Get the Facts: Claims in attack ad against California Senate candidate Katie Porter

PRIMARY, THE RACE FOR CALIFORNIA SENATOR IS GETTING MORE AND MORE HEATED. THE LATEST AD GOES AFTER KATIE PORTER. BUT HOW ACCURATE IS IT? KCRA THREE CAPITOL CORRESPONDENT ASHLEY ZAVALA JOINS US TO GET THE FACTS. KATIE PORTER PLAYS US FOR FOOLS. THE LATEST AD IN THE RACE FOR CALIFORNIA SENATE CLAIMS TO SHINE LIGHT ON KATIE PORTER’S CLAIMS THAT SHE TAKES NO MONEY FROM MAJOR POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEES. NO, INSTEAD, KATIE PORTER TAKES HER CAMPAIGN CASH DIRECTLY FROM BIG PHARMA. BIG OIL AND THE BIG BANK EXECUTIVES. SO LET’S LOOK AT THOSE CLAIMS ONE AT A TIME. KATIE PORTER TAKES HER CAMPAIGN CASH DIRECTLY FROM BIG PHARMA, THE FIRST THAT AN EXECUTIVE FROM SPECTRUM PHARMA PAID $500. LOOKING AT THE FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION’S CAMPAIGN FINANCE DATA. THAT IS TRUE, BUT FOR THE 2018 ELECTION CYCLE FOR THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THAT EXECUTIVE IS NO LONGER WITH SPECTRUM FROM BIG OIL. THIS CLAIM IS TRUE IN THE SAME WAY AN EXECUTIVE OF WOOD OIL DID DONATE $2,000, BUT AGAIN THEN IN THE 2018 ELECTION CYCLE AND THE BIG BANK EXECUTIVES AGAIN, TRUE, BUT THAT $2,900 DONATION IS FROM THE 2021 ELECTION CYCLE FROM THE NOW FORMER PRESIDENT OF THAT COMPANY. NONE OF THOSE DONATIONS WERE TO PORTER’S SENATE CAMPAIGN. MORE THAN $100,000. THAT’S NOT SHAKING UP THE SENATE. THOSE DONATIONS IN TOTAL ADD UP TO $100,000. BUT NONE ARE AGAIN FOR THE SENATE CAMPAIGN. KERN THE HIGHEST DONATION WE COULD FIND FOR ALL HER ELECTION YEARS WAS FOR $83,000. SO? SO WHO PAID FOR THIS AD FAIR? SHAKE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENT OF THIS AD FAIR SHAKE IS A POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE WITH A WEBSITE SAYING THEY ARE COMMITTED TO, QUOTE, THE NEXT GENERATION OF INTERNET AND HELPING BLOCKCHAIN DEVELOPERS WITH A, QUOTE, CLEARER REGULATORY AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK AND LOOKING AT THEIR OWN CAMPAIGN FINANCE DATA. THEIR NUMBERS ARE A LOT HIGHER THAN PORTER’S, AS DONATIONS FROM BLOCKCHAIN COMPANIES FOR 20 15.5 AND $14 MILLION, EVEN $50,000 EACH FROM FACEBOOK CO-FOUNDERS THE WINKLEVOSS TWINS. SHE CLAIMS NOT TO TAKE CORPORATE PAC MONEY. SO HOW TRUE IS THE AD? THE CLAIMS ARE CORRECT THAT PORTER DID TAKE MONEY FROM THOSE PARTICULAR EXECUTIVES, BUT THE MONEY WAS NOT FOR THIS SENATE CAMPAIGN. IN FACT, NONE OF THOSE PEOPLE LISTED WERE IN PORTER’S 2023 2024 CAMPAIGN FINANCE REPORTS. BACK TO YOU. THIS AD COMES AT A TIME WHEN THE POLLS SHOW ADAM SCHIFF AND KATIE PORTER IN A CLOSE RACE, WHILE REPUBLICAN STEVE GARVEY HAS BEEN MAKING BIG STRIDES, ACCORDING TO A RECENT PPIC POLL, THE TOP TWO VO

Get the Facts: Claims in attack ad against California Senate candidate Katie Porter

Updated: 7:25 PM PST Feb 28, 2024

Special Projects Producer

With the run-up to the March 5 primary, the race for California senate is getting more and more heated.The latest ad in the race for California senate claims to shed light on Rep. Katie Porter’s claims she takes no money from political action committees. The ad alleges Porter takes her campaign cash directly from big pharma, big oil, and big bank executives.Porter indeed took money from particular executives. But the money was not for this Senate campaign. None of the people listed were in Porter’s 2023-24 campaign finance reports.The group Fairshake, which is behind the ad, is a political action committee with a website saying they are committed to “the next generation of internet” and helping blockchain developers with “a clearer regulatory and legal framework.”Looking at their own campaign finance data, their numbers are a lot higher than Porter’s.See more in the full video above.| MORE | Here is your 2024 California voter guide for races, measures

With the run-up to the March 5 primary, the race for California senate is getting more and more heated.

The latest ad in the race for California senate claims to shed light on Rep. Katie Porter’s claims she takes no money from political action committees. The ad alleges Porter takes her campaign cash directly from big pharma, big oil, and big bank executives.

Porter indeed took money from particular executives. But the money was not for this Senate campaign. None of the people listed were in Porter’s 2023-24 campaign finance reports.

The group Fairshake, which is behind the ad, is a political action committee with a website saying they are committed to “the next generation of internet” and helping blockchain developers with “a clearer regulatory and legal framework.”

Looking at their own campaign finance data, their numbers are a lot higher than Porter’s.

See more in the full video above.

| MORE | Here is your 2024 California voter guide for races, measures