Bronx Republican says she plans to run against AOC since Amazon deal collapse

NY Post ^ | March 26, 2019 | Carl Campanile

[jazusamo]

A Bronx Republican who blames Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for scuttling the Amazon deal says she plans to run against the Democrat next year as a pro-jobs candidate.

“She chose ideology over paychecks,” said Ruth Papazian, noting that Amazon vowed to create 25,000 jobs before pulling out of its deal to open a campus in Queens. “People need jobs. We don’t have economic diversity in the outer boroughs.”

Papazian, 61, a lifelong Bronx resident and medical journalist, has met with GOP officials who have encouraged her to enter what would be an uphill race.

A daughter of Egyptian immigrants, Papazian said she would run on a platform of creating jobs, not chasing them away.

She said the Amazon fiasco is just one example of Ocasio-Cortez being too far to the left for her Bronx-Queens district.

“The Green New Deal is a job-killer,” Papazian said of the congresswoman’s environmental agenda.

[jazusamo]

Good luck to Ruth Papazian, it's a long shot but against the turkey AOC she just may pull it off.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

A Republican running on “economic diversity”? LOL...that’s the way to co-opt the enemies language.

[Steely Tom]

I wonder if the National Republicans will help her.

I’ll be surprised if they do.

[HamiltonJay]

This district votes 80% democrat...

you could have video of a democrat murdering a small boy and then raping the corpse, and the voters would still pull the lever for them on election day.

I give her props for taking on the fight, but as stupid and embarrassing as PLT (pompous little twit) is, the district will keep sending her back.

[HamiltonJay]

If I was, I would happily show up...

Let her tweet about me to her horde of followers...

Get under her skin and trolling her would raise my own worth 10 fold outside of the deep blue districts.

[MrEdd]

I do not wish for the national Republican party to even be able to help her.

That would mean that there are fools giving money to the Republican party instead of directly to candidates.

[JohnBrowdie]

the only way to send AOC back to her bar tending gig is to beat her in the primary. no way a republican beats her in the general. it’s literally inconceivable.

[Bernard]

Egyptian; Muslim, or Coptic?

[Rebelbase]

She’ll get more votes if she can walk like an Egyptian.

[Buckeye McFrog]

it's a long shot but against the turkey AOC she just may pull it off.

Tremendous respect for her for running, but.....eh, no. She is running in a gibmedat community where 90% of voters are somehow attached to the Federal teat. Democrats own these areas almost in perpetuity.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Too old and unattractive. Sorry folks. It is what it is.

[Fiddlstix]

Bronx Republican says she plans to run against AOC since Amazon deal collapse
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[jazusamo]

Nice graphic Fiddlstix, thanks!

[shanover]

We will see if the worthless GOP supports this candidate.

[Fiddlstix]

[bigbob]

Change her name to “Ruth Democrat” so she’ll appear on the ballot at “Ruth Democrat (R)” and she’d win in a landlide.

[SKI NOW]

I wonder if the National Republicans will help her.

Only if she pledges her undying hatred Of President Trump.

[Capt. Tom]

from NY Post -Any Republican faces long odds in taking on Ocasio-Cortez. Her district is overwhelmingly Democratic and the socialist Democrat beat her GOP rival last year by 78 to 14 percent.