then-Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm.
After the staffer pleaded their case, Porter doubled down with the demeanor of a DMV worker on her last nerve: “OK, you also were in my shot before that. Stay out of my shot.”
In 2013 divorce proceedings, for example, Porter’s husband alleges she dumped scalding mashed potatoes on his head, “routinely” called him a “f—ing idiot,” shattered a glass coffee pot because their house wasn’t clean enough and wouldn’t let him have a cellphone “because, ‘You’re too f—ing dumb to operate it.’”
If you’ve ever been warned to “Watch how your date treats the waitress, because eventually she’ll treat you the same way,” Porter is starting to look like a similar ticking time bomb.
Now, Porter’s defenders will say she’s just “tough” and that she’s not here to play nice. I mean, won’t Democrats need someone strong to take on President Trump and MAGA?
Sure, but there’s a yawning chasm between being tough on the Republicans and being cruel to the interns. Voters want a fighter. But they don’t want a jerk. Almost everyone has had a bad boss who made them dread Mondays — or every day. And they remember that trauma.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-10-17/katie-porter-videos-behavior-governor
36-40, F
