She's in the House, and she's speaking. Duh!TexAg1987 said:
she realizes that she is not *REALLY* the speaker of the house, right?
Like Obama she probably thinks 114 (57 x 2).Quote:
Does she even know how many Senators there are? I doubt it.
Stat Monitor Repairman said:
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As always, I'm proud of my work in restaurants.
I also worked for Sen. Ted Kennedy, piloted literacy projects in the South Bronx, studied Development Economics in W Africa, served as an Educational Director & won international science competitions before I ran for office, too.
Some of the most nuanced, intelligent, & grounded people I've ever met weren't at BU, MIT or Harvard events when I was a student.
In other words, Republicans who criticize my being a waitress as evidence of lacking skill can take their classism to the trash.
You are insulting the capacities and potential of virtually every working person in America for having experience that's earned, not bought.
(And that's if they even take out their own trash, which I doubt)
mathguy86 said:
Ted Kennedy died in 2009. She's what, 28? She "worked" for him while in HS? A Senator from MA had a HS student from NY working for him. Right.
Yeah, I'm calling BS here.
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During college, she served as an intern in the office of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, in his section on foreign affairs and immigration issues.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez#cite_note-Mic-26][26][/url] "I was the only Spanish speaker, and as a result, as basically a kida 19-, 20-year-old kidwhenever a frantic call would come into the office because someone is looking for their husband because they have been snatched off the street by ICE, I was the one that had to pick up that phone," Ocasio-Cortez said. "I was the one that had to help that person navigate that system."[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez#cite_note-Mic-26][26][/url]
Well that might explain why she became a bartender.mathguy86 said:
Ted Kennedy died in 2009. She's what, 28? She "worked" for him while in HS? A Senator from MA had a HS student from NY working for him. Right.
Yeah, I'm calling BS here.
JJxvi said:
She did go to college in Mass.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., screamed at federal law enforcement agents "in a threatening manner" during a visit to a Border Patrol facility in El Paso, Texas, and refused to tour the facility, according to two people who witnessed the incident.
A group of 14 House Democrats, including Ocasio-Cortez, and their aides kicked off their visit to the region at about 11 a.m. MST Monday at the El Paso Station on Hondo Pass Drive.
The group was standing inside the station near an area where migrants are held when Ocasio-Cortez left them to sit inside a nearby holding area with a family as the other lawmakers and aides were briefed on station operations.
"She comes out screaming at our agents, right at the beginning [of the tour] Crying and screaming and yelling," said one witness who said he was stunned by the outburst in front of approximately 40 people.
"The agents, they wanted to respond, but they held back because she's a congressional delegate. But when you have someone yelling at you in a threatening manner " the same person said. "They were like, 'Hey, you need to kinda step back.'"
A second official said she went in and out of the cell during the group's briefing nearby and returned to the group several times to share information she had learned from detainees, including that one person had drunk from a toilet.
The congresswoman told the group she would not go with the 13 other House Democrats on the tour of the facility and stayed with the family.
A second official said that while she was around agents, Ocasio-Cortez commented at another point about an unofficial Border Patrol Facebook page that was exposed earlier Monday for offensive content about those in custody and lawmakers, including the congresswoman.
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"Something under her breath, 'Oh, all these guys in here are gonna f--k me.' The agents are standing there behind the computers. One of the agents laughed at something he was saying to another agent, and she got irate and flipped out," the second Border Patrol official said. "Now they're under investigation for it. She took it as they were laughing at her and screams at them and says, 'What's so funny?'"
CBP did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the internal affairs matter. The Border Patrol official said managers were in the process of taking statements from agents.
The Washington Examiner submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to CBP for video of the events.
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"Now I've seen the inside of these facilities. It's not just the kids. It's everyone. People drinking out of toilets, officers laughing in front of members Congress. I brought it up to their superiors.
They said 'officers are under stress & act out sometimes.' No accountability," she tweeted. "Just left the 1st CBP facility. I see why CBP officers were being so physically &sexually threatening towards me. Officers were keeping women in cells w/ no water & had told them to drink out of the toilets. This was them on their GOOD behavior in front of members of Congress."
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The agent on scene said the congresswoman misrepresented why a person in custody had drunk from a toilet.
"So this is what happened with the migrant and drinking water from toilet: she wanted water, didn't know how to use the faucet in the cell, and drank from the toilet. She never told AOC that we made her drink from the toilet. AOC, of course, changed it This was when she [the migrant] was apprehended and brought into the facility," according to the agent.