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The office of Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., is taking heat for how she treated a veteran and former staffer in July for allegedly violating “office protocols” by catching COVID-19.
Screenshots of text messages between Porter and her former Wounded Warrior program fellow, Sasha Georgiades, were published by the Dear White Staffers Twitter account on Thursday.
The post said the text messages were shared “with permission” from the staffer who shared them and detail a conversation between Porter and Georgiades over the office’s COVID-19 protocols.
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Screenshots of text messages between Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., and her former staffer, Sasha Georgiades, were published by the Dear White Staffers Twitter account on Thursday.
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Georgiades was Porter’s staffer for two years and departed the office in August.
Porter’s office denied Georgiades was fired for catching COVID-19 in a statement to Fox News Digital.
“This former employee was not fired. She was a fellow in our office, and weeks before she breached COVID protocol in July, we had already mutually agreed on an end date in August 2022,” a Porter spokesperson wrote.
“Congresswoman Porter was informing her that she would work from home for the remaining three weeks of her fellowship,” the spokesperson continued. “Following knowledge of COVID exposure, Congresswoman Porter tested twice daily and only attended in-person gatherings after negative results.”
Georgiades told Fox News Digital on Thursday she “was not fired because [Porter] couldn’t” fire her.
“I was a wounded warrior fellow so the program would have to have had fire [me],” Georgiades said. “Essentially I was demoted to remote and banned from the office.”
“I do believe if there hadn’t been that protection of the wounded warrior program she would have,” the Navy veteran added.
Georgiades said…
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