Former Democratic California Rep. Harley Rouda slammed Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) for accusations she made about him being “Representative Rich Guy” when he was serving alongside her in Congress.

Porter said that Rouda once mistook her for a valet, among other accusations, in her memoir in which she asserted that “he ballooned into Representative Rich Guy.” Rouda, writing in the Orange County Register, responded to the accusations — saying they were false and that serving in Congress cost his family money.

“Her anecdotes about me mistaking her for a valet, or about my real estate purchases, or airline seats, indicate she spent a grotesque and inordinate amount of her time in the House of Representatives keeping notes, keeping score, and lying about her peers,” he wrote.

Rouda then attacked Porter for building an image as a “minivan driving, single mom” when, in reality, he claimed that she was “a boarding school, Harvard, and Yale grad” who “had more choices and more privilege than virtually everyone else.”

“Her whiteboard everywoman act is a fake. She is, at heart, an accomplished actor who stages classless photo opps on the House floor,” he wrote. “But she doesn’t want you to see her that way. Instead, she’s the victim. Always.”

He concluded by saying that her memoir revealed her “true nature” and advised Californians not to vote for Porter, whom he claimed was “in this for power and her ego.”

“Your book revealed your true nature. Your minivan is a prop, and your life is of your choosing. As they say, you made your bed. But Californians still have a choice,” Rouda said.

“If you’re not Katie Porter, I hope you vote for someone with character, stability, and wisdom. To me, Katie’s not that person, she’s no better than a bully. A bully with a white board who is in this for power and her ego. The last thing we need is more self-centered politicians like Katie Porter,” he wrote.

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Rouda was elected to an Orange County congressional district in 2018, defeating longtime Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, and he won his race alongside Porter, who took out another GOP incumbent in Orange County.

Rouda would be defeated in 2020 by Rep. Michelle Steel (R-CA), and he did not run for Congress in 2022 after he was moved into the same district as Porter. Porter, who was reelected in 2020 and 2022, is one of the leading candidates for Senate in the Golden State, alongside Reps. Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Republican Steve Garvey.