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Nevilledog

(50,659 posts)
Wed Dec 2, 2020, 02:58 PM Dec 2020

Katie Porter: Mnuchin questioned whether she's a lawyer...



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Rep. Katie Porter
@RepKatiePorter
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Dec 2, 2020
When I tried to read @stevenmnuchin1 the law that contradicts his bogus claim to get people less COVID relief, he questioned whether I'm a lawyer.

Just want to make sure he has the answer: one of us is a lawyer, and it's not him.



Rep. Katie Porter
@RepKatiePorter
I didn’t just fall off the turnip truck, @stevenmnuchin1. I’ve been holding Wall Street bankers and predatory lenders accountable for more than a decade.
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Katie Porter: Mnuchin questioned whether she's a lawyer... (Original Post) Nevilledog Dec 2020 OP
she will be President one day... samnsara Dec 2020 #1
Has my vote! Goblue50 Dec 2020 #19
I'd vote for her in a heartbeat. 2naSalit Dec 2020 #41
Oh yes! AwakeAtLast Dec 2020 #43
I really hope so! Blue_playwright Dec 2020 #56
Yup , until then I want her as Senator JI7 Dec 2020 #62
I'd settle for SecTreas. soldierant Dec 2020 #66
That SoB makes me want to throw up. grumpyduck Dec 2020 #2
On him, please?? niyad Dec 2020 #38
! JudyM Dec 2020 #65
He is such an arrogant asshole. drray23 Dec 2020 #3
What a disgusting KT2000 Dec 2020 #4
Can we PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE prosecute Mnuchin for disobeying a legal order of Congress when BComplex Dec 2020 #5
Mnuchin's hype is smokescreen to keep everyone from seeing just what you point out. ancianita Dec 2020 #6
Oh yeah! Do it. The Laws of this land need protection. Who will defend them if WE don't?? Lock him up. Dec 2020 #53
This message was self-deleted by its author Illumination Dec 2020 #7
She's awesome. Put that arrogant POS in his place. catbyte Dec 2020 #8
Go Katie! demmiblue Dec 2020 #9
I LOVE listening to Katie grill people! She & Liz are the only 2 people in napi21 Dec 2020 #10
Representatives Ilham Omar and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez PhylliPretzel Dec 2020 #16
Weird how AOC is told to be quiet while Porter is cheered on. radius777 Dec 2020 #26
I think that varies with what each is saying at the time... Wounded Bear Dec 2020 #33
Good spot malaise Dec 2020 #36
Me too! burrowowl Dec 2020 #39
Maybe it's because Porter doesn't attack fellow Democrats dansolo Dec 2020 #74
Rep Omar is my hero for speaking truth to Abram. Porter should be part of the squad. mjvpi Dec 2020 #61
Al Franken was THE BEST 90-percent Dec 2020 #24
Yep. Still holding a grudge. LakeArenal Dec 2020 #30
I love Katie 90-percent Dec 2020 #52
We lost a good one with Al Franken. Bluepinky Dec 2020 #73
oh BS azureblue Dec 2020 #55
i agree with you 90-percent Dec 2020 #57
The first paragraph needs a question mark? czarjak Dec 2020 #70
Katie Porter is a beast! FM123 Dec 2020 #11
little stevie M on his best day is no match for Ms Porter any day this century. NoMoreRepugs Dec 2020 #12
Kick Cracklin Charlie Dec 2020 #13
Katie Porter is brilliant. We are so lucky to have her! Hekate Dec 2020 #14
He is nothing but a snake. LiberalFighter Dec 2020 #15
Yes, she's a lawyer not fooled Dec 2020 #17
Yes. She's a lawyer. And a national treasure! calimary Dec 2020 #18
From wiki Botany Dec 2020 #68
We are not sure we could love or admire her more than we do. TNNurse Dec 2020 #20
Stand Up for Your Rights Paul-EM Dec 2020 #21
I just love this woman...oh for hundreds more of the same KewlKat Dec 2020 #22
I question whether Mnuchin is human, but that's just me. rickyhall Dec 2020 #23
Nah. Not just you. I was reading before I was going to post the same. LakeArenal Dec 2020 #31
Go Katie Porter marieo1 Dec 2020 #25
I love Katie Porter. PatrickforO Dec 2020 #27
Munchin - the first target for the firing squad? LiberalArkie Dec 2020 #28
Hard to pick the first drmeow Dec 2020 #49
Firing squads. They promoted it bdamomma Dec 2020 #59
What a fool he is quitnesset Dec 2020 #29
I love Katie so much! VA_Jill Dec 2020 #32
He's a greedy sexist pig malaise Dec 2020 #34
he is so disrespectful and obnoxious. barbtries Dec 2020 #35
IF we didn't need her in the House so much avebury Dec 2020 #37
she is definitely presidential material.....this lady is incredible :) dawn5651 Dec 2020 #40
She is exactly what we need more of right now. Facts and no indulging their smarmy evasiveness. Evolve Dammit Dec 2020 #42
Mnuchin is a little twerp Dem2 Dec 2020 #44
That sexist, arrogant, MF drmeow Dec 2020 #45
Go Katie P.! Send him packing FakeNoose Dec 2020 #46
What would happen to her seat if she became our next Atty. General? The Wielding Truth Dec 2020 #47
Katie for AG Pepsidog Dec 2020 #48
I love her! DeeDeeNY Dec 2020 #50
Rep. Porter increased win margin from 4% to 7% in conservative Orange County Prof.Higgins Dec 2020 #51
Damn, I love this person!!! Ferrets are Cool Dec 2020 #54
Mnuchin bdamomma Dec 2020 #58
Katie Porter is a one woman squad mtnsnake Dec 2020 #60
The steady stream of lies Oldem Dec 2020 #63
Mnuchbag is among the most nauseating of the gang Blue Owl Dec 2020 #64
brilliant lady marieo1 Dec 2020 #67
Perhqps hw needs a session with Katie & her whiteboard? SheltieLover Dec 2020 #69
ManMooching brought a butter knife to the gunfight RainCaster Dec 2020 #71
Katie Porter is reason enough to get archive.org up to speed on archiving people. Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2020 #72
They consistently underestimate her. calimary Dec 2020 #75
The expression is twodogsbarking Dec 2020 #76
Love Katie! colsohlibgal Dec 2020 #77
That phrase "...one of us is a lawyer..." BobTheSubgenius Dec 2020 #78

