Former Rep. Katie Porter launches run for California governor
The Democrat is well known after a run for the Senate last year. But former Vice President Kamala Harris' decision about whether to run looms over the field.
Katie Porter is one of the very few good guys. She'd be a terrific governor for California, so I expect the Democratic Party will do all they can to oppose her.
Harris is going to run and don't you know this was her promised consolation prize. So sorry progressives, maybe in a 100 years when everyone in line in front of you dies?
She is legit.
I can see Newsome already planning a 2028 run. She doesn’t seem like the type to challenge the party incumbent. He will most likely endorse her and focus on the 2028 campaign.
Anybody but the traiterous incumbant Gavin Newsom, who just threw trans people under the bus.
Anybody but the traiterous incumbant Gavin Newsom,
He's term-limited. He won't be the next governor of California.
Californians will vote for a new governor in 2026. That person will replace Gov. Gavin Newsom, who cannot run for another term for this office. Newsom’s current term will end early January 2027, according to Ballotpedia.
I read an article earlier suggesting that Newsom's potentially trying to position himself for a Presidential run, which might explain the trans thing.
Don't forget when he helped clear homeless camps with the cops.Been garbage since he was mayor of SanFran with an equally garbage DA. Remember those days? I do. Three Strikes disproportionately harmed people of color and sex workers, especially the trans ones, by design.
Why yes, there does seem to be a plastic-democrat that urgently needs replacing. Good on her!
I’m so sick of Democrats ripping off a mask to reveal they’re Republican.
I’d like for once it to be the other way around, or for a Dem to rip it off and reveal they’re even further left.
Newsom has pilfered his corrupt PG&E money so he doesn’t need to be actually helpful to anyone anymore.
alot ofr republicans will switch thier parties to D, because they arnt right wing enough to be voted as one, and then either switch back parties immediately or vote like a DINO republican.
There's no financial incentive in doing that, so it's going to disproportionately be politicians moving to the right.
Maybe not, but it would be really cool and totally radical! Especially if they double-shaka'd 🤙
All she has to do is tell me she's not going to fuck over consumers with regards to solar to protect regionally monopolistic power conglomerates who are literally killing people due to old equipment in wild fire corridors. Fuck Gavin Newsome.
Sorry, best we can do is fuck everyone over to protect PG&E so they'll only declare bankruptcy once every two years instead of every six months. What? Why would you say that privatized, de-regulated utilities were a mistake?
hmmm, seems clunky. I'm not sure that will work as a very good slogan.
Do you have a shorter way of saying it without miscommunicating your overall message?
Just take the last sentence, people will fill in the rest with their own grievances with him. Maybe his hair cut, always looks like he swam there.
I'll vote for her over Harris any day.
I'm on board if she brings a whiteboard and schools people after putting forth actual legislation based on real data. She'll be amazing in any political seat she is elected to.
Oh I’m so voting for her again.
Same
Wasn't she the single mother raging against people deciding on single mother issues without even having a shred of knowledge on it? That was great.
He's got a good chance because she's extremely popular outside of core Democratic hubs. Ita going to be a question of if she is willing to buck the system. Frankly, after the ratfucking of 2024, I think she could make real waves running as an independent; as a Democrat she'll be open to the same weaknesses as we saw in the 2024 campaign.:DNC power brokers will quite litterally support fascists in their ability to win elections rather than have their own power challenged.
In California they don't do partisan primaries for state office. It will be her versus Harris the entire way no matter what she writes down for party affiliation.
The democrats ran three decent options against the republicans in 2024 and the voters decided they'd rather sit out the election and let Trump win.
It's not some big involved conspiracy.
Either you don't understand California elections and their primary process or maybe you just missed this one. Or maybe, it's something else...
This cynical dismissal of history is why the Democratic party struggles as hard as they do. It's deeply damaging to their ability to actually win elections across the board. Not addressing their failures, not addressing and showing up where they failed previously, and creating the narrative structure where Democratic failures can be dismissed: if you want to keep losing, keep doing these things.
Anyways, here's the article on Schiff ratfucking. It went further than this but it gets one started: https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/adam-schiffs-brazenly-cynical-campaign-strategy-boosts-a-republican/
Go Katie I will vote for you.
Yes please!!
Another corporate pawn in progressive clothing. Her whiteboard can't erase her voting record.
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Vice President Harris or Rep. Porter would both be fantastic!
I'd love to see Katie Hill make a comeback too.
Harris? Fucking hell get your head out of your ass and realize she's as spineless as Biden
Harris wasn't good in the 2020 primary, she wasn't good as vice president, and she wasn't good in the 2024 race where she lost all of democracy to the guy the California governor would now be responsible for standing up to. She's not our designated champion anymore, we don't need to pretend she's a superstar politician destined for great things.
I remember her from WAY before being VP, and they aren't good memories. California, late 80s, early 90s. Prosecuting sex workers, many of them trans. The Three Strikes law was the love of her life back when the Senator from Mastercard (how many remember that nickname?) was wasting Congress' time with steroids in baseball.
