# Katie Porter

Static LLM evidence packet for the Said vs. Did California Governor 2026 research prototype.

## Use Rules

- This is a research prototype, not a voter guide, endorsement, or final assessment.
- Many rows are model-generated or unreviewed and should be treated as evidence-navigation aids.
- Missing or limited coverage means the dataset has not ingested, normalized, or balanced that surface yet; it is not evidence that a candidate lacks activity there.
- Use source URLs and record IDs when citing claims. Prefer the linked JSON/JSONL companion files for retrieval.

## Links

- App profile: [Katie Porter](https://polit.pages.dev/app/?view=profile&candidate=katie-porter)
- App claim network: [Katie Porter claim network](https://polit.pages.dev/app/?view=network&candidate=katie-porter)
- Machine-readable packet: [katie-porter.json](https://polit.pages.dev/llm/candidates/katie-porter.json)
- Candidate claim evidence JSONL: [katie-porter-claims.jsonl](https://polit.pages.dev/llm/evidence/candidates/katie-porter-claims.jsonl)
- Candidate index: [all candidates](/llm/candidates/index.md)
- Curated issue index: [issues](/llm/issues/index.md)

## Snapshot

- Candidate ID: `katie-porter`
- Party: Democratic
- Ballot designation: Consumer Protection Advocate
- Campaign status: Active or not separately flagged
- Ballot status: unknown
- Priority candidate: True
- Generated from site artifact: `2026-06-02T08:01:06.314093+00:00`

## Summary

Former U.S. House member and consumer-protection advocate with a record centered on oversight, corporate accountability, affordability, and consumer finance.

## Current Program

Consumer-watchdog Democratic affordability campaign: confront Trump and corporate power while promising direct cost relief on taxes, child care, tuition, housing, health care, and utilities.

### Program Sources

- [Porter campaign home page](https://katieporter.com/)
- [Porter campaign biography](https://katieporter.com/about/)
- [Porter campaign priorities](https://katieporter.com/priorities/)
- [Porter child-care priority page](https://katieporter.com/priority/free-child-care-for-all/)
- [Porter housing costs priority page](https://katieporter.com/priority/lowering-housing-costs/)
- [Porter homelessness priority page](https://katieporter.com/priority/ending-homelessness/)
- ... 7 more source links in the JSON packet.

### Normalized Promises

- **taxes / affordability**: Eliminate California income taxes for people earning less than $100,000.
  - Authority path: requires legislation and budget replacement
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `5`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Replace income taxes below the $100,000 threshold through tax legislation.
    - Pair the cut with a budget replacement plan so state services are not silently reduced.
- **child care**: Provide free child care for all, with worker/business support and employer incentives.
  - Authority path: budget, legislation, state agencies, local provider capacity
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `4`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Fund universal child-care access through the state budget.
    - Support child-care workers and providers so expanded access has enough capacity.
    - Use employer incentives to increase child-care participation and availability.
- **higher education**: Make public university tuition free for UC and CSU students.
  - Authority path: budget proposal, UC/CSU governance, legislation
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `4`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Use the budget to replace UC and CSU tuition for eligible students.
    - Coordinate with UC and CSU governance on implementation and enrollment effects.
- **housing**: Speed housing production by nearly two years through enforcement against local delays, faster certificates of occupancy, construction innovation, and state land and infrastructure investment.
  - Authority path: state housing enforcement, budget, surplus land policy, infrastructure funding, and legislation
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `4`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Enforce state housing law against local governments that delay approved homes.
    - Speed certificates of occupancy and final approvals.
    - Invest state land and infrastructure funds into housing production.
    - Support construction innovation that lowers time and cost.
- **homelessness / renter prevention**: Reduce homelessness through emergency rental assistance, rapid rehousing, interim housing, prevention tools, and lower permanent-supportive-housing costs.
  - Authority path: housing agency direction, budget, federal funds, local accountability, and legislation
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `4`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Expand emergency rental assistance and prevention programs.
    - Use rapid rehousing and interim housing to reduce unsheltered homelessness.
    - Lower permanent-supportive-housing costs so each public dollar houses more people.
- **health care**: Fight federal health-care cuts, protect and expand California health care, improve the health-care workforce, and defend abortion access.
  - Authority path: state-federal litigation, DHCS and Covered California direction, budget, workforce policy, and legislation
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `3`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Use state-federal litigation and DHCS/Covered California authority against federal health-care cuts.
    - Invest in health-care workforce capacity.
    - Protect abortion access through state funding, enforcement, and legal defense.
- **health care**: Lay the groundwork for CalCare or Medicare for All by building toward single-payer health care in California.
  - Authority path: state legislation, budget, federal waivers, DHCS, Covered California, and rate setting
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `4`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Pursue state legislation and federal waivers needed for single-payer implementation.
    - Use DHCS, Covered California, and rate-setting capacity as transition infrastructure.
    - Build the fiscal and administrative groundwork for CalCare or Medicare for All.
- **immigration / civil rights**: Reject federal overreach, keep California communities as sanctuaries for immigrants, and work with federal partners to abolish ICE.
  - Authority path: state-federal litigation, executive guidance, law-enforcement policy, and legislation
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `3`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Maintain sanctuary protections through state guidance and law-enforcement policy.
    - Use state-federal litigation against federal overreach.
    - Work with federal partners on ICE abolition while protecting California communities locally.
- **taxes / affordability**: Pair eliminating state income tax below $100,000 with a progressive corporate tax on the most profitable corporations.
  - Authority path: tax legislation, budget replacement, and corporate-tax administration
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `5`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Use a progressive corporate-tax increase on the most profitable corporations as revenue replacement.
    - Eliminate income tax below the $100,000 threshold through tax legislation.
    - Link the tax swap to income inequality and affordability relief.
- **climate / energy**: Accelerate clean energy, expand the grid, and position California for 100 percent clean energy output every day while lowering costs.
  - Authority path: CPUC/CARB appointments, energy-agency direction, infrastructure investment, and legislation
  - Status: `pending_governor_action`; specificity: `3`
  - Mechanisms:
    - Invest in grid expansion needed for clean-energy deployment.
    - Use CPUC, CARB, and energy-agency appointments to accelerate clean power.
    - Treat daily 100 percent clean-energy output and lower costs as joint targets.

