UC Irvine law professor to challenge Rep. Mimi Walters (R) in Orange County's 45th District

[TomCADem]

Another candidate is filing against an incumbent Republican in California.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-uc-irvine-law-professor-to-challenge-1491180370-htmlstory.html

UC Irvine law professor Katie Porter is challenging Republican Rep. Mimi Walters in Orange County's 45th District in 2018.

The 43-year-old Democrat is an expert on consumer-protection law and banking and was an early whistleblower about mortgage fraud by Wall Street banks ahead of the 2008 financial collapse.

“I’m really running to do what I’ve always done, which is to stand up to special interests,” Porter told The Times in an interview. “I want to take that fight to Washington.”

In 2012, she was picked by then-Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris to monitor distribution of California's share of a $25-billion national mortgage foreclosure settlement. Harris, now a U.S. senator, has endorsed Porter.

[SunSeeker]

1. Yes! Mimi Walters needs to go! And Porter is just the woman to send her packing!

[NBachers]

2. We are building a great bench of Democrats- and California will be nearly vermin-free!