Katie Porter was exposed for berating a staffer and throwing a tantrum during an interview in two video clips this week.
And the California governor candidate is even worse when cameras aren’t rolling, one ex-staffer told The Post Friday.
One of the lawyer and politician’s cruelest tactics is dehumanizing her young underlings by referring to them in the third person — while in their presence.
Courtesy Sasha Georgiades
“It was easier for her to do these things to the quieter ones, the more soft-spoken ones, who wouldn’t be like, ‘hey, that’s not okay,’ ” Sasha Georgiades, a former Wounded Warrior Fellow and Navy veteran who served in Porter’s office from 2020–2022, told The Post.
“Going after the people you think aren’t going to fight back — I think it speaks a lot about a person’s nature when they do that.
“Especially in arena like politics, which you’re here to serve people. Actually, you’re here to serve those quiet people more, at least that’s my viewpoint on it,” she added.
Porter threatened to walk out of a CBS interview on Tuesday because she didn’t like a question. She was then exposed screaming “Get out of my f–king shot,” after a staffer wandered into the background of a 2021 video.
Georgiades described a Jekyll and Hyde boss, never knowing which Katie would show up.
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“If anything went wrong, she would flip on a dime,” Georgiades said, recalling one incident where her young team had setup a Facebook video shoot but picky Porter didn’t like what they had done.
“She’s talking to me while the other girl is in the room, telling me, ‘I don’t even know why she’s here. I can do this job better than her.’ And this is, like, very inappropriate. The girl’s in the room with us,” Georgiades said.
“It is dehumanizing and it’s demoralizing. It makes you question: why am I even doing this?” Georgiades reflected.
In July 2022, Georgiades released text messages with Porter exposing her shockingly toxic work environment. Porter and Georgiades had both tested positive for COVID-19 after attending an in-person staff meeting. Porter then sent angry text messages blaming the asymptomatic Georgiades for infecting her—and then fired her.
Porter’s campaign didn’t immediately return The Post’s request for comment.
The explosive former congresswoman was also accused of having a short fuse by her ex-husband, with whom she has three children, who described in a restraining order how she had once allegedly dumped steaming mashed potatoes on his head and had chastised him with swear words in front of their kids.
She fired back her own filing for a restraining order, also with claims of abuse against her husband. Their divorce and co-parenting arrangements were eventually settled, court documents seen by The Post show.
Orange County-based Porter was born in Iowa but served two stints as a representative for California between 2019 and 2025.
Georgiades says the incidents which happened this week should be a stark warning to those planning to vote for her to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom in 2026.
“It’s not just once or twice. If there’s a consistent behavior of her being downright mean to people, then we have to acknowledge that and say, I don’t know if that’s necessarily what I want in my politics,” she said.
Still, Georgiades hasn’t let that experience get her down. In fact, she’s carried on with the work she thinks really matters and runs The Apple of Helen, a nonprofit for military sexual trauma survivors.
And she’s even more generous to her former angry boss than many would be, saying she doesn’t think the Democrat gubernatorial hopeful wasn’t always so nasty.
“I truly believe when she first started, she was doing it for the right reasons,” Georgiades said. “I also think when people are given a taste of the limelight, who maybe aren’t used to it, or didn’t have that sort of attention growing up, it can manipulate them.”
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