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Amazon Spokesperson Blames Ocasio-Cortez for NYC Retreat
Lifezette ^ | February 15, 2019 | Kathryn Blackhurst

Posted on 02/15/2019 12:17:23 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

The progressive congresswoman fielded intense backlash after the shocking cancellation of the company's planned second headquarters

An Amazon spokesperson blamed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and her vocal resistance for the company’s shocking decision to cancel plans for its New York City headquarters on Thursday.

Polls showed that 70 percent of New Yorkers supported Amazon’s planned investment in the state.

Thus, Amazon stunned many New Yorkers and the nation at large when the company bowed to intense opposition from some state and local officials on Thursday and announced it was abandoning the Big Apple for its second headquarters.

“For Amazon, the commitment to build a new headquarters requires positive, collaborative relationships with state and local elected officials who will be supportive over the long-term,” Amazon said in a statement.

But “a number of state and local politicians have made it clear that they oppose our presence and will not work with us to build the type of relationships that are required to go forward with the project we and many others envisioned in Long Island City,” the company admitted.

Jodi Seth, Amazon’s head of policy communications, told NBC News that same day the company blamed a few specific New York politicians for its decision.

“It wasn’t any one incident,” Seth noted. “It was that the environment over the course of the past three months had not got[ten] any better. There were some local and state elected officials who refused to meet with Amazon and criticized us day in and day out about the plan.”

“If you talk to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, it’s ‘Never Amazon,'” Seth added. “If you talk to [New York City Councilman Jimmy] Van Bramer [a Democrat], it’s unions.”

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To: Sans-Culotte

Cuomo and digladio should have saved the deal. But a congress member whoorahing about your company may send the company elsewhere where support is guaranteed.


41 posted on 02/15/2019 1:06:34 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: morphing libertarian

DiBlasio


42 posted on 02/15/2019 1:06:57 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: Aria

https://www.city-journal.org/html/identity-u-15701.html

https://www.city-journal.org/html/whats-happened-university-15757.html

All colleges are incompetent in this sphere.


43 posted on 02/15/2019 1:07:03 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Hahahahahahahaha!


44 posted on 02/15/2019 1:09:54 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.S)
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To: DoughtyOne

Economics major? Is that really true? Maybe it was “economics studies” which focused on climate change and failed utopian policies.


45 posted on 02/15/2019 1:10:34 PM PST by Freee-dame (Best election ever! 2016)
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To: Beowulf9

netflix will give her her own show after she spends the 10 million they gave her for her documentary.


46 posted on 02/15/2019 1:11:02 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: Chickensoup

Thanks for posting the article. I just grabbed it and sent it to a bunch of friends and family.

I was careful to note the quote about real estate agents losing a lot of potential income, since my idiot, uber-Leftist, cousin (idiot because of many things besides just her politics) is a NYC real estate agent!!! I sent it to her father (my uncle), who shares my view of the world for the most part...I’m sure that he’ll be sure to remind her that her income **could** have gone up a lot, but that thanks to her idiotic politics, she just cost herself many tens of thousands of dollars per year, pretty much forever.

The stooopid, it burns!


47 posted on 02/15/2019 1:11:51 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: shotgun
Good post. I suspect Amazon's decision had nothing to do with politics and everything to do with its own internal business decisions.

I suspect that after they announced the NYC selection in November, they started to get a sense of how preposterous it would be to locate a headquarters-type operation in one of the most expensive cities in the world. Most of the big companies headquartered in NYC are in banking and financial services, and most other big companies headquartered there have been there for decades. Maybe I'm overlooking something here, but I simply don't see an upside to locating a business in New York that doesn't absolutely have to be there.

48 posted on 02/15/2019 1:11:59 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: shotgun

Huge tracts of land


49 posted on 02/15/2019 1:13:27 PM PST by vmpolesov
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To: Red Badger

Amazon
Or
Commies?


50 posted on 02/15/2019 1:14:56 PM PST by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: Pride in the USA

LOL! AOC is the gift that keeps on giving...and giving.


51 posted on 02/15/2019 1:15:42 PM PST by lonevoice (diagonally parked in a parallel universe)
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To: loveliberty2

Ocasio forgot EVERYTHING she learned at BU, beginning with Econ 101:

http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/course-search/search.php?search=CASEC101&yearsem=*&college=

All that got lost when she served as a taqueria bartender!!!!

And I’m not so sure that AOC is the sole cause of Amazon’s decision, anyway!!!!


52 posted on 02/15/2019 1:20:42 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Freee-dame

Or maybe it was the basket weaving economic studies program.


53 posted on 02/15/2019 1:24:37 PM PST by DoughtyOne
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To: Sans-Culotte

She didn’t do it alone...but she took the lead because she wanted to be the center of attention. Well, as the ancient Chinese saying goes, “be careful what you wish for, you may get it.” Now she has the attention of the Dems in control of the party who actually look beyond tonight’s party.


54 posted on 02/15/2019 1:25:26 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: DoughtyOne

She just put her boyfriend on her staff in a paid position, it’s good to be a Commie.


55 posted on 02/15/2019 1:36:18 PM PST by COUNTrecount (If only Harvey Weinstein's bathrobe could talk.)
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To: Chickensoup

The communists have stayed true to their goals and it has paid off with degrees in stupidity.


56 posted on 02/15/2019 1:38:19 PM PST by Aria
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To: Quality_Not_Quantity

So with you, Quality_Not_Quantity.

Starting with the folks who have lost potential jobs just getting the Amazon HQ built.

Then add on the restaurants, the landlords, car sales folks, monies lost out by the clothing manufacturers and retail outlets.

So much money, poof-! Gone like the wind.

All because of one really loudly screaming female using Socialism as her tool for political power.


57 posted on 02/15/2019 1:39:18 PM PST by Notthereyet (NotThereYet)
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To: COUNTrecount

She is a dangeroys idiot but she did not put her boyfruend in the payroll.
She just gave him access to the Congress email
That us stupid though


58 posted on 02/15/2019 1:41:17 PM PST by RWGinger (Does anyone else really)
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To: Honorary Serb

Ocasio forgot EVERYTHING she learned at BU, beginning with Econ 101

LOL How do you know that. Maybe she remembers it all. I don’t trust colleges anymore


59 posted on 02/15/2019 1:42:06 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: RooRoobird20

Don’t count her out, so fast.

She does come from a district where the Republicans don’t put up a real candidate. Also, she’ll need to be defeated in a primary by her own folks.

Since she’s been in office, she’s got a real nice place to live and as of now has figured out how to include her beau on the Tax Payer’s Dime.

She’s a real fast learner.

Republicans, are slow learners, unfortunately.


60 posted on 02/15/2019 1:42:12 PM PST by Notthereyet (NotThereYet)
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