Katie Porter Responds to Toxic Workplace Allegations: ‘Lots of the So-Called Bad Bosses Are Women’

Rep. Katie Porter( D.C. ) said that women and people of color are frequently referred to as” bad bosses” in response to claims that she verbally abused her staffers.

Porter appeared on The View to address allegations that she created a toxic workplace for her staffers. 

“I am incredibly proud of my staff. … I’m so grateful for them,” Porter said, before deflecting criticism by suggesting allegations of toxic workplaces are sexist and racist. “Lots of the so-called bad bosses are women and disproportionately people of color.”

Porter’s’s employees claimed in the internet that Porter made” harsh and racist remarks” to them and” ridiculed people for reporting physical abuse.”

A Navy veteran and former Porter staff member said,” She even talks to staff however she wants.”

As Porter laments the possibility of sharing a workspace with Democratic coworkers, accusations of discrimination are made in her work.

Porter said next month,” It is difficult to go to work every day with Marjorie Taylor Greene as a partner.”

More accusations of abuse by Porter surfaced last week, when the Daily Mail reported on her ex-husband’s decade-old divorce filings against her alleging that she verbally and physically abused him, at one point dumping a pot of boiling mashed potatoes on his head.