Following a defeat in a Senate primary race, Representative Katie Porter said ads targeting her campaign didn’t raise discussions on crypto policy — just attacked her contributors.
“They don’t know what my crypto views are because they never asked,” said Katie Porter following her defeat in a primary for California’s Senate race.
California Representative Katie Porter, who lost a primary race for the United States Senate in March, suggested that targeted ads by a political action committee may have contributed to her defeat but did not further the national conversation on crypto.the motivations behind $10 million worth of spending aimed at derailing her campaign for the U.S. Senate by Fairshake, a Super PAC backed by cryptocurrency firms including Ripple and Coinbase.
“This wasn’t actually a conversation that I think we should be having about crypto, about technology in Congress,” said Porter. “This wasn’t about crypto policy. This wasn’t about engaging me, seeing what I think, teaching me, coming to a policy understanding.” Porter had been running for one of California’s two seats in the U.S. Senate but lost in a March primary to Democrat Adam Schiff and Republican Steve Garvey. Fairshakein February claiming Porter took campaign contributions from “big pharma, big oil, and the big bank executives” — claims the Sacramento Bee rated as “mostly false.
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