soldierant

(6,647 posts)
66. I'd settle for SecTreas.
Wed Dec 2, 2020, 11:59 PM
Dec 2020

We certainly agree she needs to stay in government in positions of as much power as possible.

BComplex

(7,977 posts)
5. Can we PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE prosecute Mnuchin for disobeying a legal order of Congress when
Wed Dec 2, 2020, 03:11 PM
Dec 2020

he refused to give the House trump's tax returns? Can we PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE throw this man in jail for the rest of his natural life?

Response to Nevilledog (Original post)

napi21

(45,806 posts)
10. I LOVE listening to Katie grill people! She & Liz are the only 2 people in
Wed Dec 2, 2020, 03:20 PM
Dec 2020

Comjgress capable of slashing & burning her opponents!

PhylliPretzel

(138 posts)
16. Representatives Ilham Omar and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
Wed Dec 2, 2020, 03:32 PM
Dec 2020

have done very good jobs of grilling Republicans. Remember when Rep. Omar made mincemeat out of that war criminal Elliot Abram? Rep. Ocasio Cortez's grilling of Michael Cohen led to the NY AG's fraud case against the Trump Organization.
We've have some fantastic "grillers" on our side.

radius777

(3,624 posts)
26. Weird how AOC is told to be quiet while Porter is cheered on.
Wed Dec 2, 2020, 04:16 PM
Dec 2020

Notice how the Squad is told 'be quiet, focus on your district, stop making yourself a national figure' while Katie Porter (also a relatively new Congresswoman) is cheered on and encouraged to have a national profile.

dansolo

(5,376 posts)
74. Maybe it's because Porter doesn't attack fellow Democrats
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 07:47 AM
Dec 2020

Katie Porter knows who the enemy is. Republicans. That is why she is cheered on.

mjvpi

(1,384 posts)
61. Rep Omar is my hero for speaking truth to Abram. Porter should be part of the squad.
Wed Dec 2, 2020, 10:00 PM
Dec 2020

These women simply expect our country to live up to all of the hype.

