Ana Kasparian
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else like that.
Right.
I mean, I can't say I'm sure I wouldn't be surprised if other videos start to leak.
And, you know, it's interesting because I'm going to be fully honest about the fact that I used to actually be a pretty big supporter of Katie Porter when she was in Congress, you know, during some of the hearings with bankers, with.
corporate executives.
She'd pull out her whiteboard.
She would ask difficult questions.
But I realized in retrospect that a lot of that was just political theater because when push came to shove and the question of money and politics came up, she was actually very defensive about Citizens United, corporate PAC money, and all of that.
So that was when I personally started to sour on her.
There had been allegations from members of her staff, a
previous members of her staff, of course, and she has a lot of turnover where they accused her of being abusive.
I believe her ex-husband also made similar allegations.
Yes, incendiary ones in the Daily Mail.
Exactly, exactly.
And then the final nail in the coffin for me was the fact that
She is running for governor of California.
So obviously she was asked about a proposition that two for I'm sorry, three fourths of Californians voted in favor of.
And that was Prop 36, which sought to roll back some of the soft on crime policies that actually really hurt this state.
And one of the biggest issues right now is that our Democratic legislature, along with Governor Gavin Newsom, refused to provide the adequate funding in order to make sure we are holding people accountable when they commit crimes over and over and over again.
It appears that Katie Porter is not