[ [link removed] ]Katie Porter for Senate



I just officially announced that [ [link removed] ]I’m running for re-election in 2024. I
never in a zillion years thought I'd be a U.S. Senator. But my life has
had a lot of twists and turns, just like a lot of people's.

I grew up on the ragged edge of the middle class. After my daddy’s heart
attack, my family came within an inch from losing our house, but my mother
got a minimum wage job at Sears that saved our family.

I dropped out of college at 19 to get married, but got a second chance at
a public college that cost $50 a semester and got to live my dream of
becoming a public school teacher.

I’ve dedicated my career to studying why families go broke and fighting to
rebuild the middle class. That’s how I met Katie Porter, when she was one
of my law students studying consumer law. After Wall Street crashed our
economy in 2008, I fought to create the Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau to protect people from getting scammed by big banks and
corporations.

After Senate Republicans vowed to block my nomination to serve as the
CFPB’s first director, I went back home to Massachusetts and ran against
one of them — and I beat him. I ran to tax greedy corporations, to invest
in jobs and our infrastructure, and to rein in student loan companies. And
guess what? We got it all done.

[ [link removed] ]But the fight to make our government work for everyone — not just the
wealthy and well-connected — isn’t over. So I’m running for re-election to
keep up the fight — and I would be thrilled to have Katie Porter by my
side in the Senate so we can do this work together. Will you split a
donation between Katie’s campaign for Senate and my re-election campaign
today?



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I still remember the first day Katie and I met. My class was held early in
the morning, meaning a lot of students had their heads down, trying to
avoid being called on. But not Katie. She was determined and ready to go.
When the first answer she gave wasn’t her strongest, she came to my office
hours and said, “Please keep calling on me. I am going to learn to do
this.”

Years later, in 2012, then-Attorney General of California Kamala Harris
secured a settlement of $18 billion from our country’s biggest banks for
their predatory lending practices that spurred the 2008 housing crisis.
She asked if I knew anyone who could work as an “independent monitor” to
make sure the Big Banks actually paid California families the money they
were now owed. It was a massive undertaking, but I knew just the person
for the job: my former student Katie Porter. She served as a watchdog over
Wall Street banks and held their feet to the fire to ensure California
families received the billions they were owed.

When she decided to run for Congress in 2018, I was very happy to support
her. I knew that we needed more people like Katie in Washington — who
understood the real experiences that working families faced, who had the
courage to stand up to big corporations and special interests, and who
would fight to make our government work for everyone, not just the rich
and powerful. A Democrat hadn’t represented her district for decades, but
she knew exactly how to personally connect with voters, build a strong
movement, and win. She flipped that seat, and she’s been winning for
working people ever since.

Katie and I are still continuing the fight to hold Big Banks accountable
and protect consumers. We even proposed a bill together earlier this month
that places stricter rules on the banking industry to prevent more bank
collapses. I’ve been a fan of hers for years and years, and it would be a
great honor to serve alongside Katie in the Senate to get more done for
working people.

[ [link removed] ]Before Friday’s critical end-of-quarter deadline, will you please
split a contribution between my re-election campaign and Katie Porter’s
race for Senate? Side by side, we’re going to put government on the side
of working people.



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Thanks for being a part of this,

Elizabeth




 


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