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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAOC Rival's Family Caught in Drug and Gun Bust
QAnon-boosting Republican Tina Forte is running against a crime wave her husband, son, and beverage distribution company are part of.https://www.thedailybeast.com/aoc-rival-tina-fortes-family-was-caught-in-2019-drug-and-gun-bust
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezs long-shot Republican opponent has labeled the left-wing lawmaker a crime surge creatorbut in fact, the GOP candidates own family have been part of the uptick in illegal activity she has lamented.
A Snopes investigation earlier this year revealed that Tina Forte has a long history of flirting with the political rights violent fringes: posting photos on social media of herself with the leader of the Proud Boys gang, sharing QAnon-flavored slogans, and even participating in events around Donald Trumps Jan. 6 rally that culminated in the bloody rampage through the U.S. Capitol. But as a candidate for Congress, Forte has cast herself as a more conventional Republican, playing up her small business-owning background and appealing to fears of increasing crime rates, which she has blamed on bail laws that New York State liberalized after the progressive wave four years ago.
AOC and her socialist allies have pushed for defunding our police and the disastrous bail reform policies which have caused crime to skyrocket in New York, Fortes website asserts. Tina and her husband started with a soda delivery route and went on to build their own beverage distribution company. Now, theyre not only creating jobs but empowering others to create their own businesses.
Forte revisited these themes in appearances in conservative media shortly after she captured the Republican nomination for the overwhelmingly Democratic seat, which covers sections of Queens and the Bronx. I grew up here, I own a business here, I raised my family here. I see the difference, she said in a Fox News interview in August. We have the criminals that are being released immediately due to the AOC-supported bail reform.
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AOC Rival's Family Caught in Drug and Gun Bust (Original Post)
Celerity
Sep 2022
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Heather MC
(8,084 posts)1. Oy Vey🤣🤣🤣
Dorian Gray
(13,493 posts)2. She's got zero chance
zero.
But running has really laid their lives bare for the world to see. Scumbag kid and husband didn't fall far from the scumbag tree.
emulatorloo
(44,124 posts)3. Every Republican accusation is a confession.
The phrase is becoming a cliche but it is so true.
keithbvadu2
(36,800 posts)4. "a single delivery of marijuana" she says... $150,000 worth.
"a single delivery of marijuana she says...
$150,000 worth.
LudwigPastorius
(9,140 posts)5. Hey, "Joey Snapple" Galdieri...