Katie Porter gets little pity over ‘hard’ congressional job: ‘Resign then’
Heather Hamilton
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Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) insisted working as a member of the United States Congress is a difficult job.
The Democratic representative, who announced she is running for U.S. Senate in hopes of filling Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) seat, lamented it is not as glamorous as it seems while appearing on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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“The truth is, it’s like you’re hot, you’re late, you’re sweaty, you don’t know what’s going on, you’re flying back and forth,” Porter told Colbert. “And I think we should be more honest with the American people about, Congress is a mess.”
Porter acknowledged, however, that “democracy is kinda supposed to be messy.”
“That’s OK,” she continued. “What’s not OK is lying to the American people about it and pretending that it’s all easy and that it’s all cut and dry.”
She also noted that working alongside Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is an especially difficult part of being in Congress.
“I mean, most people would just find a different cubicle, a different job,” Porter added, listing additional job-related difficulties. “It’s hard to commute 3,000 miles to your job, right? It’s hard to work in an industry that is — before I was a politician, I was a professor, and I actually used to be respected in my job.”
Porter’s lamenting has been met with a solution from social media users: resignation.
Conservative strategist Alec Sears tweeted in response to Porter’s complaint: “Resign then.”
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Another tweet questioned if Porter realized what job she was getting into when she ran.
“Does she know she asked for the job?” conservative influencer Just Mindy wrote.