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Rumor Mill: Is Kathleen Treseder Really Trying to Recruit Katy Porter for Irvine Mayor?
Political rumors are like coming across a roundabouts: nobody asked for them, nobody knows who started them, and somehow you wind up going going in circles.
My in-box on the latest bit of City Hall chatter making the rounds is that Irvine Councilmember Kathleen Treseder is allegedly trying to convince former Congresswoman Katie Porter to run for mayor of Irvine. Is it true? Nobody knows for sure. Is it plausible? Sure. Is it politically intelligent? No.
If this rumor is true, it may represent one of the more questionable strategic calculations to emerge from Irvine politics in recent memory.
https://theliberaloc.com/2026/06/05/rumor-mill-is-kathleen-treseder-really-trying-to-recruit-katy-porter-for-irvine-mayor/