All posts tagged "Katie Porter"

A shocking new video released Wednesday shows a California gubernatorial candidate berating staff and yelling, "Get out of my f---ing shot!"

The video exclusively obtained by Politico shows former Rep. Katie Porter (D) yelling at a staffer who interjects to correct a statement she makes during a recording for the Biden administration in July 2021.

“Get out of my f---ing shot!” Porter said....

Reactions mounted Wednesday after California governor candidate and former Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) clashed with a journalist during a sit-down interview after she was asked a question about President Donald Trump in what people are calling a "train-wreck."

“What do you say to the 40% of California voters, who you’ll need in order to win, who voted for Trump?” Julie Watts, CBS News correspondent, asked Porter during the interview that aired Tuesday night.

“How would I need them in order to win, ma’am?” Porter responded....

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Outside spending in the 2024 election cycle has surpassed $1 billion, outpacing prior election cycles, according to a new OpenSecrets analysis of federal campaign finance reports.

Super PACs and other outside groups that can raise and spend unlimited sums of money have poured about $1.1 billion into 2024 federal elections as of Aug. 15 — nearly twice what similar groups spent over the same period in the 2020 presidential election cycle when independent expenditures hit an all-time record. ...

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House Republicans outspent their Democratic counterparts in taxpayer-funded travel expenditures by nearly $8 million since the start of 2023, a new OpenSecrets analysis found.

Eight out of the top 10 biggest spenders between the start of 2023 to March 2024 were Republican members of Congress. They accounted for 7% of total taxpayer-funded travel spending by GOP members of Congress and with each of the top spenders spending two to five times more than the average House office....

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Leading tax prep companies have poured $90 million into lobbying on the Free File Program and other issues since the program’s inception in 2003, a new OpenSecrets analysis found.

Now the lobbying juggernauts are facing mounting scrutiny from members of Congress over their deployment of “revolving door” lobbyists in alleged attempts to undermine the federal government’s adoption of a government-run system that would allow taxpayers to file for free....