Posted on 08/05/2025 7:11:38 AM PDT by DFG
Democratic US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, a key fundraiser for her party, is calling for donations to “directly” support the Texas Democrats who broke quorum to block a vote on the state’s new congressional map.
In a fundraising email from her team, Ocasio-Cortez said proceeds will be split with former US Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s Texas political action committee, Powered By People. The PAC raised more than $700,000 for state House Democrats during a similar quorum break in 2021.
The fundraising email said Ocasio-Cortez and Powered By People are racing money “to support these lawmakers directly as Gov. (Greg) Abbott is now threatening to remove them from office.”
“These Texas Democrats took an extraordinary step to ensure that Texas Republicans don’t have the power to rig our elections,” the email said.
Some context: The lawmakers face a $500 fine each day they are not at the special session, and Abbott has suggested the Democratic legislators could face bribery charges if they accept donations to help pay the fines.
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Sounds like aiding and abetting a state crime. Lock her up.
It seems to me that the Governor should be able to give them a few days to return to their duties or be declared to have abandoned their positions and be replaced by someone of the Governor’s choosing if they do not.
That might cover their bar and dinner bills... But not their fines... lol
I’m so old I remember when the Dims loudly praised McCain/Feingold, that it was gonna take the money out of politics.
The ability to raise money is power in DC.
She may be an ignoramus with tits, but she's not politically stupid.
Send your pesos to the Prickster Clown Posse Fund. Have a car wash or bake sale to also help raise extra spending money for the posse to buy souvenirs in remembrance of their escape to Chicongo and knocking down a few brews with the Prickster and his Chicongo mob.
Never let a crisis go to waste, especially when the crisis is self-generated.
Formerly known as "Dollars From Dupes".
Ocasio-Cortez and Powered By People are racing money...
Is the author a CNN Illiterate or merely a Bot?
Because democracy is too important to allow voting.
If they accept money for personal use, they are accepting bribes and should be charged with Bribery.
The utter hypocrisy.
The dems in Texas opposed the Oregon gop walkout and would do the same if dems held a supermajority - as they do in Oregon - and the gop repeated the actions on display here by dems in Texas.
“aiding and abetting a state crime. “
That’s exactly what it is.
Liberals will do anything illegal, until they’re made to stop.
Which crime would that be? The only pertinent law I found is quorum breaking (civil, not criminal)which imposes a maximum fine of $500 a day.
Avenue for distributing laundered money.
Sounds like a bribe to me.
Don’t you love their version of Democracy.
If Hillary had been stopped years ago, the country would be much better off. Don’t let AOC get away with anything illegal or she will be too powerful, like Hillary.
TIME TO TRIM HER SAILS
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