FOX: The fallout from Amazon’s decision to walk away from its planned headquarters in New York is ratcheting up after a company spokesman publicly blasted Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other lawmakers, saying they had made it a hostile environment to do business.
“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 on Thursday. “If you talk to [New York City Councilman Jimmy] Van Bramer, it’s unions.”
Seth added that “it wasn’t any one incident” that drove the Seattle-based tech giant to its decision, adding that the virulent political discourse 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.
Seth, who has been at Amazon since October 2017 according to her LinkedIn profile, said the company did not know whether the “deal would be approved until a year from now,” but said it was “pretty confident” in the approval, mentioning that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo “was working hard to make it happen, but looking at the opposition and the timeline we decided we don’t want to work in this environment in the long term.” read more
Hell, there’s plenty of us that don’t even want to be in the liberal environment for a short term.
Go ahead and kill the golden goose before you get the first egg. Idiots.
The bloom is off the ragweed. Primaried by Amazon, what a way to go. Sandy, we hardly knew ye.
Uh oh. Now she’s costing NY politicians opportunities for some serious graft. Her political career is going to be the equivalent of a nova — suddenly ultrabright (due only to the media pointing to it) then totally disappears.
No free delivery for Sandy!
This whole thing is incredibly delicious.
My popcorn hasn’t tasted this good in a long time.
How wonderful to see these sorry SOB’s get actual consequences to their dimwitted actions for a change.
Bezos is a socialist. He promotes this insanity. Would it be too much to ask that at least some leftists wake the hell up?
Jodi Jody Jodees
C. Grant does a very poor imitation of that famous Goober Pyle line.
Her new home will soon be the murky waters of the East River.
Cortez is a gift. We should treat her as such.
Liberals eating one another. What’s not to like?
‘we don’t want to work in this environment in the long term’ .
How about first try to work at all?
Not everyone can be the ‘Magic Kenyan”,,
You have to be tough to make it in New York. Smart people figure out how to make a profit in California. Statements by DeBlasio and Jerry Brown, respectively, that admit that New York and California don’t like business but need them anyway.
Still, those challenges aren’t stopping companies from responding “we’re outta here,” or “we’ll check back later if adults ever get back into control.” Hopefully we are watching socialism implode before it really takes hold.
We have to be thankful Gidget is so dumb and so loud. Same with mazine waters.
Trump 2020!
McConnell to ADX Florence with clinton and obama.
I’m very glad to see AOC shaft
her own district’s voters and
watch their grins disappear as
they realize that; “Yes Dummies,
votes do have consequences”.
Let this be ample warning to any business thinking of moving to NY.
With any kind of luck, anything involving AOC won’t be long-term anyhow.