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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Anyone trusting her enough to make a donation to anything she’s promoting is a fool.
She is fighting the Oligarchs who are not giving their fair share.
AOC is trying to see who are THE TURKEYS. She found out it was her supporters...
AOC has a history of campaign finance corruption, some also involving her boyfriend/fiance’ and her chief of staff.
WILD ONES CAN FLY-—
HAVE SEEN THIS MANY TIMES
USED TO RI>DE HORSEBACK IN A CALIF WILDLIFE PRESERVE.
ONE AREA OF THE PARK HAD ALOT OF WILD TURKEYS.
Part of me hopes that the giveaway involves a helicopter...
Two turkeys for $5 libs can’t pass that deal up.
She’s the prudent thief Jesus spoke about. She will be president some day.
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