Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an American Democratic Socialist who made headlines in 2018 when, at the age of 28, she beat out a 10-term New York Democrat incumbent in a congressional primary. If elected in November, Cawthorn would become the youngest member of Congress - a title currently held by Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, the progressive upstart who took.
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez celebrates Amazon's decision to pull the plug on planned NYC headquarters
Amazon has fired back against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s claims about the company’s poor working conditions, inviting the firebrand congresswoman to tour the facilities and see it “for yourself.”
Amazon’s David Clark, senior vice president of worldwide operations, made the invitation on Twitter after Ocasio-Cortez accused the e-commerce giant of creating “dehumanizing conditions” for its employees.
“Is that culture of ‘strict performance’ why Amazon workers have to urinate in bottles & work while on food stamps to meet ‘targets’? ‘Performance’ shouldn’t come at the cost of dehumanizing conditions. That’s why we got rid of sweatshops,” she wrote.
But Clark shot back, claiming that such allegations “aren’t true” and invited the congresswoman to the visit the company to get a sense how the employees are treated.
“.@aoc these claims simply aren’t true. We are proud of our jobs with excellent pay ($15 min), benefits from day 1, & lots of other benefits like our Career Choice pre-paid educational programs. Why don’t you come take a tour & see for yourself..we’d love to have you!,” he tweeted. The post was retweeted under Amazon’s official PR handle as well.
The latest exchange came after Amazon’s spokesman slammed the New York Democrat and other lawmakers in the state for creating a hostile environment to make business – culminating in the company’s decision to pull out of the project to build its planned headquarters in the borough of Queens in New York City. (Ocasio-Cortez's district includes parts of Queens and the Bronx.)
“If you talk to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, it's 'Never Amazon,'” Jodi Seth, the head of policy communications for Amazon, told NBC News in an interview Thursday. “If you talk to [New York City Councilman Jimmy] Van Bramer, it's unions.”
Ocasio-Cortez celebrated the decision, even as others noted that this actually means a loss of well-paying jobs in the state.
“Anything is possible: today was the day a group of dedicated, everyday New Yorkers & their neighbors defeated Amazon’s corporate greed, its worker exploitation, and the power of the richest man in the world,” she tweeted.
Seth added that while it wasn’t “any one incident” that prompted the company to back out of the state, the virulent political climate that occurred over the past three months was what led to the decision.
“It was that the environment over the course of the past three months had not got 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,” she said in the interview.
'The View' host Whoopi Goldberg called upon Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) to stop 'pooping on people,' in response to inflammatory comments the newly sworn-in congresswoman made in her Sunday night '60 Minutes' interview. 3 wheel vegas slots.
Anderson Cooper, a '60 Minutes' correspondent and CNN host, told Ocasio-Cortez that her challenges to establishment Democrats were 'politically dangerous tactics.'
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'It’s absolutely risky,' Ocasio-Cortez said in response. 'It requires risk to try something new, but also, we know so much of what we’ve tried in the past hasn’t worked, either.'
In the same interview, the New York congresswoman called herself a radical, saying it 'only has ever been radicals that have changed this country.'
Goldberg criticized Ocasio-Cortez for overlooking the achievements of her peers.
'It is very, very difficult when people make accusations where you say, you know, the Democrats have done nothing, the establishment of the Democrats have done nothing,' she said. 'But I just want to throw this out to you. [Rep.] John Lewis [D., Ga.] wasn’t sitting still. [Rep.] Dianne Feinstein [D., Calif.] wasn’t sitting still.'
Goldberg added that she believes Ocasio-Cortez must 'sit still for a minute and learn the job' before criticizing others.
'There are a whole bunch of people in the Democratic Party who have been busting their asses to make sure women get what they need, people get what they need, children get what they need,' she said. 'You don’t have to be born into it. You don’t have to know it when you step out, but before you start pooping on people and what they’ve done, you got to do something too.'
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Leftist Whoopi Goldberg on Ocasio-Cortez: 'Sit still for a minute and learn the job…before you start pooping on people and what they’ve done, you got to do something' pic.twitter.com/xJT354Yu7j
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