Ocasio Cortez Boycott
- Ocasio-Cortez supported a Goya boycott while calling out Unanue for his public support of President Donald Trump over the summer. Unanue insisted she had gone 'against her own people' by denouncing.
- After Unanue participated in a White House Rose Garden event in July, Ocasio-Cortez was among the Democrats who called for a boycott of the Hispanic-owned food company. Goya sales skyrocketed afterward, prompting Unanue to name AOC the company’s 'employee of the month.'
Ocasio-Cortez joins at least six other House Democrats in boycotting Trump’s speech, as Representatives Al Green (Texas), Steve Cohen (Tenn.), Earl Blumenauer (Ore.), Ayanna Pressley (Mass.), Hank.
Sarah Sanders calls AOC's work boycott 'totally mind blowing'
Sarah Sanders calls out Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for urging workers to say 'no' to going back to work after coronavirus shutdown
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Progressive New YorkDemocratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez'scall for a work boycott is 'mind-blowing,' former White House press secretary and Fox News contributor Sarah Sanders said Thursday.
In an interview on 'Fox & Friends' with hosts Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade, Sanders pointed out that earlier this week Ocasio-Cortez was celebrating the impact coronavirus has had on the U.S. oil and gas industry and the hundreds of thousands of jobs that are tied to it because 'she hoped it would provide momentum for her Green New Deal.'
'This is also a person,' Sanders continued, 'who may want to go back to her roots and remember that most Americans – unlike those in Congress – have to show up in order to get paid and that they don't have the luxury of not doing their job and still being able to provide for their family like she does as a member of Congress.'
On Thursday, the Labor Department reported another 4.4 million Americans filed for unemployment claims last week, as massive job losses caused by the pandemic continue to grow. The new report brings total job losses since the outbreak shuttered cities five weeks ago to more than 26 million, erasing the entirety of the 22.78 million labor market gains since the Great Recession more than a decade ago.
'There are people who are really hurting,' Sanders stated further. 'The president is looking for ways to protect them, to help them. She might want to join in that effort instead of putting people down who are struggling and trying to figure out how best to help their families and provide that food.'
'She might want to go back and remember that when she was a bartender and not a member of Congress, she didn't have that luxury,' Sanders instructed. 'She had to show up to do her job in order to get a paycheck and there are millions of Americans [who] are like that [and who] need a paycheck — not just for the money but also their sense of sanity and their ability to be able to get out and do what they do best and that's work hard, because that is who the American people are.'
'Her totally out-of-touch lack of understanding of that is mind-blowing,' she told the 'Friends' hosts.
Fox Business' Megan Henney contributed to this report.
“We just declared a boycott of the racist NY Post!”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., on Saturday backed a campaign by Yemeni American shop owners in New York City to boycott the New York Post.
The freshman congresswoman hailed the “community” for the effort, which she compared to its 2017 protest of President Donald Trump’s travel ban. She retweeted a post declaring “a boycott of the racist NY Post!”
Two years ago, Bodega owners across NYC (& cheered by neighbors)shut their shops citywide to protest Trump’s #MuslimBan.
Today, that same community is banding together to reject sales of the NY Post at bodegas citywide.
This is what real unity (& NYC solidarity) looks like ⬇️ https://t.co/mj8vtA4Pv5
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 13, 2019
The calls for a boycott are a response to the Post’s front-page editorial on Thursday that slammed Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., for last month characterizing the Sept. 11 attacks as “some people did something” at a Council on American-Islamic Relations banquet in California on March 23.
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“Rep Ilhan Omar: 9/11 Was ‘Some People Did Something,'” blared the cover, which included a photo of the former Twin Towers on fire in the moments before they collapsed. “Here’s your something — 2,977 people dead by terrorism.”
Omar has repeatedly stirred controversy with her criticism of the United States, including by questioning U.S.-Israel relations in terms she later admitted were anti-Semitic.
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Ocasio-Cortez – who has been the subject of numerous negativestories by the Post – has repeatedly defended Omar since a video of her making the 9/11 comments surfaced last week on Twitter.
She called the criticism of Omar, mostly by conservatives, “an incitement of violence against progressive women of color.” She also liked those who are upset to Nazis and suggested that Rep. Dan Crenshaw, D-Texas, in particular, has no right to defend 9/11 and should instead worry about right-wing extremism.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich, who in January joined Omar as the first Muslim congresswomen, has defended her colleague in similar terms. She claimed that the backlash to Omar’s 9/11 comments was “racist” and put her life in danger, and later accused the Democratic leadership of failing to adequately defend Omar while using its new Muslims members to boast about its diversity.
Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib defends Rep. Ilhan Omar’s 9/11 comments: “she does speak truth”
Tlaib suggests that those who are criticizing Omar are racist pic.twitter.com/of0rgKeCWg
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) April 11, 2019
Other top Democrats rushed to Omar’s defense on Saturday after Trump retweeted a video interspersing her edited remarks with video of the carnage of the attacks. He commented: “WE WILL NEVER FORGET!”
WE WILL NEVER FORGET! pic.twitter.com/VxrGFRFeJM
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 12, 2019
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi scolded Trump for using the “painful images of 9/11 for a political attack” against Omar.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said during a presidential campaign stop in New Hampshire that Trump is “trying to incite violence and to divide us, and every political leader should speak out against that.”
Omar spoke out for herself in an appearance Wednesday on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” saying: “I took an oath to uphold the Constitution. I am as American as everyone else is.”
She also said in a series of tweets Saturday that Trump, whom she indirectly called “corrupt, inept,” and “vicious,” cannot “threaten my unwavering love for America.”
No one person – no matter how corrupt, inept, or vicious – can threaten my unwavering love for America. I stand undeterred to continue fighting for equal opportunity in our pursuit of happiness for all Americans.
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) April 13, 2019
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Alexandria Ocasio Cortez Parents Wealth
- New York Post cover/Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.: Screen grabs