OCASIO-CORTEZ AND TOP AIDE RUN OUTSIDE GROUP LEADING ‘WAR’ ON ESTABLISHMENT DEMOCRATS, DOCUMENTS SHOW Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her top aide hold majority control over Justice Democrats, a left-wing PAC waging open war on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other establishment Democrats, according to corporate filings obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, obtained majority control of the political action committee in December 2017, TheDCNF reported Monday. Chakrabarti resigned from the Justice Democrats’ board in August 2018, Politico reported, and the PAC’s website no longer lists Ocasio-Cortez as a governor, but government documents show the two still hold majority control as of Wednesday afternoon. Ocasio-Cortez’s role with the PAC, which was a driving force behind her stunning victory in 2018, may have violated campaign finance laws, two former Federal Election Commission (FEC) members told TheDCNF. Ocasio-Cortez never disclosed her control of the PAC to the FEC. If the congresswoman intentionally withheld that information from the FEC, both she and Chakrabarti “could be facing jail time,” former FEC Commissioner Brad Smith told TheDCNF. But there’s another aspect to the story: Justice Democrats has aggressively attacked Ocasio-Cortez’s more moderate Democratic colleagues at a time when the party is divided between establishment members and progressives pushing the party left. Justice Democrats’ corporate filings indicate the group attacking senior Democrats isn’t just allied with Ocasio-Cortez but is also partially controlled by her as well. Screenshot/D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs Both Ocasio-Cortez and Chakrabarti are still listed on the Washington, D.C., Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs’ website as two of Justice Democrats’ three governors. The left-wing group is open in its antagonism toward establishment members of the party. Justice Democrats and Ocasio-Cortez staged a sit-in at Pelosi’s office in November 2018 shortly after the midterm elections. It hadn’t been reported at that time that Ocasio-Cortez — at least on paper — controlled the group staging the protest in the California Democrat’s office. Two months later, in January, Justice Democrats released a video showing Ocasio-Cortez discussing primary challenges with the group’s other leaders. “We gotta primary folks,” Chakrabarti, who previously served as the PAC’s executive director, said in the video. (RELATED: Ocasio-Cortez’s Adviser Went Viral For What He Told Tucker Carlson — But He Got It Wrong) Justice Democrats spokesman Waleed Shahid told Politico in February: “There is going to be a war within the party. We are going to lean into it.” Ocasio-Cortez has echoed the Justice Democrats line: She warned moderate Democrats on Feb. 28 that they were “putting themselves on a list” by voting with Republicans and indicated that she would help replace them with progressives in the next election, The Washington Post reported. Justice Democrats has already publicly marked one center-left Democrat, Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar, for a primary challenge. The group is expected to add more names to the list, The New York Times reported in February. “We are trying to elect more Alexandrias,” Justice Democrats Executive Director Alexandra Rojas told The Times. “She is an example of what one victory can do. Imagine what we can do with more primary wins across the country.” Spokesmen for Pelosi, Ocasio-Cortez and Justice Democrats did not respond to requests for comment. https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/06/ocasio-cortez-justice-democrats-pelosi/
She isn't kidding and they know it. Probably Soros or some other anti-American slimebucket is funding her. Too bad the republicans are too busy selling out their base to do the same thing. They think they can win by screaming "socialist" and touting tax cuts.
The next move to watch is whether AOC aligns herself with Bernie again. Bernie is not going to get elected but he was and still is a lead buffalo who moves the other candidates. The other lefty candidates dont want to be out of favor with aoc but neither do they want to be too closely aligned with her. Not sure that is true for Bernie because he knows that he is not going to be elected and is on his LAST BIG SPLASH TOUR to leave his legacy as the father of American socialism. That would work for AOC as well because she can get an instant big, visible role in the 2020 campaign and Bernie has shown her how you can be a big splash without ever being elected, and she has demonstrated those skills herself already. A natural match. Not to mention that she worked as an organizer for Bernie last time, so she has been in Camp Bernie before. We shall see. Bernie is sort of lost when it comes to successors now. He was grooming Keith Ellison and supported him for DNC chair but then his history of beating women worked against him. Now maybe he is thinking that if he had a son he would look like AOC.
Why wouldn't she? I wouldn't write Bernie off. He's running against a woman who claimed to be an Indian to get a Harvard job and some sleazy career pols. A lot of voters now see voting, particularly in a primary, as a way to give the double middle finger to the man. We have the Orange Man. They have an 80 year old commie. And if community organizer Obama could get elected twice, why couldn't Bernie? Supporting him makes leftists feel good in the same way supporting Reagan did conservatives. They were both the genuine article, not some lying pol saying whatever they think will work.
Isnt there something illegal or in violation of some ethics code for a sitting Congressperson to fund a PAC to attack other fellow Congress people? Seems to be in violation of something....
I watched her question the CEO of WFC yesterday, I had C-Span on... it's pretty obvious someone is scripting her questions for her. Her ascent and popularity is very similar to that of a teen pop star that has others writing the music and choreographing the show for the crowds.
This is hilarious criticism coming from a Trump supporter - a man with an IQ of a turd who spouts nonsense and people like you go MAGA MAGA over it. Save your review for your next happy meal.