“It’s the job of the California governor to protect every single Californian,” Porter said. “The sanctuary state policy is designed to make sure that our state resources, the taxpayer dollars, the public servants that we have, are focusing on doing their jobs, which is not cooperating with the federal immigration authorities. These are Californians. They contribute to our economy, they pay taxes, and they’re one of the only ways our state has been growing in recent years.”
—Former California Congresswoman Katie Porter in this week’s gubernatorial debate explaining why “sanctuary” states are crucial to Democrats.
I have chosen to write as little as possible about California Governor candidate Katie Porter, I think because her very existence embarrasses me and the fact that such an awful human being could be elected to Congress by California voters shows just how beyond redemption that rotting state is. Here was my only entry regarding Porter, from last October:
“In California, the leading candidate to replace Gavin Newsom as governor, Rep. Katie Porter, has been bedeviled by emerging videos of her abusing staffers, refusing to tolerate probing questions from interviewers, and generally acting like a witch on wheels (It’s Halloween!) Porter and her political allies insist that these clips don’t show “the real Katie,’ which is comforting, since that demon impersonating Porter just stops short of spewing green vomit.”
The good news is that Porter isn’t leading in the polls any more, and in fact has the same chances of being governor of the tarnished Golden State as Frosty the Snowman has of being elected Mayor of Hell. The other good news is that her statement above was a public admission of why Democrats are so keen on open borders. It’s not quite a confirmation of “The Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, but it is close enough for horseshoes.
Axis-dwellers are so engulfed by their bubble that they can’t imagine anyone being bothered by a statement like that in their own party. This means, as night follows day, that they can’t imagine any progressives or Democrats possessing an understanding of law, national security, fairness, honesty…oh, lots of things.
Her state has welcomed illegal aliens in the hundreds of thousands while an estimated 10 million California residents have fled the state in the last decade. Illegal immigrants are not Californians by definition. They cannot be, because they aren’t citizens, and California cannot make them so. California’s elected officials, she admits, are not cooperating with federal law enforcement to allow millions of law-breakers to continue breaking the law, in order to provide illicit political support to Democrats, and to artificially inflate census numbers so Democrats can cement their power in Congress.
Nice.
To her credit, Porter’s explanation was frank, honest and except for her misunderstanding of that citizenship thingy, ethical. It reminds me of bank robber Willie Sutton’s legendary response when he was asked why he kept bobbing banks.
He said, “Because that’s where the money is.”
Ethics Alarms 
“In California, the leading candidate to replace Gavin Newsom as governor, Rep. Katie Porter, has been bedeviled by emerging videos of her abusing staffers, refusing to tolerate probing questions from interviewers, and generally acting like a witch on wheels (It’s Halloween!) Porter and her political allies insist that these clips don’t show “the real Katie,’ which is comforting, since that demon impersonating Porter just stops short of spewing green vomit.”
It’s statements like this that beg to be read aloud, making me sometimes wish that EA entries were done via video.
“California’s elected officials, she admits, are not cooperating with federal law enforcement to allow millions of law-breakers to continue breaking the law, in order to provide illicit political support to Democrats, and to artificially inflate census numbers so Democrats can cement their power in Congress.”
And, of course, once they are used to get the requisite number of Congressional representatives and electoral votes, they will argue that this not allowing illegals to be citizens is reminiscent of the 3/5ths clause in the Constitution and is racism akin to slavery.
About the 3/5ths Clause…
For years I have considered that to be a brilliant idea. I saw it as anti-slavery leaders telling those on the other side, “Property doesn’t get to vote in this system, and you shouldn’t receive additional votes (and by extension, representation) for what you consider “property.” But because slaves are human, they will receive 60% of a vote. If you want full representation, FREE YOUR SLAVES!!”
Of course it was a compromise, but the offer was there: if you want more power and a greater voice in government, free your slaves.
Again, I am open to being wrong in this assessment…and open to correction.
