Posted on 02/15/2019 12:17:23 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The progressive congresswoman fielded intense backlash after the shocking cancellation of the company's planned second headquarters
An Amazon spokesperson blamed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and her vocal resistance for the company’s shocking decision to cancel plans for its New York City headquarters on Thursday.
Polls showed that 70 percent of New Yorkers supported Amazon’s planned investment in the state.
Thus, Amazon stunned many New Yorkers and the nation at large when the company bowed to intense opposition from some state and local officials on Thursday and announced it was abandoning the Big Apple for its second headquarters.
“For Amazon, the commitment to build a new headquarters requires positive, collaborative relationships with state and local elected officials who will be supportive over the long-term,” Amazon said in a statement.
But “a number of state and local politicians have made it clear that they oppose our presence and will not work with us to build the type of relationships that are required to go forward with the project we and many others envisioned in Long Island City,” the company admitted.
Jodi Seth, Amazon’s head of policy communications, told NBC News that same day the company blamed a few specific New York politicians for its decision.
“It wasn’t any one incident,” Seth noted. “It was that the environment over the course of the past three months had not got[ten] any better. There were some local and state elected officials who refused to meet with Amazon and criticized us day in and day out about the plan.”
“If you talk to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, it’s ‘Never Amazon,'” Seth added. “If you talk to [New York City Councilman Jimmy] Van Bramer [a Democrat], it’s unions.”
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Is he being paid too?
I knew he got eMail, but I didn’t realize he was actually a paid staff member.
As much as I detest her policies, she was only saying what they were thinking. She told the truth about them before they were ready for the truth to be known. That is the only her own are attacking her.
Exactly. She apparently doesn't understand the difference between the reduction of an imposition and the donation of funds. As you say shame on BU.
I agree with you, sport.
When the Democrats got the House back and she was elected AOC naturally assumed it was okay to reveal what was behind the curtain.
Surprise! She pulled back the curtain a tad bit early.
LOL
I know that because she makes so MANY missteps on basic economic knowledge.
Even leftist ECON 101 instructors have to teach price theory. They may speak of its “limitations”, but it’s there all the same.
excuse my sarcasm
And most of it has full utilities already in place. Most likely woukd require transportation and roadway upgrades but that shouldn’t be an obstacle.
Amazon BTTT
LOL
I wonder if that guy was accurate, the one that got banned.
The perfect storm . . . .
He just learned, the issue is never the issue, with the hard core progs.
AOC = Absurd Overbite Clown
Arrogant Overreaching Clown
I agree. Lay the blame at her feet.
This braying jackass is going to require Dims to do much damage control.
She didn’t kill the deal; it was turning into a PR nightmare for Amazon, but as I understand it was really convinced them to pull out was that local politicians opposed to the project had been seated on boards/committees with which Amazon would have to work for permits, variances, and such. At that point, they realized it could be tangled up in red tape forever, so they withdrew.
Cuomo seemed to understand this when he blamed a whole group of local politicians - and probably didn’t have Token PR in mind (she wouldn’t have been involved in those aspects - and it wasn’t even in her district anyway).
A lot of the foreign-looking and/or foreign-sounding people protesting against this probably understood that they had no place in Amazon’s vision for the area. What was portrayed state- and city-wide as a plus (tens of thousands of jobs paying six figures) meant nothing to people at “ground zero” who would’ve simply been pushed out of the area altogether. The projected increase in values in the area was a negative to tenants; even business owners who welcomed the new customers it would bring were probably only safe if they owned their properties - and even then they could be “eminent-domained” out of them.
There really are two sides to this, and I can see both; ignore the political battles and imagine if your home was where this was to occur. Some would love it, some would oppose it, and each would have valid reasons to do so.
Don’t forget about the New York unions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Re7vtxTqpg
Schwarranegger movie, Eraser.
“Hey sonny - nothing gets moved off these docks if they ain’t no union present, and I don’t see no union.”
Yes, the unions are losers in this deal - and they were already hurting before this setback.
I’m curious to see if Cortez gets re-elected; her grandstanding on the national stage isn’t helping her back in NYC. I watched the news last night as they were covering the Amazon withdrawal, and everyone was surprised - and concerned (even those who opposed it). Apparently they thought Amazon was going to negotiate and simply cough up the money; nobody seemed to think pulling out was even a remote possibility, and they were contemplating life without Amazon.
Today it has been practically removed from the news altogether (and much of our news is from NYC stations - I’m a dozen miles west of NYC); they must have realized it was a PR disaster for Cortez because it was an economic disaster for NYC and NY state - so it will be quickly forgotten. Instead the networks seemed to focus a LOT of time on a fairly routine apartment fire on this side of the Hudson in Fort Lee. I don’t believe there was a single fatality; it is obvious this is being used as filler/distraction instead of discussing the conclusion of what had been a leading story for months.
“Instead the networks seemed to focus a LOT of time on a fairly routine apartment fire on this side of the Hudson in Fort Lee.”
It must be a slow day. I used to live in rural NJ, and if we wanted news about a fire we rotated the antenna towards Philly! (NYC was if you wanted to watch the news about crime.)
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