Conservatives target Ocasio-Cortez's 'Green New Deal' in New York billboards
Source: Reuters
(Reuters) - A pro-business group unveiled two billboards targeting Democratic congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York City on Tuesday, criticizing her proposal for a Green New Deal aimed at building a renewable energy economy.
The digital billboards on the side of a skyscraper in Manhattans Times Square are the latest broadside against the 29-year-old liberal known as AOC, by the Job Creators Network, founded by billionaire Bernard Marcus, a former chief executive of Home Depot Inc.
Representative Ocasio-Cortez, whose district includes parts of the New York City boroughs of the Bronx and Queens, has sought to push her party to the left on environmental and economic issues. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in November in an upset victory over a more mainstream Democratic incumbent.
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Hey AOC, youre the boss? read one billboard. WE DONT THINK SO. The American PEOPLE are the boss, said the other sign, with a link to a website critical of the Green New Deal.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-ocasio-cortez/conservatives-target-ocasio-cortezs-green-new-deal-in-new-york-billboards-idUSKCN1QN026
She is being attacked by the 'JOB CREATORS NETWORK'?? What an original name!
Gore1FL
(21,126 posts)She skillfully disarms them every time they attack. I hope she picks up steam.
Among her many positive attributes, this ranks among my favorites.
forgotmylogin
(7,524 posts)Looks like she's on the right track!
jcmaine72
(1,773 posts)Don't you know scared people when you see them? They have no future, and they know it.
iluvtennis
(19,844 posts)TryLogic
(1,722 posts)I have noticed that the persons who are attacked most heavily by right wing monsters are
those who would challenge profiteering businesses (big banks, payday lenders, pharmaceuticals, big oil, etc.).
those who would challenge the greedy class, A.K.A., the billionaire class.
those who speak truth to power.
those who challenge the politicians who have much power due to seniority. (I noticed at the Cohen hearing it was the more senior Republicans who became crazy, out-of-their-minds hostile.)
Joe Nation
(962 posts)Gandhi said: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win"