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applegrove

(118,022 posts)
Mon Jun 22, 2020, 10:40 PM Jun 2020

Rep. Katie Porter Launches New PAC to Elect More People Like Her

Rep. Katie Porter Launches New PAC to Elect More People Like Her

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Sam Brodey, Congressional Reporter

Updated Jun. 22, 2020

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rep-katie-porter-launches-new-pac-to-elect-more-people-like-her

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With her victory in 2018, Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) helped to upend a bit of longstanding Democratic Party conventional wisdom—that unabashedly progressive candidates don’t win in historically conservative districts.

Now as one of the rising stars of the party’s progressive wing and one of its top fundraisers, Porter—who raised $2 million in the first quarter of this year alone—has decided to leverage her considerable donor network to boost other candidates who are hoping to pull off the very same feat she did two years ago. This week, the congresswoman is launching a political action committee, called Truth to Power PAC, that will direct funds she’s raised toward a slate of progressive congressional candidates around the country. 

The assumption about the party’s most vulnerable lawmakers, said Porter in an interview with The Daily Beast, “that they are moderates—that people who flip seats don’t speak up or don’t speak out—those are really important assumptions to push back on… What’s really important is to allow candidates to compete, and not to limit voters’ opportunities to elect the candidate they believe will best represent them.”

Porter’s organization, typically referred to as a leadership PAC, has announced an initial set of seven endorsements. They’re a mix of candidates who, like Porter, are running on left-wing platforms to flip GOP-held seats; she’s also backing progressives who are running in open seats and one who is primarying an incumbent Democrat. 

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Rep. Katie Porter Launches New PAC to Elect More People Like Her (Original Post) applegrove Jun 2020 OP
Love & Respect Her Me. Jun 2020 #1
Hard worker, Porter earns every dime of her salary, and then some. nt oasis Jun 2020 #2
We need a small army of Katie Porters to fix what's been mangled. Smart move. More power to her! JudyM Jun 2020 #3
Yes. applegrove Jun 2020 #4
Buy stock in white boards SheltieLover Jun 2020 #5
I like progressive. rusty quoin Jun 2020 #6
Can we clone Katie Porter? We need a lot of people willing to speak up for constituents. Hermit-The-Prog Jun 2020 #7
I know. Hopefully she will inspire like leadership. I love it when she says applegrove Jun 2020 #11
I have offered to trade 2 senators and a pile of representatives for her Hermit-The-Prog Jun 2020 #12
Vibes to you on having McConnell as senator. applegrove Jun 2020 #13
Not easy, she is a one in a million grantcart Jun 2020 #8
We definitely need more Katie Porters! R B Garr Jun 2020 #9
She's such a gem. herding cats Jun 2020 #10
In that hearing... when she ate Jamie Dimon's lunch... albacore Jun 2020 #14
Excellent! ❤ nt littlemissmartypants Jun 2020 #15
I wonder who will ultimately be more successful, Katie Porter or AOC ? OnDoutside Jun 2020 #16
I'd bet on AOC AlexSFCA Jun 2020 #17
But isn't that making her plenty of enemies ? OnDoutside Jun 2020 #18

applegrove

(118,022 posts)
11. I know. Hopefully she will inspire like leadership. I love it when she says
Tue Jun 23, 2020, 01:18 AM
Jun 2020

to the corrupt "I'm coming for you".

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,041 posts)
12. I have offered to trade 2 senators and a pile of representatives for her
Tue Jun 23, 2020, 01:23 AM
Jun 2020

Still can't get anybody from California to talk to me. They must be prejudiced against Kaintuck hillbillies.

albacore

(2,387 posts)
14. In that hearing... when she ate Jamie Dimon's lunch...
Tue Jun 23, 2020, 01:41 AM
Jun 2020

... and then threw his lunchbox in the ditch...
I fell in love.

To anybody she questions in a hearing:
If she whips out that whiteboard, just drop to the floor in a faint. Getting hauled out of there by paramedics is your only hope.

OnDoutside

(19,908 posts)
16. I wonder who will ultimately be more successful, Katie Porter or AOC ?
Tue Jun 23, 2020, 02:04 AM
Jun 2020

My money is on Katie, as she is progressive but doesn't polarise.

AlexSFCA

(6,137 posts)
17. I'd bet on AOC
Tue Jun 23, 2020, 02:55 AM
Jun 2020

yes, Katie is a uniter but that’a not guarantee of success. AOC plows through with no mercy. Confidence is polarizing but she is also building an army. Gen Z would love AOC.

OnDoutside

(19,908 posts)
18. But isn't that making her plenty of enemies ?
Tue Jun 23, 2020, 03:38 AM
Jun 2020

As the old saying goes, be nice to people on the way up, because you might meet them again on the way down.

I think AOC has calmed down a lot since she first arrived on the scene, and she has distanced herself from Bernie Sanders, but she has trampled on a lot of colleagues toes, and is backing challengers against Dem incumbents. That's a risky strategy, if it doesn't work out. It'll be interesting to see where the two are, in a couple of years time.

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