Posted on 01/11/2020 5:40:39 PM PST by Libloather
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez insisted she's a "proud" Democrat despite protesting a Democratic Party arm and withholding $250,000 in "dues" aimed at retaining the House majority.
“I’m a Democrat, I’m proud to be on this team. I’m proud to be part of the Democratic majority,” Ocasio-Cortez told Fox News in an interview Friday amid criticism she should quit the party and become an independent if she won't be a "team player."
As evidence that she's willing to work for the party, Ocasio-Cortez pointed to the more than $300,000 she’s raised directly for progressive candidates. That effort, she said, is for "preserving and expanding the Democratic majority."
Fox News reported Friday that the New York Democrat has been catching heat for failing to pay her $250,000 in dues to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in protest of a policy that she says "blacklists" vendors for working with insurgent primary challengers, such as herself.
“I don't see the sense in giving a quarter-million dollars to an organization that has clearly told people like me that we're not welcome," Ocasio-Cortez said in defending her decision.
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Does not want to give up her Wine money ,LOL
Yeah ... Nancy’s gonna have her whacked.
Of course someone who raids the tip jar isn’t going to share.
Never mind “withholding dues”, has she paid off her self-complained $28000 college student loan???
Well, many of us are proud you are a democrat too, Alex.
Glad to hear she’s a right-to-work democrat.
Great point. You keep what you earn and I’ll keep what I earn and we’ll all be happy.
socialists don’t pay, the little people do. she’s inner party, not proles.
remonds me, need more popcorn
Freeloader. She does have the look.
She claims she still owes $20,000 in student debt. She stole $1 million and hid it in a LLC. She easily pay off any bill.
The democrat party will whack her or other party members will do the same thing and not pay up.
She’s sticking it to the dinosaurs, alright.
I refuse to use the terms “liberal” or “progressive” when referring to Democrats. They aren’t even close to being either.
I remember when I was a bar-back dealing with “pretty” socially progressive bartenders who screwed me out of every tip-out.
Democrats are thieves. That’s what they do.
She’s irrelevant now. She has pretty much been tossed into the can like a feminine thing.
she is a straight up socialist who leans hard communist.
she’s a straight up communist posing as a demonratic socialist...
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