Posted on 12/19/2020 4:31:40 PM PST by MtnClimber
“I’m taking into account who works against other members in primaries and who doesn’t,” Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) reportedly said prior to the vote to award the key committee position to Rep. Kathleen Rice over Ocasio-Cortez.
Freshman New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was snubbed Thursday during a private Democrat committee meeting held to decide a key House Energy and Commerce Committee seat, and it wasn’t even a close vote.
According to Politico, Ocasio-Cortez lost out to fellow NY Rep. Kathleen Rice in a 46-13 vote, and at points during the run-up to the vote, tensions ran high:
Just before the Steering Committee moved to vote on the Energy and Commerce slots, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her leadership team presented a slate of their preferred candidates for four out of the five seats.
But notably, top Democrats did not choose a nominee for the final seat, which is essentially reserved for a New York member — forcing Rice and Ocasio-Cortez into a head-to-head matchup.
The panel launched into an intense round of speeches on each candidate, with several Democrats speaking up to lobby against Ocasio-Cortez, a freshman member and social media star who is seen as a political threat by many of the caucus’s moderates for her far-left policies.
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Lucky for AOC that we don’t have communism yet. The communist purges are not survivable.
the mouth that used to get her big tips now keeps her off important committees
Umm, that wasn’t her mouth.
Her tips were getting her tips???
They’re just angry because they can’t have her.
I thought Congress Critters had to buy those seats, like with K Street funds.
To think of the men and women who fought, sacrificed, died, lost limbs so that idiots in this country elect this.
Ha
“They’re just angry because they can’t have her.”
They had her till the elections. Just another useful idiot.
“I thought Congress Critters had to buy those seats, like with K Street funds.”
Nope. You commit to the leader.
It is a small club, and hopefully she has finally figured out, she is not, and will never be, in it.
Yes.
She was showcasing Physics.
Mass, gravity, body in motion, etc...
Ummmm yes it is ... but kamal toe has sewed up the opportunity
And you do the leaders dirty work and support the caucus, which she has no interest in doing.
The rank and file democrats depise her.
She is too dumb to facilitate the huge amount of graft about to occur. Only experienced party grifters allowed.
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