Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has already topped the fundraising charts in her short time in Congress, but the liberal darling won’t donate a cent of her millions to Democrats’ House campaign organization — a position that has rankled some of her colleagues, Fox News has learned.
Instead, Ocasio-Cortez is building her own fundraising operation for fellow progressive candidates to bypass the official Democratic Party infrastructure. Already, she’s actively funding primary challengers to oust certain Democratic colleagues.
“Sometimes the question comes: ‘Do you want to be in a majority or do you want to be in the minority?’” Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., told Fox News, when asked about AOC’s stance. “And do you want to be part of a team?”
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) Chairwoman Cheri Bustos downplayed Ocasio-Cortez’s decision to shun dues and pointed to the record-breaking fundraising numbers the committee has notched without her.
“That’s always up to individual members so I guess I don’t think about it one way or another,” Bustos said when asked about Ocasio-Cortez’s stance. “We’re raising record amounts of money from our members.”
ht/ brown-eyed girl
That’s not very socialistic of her, is it. She should be happy to spread the wealth around.
Nobody’s taking my tip money!
She hates them, they hate her. A relationship one can only have on the left.
Bottom line, they need her more than she needs them. If she isn’t redisctricted out of her seat and can survive re-election, they’ll have to come crawling back to her. Then she’ll really destroy them.
she has her eye on speaker of the house now.
aoc: how much does that speaker of the house job cost?
aoc: I’ll take two terms please.
Actually she has a valid point, for the wrong reasons tho.
The same thing goes on in the republican party and is why we have way too many rino’s.
Kick her out. She gets to loose as an independent next election.
Then its off to teach at a liberal arts college to pollute the next generation of “dependent on their parents for money socialists”
This woman, much like Obama or Bernardo, are quintessential post turtles.
Cortez is well funded, because the people funding her are seditionists: liek soros, steyer, etc.