2018 Campaign for House of Representatives is Underway

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This evening, my husband and I attended our first event for a candidate who is running in our District for U.S. Representative. The 2018 campaign has already begun, and it will get heated from here. Our current U.S. Representative from District #45 in California is Republican Mimi Walters. My husband and I voted for her twice. However, after some of her recent Congressional votes, including her vote for the new tax plan which will actually cause us to pay higher taxes, we have decided we will support her Democratic opponent this time. Although four candidates are going to run for the nomination in the Democratic primary, the one who is currently leading the pack is Katie Porter. Katie is a law professor at the University of California in Irvine. She has already been endorsed by Senator Elizabeth Warren, Senator Kamala Harris and Emily's List. Katie Porter was in charge of the banking settlement in California after the 2009 bank failures and resulting foreclosures. She co-authored a book with Elizabeth Warren. She is bright, well-spoken, and assertive. Mimi Walters won the last election by 50,000 votes. She had 58.6% of the votes in our very Republican District in California. Since then, her support has fallen dramatically in our district. According to independent polls, done over December 12 - 13 (before the tax bill passed), Mimi currently has only a 33% approval rating ... lower than Trump's approval rating. In the same poll, when local residents were asked if they would vote for Mimi in the next election or an unspecified Democrat, only 41% said they would vote for Mimi and 44% said they would prefer to vote for any Democrat, instead. That is earth shattering in our conservative district of Orange County, California, home to Rick Warren's Saddleback evangelical church, and where Republicans have long been in control. Unlike Mimi Walters, Katie Porter is concerned about election reform, the environment, fair taxation, fixing the Social Security and Medicare shortfalls, protecting Medicaid, and financing other programs which benefit ordinary people, rather than just the wealthy. It should be an interesting election year. I'm ready to roll up my sleeves and work to support the candidate of my choice and, right now, that candidate is Katie Porter.