snapping at a female staffer<\/a>.<\/p>\nThen-Rep. Katie Porter tore into a staffer who innocently popped on video during a discussion with the former Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm. Politico<\/p>\n
Porter tried to storm out of a CBS interview. CBS News<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to be honest with you, I know that that video, and that video was several years ago, as you know, and I apologized to that staffer that\u2019s super important to me and will continue to try to hold myself to do better,\u201d the 51-year-old said during the interview.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what I can promise.\u201d<\/p>\n
The testy lawmaker was referring to unearthed footage, obtained by Politico, that showed her yelling at a female staffer to \u201cget out of my f\u2013king shot\u201d during a July 2021 Zoom discussion with the Biden administration on environmental policy.<\/p>\n
The resurfaced footage went viral last week after a tense on-air clash between Porter and CBS reporter Julie Watts lit a social media firestorm \u2013 with the former rep bizarrely accusing the journalist of being \u201cunnecessarily argumentative\u201d when asked about the difficulty of scoring votes from Trump supporters.<\/p>\n
Porter is vying to replace term-limited Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in the Nov. 3 election.
AP<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I look at those videos I want people to know that I understand that I could have handled things better,\u201d Porter said when pressed about her temper.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I\u2019m known as someone who\u2019s able to handle tough questions, who\u2019s willing to answer questions, and I want people to know that I value the incredible work that my staff can do. People who know me know I can be tough but I need to do a better job expressing appreciation for the amazing work that my team does.\u201d<\/p>\n
Porter is vying to replace term-limited Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in the Nov. 3 election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter refused to say whether more videos exist of her exploding at staffers \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5634,7,9,8,4594,13,3586],"class_list":["post-5059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-bullying","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-governors","tag-politics","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}