Posted on 10/03/2021 3:24:03 AM PDT by Libloather
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared to take a shot at fellow Democratic lawmaker Sen. Kyrsten Sinema in a tweet on Saturday as progressives and moderates struggle to agree on key pieces of legislation.
"There really isn't anything maverick, innovative, or renegade about being a politician that works with corporate lobbyists to protect the rich, short-shrift working families, and preserve the status quo," Ocasio-Cortez wrote, adding its one of the "most conventional ways to navigate politics."
She didn't mention the Arizona senator by name, but the tweet was posted hours after a report suggested Sinema wanted to be remembered as a "maverick," like the late Arizona Sen. John McCain.
"I think she definitely would like for her legacy to be 'the maverick' like him," Grant Woods, a former Arizona attorney general, told Time magazine. "He was instinctively drawn to doing the opposite of what he was told and what people expected. She's definitely attracted to that image."
Many of the replies to Ocasio-Cortez's tweet directly named or mocked Sinema. Others were retweeting it and directly tagging Sinema's account.
Representatives for Sinema did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
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The left IS the rich.
America mocked Joe McCarthy……but he was 100% correct.
The status quo? Oh, that’s good. Cortez and her party (Biden) are so status quo, they want to take us back to Civil War days or the days of segregation.
I maintain these friendships because they go back a long way, to my teens ... but still I don't trust any of 'em, no matter how long we'd been friends.
AOC’s policies only empower the super rich.
Every American should be treated with respect and equal justice. And that includes the rich.
Funny, Sinema is no moderate!
When she was the leader of AZ senate democrats, she was all over the TV, news and radio, pushing all Democratic agendas. She was “the voice of the AZ democrats”, super partisan.
Now, suddenly, she is the “moderate”. ?
I live in the Boston area and used to be friends with longtime leftist, friends from childhood. I just can’t anymore. I don’t trust them.
AOC? The communist bar tender that chased Amazon out of NYC, so that her constituents cant find a job? That AOC?
“…appeared to dunk on…”
I hate our current culture.
but AOC is Rich now from money laundering campaign funds through her boyfriend’s company
I know a few of those to the left of Bernie but maintain they are independent.
Alexandria Cortez a socialist that grew up with a silver spoon in her mouth.
The debutante from Westchester tweets!
The Demagogic Party is a collection of violent rival street gangs.
Well said.
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