She apparently forgot why she won an upset victory against now-former Representative Joseph Crowley, a 10-term incumbent and Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, that Tuesday night, those almost seven years ago. The then 28-year-old political organizer drubbed Crowley 57 percent to 42 percent.
Why? It wasn’t because she was a better candidate, or smarter. It was because HE ignored his district and took their votes for granted, thinking they knew him and would vote for him.
He wasn’t there for them, because HE was setting his sites on higher office. And now, SHE is repeating his missteps. She thinks because she is ethnially the same, whereas Crowley wasn’t, she will get a pass.
Hey, Sandy. It doesn’t work that way. Ever. If you ignore your constituents, they WILL turn on you. ALWAYS.
Guess you didn’t learn that little bit of info in your Political Science class. Or your bartender school.
Her district offices in the Bronx and Queens offer little to justify the $1.9 million the congresswoman gets to run them. One is only open a single weekday and the other is closed on Fridays, with phones that go unanswered and constituents urged to discuss their problems “by appointment only.”
“This woman has done nothing for the community she was once again elected to serve,” said Lauro Vazquez of Woodside, Queens.
The perception turned into a reality last week at a town hall in Jackson Heights, when AOC gave a packed auditorium of people just under an hour of face time before dashing for the exit to an idling SUV.
She took only six questions.
BUT… Sandy has time to fly on a private jet doing several “Fighting the Oligarchy” tours 3,000 miles away from her Congressional district, along with Senator Bernie Sanders and several personal assistants. Not a good look.
The public meeting had already been postponed from its original date because the lawmaker “fell ill” after wrapping her most recent nationwide "Fighting the Oligarchy" tour.
“Of course, it’s cancelled. Too busy jet setting around on private jets screaming about ‘oligarchs’ and setting up her bid for a POTUS run,” said Vazquez. “This woman has done nothing for the community she was once again elected to serve.”
And this constituent wasn’t the only person complaining about AOC’s lack of attention to the needs of the community.
Elmhurst’s Ramses Frias, a Republican City Council candidate, called Ocasio-Cortez an “absentee landlord” disconnected from the reality of her working-class constituents.
On matters big and small, critics in her district, which includes Astoria and Jackson Heights in Queens, and the South Bronx, said AOC is failing the people that put her into office.
She has done little on a controversial $8 billion casino proposal by Mets owner Steve Cohen on parkland near Citi Field, which opponents fear will become a blight on the community. Blaming redistricting, since Citi Field is now in another district.
And at the town hall, she seemed to blow off the people since she appeared to have other commitments.
But in March, she loudly advocated for Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, who is not her constituent, after the anti-Israel activist was arrested and detained.
“Mahmoud was a Columbia student, but our office has been able to take the lead on that case for the New York City delegation,” she boasted at the town hall.
Just more of the same. AOC is too concerned building her national profile AND her rising "star" to care. Then, she would be damaged goods and no one will give her a second look if she were primaried. AND LOST.
And, like Joe Crowley found out, she will have plenty of time to look for a new job as an Assistant Bartender.
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