According to Fox News, Twitter posters are mocking Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez regarding her recent comments on the social media platform.
The posts target her opposition in 2018 to Amazon building headquarters in New York and instead choosing Northern Virginia as the site.
The Congresswoman is seemingly bragging about the loss of jobs that would have been brought to New York by Amazon. The Fox News report notes the number of potentially lost job opportunities was in the tens of thousands.
In the winter of 2018, AOC tweeted: Now what I DONT want is for our public funds to be funding freebie helipads for Amazon + robber baron billionaires, all while NYCHA and public schools go underfunded & mom+pops get nowhere near that kind of a break.
The pressure exerted on Amazon by Ocasio-Cortez and her colleagues persuaded those in charge to abandon the Amazon/New York project in early 2019.
An announcement about plans to pause construction of the Northern Virginia location comes four years after Amazon announced that it was not going forward with plans for a New York location.
AOC went after some of her critics and said that they owed her an apology. However, those critics have fired back that not only does she NOT deserve an apology, but she should resign from her seat immediately.
The Congresswoman tweeted about these latest developments, saying: When I opposed this Amazon project coming to New York bc it was a scam of public funds, the whole power establishment came after us. Billboards went up in Times Sq, denouncing me. Powerful pols promised revenge. Op-eds & CEOs insulted my intelligence.
She concluded that tweet by saying: In the end, we were right.
She then continued to tweet and try to deflect some of the criticism that had come her way from many different corners as they went after her for seemingly bragging about the loss of jobs in the Northern Virginia area.
Recently, the Congresswoman commented, I know Ill never get an apology for that time, but it was worth it. We protected NYers from a scam deal to drain public dollars from schools & infrastructure in exchange for empty promises of Amazon jobs w/ 0 guarantees or guardrails. Sadly, cities who took it are suffering.
The consensus among Twitter posters is the opportunity for more jobs in their area is far more vital to them than stunts by far-left politicians.
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