I agree with your interpretation. The Left’s narrative, though, is to ignore that the issue was Southern dominance of the government and claim that blacks were only considered 3/5ths of a human being.
I actually had a conversation with a co-worker about this exact issue. The co-worker was a liberal Democrat – probably Trump/Musk deranged – but a great conversationalist and always willing to discuss/debate without getting riled up.
Anyways, she brought up 3/5ths and I explained my perspective…and she said it actually made sense.
Small victories, I guess…
Is it just fear of political turmoil that keeps these people providing or encouraging others to provide aid and comfort to those in the country illegally? The laws I’ve seen quoted in any number of sources, many by actual well-known attorneys, appear rather straight forward on this issue.
What legal process immunizes a governor or a mayor from immigration law? Are they also immune from punishment for kidnapping? Bank robbery? Tax evasion?
I suspect state executive and legislative branches understand the immigration is a federal mandate and states have no jurisdiction over it. They.l, therefore, say, “feds, it’s your problem but we aren’t involved so we aren’t helping.” It is pure virtue signaling.
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Her bottom line: the illegal immigrants generate huge amounts of withheld employment taxes they rarely get back. This money is essential to filling the state’s coffers. Without all these people getting taxed, there wouldn’t be enough money in the state’s coffers. Forget this “This Land is Your Land,” it’s “Your tax dollars are mine,” and anyone who gets in my way will be dealt with accordingly.
She ought to be asking why that is.
“She ought to be asking why that is.”
She, and anyone who can fog a mirror, knows exactly why that is; it’s the quiet part which won’t be uttered.
PWS
Katie Porter says the quiet part out loud. This is not a gaffe. It is as in the movie quote “They are not confessing, they are bragging”.
About Katie Porter’s assertion that illegal immigrant pay taxes (on SSNs obtained via identity theft no doubt), does that make them net tax payers, or are they still net tax consumers? How much money does the state need to spend on illegal immigrants, or as a result of illegal immigration? Do we count the cost of unemployment of US citizens who cannot compete in the labor market against illegal immigrants?
I’m not a therapist, and if I was it would be unethical to diagnose someone’s mental conditions who isn’t a patient. That said…
Katie Porter SCREAMS personality disorder. One of the defining characteristics is the inability to self recognize their own emotional state. It is quite common for the sufferers so have over the top emotional reactions to others. They will scream, yell, belittle and emotionally abuse others. But they do it without even registering their own emotional state. Their recollection was that “it was nothing.” If called on it, the first reaction is deflection, denial and shifting. They will go to great lengths to keep that ruse up. If forced, then it is flipped to how it was deserved. The greatest irony off all is they’re usually VERY attuned to others who do the same and notice it better than anyone else.
A key problem that makes most on this spectrum never address it is they never, ever think they’re the problem. They’re incapable of looking in the mirror and going “it was me.” Hence Porter’s reaction to being called on it.
Often those with personality disorders are capable of masking. In public they’re fine. But once they’re not in the public eye, they will unload. They save it for those that are closest to them. It is part of the gaslighting going on. They reserve the behavior for those closest to them, and use the point that “no one else notices this, it must be you”. Blind to the fact that they treat others well, and reserve their emotional abuse for those in their inner circle.
Katie Porter can go hop her broom, and I don’t mean hop on it to fly away.
If she says something ethical while abusing staffers, that doesn’t sound like “protecting every Californian” to me. She is no longer ethical she’s saying a political talking point she thinks will get votes.
Politics is easy. Actions speak louder than words. Follow the money. Words mean nothing.
On a side note. Jared Polis (current Colorado governor), a California implant in Colorado also has a history of abusing staffers. He changed his last name and arrived here to avoid scandal. No doubt he’ll be trying to be president next with his activist husband.
I though Buttigieg was the next would-be pickle-cheddar president.
You really are incorrigible, aren’t you?
Only once in a while. 😀