Posted on 02/14/2019 12:48:51 PM PST by EveningStar
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) continues to pull back the curtain on what Congress is really like.
On Wednesday, the freshman lawmaker highlighted the way in which lobbyists and others who can afford it pay people — including some who are homeless — to wait in line for them outside committee hearings.
“Shock doesn’t begin to cover it,” tweeted Ocasio-Cortez.
Initially, she wrote, she believed the “tons of people” she saw outside the committee room were part of a demonstration.
But an aide set her straight, explaining how “lobbyists pay the homeless + others to hold their place so they can get in 1st.” ...
“Apparently this is a normal practice, and people don’t bat an eye,” the congresswoman wrote in a second post...
CNN reported on the paid place-holding phenomenon back in 2009, noting that line-standers could earn $11 to $35 per hour...
(Excerpt) Read more at huffpost.com ...
Didn’t Sheldon pay Stuart to stand in line for him?
Good work if you can get it!..................
Sounds like homeless people who are willing to work.
Or are we just supposed to give them money for nothing?
I wonder if she is shocked that dems pay people to vote?
Paying homeless people?
But every liberal activist group does that.
If you have a Twitter account you can ask her. :)
I guess multi-million dollar movie deals don’t count...
That’s a living wage
Also bus them across state lines and use fake names and identities to vote.
Sounds like homeless people who are willing to work.
Or are we just supposed to give them money for nothing?
How demeaning for the homeless.
Couldn’t she get a government subsidy to pay them
to stand in line for no reason.../s
Oh, and...I’m shocked, SHOCKED to find gamboling going
on here !
Your winnings Ms.OC...
You mean those same protesters that Cortez organized against Pelosi for her green initiative?
How about those same paid protesters that showed up for the Cavanaugh hearings?
She’s projecting.
Yeah - why is she denigrating the homeless this way?
I’m shocked to find out what everyone knew in 2009!
I will stick to my ‘original’ analysis from a couple of days ago.
(I AM NOT in her corner)
She has done MORE in 6 weeks as a Congresscritter than BO did in his entire Senatorial ‘career’.
AND she provides US with a ‘laff-a-minute’, her and two others of her ilk are giving NP nightmares.
If the Libs had ANY sense they would take the AOC crowd and have them run (and win) as Rs....
Sort of like how they foisted D Duke into our camp.
This reminds me of going to a PGA golf tournament a few years back. There was one green I had hoped to get in the front row and when I went to see the green all these college age kids were sitting there. I told them it would be a couple of hours before a golfer arrived. They were paid by corporations to hold those spaces. The free enterprise system at work.
Didn’t Sheldon pay Stuart to stand in line for him?
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Yes, and I think AMY paid Stuart to deliver a message back to SC
First thing I’ve agreed with AOC on, so far.
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