Banks weigh whether to embrace or avoid progressive firebrand Ocasio-Cortez

Reuters ^ | February 6, 2019 | by Pete Schroeder, Michelle Price

[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.

[AndyJackson]

Of course she should be sitting at the table to discuss the banking industry. /s,

What better preparation. You want service you gotta leave a nice tip.

[DesertRhino]

Yeah, I want to see the details of the courses she took and of the kind of work she did. Bet it’s 90% international relations...and a few chick style basic courses about “economics” where they spend a semester discussing non-profits giving microloans to a woman in a hut. Now she has a hot plate and has her own business selling flatbread to the 28 other people in the surrounding huts.

I bet her economics degree is a complete joke in real life. The proof is that after getting it, the best job she could find, despite being brown female, was to pour margaritas in a restaurant.

[ronnie raygun]

FIREBRAND

1.a person who is passionate about a particular cause, typically inciting change and taking radical action.
“a political firebrand”

2.a piece of burning wood.

ILL GO WITH THE SECOND ONE ALEX

[Toddsterpatriot]

Toward what end are progressives supposedly progressing?

Kill the greedy kulaks.

[Thank You Rush]

“”often while preparing dinner or hanging out in her pajamas””

I guess we’re not finding those pictures....

“law maker” - HA! She’s just another dame with a big mouth and not even aware enough to know when she’s making a fool of herself. She gets the publicity and this writer thinks that’s GOOD?

I’ve seen reference to “her partner” and I still don’t know what that means - male or female or “IT’S” NOT SURE?

[Thank You Rush]

“”Ol’ Bernie was red hot after Trump called out socialism last night.””

He was sure sweating!

I wonder why they even bother to show up when they are so against our president and our country. I don’t think it’s required of them so why not just meet at a bar when they can make fools of themselves and no one will notice! Or is that the idea? They WANT to be noticed!

[txhurl]

Elise Stephanik was the youngest at 27.

[timestax]

[Tijeras_Slim]

This falls into the category of selling the hangman some rope.

[Thank You Rush]

Wikipedia says she was 30...I don’t know how we got here???