Posted on 11/22/2025 10:59:42 PM PST by Libloather
This fundraiser is for the birds.
Power-hungry “Squad” member Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) cooked up a new way to have her cake and eat it too this Thanksgiving – by tying her annual turkey giveaway to her massive reelection campaign enterprise. And critics are crying fowl.
“Thanksgiving is two weeks away,” the self-described “Bronx girl” wrote in an email pitch last week. “Will you chip in $5 or anything you can today to help us bring the joy of the holiday season into homes around NYC this year?”
But clicking on the contribution link sends people directly to a campaign fundraising page operated by ActBlue, where donors are prompted to make a one-time or recurring monthly donation.
Selecting a dollar amount brings a disclosure that the appeal is “paid for by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress” and a reminder that donations are not deductible as charitable contributions at tax time.
Like dozens of pols across Gotham, AOC has given away hundreds of gobblers since 2019, but as rumors swirl about her run for Senate or even the White House in 2028, she decided to change her fundraising recipe.
Instead of having supporters send donations directly to community organizations organizing turkey drives — like she did in 2021 when she reported raising $33,589.64 for three local charities — she’s having people send money to her campaign.
“A campaign is not supposed to be a pass-through for charitable work,” said former City Council Minority Leader Joe Borelli. “What if she raised enough money for a million turkeys? Would she buy a million turkeys, or would she keep $990,000 for her campaign and then throw the rest of the turkeys out the back of a truck and take a photo-op?
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As God is my witness, I thought Turkeys could fly.
Just when you think they’ve hit about as morally low as possible, they hit a new low. Doesn’t seem to be a bottom to their low.
They can...I watched them fly into the trees at my daughters camp.
I wonder if the “more woke than thou” parts of the left wing won’t excoriate her for not giving out Vegan and/or Halal meals instead?
Another POS criminal voted in to represent honest hard-working individuals. waste-FRAUD-abuse.
Sounds like fraud, like communism is in practice. They’ll argue and argue with you about how wonderful it is in theory, but in practice, it’s sh— because of fraud.
And it’s pretty blatant.
Gee, that’s like stealing the tips of your co-workers.
Just another fraud scheme perpetrated by demonrats. When do they go to prison?
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Beat me to it.
Repeat and often
NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT
AOC and Les Nessman are of similar intellect.
New Yorkers would have been better off with the 25,000 good paying Amazon jobs she cost them. They would have been making that money year round. Instead, she offers them a turkey.
This isn’t just criminal, it’s AOC criminal.
Is Nancy today the Dorian Gray picture of what AOC will look like years from now?
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