90-percent

(6,828 posts)
24. Al Franken was THE BEST
Wed Dec 2, 2020, 04:10 PM
Dec 2020

But, his services to our country are no longer required because there's a picture of him grabbing a womans boob on an airplane from a USO trip he was on to entertain troops ten or 15 years ago..

The purity of the remaining Dem senators is impeccable, but Al was an order of magnitude better than them at holding republic creeps accountable.

America lost a damn good rep in the 98th percentile of what a good elected rep should be,

-90% Jimmy

90-percent

(6,828 posts)
52. I love Katie
Wed Dec 2, 2020, 07:31 PM
Dec 2020

I think I was responding to the nice things posted about Elizabeth and Katie and AOC and the rest of the squad.

Not a grudge, just a sadness such a brilliant for the people intellligent guy like Al gets "lynched" for something most would consider no big deal. i dont think its within Al's character to do something hurtful to a show biz colleauge. somebody he's on a uso middle east tour with. what good came of it? everybody lost except republics.

plus her connection with roger stone types. (he may have been the guy that made this public to begin with?)

we should not allow such manufactured half truths and corrupted testimony to make us sacrifice our best.

I'm also peeved about the guilty until proven innocent vibe and the collective rush to judgement.

Can't change the past, but I hope we learn from it.

-90% Jimmy

PS - saw Al in New Haven early March, about two weeks before covid hit



Bluepinky

(2,260 posts)
73. We lost a good one with Al Franken.
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 05:23 AM
Dec 2020

That whole episode was a right wing hit job. I’m still angry about how that entire episode played out.

Al had the brains and the finesse to get to the innermost truths during his questioning of witnesses. He would have marinated and then grilled that obnoxious Mnuchin.

Katie Porter did a great job herself. Hadn’t realized before how much of a prick Mnuchin is.

azureblue

(2,129 posts)
55. oh BS
Wed Dec 2, 2020, 08:24 PM
Dec 2020

You know quite well that was part of a skit they worked out. It was not spontaneous, it was scripted with her approval and forewarning. Even she said so but no, she was ignored in favor or the tar and feathers gang.

Botany

(70,281 posts)
68. From wiki
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 02:56 AM
Dec 2020

Early life and education

Porter was born on January 3, 1974, and grew up in the small farming community of Fort Dodge, Iowa.[4][5] Her father was a farmer-turned-banker.[6] Her mother Liz was a founder of Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting.

After graduating from Phillips Academy,[3][7] Porter attended Yale University, where she majored in American studies, graduating in 1996.[8] Her undergraduate thesis was titled The Effects of Corporate Farming on Rural Community.[9] She was a member of Grace Hopper College (formerly Calhoun College) at Yale.[citation needed] Porter also interned for Chuck Grassley during this time.[10]

Porter later attended Harvard Law School, where she was the Notes editor for the Harvard Women’s Law Journal.[11] She studied under current U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, and graduated magna cum laude with her Juris Doctor in 2001.[6]
Career

Porter clerked for Judge Richard S. Arnold of the United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit in Little Rock, Arkansas.[11] She practiced with the law firm of Stoel Rives LLP in Portland, Oregon,[11] and was the Project Director for the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges' Business Bankruptcy Project.[12][13][14][11][15][16] Porter was Associate Professor of Law at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas School of Law.[11] In 2005, she joined the faculty of the University of Iowa College of Law as an associate law professor,[11] becoming a full professor there in 2011[17] before joining the faculty as a tenured professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, in 2011.[8][18]

Porter's textbook Modern Consumer Law addresses consumer laws in light of Dodd–Frank and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.[19]

