In her five months in Congress after flipping her longtime GOP Orange County, CA district (which Cook Political now rates as R+3), Katie Porter has really impressed me with her intelligence, brilliance at questioning witnesses, and courage. Still, it is a little surprising but very gratifying to see her stick her neck out and call for an impeachment inquiry — doing the right, patriotic thing despite the political risks at home and pressures from Dem leadership in Washington.
“I didn’t come to Congress to impeach the President,” Porter said. “But when faced with a crisis of this magnitude, I cannot with a clean conscience ignore my duty to defend the Constitution. I can’t claim to be committed to rooting out corruption and putting people over politics and then not apply those same principles and standards in all of the work I do.”
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Porter’s video announcing her decision is beautifully put and well worth watching. Hopefully her courage on this will be contagious!