AOC’s chief of staff and top spokesman quit – IOTW Report

AOC’s chief of staff and top spokesman quit

WaEx: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti and communications director Corbin Trent are both leaving her D.C. office.

“Saikat has decided to leave the office of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez to work with New Consensus to further develop plans for a Green New Deal,” Trent told the Intercept Friday.

“We are extraordinarily grateful for his service to advance a bold agenda and improve the lives of the people in NY-14. From his co-founding of Justice Democrats to his work on the Ocasio-Cortez campaign and in the official office, Saikat’s goal has always been to do whatever he can to help the larger progressive movement, and we look forward to continuing working with him to do just that.”

Chakrabarti, 33, is a Harvard graduate and technology entrepreneur who became an organizer for Bernie Sanders during the socialist’s 2016 presidential campaign.

He founded a PAC called Brand New Congress in 2016 and another called Justice Democrats in 2017, with the stated goal of helping elect liberal candidates to Congress. One of those candidates was Ocasio-Cortez, who, last November, age 29, became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.

Trent is planning to leave the office to work on Ocasio-Cortez’s 2020 reelection campaign as communications director.

In June, Chakrabarti wrote in a now-deleted tweet that the moderate Democrats are the “New Southern Democrats.”

“They certainly seem hell bent to do to black and brown people today what the old Southern Democrats did in the 40s,” he said.

The controversial chief of staff defended his original comment in another tweet.

“Can we stop calling the Blue Dog Caucus ‘fiscally conservative but socially liberal?’ I missed the part of fiscal conservativeness or social liberalness that includes wasting $4.5 billion of taxpayer money to put kids in concentration camps,” he said about the decision by the majority of his party to back a border relief package. 

Pelosi called the original tweet “offensive” and held a closed-door meeting with Democratic lawmakers who were furious at Ocasio-Cortez over her staffer’s behavior.

“Do not tweet about our members and expect us to think that that is just OK,” the California Democrat told her caucus. read more

22 Comments on AOC’s chief of staff and top spokesman quit

  1. He’s an activist, his work is done with her. He’ll move on and get another loon placed in office.
    He’s another community organizer. Just like Obozo with the dark skin and foreign roots and a hatred for the republic.

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  2. These two will now be able to roam from state to state causing all sorts of havoc without the “D.C.” scrutiny. You also know they’ll still pull the “Puppet Strings” on AOC by remote control.

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  3. A worthless, Commie operator who is done with the mentally-drained host!
    (there wuzn’t much in that tank anyway!)
    But honestly, how much self-esteem can you possibly have when even the parasites are done with you??? Chiquita Khrushchev is one-and-done, a flash-in-the-pan (that’s not very bright), a pig in a poke and probably a blast in the pants for Chalkboard (MJA). She’s not Black so she doesn’t have the protections enjoyed by the likes of Hank Johnson, Maxine Waters, Sheila Jackson, Elijah Cummings, etc. Say bye, bye in 2020!

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  4. I wouldn’t trust these vermin to not go underground and continue the destruction of Congress in the dark.

    They need to be out of the country, not just out of her office.
    Call the Orkin man and flood them with RoundUp.

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  5. AOC is now able to cope without “hands on” daily training from her main liberal trainer (likely in more ways than one). She will still be briefed by the occasional conference hook-up and Chakrabarti can still return if a “crisis” occurs.

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