Kota? I'm afraid that I don't have the pleasure of knowing that particular Jedi, but that's not too terribly surprising since not all of the Council interacts with the Senate and almost never the "rank and file", as it were.

[Thin ice would be putting it mildly. Padmé isn't as suspicious of others as Anakin can be, but she has her own talent for spotting trouble.

And this man is trouble.]

Princess Leia? That's a beautiful name. [She'd always thought so, but she wasn't born yesterday and she has lost the reason she had to trust him now.] Perhaps it's merely a superficial resemblance. That has been known to happen.