## Record And Action Samples

- **Served on House Oversight and used congressional office for consumer and accountability work**
  - Date: `2019-2025`; issue: consumer protection / oversight
  - Her official House profile and Congress.gov record support a legislative/oversight action surface, but individual policy outcomes need bill-by-bill or hearing-by-hearing matching.
- **Introduced bipartisan Presidential Ethics Reform Act with House Oversight chair**
  - Date: `2024-05-14`; issue: ethics / anti-corruption
  - A concrete action aligned with anti-corruption and government-accountability positioning.
- **Run as a watchdog against corruption and powerful interests.**
  - Date: `Congressional and statewide campaign positioning`; issue: promise outcome
  - Introduced bipartisan Presidential Ethics Reform Act and other accountability legislation while in Congress.
- ... 65 more action rows in the JSON packet.

## Claim-Network Evidence Samples

- `cl-app-event-2026-05-29-calmatters-governor-q-and-a-transcripts-katie-porte-78186273` 2026-05-29: Porter says California should revisit and adjust the thresholds in its progressive tax code as income inequality increases and top earners accumulate more wealth. ([source](https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2026/governor/videos/transcripts/))
- `cl-app-event-2026-05-29-calmatters-governor-q-and-a-transcripts-katie-porte-d9bae4ad` 2026-05-29: Porter says lowering housing costs is the single biggest step California can take to improve affordability because housing is most families’ largest expense. ([source](https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2026/governor/videos/transcripts/))
- `cl-app-source-porter-abolish-ice-priority-page-8466da53c55d9c32-79f2a1d1-ka-702c62b2` 2026-05-26: Reject federal overreach, keep California communities as sanctuaries for immigrants, and work with federal partners to abolish ICE. ([source](https://katieporter.com/priority/abolish-ice/))
- `cl-app-source-porter-campaign-priorities-272fdfb53aab31cd-3a89bdcd-katie-po-b07ed4bd` 2026-05-26: Make public university tuition free for UC and CSU students. ([source](https://katieporter.com/priorities/))
- `cl-app-source-porter-campaign-priorities-272fdfb53aab31cd-3a89bdcd-katie-po-b6ad5a56` 2026-05-26: Provide free child care for all, with worker/business support and employer incentives. ([source](https://katieporter.com/priorities/))
- `cl-app-source-porter-campaign-priorities-272fdfb53aab31cd-3a89bdcd-katie-po-f87c8051` 2026-05-26: Eliminate California income taxes for people earning less than $100,000. ([source](https://katieporter.com/priorities/))
- `cl-app-source-porter-environment-and-clean-energy-priority-page-9e556ca1a07-32c1613a` 2026-05-26: Porter claims California can reach 100% clean energy output year-round and that doing so would reduce energy costs for Californians. ([source](https://katieporter.com/priority/protecting-our-planet/))
- `cl-app-source-porter-environment-and-clean-energy-priority-page-9e556ca1a07-528ca87b` 2026-05-26: Porter says that as governor she would accelerate California’s transition to clean energy by investing in renewables such as wind, solar, and geothermal and by expanding the electric grid. ([source](https://katieporter.com/priority/protecting-our-planet/))
- `cl-app-source-porter-environment-and-clean-energy-priority-page-9e556ca1a07-83b80093` 2026-05-26: Accelerate clean energy, expand the grid, and position California for 100 percent clean energy output every day while lowering costs. ([source](https://katieporter.com/priority/protecting-our-planet/))
- `cl-app-source-porter-health-care-protection-priority-page-31cd67af907f3564-9ae3f23c` 2026-05-26: Fight federal health-care cuts, protect and expand California health care, improve the health-care workforce, and defend abortion access. ([source](https://katieporter.com/priority/protecting-healthcare/))
- `cl-app-source-porter-homelessness-priority-page-3898ee569f8223fe-4529928d-k-eccca374` 2026-05-26: Reduce homelessness through emergency rental assistance, rapid rehousing, interim housing, prevention tools, and lower permanent-supportive-housing costs. ([source](https://katieporter.com/priority/ending-homelessness/))
- `cl-app-source-porter-housing-costs-priority-page-6fc8ce89f0ef83aa-466dfe8d-08b33942` 2026-05-26: Speed housing production by nearly two years through enforcement against local delays, faster certificates of occupancy, construction innovation, and state land and infrastructure investment. ([source](https://katieporter.com/priority/lowering-housing-costs/))
- ... 39 more claim rows in the candidate JSONL file.

## Coverage Notes

- No limited or missing coverage notes were present in the coverage matrix.

## Assistant Guidance

- To compare two candidates, read both candidate packets and then inspect shared curated issue packets from `/llm/issues/index.md`.
- For ad hoc questions not represented by a curated issue page, search the candidate JSON, per-candidate JSONL, and all-claim JSONL records.
- Do not infer a candidate position from missing rows.
