Katie Porter

These are my generational peers in terms of when we came into politics.

And we have a different vision of how states should work together.

than I think we have traditionally seen.

And so I think that's really important.

And then the other thing I would say is I'm rolling out real policies.

So I am rolling out concrete things that people can count on.

And so things like two years of college, nobody's confused about what two free years of college means.

Housing, number one priority, been our biggest problem.

I think that's different than what we've seen in terms of all getter done.

I think people need a different level of specificity and they need to know that you have led with a different level of accountability.

So when I was questioning the CDC director early, early in the COVID pandemic, and I asked him, will you make COVID testing free?

I wasn't content when he said, yeah, I'll work on it.

I said, will you today make COVID testing free?

And he did and people got it.

And I think that is the willingness to kind of reimagine government accountability that I think this moment calls for.

Yeah, let me tell a story about being in a caucus meeting full of Democrats.

And they were talking about gas prices.

And they were like, you know, gas prices, they're high.

This is true, by the way.

This is years ago, a couple years ago.