• Rep. Katie Porter scalded ex-husband's scalp with potatoes: documents

    From Leroy N. Soetoro@21:1/5 to All on Sat Apr 15 23:33:55 2023
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    The former husband of Rep. Katie Porter said the California Democrat
    frequently abused him verbally and threw “toys, books and other objects”
    at him during their marriage — even pouring scalding-hot mashed potatoes
    on his head during a fight, according to divorce records.

    Matthew Hoffman, who filed for divorce from Porter in 2013, said in a
    request for a restraining order dated April 30 of that year that he was “routinely” called a “f—ing idiot” and “f—ing incompetent” by his rage-
    prone spouse, who also shattered a glass coffee pot on their kitchen
    counter in March 2012 when she felt their house wasn’t clean enough.

    “She would not let me have a cell phone because she said, ‘You’re too
    f—ing dumb to operate it,’” Hoffman said of Porter, 49, who has also been accused of ridiculing former members of her staff.

    “When she gets angry, she will claw and scratch her arms and then say to
    me ‘Look what you made me do!’” Hoffman also said in the records, first obtained by DailyMail.com. “She regularly says that I am a bad parent in
    front of the kids … Recently the children began spitting at me and
    throwing their food at me, calling me ‘bad daddy.’”

    In 2006, Hoffman said, Porter took issue with how Hoffman was preparing
    mashed potatoes for dinner, asking him: “Can’t you read the f—ing instructions!” Then, her ex-husband said, Porter raised a “ceramic bowl of steaming hot potatoes and dumped it on my head, burning my scalp.”

    In response to Hoffman’s allegations, Porter, then a professor of
    bankruptcy law at the University of California, Irvine, in Orange County, claimed in her own request for a restraining order that her ex ordered her
    out of the house on April 24, 2013, and called her a “dumb bitch,” a “despicable person” and “f—ing evil” before adding that she should “rot in hell.”

    According to Porter, Hoffman then raged at the couple’s son Luke, telling
    the child: “You have taken a bad situation and made it a thousand times
    worse.” Hoffman also allegedly punched a bathroom light switch until it shattered and threw a newspaper at her.

    In her first congressional campaign, Porter referred to herself as a
    “victim of domestic violence” and her House biography touts her as “a
    single mom of three school-aged kids.”

    “I don’t have a shady background,” she told HuffPost in May 2018. “I’m the
    most boring person in America. I’m a mom of three kids, I protected my
    family, I ended a marriage that was troubled.”

    The third-term congresswoman is running against two other House Democrats
    — Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) — to replace
    Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who announced in February she would not
    seek re-election.

    Porter, a former Harvard law student and protégé of progressive Sen.
    Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), appeared on “The Late Show with Stephen
    Colbert” this week to tout her new memoir, “I Swear: Politics Is Messier
    Than My Minivan.”

    The Orange County lawmaker may be best known for using props such as a whiteboard in committee hearings when grilling congressional witnesses —
    and even dressed as Batgirl on the day the House first voted to impeach President Donald Trump in 2019.

    During the prolonged vote series that determined the next speaker of the
    House this past January, Porter could be seen in the chamber reading the self-help book “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck.”

    In December, a Navy veteran who worked for Porter accused the
    congresswoman of dismissing sexual harassment allegations made by another staffer and cracking off-color jokes about race.

    Sasha Georgiades, who worked for the Democrat for two years as a Wounded Warrior fellow, also said Porter harshly criticized her aides and appeared
    to be motivated by a desire for “fame” and “power.”

    Georgiades told Reason magazine that Porter demoted her at the end of the fellowship for allegedly exposing the congresswoman to COVID-19.

    Comments:

    Grusky Base Camp
    3 hours ago

    A few decades ago, we closed down all the State run mental institutions,
    and now house the patients in a centralized, federally operated facility
    we call "Congress".

    Cleach2
    4 hours ago

    Katie Porter has no business serving in the House of Representatives and
    should resign. Porter needs therapy for her many issues.

    Alex Lifeson (Sire/Your Majesty)
    3 hours ago

    This is the same lunatic who has spoken openly about how she has
    indoctrinated and terrorized her own kids about how the Earth is going to
    self destruct due to Republicans climate policies. She is not only an
    abusive parent, spouse and God knows what else, she is a national disgrace
    who, like typical leftist Dems these days, will say anything, lie all day,
    and hates the USA.

    Chilli Palmer
    2 hours ago

    The leftists demanding that Feinstein step down from her Senate seat, are salivating at the thought that Newsom will be able to appoint her
    replacement. And this POS would be in the running for Feinstein's seat! A
    very scary thought! Whoever gets the seat will be able to run as the 'incumbent' in 2024, a big advantage. Luckily Porter has more baggage then
    Sam Brinton.....that and her skin pigment probably means Newsom would pick
    a different Marxist, but a Marxist just the same.

    LaviH
    2 hours ago

    Good thing she is white, because if she were a POC she would be a shoe in.
    Case in point: Sheila Jackson Lee, Maxine Waters.

    Notawokeprof
    2 hours ago

    She indeed sounds like a nut case.

    Bierwagen
    1 hour ago

    That woman has some serious mental issues. Perhaps a reservation in a long
    term mental facility?

    HARTBURN
    3 hours ago

    This woman does not belong in politics! I thought the democrats couldn't
    get worse, but I was wrong. If she replaces Pelosi, we are in big
    trouble.

    jackbnimble10
    2 hours ago

    I don't think we have seen how low Dems will sink. There is still a ways
    to go.


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