According to divorce records, the ex-husband of Rep. Katie Porter, 49, said the California Democrat frequently abused him verbally and threw “toys, books, and other objects” at him during their marriage. The abuse went much further in one instance as she allegedly poured scalding-hot mashed potatoes on his head during a fight.
Porter’s ex, Matthew Hoffman, who filed for divorce from Porter in 2013, said in a request for a restraining order dated April 30, 2013, that he was “routinely” called an “f—ing idiot” and “f—ing incompetent” by Porter, who also shattered a glass coffee pot on their kitchen counter in March 2012 when she felt their house wasn’t clean enough.
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“She would not let me have a cell phone because she said, ‘You’re too f—ing dumb to operate it,’” Hoffman said of Porter.
“When she gets angry, she will claw and scratch her arms and then say to me, ‘Look what you made me do!’” Hoffman also said in the records, first obtained by DailyMail.com. “She regularly says I am a bad parent in front of the kids … Recently the children began spitting at me and throwing their food at me, calling me ‘bad daddy.’”
In 2006, Hoffman said, Porter took issue with how Hoffman was preparing mashed potatoes for dinner, asking him: “Can’t you read the f—ing instructions!” Then, her ex-husband said, Porter raised a “bowl of steaming hot potatoes and dumped it on my head, burning my scalp.”
Radical Katie Porter from Cali, had announced that she was running for Feinstein’s senate seat. Now reports revealed she abused her husband horrifically, poured boiling potatoes over the man’s head. Not only abused him physically, also mentally. A mental institution is in order🙄
— Domenica D'Elia (@domenicadelia22) April 13, 2023
Rep. Katie Porter scalded ex-husband’s scalp with potatoes: documents https://t.co/PRd2wH08sE pic.twitter.com/AKYXS6juFO
— New York Post (@nypost) April 13, 2023
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According to Porter, Hoffman yelled at the couple’s son Luke, telling the child: “You have taken a bad situation and made it a thousand times worse.” Hoffman also allegedly punched a bathroom light switch until it shattered and threw a newspaper at her.
In her first campaign, Porter referred to herself as a “victim of domestic violence,” and her congressional biography touts her as “a single mom of three school-aged kids.”
“I don’t have a shady background,” she told Huffington Post in May 2018. “I’m the most boring person in America. I’m a mom of three kids; I protected my family and ended a troubled marriage.”
The Orange County Rep. is known for using props such as a whiteboard in committee hearings when questioning congressional witnesses, dressed as Batgirl on the day the house first voted to impeach President Donald Trump in 2019. During the voting for the speaker of the House in January, Porter could be seen in the chamber reading the self-help book “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck.”
Now Porter is running against two other House Democrats — Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) — to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who announced in February she would not seek re-election.
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