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.
Ops. On 2nd thought “loose” more appropriate for Sandy the bartender.
Wonder if Pelosi asked Cortez is she knows where Vince Foster park is?.
Vince Foster Park
xlnt
If AOC wants a primary fight, why don’t deplorables find DINOs to run in ‘Rat primaries...
Pretty sure it's been so for a long time. They're just more open about it now.
The new DNC combines psychotic lunacy with radical, leftwing communism.
She had better be careful that the mandarins that run the Dim party don’t decide to primary her.
This is what you get when activist thugs take over. AOC, Omar, Tlaib etc are thugs pure and simple — maybe not physical thugs, but thugs nonetheless.
The dems threatening there own for being bipartisan, while demanding republicans be “bipartisan.”
Makes perfect sense.
YES!!! That’s the episode I had in mind!
Maybe AOC should be seen as the Mayor of the Palace in the House of Representatives. Or make that Mare of the Palace.
She moved her boyfriend in with her in a trendy high rent district.
And is paying him to be an “aide”
A kept man gigolo or a beard?
Moderate Dems Threaten to Throw Blanket Party for AOC
lol
AOC useful Leftist/Marxist sock puppet
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