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AOC Threatens to Put Moderate Dems on a Primary ‘List’ If They Vote With GOP
National Review ^ | 3/1/2019 | Jack Crowe

Posted on 03/01/2019 7:23:15 AM PST by BadLands59

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) threatened her moderate colleagues during a Thursday Democratic caucus meeting, telling the lawmakers she plans to provide progressive activists searching for primary targets with a list of Democrats who work across the aisle.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi began the meeting by chastising the two dozen moderates who voted on Tuesday in favor of a Republican amendment to a gun control bill that requires gun retailers to report illegal immigrants who attempt to buy a gun.

“We are either a team or we’re not, and we have to make that decision,” Pelosi said, two people who were present told the Washington Post.

Ocasio-Cortez, who routinely wields her massive social media following to pressure her establishment colleagues into supporting her agenda, sought to add force to Pelosi’s call for unity by threatening to expose to the ire of progressive activists any Democrats willing to compromise with Republicans.

Corbin Trent, a spokesman for Ocasio-Cortez, told the Post that any Democrats who cooperate with Republicans “are putting themselves on a list.”

“She said that when activists ask her why she had to vote for a gun safety bill that also further empowers an agency that forcibly injects kids with psychotropic drugs, they’re going to want a list of names and she’s going to give it to them,” Trent said, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The rift between the establishment and the younger, more progressive wing of the party was brought into sharp relief this week moments before the House passed legislation that would require a federal criminal background check for all gun purchases, including private transactions. While the bill’s passage represented a significant victory for the Democratic majority, the inclusion of a provision that will facilitate deportations at the hands of ICE agents incensed progressives, many of whom have called for the agency to be abolished.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California; US: New York; US: Vermont
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To: Windflier

Ops. On 2nd thought “loose” more appropriate for Sandy the bartender.


41 posted on 03/01/2019 9:08:13 AM PST by TruthWillWin ([[[MSM]]])
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To: BadLands59

Wonder if Pelosi asked Cortez is she knows where Vince Foster park is?.


42 posted on 03/01/2019 9:20:38 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Vaduz

Vince Foster Park

xlnt


43 posted on 03/01/2019 9:21:53 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: BadLands59

If AOC wants a primary fight, why don’t deplorables find DINOs to run in ‘Rat primaries...


44 posted on 03/01/2019 9:22:54 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: ealgeone
And they will take retribution to those who do not fall in line.

Pretty sure it's been so for a long time. They're just more open about it now.

45 posted on 03/01/2019 9:24:07 AM PST by TangoLimaSierra (To the Left, The truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
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To: BadLands59

The new DNC combines psychotic lunacy with radical, leftwing communism.


46 posted on 03/01/2019 9:24:42 AM PST by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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To: BadLands59

She had better be careful that the mandarins that run the Dim party don’t decide to primary her.


47 posted on 03/01/2019 9:38:22 AM PST by Jean2
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To: BadLands59

This is what you get when activist thugs take over. AOC, Omar, Tlaib etc are thugs pure and simple — maybe not physical thugs, but thugs nonetheless.


48 posted on 03/01/2019 9:47:47 AM PST by falcon99
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To: BadLands59

The dems threatening there own for being bipartisan, while demanding republicans be “bipartisan.”
Makes perfect sense.


49 posted on 03/01/2019 9:55:40 AM PST by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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To: Major Matt Mason

YES!!! That’s the episode I had in mind!


50 posted on 03/01/2019 9:57:20 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: BadLands59
In France the later Merovingian kings were "do-nothing kings" and the real power was in the hands of the Mayor of the Palace.

Maybe AOC should be seen as the Mayor of the Palace in the House of Representatives. Or make that Mare of the Palace.

51 posted on 03/01/2019 10:02:05 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: SaxxonWoods

She moved her boyfriend in with her in a trendy high rent district.

And is paying him to be an “aide”

A kept man gigolo or a beard?


52 posted on 03/01/2019 10:43:35 AM PST by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Nyuk nyuk nyuk.

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/motiontorecommit/index


53 posted on 03/01/2019 1:15:10 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: BadLands59
AOC Threatens to Put Moderate Dems on a Primary ‘List’ If They Vote With GOP

Moderate Dems Threaten to Throw Blanket Party for AOC

54 posted on 03/01/2019 4:22:19 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("The twilight hour of socialism has arrived in our hemisphere." --Trump to Venezuelans, 2/18/19)
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To: Albion Wilde

lol


55 posted on 03/01/2019 4:45:33 PM PST by BadLands59
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To: Verginius Rufus

AOC useful Leftist/Marxist sock puppet


56 posted on 03/07/2019 10:37:23 AM PST by mason-dixon (As Mason said to Dixon, you have to draw the line somewhere.)
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