Katie Porter

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.

Gas prices, they're high.

And everybody, you know, got in line and wanted to talk about gas prices.

And I raised my hand and I said, you know what?

I want to talk about grocery prices because that is the number one thing that has been going up really rapidly.

Like I am seeing boxes of cereal for ten dollars.

I am seeing eggs.

I am seeing bacon.

I am seeing blueberries that are eight bucks.

This people are like, wow, who knew?

John, I knew because I pushed the shopping cart in my family as a single parent.

I'm parenting three kids who are 13, 17, and 20.

So basically three teenagers.

God help me.

I really think about what's it going to mean for them if we don't bring down the cost of housing?