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Timeline of Katie Porter's Fall from Grace
* Katie decides she wants to be on the Oversight Committee so she can yell at former Trump officials while the cameras roll. This means she has to give up her seat on Financial Services because it's an exclusive Committee.
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* Katie decides she wants to be on the Oversight Committee so she can yell at former Trump officials while the cameras roll. This means she has to give up her seat on Financial Services because it's an exclusive Committee.
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* Katie ranks her preferences 1. Oversight 2. Natural Resources 3. Financial Services
* She seeks and receives a waiver to serve on both Oversight and NR at the same time.
* She seeks a 2nd waiver to sit on all three committees - HIGHLY unusual. Financial Services says no.
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* She seeks and receives a waiver to serve on both Oversight and NR at the same time.
* She seeks a 2nd waiver to sit on all three committees - HIGHLY unusual. Financial Services says no.
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* Katie takes to Twitter to complain that other people got a waiver but she didn't, even though she did. She just didn't get two. She also inexplicably says "I play by the rules" even though she JUST SAID IN THE SAME TWEET that she requested the rules be waived for her. Twice.
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* This sparks a flurry of op-eds about how Katie was "removed" from Financial Services "because banks are afraid of her" and how Nancy and Maxine fucked up and someone better fix this NOW.
* The banking community says, "Who?"
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* The banking community says, "Who?"
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* White women on Twitter lose their damn minds and tweet furiously that Katie was ROBBED and ONLY SHE CAN SAVE US and she should be allowed to serve on as many committee as she wants because she's better than everyone in Congress put together.
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* The next morning, Punchbowl breaks a story reporting that Katie asked Chairman Maxine Waters to remove one of the women of color on the Financial Services Committee so she could have their seat.
Chairman Waters declined.
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Chairman Waters declined.
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* It gets worse. After Katie was denied the second waiver, she went to leadership and lobbied for Financial Services to be downgraded to a non-exclusive committee so she could serve on it without a waiver.
Chairman Waters was NOT pleased to learn Katie tried to demote her.
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Chairman Waters was NOT pleased to learn Katie tried to demote her.
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* Her next move was to sic her minions on Nancy and Maxine in hopes of pressuring them to bend to her will. It did not work.
Then the truth came out.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them.
Katie didn't even need a whiteboard this time. #MiniMeeMaw
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Then the truth came out.
When someone shows you who they are, believe them.
Katie didn't even need a whiteboard this time. #MiniMeeMaw
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