Posted on 02/06/2019 11:47:01 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - Court, avoid or sideline?
Barely a month into the new Congress, financial lobbyists in Washington are already strategizing how to handle the star power of rookie Democrat lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The Democratic Socialist and Wall Street critic joined the 60-member House Financial Services Committee in mid-January and more than a dozen lobbyists interviewed by Reuters say the 29-year-old activist and former bartender is too high-profile to ignore.
Richard Hunt, chief executive of the Consumer Bankers Association, said he had not encountered a lawmaker like Ocasio-Cortez in more than 20 years in Washington. “She has the ability to influence unlike a lot of other freshmen.”
The youngest woman ever to serve in Congress, Ocasio-Cortez has become a social media phenomenon with her posts and live-streams on everything from climate change to skin care tips attracting millions of followers across Twitter and Instagram.
The New York native has proved adept at using humor to explain complex concepts or rebuke opponents, often while preparing dinner or hanging out in her pajamas. A video of the lawmaker dancing outside her Congressional office last month has been viewed 21 million times.
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Whatta joke.
The Loco Latina is about finished with her 15 minutes.
She’s one vote in a gang of 435, and she has nothing but discredited 1930’s “ideas” to talk about.
Trump put her and Boinie in their place last night.
Simple: avoid.
Toward what end are progressives supposedly progressing?
Humor? Is that what they call STUPIDITY nowadays?............
A year ago, she was a bartender in a mexican restaurant. Of course she should be sitting at the table to discuss the banking industry. /s
Bankers would have to have a death wish, and be out of their minds to support this COMMUNIST who is bent on DESTROYING THE ECONOMY AND THEM, and yes I am YELLING. It seems to be the only way to even begin to get through to them.
Good Lord, I skimmed the article and missed that phrase “using humor to explain complex concepts” until you pointed it out.
Then I thought “Nah, RB has to be making that up.”
But sure enough, Pete Schroeder and Michelle Price actually wrote that. I have no doubt to brain-dead Moronials like Pete and Michelle, AOC comes across as a genius.
We are doomed.
How to deal effectively with socialists? Laugh uproariously every time they open their mouths.
AOC is leading the lemming pack toward the jagged cliffs of Marxism.
She’s not stupid but she’s not humorous, either.
Ol’ Bernie was red hot after Trump called out socialism last night.
It’s not saying much for BU
She graduated cum laude from Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences in 2011, majoring in international relations and economics
That points to the kind of economics being taught, doesn’t it?
A country the intellectually poisons its children, while outright murdering many of them, doesn’t deserve to survive.
She majored in economics YET came out of school a SOCIALIST that says EVERYTHING about our professors!!! Until we get these Marxists out of our Universities OR get our kids out of the universities WE ARE DOOMED!!! The latter would be easier WE ALL have control of our kids education!!!
They hope that if they get onboard with her, they will be the last eaten.
‘...to explain complex concepts...’
That bimbo would screw up explaining the function of the world’s simplest tool: a wedge.
AOC = CCCP
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