In March 2012, California Attorney General Kamala Harris appointed Porter to be the state's independent monitor of banks in a nationwide $25 billion mortgage settlement.[20] As monitor, she oversaw the banks' implementation of $9.5 billion in settlement reforms for Californians.[21]

marieo1

(1,402 posts)
25. Go Katie Porter
Wed Dec 2, 2020, 04:13 PM
Dec 2020

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Go, Katie Porter........we count on you. I know you are working for all of us...........thanks, be safe and watch out for those stupid dogs and I don't mean 4 legged ones!!

quitnesset

(56 posts)
29. What a fool he is
Wed Dec 2, 2020, 04:33 PM
Dec 2020

And obviously NOT an attorney otherwise he would know never to ask a question in such a hearing the answer for which he doesn’t know

VA_Jill

(9,852 posts)
32. I love Katie so much!
Wed Dec 2, 2020, 04:42 PM
Dec 2020

And when she nails Moochie or any of the banker boys it's just delicious to watch. She's an expert.

barbtries

(28,702 posts)
35. he is so disrespectful and obnoxious.
Wed Dec 2, 2020, 04:45 PM
Dec 2020

does he treat male democrats that badly when he's in a hearing reporting to Congress?

and he's fucking corrupt. gawd i can't wait til these people are out of my government.

Prof.Higgins

(194 posts)
51. Rep. Porter increased win margin from 4% to 7% in conservative Orange County
Wed Dec 2, 2020, 07:15 PM
Dec 2020

California District. MSM has ignored Rep. Porter's significant gains, and yet keeps hyping the Republicans' netting about a dozen seats out of 435 while pretending that a Mid-term election has same dynamics that a Presidential year has. Thank you to all the Chuck Todds for your incessant enabling of Trump and his Republican mob in order to increase profits at the tragic expense of degredating basic pillars of our democracy.

bdamomma

(63,650 posts)
58. Mnuchin
Wed Dec 2, 2020, 09:47 PM
Dec 2020

Arrogant POS, you will be gone too. Take your Barbie Doll wife and just go away. Katie Porter love her.

Oldem

(833 posts)
63. The steady stream of lies
Wed Dec 2, 2020, 10:19 PM
Dec 2020

has made these people delusional. I wonder if we're seeing a new phenomenon: Tell a big lie often enough and the people telling it believe it. Most of the rest of us live in a pursuit of truth, including Rep. Porter. Two universes.

Blue Owl

(49,902 posts)
64. Mnuchbag is among the most nauseating of the gang
Wed Dec 2, 2020, 10:48 PM
Dec 2020

Right up there with Kushner, Miller, Jr., McConnell, and Flynn.

marieo1

(1,402 posts)
67. brilliant lady
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 12:23 AM
Dec 2020

She is one brilliant lady/attorney!!! I love to listen to her, she makes me proud to be a female!!! Go Katie Porter!! I just watched her on Lawrence and she was brilliant.

RainCaster

(10,673 posts)
71. ManMooching brought a butter knife to the gunfight
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 04:05 AM
Dec 2020

He is so arrogant that he didn't see a need to prepare for this meeting.

calimary

(80,693 posts)
75. They consistently underestimate her.
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 10:23 AM
Dec 2020

These smug, self-flattering “hotshot” men probably see some “mousy little nobody” ready to question them, not realize that they’re actually about to face Wonder Woman in a Godzilla suit.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,535 posts)
78. That phrase "...one of us is a lawyer..."
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 12:59 PM
Dec 2020

reminds me SO much of a conversation I was having with the ICU diagnostician when I was deathly ill in 2010. He described what he thought was going on (turned out to be Staph A in my heart and while he had nailed the general diagnosis, he couldn't possibly know the agent, at that point), then asked me what I thought. I said:

"I think that, in this conversation, only one of us went to med school, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't me. Let's go with your opinion."

He did a remarkable job of keeping a straight face, but later told he it was hilarious.

You geaux, Ms Porter! A rising star in national politics.

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