Posted on 03/05/2019 8:51:23 AM PST by SeekAndFind
New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has not ruled out the possibility that Amazon could reopen a negotiating process to enter New York City, despite her previous statements slamming the tech giant's plan for a second headquarters in the Big Apple.
Saikat Chakrabarti, the freshman congresswoman's chief of staff, blamed Amazon for backing out when the going got tough after a range of community groups, labor organizations and activists pushed back on its plan to build a complex for 25,000 workers on the Queens waterfront.
"What [Ocasio-Cortez] was vocal about was the process by which it happened," Chakrabarti told Bloomberg TV. "The deal was sort of sprung on the community without any input and there’s a real cost whenever tech companies come in without community input, rents go up, people get evicted, there’s an actual human cost that is associated with Amazon coming in."
However, a spokesperson for Amazon defended the company's actions in a statement to Fox News on Tuesday:
“On day one we had our first community meeting at Queensbridge Houses. That meeting included everyone in the local community infrastructure and it set the tone for the sustained and widespread community outreach we conducted in the months that followed."
Ocasio-Cortez, whose district borders the area where Amazon's second headquarters was set to be built, has been hit by critics in the business community and fellow progressives for her role in forcing Amazon out of New York.
Speaking to reporters during the opening of her new Queens district office on Monday, Ocasio-Cortez said she understood why Gov. Andrew Cuomo would want to bring Amazon back to the negotiating table but said that the massive tax breaks the tech giant was set to receive are only part of why she was opposed to the deal.
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"It’s not a personal animus towards Amazon," Ocasio-Cortez told reporters at her district office.
“One of the most concerning aspects in what happened with the deal previously is you have all of these folks in Long Island City, in neighboring Sunnyside, in Woodside and all the way out to Jackson Heights, that will be impacted by this and they were not consulted,” she added.
Too late princess. You screwed the pooch on this one. ROTFL! No tip for you.
Talk about walking it back!
The good news for democrats is that SOMEBODY got to her and she is listening, for whatever reason. If she starts acting sane, I’m going to be very put out.
Translation... I’ve taken so much heat over this that I’m still burning.
That crook Chakrabarti needs to STFU. He could be going to prison. If was that boy, I’d keep a low silhouette for a while.
Meanwhile Amazon builds somewhere else.
Jail her.
That ship has sailed.
There’s a holdup in the Bronx,
Brooklyn’s broken out in fights.
There’s a traffic jam in Harlem
That’s backed up to Jackson Heights.
There’s a scout troop short a child,
Khrushchev’s due at Idlewild
Occasional Cortex, Where Are You?
(musical interlude)
There’s a holdup in the Bronx,
Brooklyn’s broken out in fights.
There’s a traffic jam in Harlem
That’s backed up to Jackson Heights.
There’s a scout troop short a child,
Khrushchev’s due at Idlewild
Occasional Cortex, Where Are You?
America’s Own Commie and her sleazy CoS need a much larger Amazon contributions to their skim, scam PACs.
AOC to bring back Amazon deal?
Is she now the CEO of Amazon ?
I sure hope reality smacks her in the face before
she does too much damage.
Looks like the editor softened up the title of this article.
Saikat Chakrabarti, the freshman congresswoman’s chief of staff, blamed Amazon for backing out when the going got tough after a range of community groups, labor organizations and activists pushed back on its plan to build a complex for 25,000 workers on the Queens waterfront.
Try, backed out when the demands became too outrageous.
A socialist complaining that the little people “weren’t consulted” by the powers that be. Funny.
Accept unions.....meet all sorts of hiring quotas.....use only green sustainable technology....yadda yadda....not gonna happen.
Amazon thought they had negotiated a mutually beneficial deal. But, NYC was like Darth Vader in "The Empire Strikes Back", changing the deal and saying, "Pray that I do not alter it further."
Even now, AOC is so haughty as to say, "not opposed" to bringing it back.
Hey, barmaid. I thought you were the “boss”??
She wants bribes, just like the other local “politicians”
She sided with the unions....who get pis*** cuz Amazon won’t unionize. She’s a da...aka...dumb a**.
Even now, AOC is so haughty as to say, “not opposed” to bringing it back.
Sure, she’s “not opposed” as long as they give in
to her demands. If they give in she declares it a victory.
If they don’t, she still declares it victory as she
is still continuing the class struggle.
Even though she is a failure, her supporters will love
her for it.
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