LETTER FROM SAN FRANCISCO
Since the start of containment, Katie Porter has surprised herself "Use a lot more profanity" than before. It is true that she is immobilized with the three hyperactive children (14, 11 and 8 years old) whom she raises alone in their home of Irvine, in the south of Los Angeles. A banal situation at the time of Covid-19, except that Katie Porter is the elected (democrat) of the 45e California constituency in Congress. When it takes the fly, its anti-establishment outbursts go around – and the delights – of social networks.
At this stage of the pandemic, and given the level of decibels in the house, the congresswoman gives her interviews in her car, a blue Toyota Sienna minivan of which she says the greatest good, if only to show suburban moms (suburban mothers) from Orange County – fiercely Republican until the election of Donald Trump – how much she understands their daily lives. The wavy hair, the mocking blue eye in a plump face (she ironically herself on her waist " more "), it brings a breath of fresh air into the political landscape.
Sitting in front of the parked vehicle in front of the garage, Katie lets off steam. "Aren't you tired of being in the nightmares of Republicans? ", questions actress Samantha Bee on April 9. Not in the least, sweeps the chosen one: "I have no time to waste, I take care of the kids all by myself, dinner is burning, I have 4,000 emails, my hair is spinning, I haven't shaved my hair legs for a week. "
"An excellent interrogator"
Katie Porter has no time to waste, she insists, with the "Bullshit" republican. A term that can be translated as " bullshit " and that the channel duly censored with a "beep." Not really the language of a Yale graduate, a former law professor at the University of California at Irvine. But Katie, 46, grew up in a rather mundane environment: a rural community in Iowa, between a farmer father then banker, and a mother passionate about quilts (patchwork).
In 2018, the academic managed to capture this conservative stronghold in Orange County. Emulates the former Democratic primary candidate Elizabeth Warren, of whom she was a student at Harvard, she has built herself up as an advocate of consumers facing banks, apparatchiks and other predators of the American middle class. . At the Congress, she made herself known by the way she spent the speakers on the grill, fitted with a white slate that had become emblematic. She writes the numbers in it at the same time as she questions the victim, who gradually sinks into his chair.
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