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Cuomo slams Ocasio-Cortez, others, as Amazon ditches New York
FoxNews.com ^ | Feb 14, 2019 | Chris Ciaccia | Fox News

Posted on 02/14/2019 3:05:32 PM PST by ETL

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo lambasted politicians such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others over Amazon's decision to leave New York City. Opponents of the deal with the tech giant had "put their own narrow political interests above their community," he said.

"[A] small group [of] politicians put their own narrow political interests above their community -- which poll after poll showed overwhelmingly supported bringing Amazon to Long Island City -- the state's economic future and the best interests of the people of this state," Cuomo said in the statement, which did not mention Ocasio-Cortez or other lawmakers by name. "The New York State Senate has done tremendous damage. They should be held accountable for this lost economic opportunity."

In the statement issued by his office, Gov. Cuomo mentioned that Amazon chose the Empire State because it is "the capital of the world and the best place to do business," adding that missing out on Amazon is a lost opportunity to diversify "our economy away from real estate and Wall Street."

Cuomo also said New York lost out on an opportunity to further cement its status "as an emerging center for tech and was an extraordinary economic win not just for Queens and New York City, but for the entire region, from Long Island to Albany's nanotech center."

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: New York; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: amazon; andrewcuomo; anotheraocthread; bezos; cuomo; hq2; jeffbezos; newyork; ocasiocortez; rentfree; rentfreeonfr
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To: ETL

When sacred cows collide...


41 posted on 02/14/2019 3:24:12 PM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: wally_bert
Many will be worked to death in the people’s factories and the people’s farms for those reasons.

Hey, you like omelets, right?

42 posted on 02/14/2019 3:25:40 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Dilbert San Diego

43 posted on 02/14/2019 3:26:36 PM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: ETL

The root of the problem is the politically imposed high cost of doing business in NYC, which requires subsidization to attract business, which, in turn, attracts “corporate greed” attacks from communists like O-C. If O-C were running the state rather than Cuomo, firms like Amazon would need even larger subsidies to survive NYC.


44 posted on 02/14/2019 3:27:20 PM PST by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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To: ETL

LOL, she does get the crazy eyes going on.

Something funny about her teeth also.


45 posted on 02/14/2019 3:27:26 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: ETL

Matters little. They will figure it out and bring a more progressive agenda to the table tomorrow.


46 posted on 02/14/2019 3:29:33 PM PST by Shark24
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I think your statement should read “Love it when Communists lambast other Communists”

Ocasio-Cortez is just getting started with her bag full of New Green Communist plans.


47 posted on 02/14/2019 3:30:28 PM PST by cabbieguy ("I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up")
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To: ETL

Go to hell, comrade.


48 posted on 02/14/2019 3:32:12 PM PST by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: Son-Joshua
"Maybe her Econ. class focused on soviet style economies?

Bachelors of Socialism in home ec.

49 posted on 02/14/2019 3:32:35 PM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: ETL

Fyi, BLONDS are now telling OCASIO-CORTEZ jokes.

Yours, TMN78247


50 posted on 02/14/2019 3:34:59 PM PST by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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To: Steely Tom

Many eggs for the utopian socialist paradise omelet.


51 posted on 02/14/2019 3:35:15 PM PST by wally_bert (You're bringing The Monk down, man!)
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To: ETL

“...the capital of the world.....”!?

Curious if that young fellow has ever been elsewhere.


52 posted on 02/14/2019 3:35:40 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists call 'em what you will they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I would be especially interested in what New York congressional Rats have to say about Occasional Cortex’s opposition to Amazon. I can’t see how any of them would be happy about Braying Donkey Teeth cheering the loss of Amazon and its “corporate greed.”

Perhaps the Rat party will target Occasional Cortex to get her socialist @ss kicked in the 2020 primaries. She’s clearly bad for New York state’s economy.


53 posted on 02/14/2019 3:35:58 PM PST by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves”)
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To: fhayek

New York would give more than it gets.
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Have you considered the extra employment and associated costs that Amazon would have to pay to induce employees to stay in NYC — high taxes, high housing costs, bad schools, etc.? These costs are higher in NYC than in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC.


54 posted on 02/14/2019 3:38:52 PM PST by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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To: RooRoobird20

Hahaha. Iyt is quite entertaining when LIBs of any persuasion fight, bicker and generally make a**es out of themselves. More popcorn!!!


55 posted on 02/14/2019 3:39:10 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: ETL

She’s a dancing sewer Rat.


56 posted on 02/14/2019 3:40:06 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (But the noble man makes noble plans, and by noble deeds they stand. Isaiah 32:8)
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To: Socon-Econ

Oh please. If you have to pay a company to locate in your state, you are doing something wrong. What about the businesses that have been burdened by high taxes, regulations, union - for decades? No, they drive old business out, then bribe new business to come in. It’s a terrible economic policy.


57 posted on 02/14/2019 3:44:58 PM PST by fhayek
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To: ETL

I wonder if he’ll spin that wheel he has in his office to see whom to blame. He’s already accused Trump and Florida for NY state’s budget dilemma.


58 posted on 02/14/2019 3:45:25 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: M Kehoe

The Corbomite Maneuver


59 posted on 02/14/2019 3:47:33 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Giving Sarah Jessica Parker a run for the money in the Horse Face competition


60 posted on 02/14/2019 3:48:43 PM PST by technically right
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