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AOC Threatens to Put Moderate Dems on a Primary ‘List’ If They Vote With GOP
National Review ^ | 3/1/2019 | Jack Crowe

Posted on 03/01/2019 7:23:15 AM PST by BadLands59

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) threatened her moderate colleagues during a Thursday Democratic caucus meeting, telling the lawmakers she plans to provide progressive activists searching for primary targets with a list of Democrats who work across the aisle.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi began the meeting by chastising the two dozen moderates who voted on Tuesday in favor of a Republican amendment to a gun control bill that requires gun retailers to report illegal immigrants who attempt to buy a gun.

“We are either a team or we’re not, and we have to make that decision,” Pelosi said, two people who were present told the Washington Post.

Ocasio-Cortez, who routinely wields her massive social media following to pressure her establishment colleagues into supporting her agenda, sought to add force to Pelosi’s call for unity by threatening to expose to the ire of progressive activists any Democrats willing to compromise with Republicans.

Corbin Trent, a spokesman for Ocasio-Cortez, told the Post that any Democrats who cooperate with Republicans “are putting themselves on a list.”

“She said that when activists ask her why she had to vote for a gun safety bill that also further empowers an agency that forcibly injects kids with psychotropic drugs, they’re going to want a list of names and she’s going to give it to them,” Trent said, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The rift between the establishment and the younger, more progressive wing of the party was brought into sharp relief this week moments before the House passed legislation that would require a federal criminal background check for all gun purchases, including private transactions. While the bill’s passage represented a significant victory for the Democratic majority, the inclusion of a provision that will facilitate deportations at the hands of ICE agents incensed progressives, many of whom have called for the agency to be abolished.


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To: BadLands59
Cortez is not a phenomenon, she is the creation and tool of powerful forces.

Yeah, right.

I am sure she has powerful backers now.

But they did not convince Joseph Crowley to flub it in the primary.

They saw a chance because Crowley became complacent.

21 posted on 03/01/2019 7:44:52 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: BadLands59

Typical fascist list. Go to the right to your barracks. Go to the left for a free shower.

Subversives love their lists.


22 posted on 03/01/2019 7:45:13 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: Army Air Corps

Actually I think it’s the other way around. Pelosi, Hoyer and the rest of the Old Guard Democrats have no clue what’s about to hit them. How is it a dimwitted freshman legislator with a little over a month of experience becomes a national star, major spokesperson, and visible symbol of the party so quickly. She’s being bankrolled, and propped up by the Deep State to take on her own party because the conversion of America to a socialist s**thole controlled by a world governing body isn’t occurring fast enough with San Fran Nan and the old RAT coots in charge. The Swamp is counting on AOC and her band of newbies to get the job done!


23 posted on 03/01/2019 7:51:49 AM PST by dowcaet
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To: Maudeen
If this gal were really fat and ugly. . .no one would print, listen, or read anything she has to say. . .that’s the reality of it all.

Actually, if she were prettier she would have been a stripper and we would never have heard of her...

24 posted on 03/01/2019 7:52:30 AM PST by CurlyDave
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To: BadLands59

Love it, go you little radical you.


25 posted on 03/01/2019 7:52:33 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The internet has driven the world mad.)
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To: BenLurkin

I know, right ? There’s just two wings in the Demonrat party, the ultra-radical Communist left and the extremist ultra-radical Stalinist nutter moonbat left.


26 posted on 03/01/2019 7:56:36 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: BadLands59

AOC is the real power of the Democrat Party now.
She represents their future. It just hasn’t dawned
on Nancy yet.


27 posted on 03/01/2019 7:58:47 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Fabian Socialists and Bolsheviks.


28 posted on 03/01/2019 8:02:16 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: BadLands59

Empire strikes back?

Ocasio-Cortez Hit With FEC Complaint Alleging She Laundered Money

Alicia F. Luke March 1, 2019 1.7k Views


29 posted on 03/01/2019 8:11:49 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The internet has driven the world mad.)
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To: BadLands59

It’s going on your (gasp!) “Permanent Record”


30 posted on 03/01/2019 8:14:29 AM PST by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: BenLurkin

“What moderate Dems?”

These, surely from red states:

“Republicans offered an amendment to a broader gun background check bill to have the National Instant Criminal Background Check System report them to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which could then decide if it wants to pick them up for deportation,” the Washington Times explains. “The amendment was approved on a 220-209 vote, with 26 Democrats joining the GOP in support. Only one Republican voted against it.”


31 posted on 03/01/2019 8:14:29 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (The internet has driven the world mad.)
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To: BadLands59

Self destruction is fun to watch.


32 posted on 03/01/2019 8:15:56 AM PST by grumpygresh (The only check on a rogue DOJ and FBI is jury nullification.)
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To: BadLands59

AOC would have us live in a fascist socialist state run by a single party in lockstep with the dictates of the party elite.


33 posted on 03/01/2019 8:17:58 AM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: BadLands59

I get the sense that Nancy is truly flummoxed by AOC, and has no earthly idea how to get a harness on her.

It really is a case of true karma, as the Dems created their current crop of radicals.


34 posted on 03/01/2019 8:25:59 AM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: BadLands59

Hahah Let her...

Most of the Dems who have done this are in states where radical idiots like her would ensure a GOP win next time by 20 points or more... let her do it...

My guess is your going to start seeing D’s defecting as this nimrod and her ilk keep marginalizing anyone sane in the party.


35 posted on 03/01/2019 8:30:18 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: TruthWillWin
loosing

losing

36 posted on 03/01/2019 8:30:22 AM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: ealgeone

37 posted on 03/01/2019 8:30:59 AM PST by Major Matt Mason
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To: BadLands59

The Dims, and they ARE “dim”, with their romance with the hard left, have, with Ms Ocasio-Coretz, created their own worst enemy.


38 posted on 03/01/2019 8:33:48 AM PST by Wuli
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To: BadLands59

She’ll be eaten first.


39 posted on 03/01/2019 8:37:20 AM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.S)
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To: BadLands59

AOC: Speaker-by-proxy


40 posted on 03/01/2019 8:58:33 AM PST by mywholebodyisaweapon (Thank God for President Trump.)
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