Ocasio-Cortez defends Warren for her past hourly legal fees

[Celerity]

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/445186-ocasio-cortez-defends-elizabeth-warrens-past-hourly-legal-fee


Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Thursday defended Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D) for the hourly fees the Massachusetts lawmaker charged for past legal consulting.

Ocasio-Cortez linked to a Washington Post article on Warren's fees, asking the publication to now report on how much money presidential candidates had accepted from “Wall Street, Big Pharma, & Fossil Fuel.”

"Now do the amount of Wall Street, Big Pharma, & Fossil Fuel [money] presidential candidates accepted over their careers & how much they’re taking now."

BREAKING NEWS: Lady Had A Job, Got Paid More Than Me

Nice work. Now do the amount of Wall Street, Big Pharma, & Fossil Fuel presidential candidates accepted over their careers & how much they’re taking now.

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 23, 2019

Warren’s presidential campaign released a list of 56 cases she advised while a Harvard professor on her website Wednesday night.

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[htuttle]

1. " BREAKING NEWS: Lady Had A Job, Got Paid More Than Me "

Lol, somewhere between law school and tending bar, she developed a hell of a way with words!

Absolutely perfect.

[LisaM]

6. It's a good jab, but I have to point out that it's ugrammatical.

And that may be on purpose, not knocking the Tweet at all - but it should be "paid more than I" - there is an implicit verb there, "did", and so if it was not shortened, it would be, "got paid more than I did".

However, I'm probably being overly picky, because it would sound pretty stuffy if she subbed in "I" for "me".

[bobbieinok]

7. 'than me' is the way people actually talk. 'than I' is grammatical but sounds super stuck up

[earthshine]

8. What is "ugrammatical"? Never heard that word.

Commas and periods are supposed to be nested inside the quotation marks.

There should be no comma before "because."

The "em-dash" is properly written as two consecutive hyphens -- unless, of course, you want to make up your own rules.

[George II]

2. I can do this report for the Washington Post:

"...report on how much money presidential candidates had accepted from “Wall Street, Big Pharma, & Fossil Fuel.”


$ ZERO
$ ZERO
$ ZERO

[NewJeffCT]

9. Donald Trump

has not accepted any money from Wall Street, Big Pharma & Fossil Fuel?

[LittleGirl]

3. Retweeted! This is amazing

Check it out!

[Politicub]

4. Skilled consultants make great money.

And why shouldn't they? They spend years amassing experience, education and connections.

If a consultant came in too cheap, I would question their abilities. Good consultants know what they are worth.

On edit: LOVE the AOC and Warren vid!

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread Celerity.

[Mersky]

10. This is like, the best thing ever

To-the-point truth telling with snap. I love it!