Things got exceedingly entertaining in California on Tuesday, May 5, when Democratic California gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter lost her cool and went absolutely ballistic in a shocking display of on-stage anger and rudeness…after being questioned about her temperament and reported anger management issues.
Such came when both Republican gubernatorial candidates, Chad Bianco and Steve Hilton, noted that reports have arisen criticizing her temperament. When that came up, she launched into a furious tirade, snapping at Bianco. Hilariously, she interrupted him to attack him, shortly after having attacked him for interrupting her.
For reference, the two were bickering and chiding each other throughout the night of debate. At one point, for example, Porter angrily snapped at Bianco, “Sir, I don’t need any lectures from you about being a mother.” Bianco, firing back without missing a beat, said, “You might!”
In any case, her real meltdown moment came when Porter angrily declared, commenting on the comments about her temperament, “I can’t believe that on a stage with 30 minutes of interrupting and bickering and name-calling and shouting and disrespect for everyone up here who is stepping into public service, that anyone wants to talk about my temperament.”
Firing back at her, Bianco noted that she had interrupted others too, and that it was ridiculous for her to act like she was doing otherwise. He said, commenting on her interruptions and hypocrisy, after having called out her acerbic temperament, “You were actually interrupting them, too. I don’t know why you want to act like you weren’t.”
Porter lost it. Angrily snapping at and berating Bianco for calling her out on her utter nonsense, the infamously foul-tempered and rude Democrat snapped, “Oh, cowboy up, cupcake.” Watch her go berserk after getting called out to her face here:
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At another point during the debate, Bianco and Porter bickered after Porter vowed to give free healthcare to illegal aliens. When asked point-blank about the cost concerns many have with such a program, she snapped, “We can’t afford to have people who are sick, who are making the rest of us sick.” Bianco, adding a bit of reason to the discussion, interjected, “They shouldn’t be here.”
That also set Porter off. First, she responded with a look of angry bewilderment, and then she started berating him for not wanting to use taxpayer dollars to give illegal aliens vaccinations, as if they should do that instead of just deporting the illegal aliens so that vaccinations are unnecessary.
“When anyone doesn’t have care, the rest of us are at risk when people don’t get vaccinations,” Porter snapped. She continued. “When they don’t go to the doctor, they wind up in the emergency room. They cause longer lines for the rest of us. They make our health care system — they push it to the brink.”
Steve Hilton, for his part, said, “The actual way we deal with healthcare in this state is to at least stop spending $20 billion a year on free healthcare for illegal immigrants who shouldn’t even be in the country in the first place.”
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