Posted on 10/26/2025 8:51:13 PM PDT by Red Badger
Matthew Hoffman, the ex-husband of former Congresswoman and gubernatorial candidate Katie Porter, reportedly suffered the indignity (and injury) of having Porter pour boiling potatoes over his head. Now that Porter's volatile temper and bad behavior to her staffers has been exposed for all to see, Hoffman has decided to break his silence on their relationship and confirm what most of us already know: she's a terrible politician, and would make an even worse governor.
Hoffman spills the tea. Fortunately, since he lives in OR now, he has a state between them to insulate him from any blowback.
Katie Porter is a “master manipulator” who embodies everything wrong with politics today, according to her husband of 10 years.
Matthew Hoffman, 50, told The Post the hotheaded liberal contender for California governor is a bad choice to run the deep blue state.
Referring to video clips that exposed Porter’s volatile temper and hostile treatment of staffers and journalists, he said, “It’s about time” they came out.
“The amount of staff she goes through. The horrible things that she says [about others] … those aren’t fabrications,” he warned The Post outside his home in Portland, Oregon.
Hoffman revealed that the power brokers of the Democrat Party (i.e., former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA)), have a hard time with Porter. This is our shocked face.
“She can’t even get along with Nancy Pelosi,” Hoffman observed.
He also said it was preposterous for Porter to claim her California Senate primary loss to Schiff last March was because he wanted to “rig” the election.
That could well explain why this steady drip of opposition against Porter's candidacy for governor has been allowed. Porter was a progressive poster child and convenient foil against the Republicans, until she wasn't. The fact that she is battling the optics of her terrible leadership with very few in the California or national Democrat Party coming to her defense speaks volumes.
Compare the circling of the wagons for Virginia gubernatorial candidate and former Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger versus the lack of support that Porter is experiencing. This should tell you all you need to know, not just about Porter's ability to build a consensus — a huge part of being a governor — but her inability to moderate. Idealogues are all well and good for Congress, but they rarely make it into higher office.
Hoffman pointed out that leadership is all about finding consensus, but said Porter’s personality means she isn’t the type to listen to differing ideas and find an acceptable political middle ground.
This also explains why Porter went deer-in-the-headlights, then ballistic, during her interview with CBS News California reporter Julie Watts.
In case one needs a reminder,
WATCH:
VIDEO AT LINK.............
What is even more fascinating is that Porter and Hoffman were married for 10 years and had three children together. I guess the old adage about breaking up to make up bears true. But Hoffman said the abuse ultimately became too much.
Addressing their relationship, Hoffman described their divorce as “awful.”
Porter was the one to file for divorce, followed by an emergency protective order and then a restraining order against Hoffman. Police also arrested Hoffman after a fight in which he broke a light switch in their home.
Hoffman responded with a request for a restraining order of his own, claiming Porter would “routinely” call him a “f—ing idiot” and “f—ing incompetent” and shattered a glass coffee pot on their kitchen counter in March 2012 when she felt their house wasn’t clean enough.
“She would not let me have a cell phone because she said, ‘You’re too f—ing dumb to operate it,’” Hoffman said of his hotheaded ex in the documents.
Hoffman then mentioned the most talked-about incident from their divorce records: during an argument, Porter dumped a boiling pot of potatoes on his head.
Hoffman also claimed in divorce papers that in 2006, Porter exploded over the way he was making mashed potatoes, snapping, “Can’t you read the f—ing instructions!” before raising a “ceramic bowl of steaming hot potatoes and dumped it on my head, burning my scalp,” according to Hoffman’s account in court papers.
Yet, when Porter ran for Congress in 2018, she alleged that she was the “victim of domestic violence.” She also painted herself as a struggling single mother, even though an investigation revealed that while she served in Congress, Porter continued to enjoy her University of Irvine subsidized housing, despite the fact that she was on administrative leave from the university.
“I’m the most boring person in America. I’m a mom of three kids, I protected my family, I ended a marriage that was troubled,” Porter said.
Katie “loves to bang the drum” of her being a single mom, Hoffman countered.
Despite Hoffman supposedly being abusive, the couple settled on joint custody arrangements.
Hoffman left California to become a compliance specialist with the Oregon Employment Department.
Their three children — two sons and a daughter, the youngest — live with their mom.
Hoffman said he loves his kids and wants to be there for them as much as possible. While sees them on FaceTime frequently, he would love to spend more time with them in person, although it’s hard with them being in Southern California.
He said he doesn’t speak to Porter often and tries to avoid her, but when she does call, it’s usually because she “wants something,” usually related to parenting.
From this up-close-and-personal account from Porter's past to her already dodgy reputation within the Democrat Party, what this adds up to may not bode well for her gubernatorial run. However, Californians voted in Gov. Gavin Newsom twice, so only time will tell whether these revelations will tank Porter, or add to her street cred.
Sounds like a west-coast Hillary.
Hillary’s persona is more common than you would think......................
“I still say the guy is either an idiot - or deaf dumb and blind.”
He’s either an idiot or else he’s an idiot. Attracted to that hideous bipolar bitch in the first place then moving to Oregon of all unChristly places.
The shitz of it is there are millions of Katie Porters/Hillary Clintons in the country. I wouldn’t wish them on anybody...except other democrats.
But in the town it was well known
When they got home at night
Their fat and psychopathic wives would thrash them
Within inches of their lives
Pink Floyd - "The Happiest Days of Our Lives"
Don't leave out the possibility he's an idiot.
Perhaps he just likes to do nice things to manual laborers, like this scrubwoman=looking creature who wants to rule in this one-party state.
Not quite as bad as I expected.
Looks like we got us a stray…
My bad!😀
I guess in even the darkest of souls, there is a little bit of light.
She would be worse than Pelosi, if that were possible................
This is why children are starving; she ate all of the food!
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