Oh. “Ocasio-Cortez is branded a hypocrite after calling for a Green New Deal while her campaign spent $29,365.70 on Uber Lyft and Juno since 2017 despite her office being a one-minute walk to the subway” https://t.co/NirOqGw4bG— Tammy Bruce (@HeyTammyBruce) March 3, 2019
The Daily Mail, UK
written by Staff
Monday March 4, 2019
New York Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has clapped back after being branded a hypocrite for touting a Green New Deal but spending thousands of dollars on ride-share apps.
According to election filings, her campaign spent $29,365.70 on car services and $8,335.41 on subway fares, despite her Queens headquarters being just a one-minute walk from the subway.
On Saturday night, Ocasio-Cortez hit back at the New York Post for highlighting the figures, claiming she is just 'living in the world'.
'I also fly and use A/C,' she tweeted to her more than three million followers.
'Living in the world as it is isn't an argument against working towards a better future. The Green New Deal is about putting a LOT of people to work in developing new technologies, building new infrastructure, and getting us to 100% renewable energy.
She took another swing at the article on Sunday, implying that her hometown newspaper is trying to create controversy where there is none.
'The Post put the fact that I get into cars (while proposing a plan to invest in better car technology) on their front page,' she tweeted.
'Pack it up folks, the Pulitzer's been decided. No one can rival this kind of hard-hitting journalism.'
The freshman congresswoman, representing New York's 14th congressional district, says she has a goal of a 'full transition off fossil fuels and zero greenhouse gases' within 10 years.
But the New York Post says from when she announced her candidacy in May 2017 to December 2018, her campaign has relied on using Uber, Lyft, Juno and other ride-hailing apps to get around.
According to federal filings viewed by the Post, Ocasio-Cortez's campaign spent $29,365.70 on vehicles that spew the very emissions she wants to be rid of.
This is despite her headquarters in Elmhurst, Queens, being just a one-minute walk to the 7 train.
The Post took another swing at the leftist Democrat on Sunday, writing that she arrived at a St. Patrick's day parade in her district in a gas-guzzling Chrysler Town and Country minivan, which is rated for 17 miles per gallon in the city.
The federal filings claim Ocasio-Cortez's campaign made 1,049 transactions for various ride-sharing services, 505 of which were for Uber alone.
In comparison, the campaign paid merely $8,335.41 on 52 MetroCard transactions, the Post reported.
The fact sheet of the Green New Deal claims that the only way to completely stop using fossil fuels and greenhouse gases is to 'totally overhaul transportation by massively expanding electric vehicle manufacturing, build charging stations everywhere, build out high-speed rail...create affordable public transit available to all, with goal to replace every combustion-engine vehicle.'
But she didn't take too many high-speed rail trips, booking just 18 on Amtrak, says the Post.
During her campaign, she also booked 66 airline trips at a cost of $25,174.54.
The rising star of the Democratic Party says one of the reasons she was able to beat incumbent Rep Joe Crowley in the primaries is because she did a lot of walking.
'I knocked doors until rainwater came through my soles,' she tweeted last June. 'Respect the hustle. We won [because] we out-worked the competition.'
She even donated the well-used shoes to the 'Women Empowered' exhibit at the Cornell Costume Institute.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) admits that she uses tons of plastic bags from the grocery store and that she throws them all away.— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) March 6, 2019
If she cares so much about the environment and climate change, why doesn't she reuse the plastic bags or bring her own reusable bags? pic.twitter.com/wMmRf5l6kN
I'm not a green person and I take my fabric bags to the grocery store and/or reuse the plastic bags I buy if I forget my fabric bags. Also, grocery stores in Los Angeles allow us to bring in our used plastic bags to be recycled instead of throwing them away. (emphasis mine)
— Daniel Turner (@DanielTurnerPTF) March 4, 2019Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to replace airplanes with trains, but in 2018 she took 66 flights and only Amtrak 18 times.
So much for limiting her carbon footprint.
Ocasio-Cortez's mom flees New York to Florida to escape Democrats' high taxes: "I was paying $10,000 a year in real estate taxes up north. I'm paying $600 a year in Florida. It's stress-free down here." https://t.co/WA59wBiDrf— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) March 4, 2019
Nope. Not even close.— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) March 4, 2019
She moved to Florida before Trump was elected because New York taxes were obscene.
(And of course TCJA would have almost certainly been a net tax cut for her even had she stayed in NY. TPC says it's a net tax hike for just 8% of NY taxpayers.) pic.twitter.com/WCSKRloByp
#Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal calls upon Americans to STOP EATING SO MANY HAMBURGERS.— Sues Waves. (@sues_waves) March 1, 2019
However, when AOC was caught yesterday dining out, with her Chief of Staff, who is eating a giant hamburger, she lashes out and says she's being stalked! Hypocrites everywhere. pic.twitter.com/Q6Dcr46Fki
@AOC The UGLY truth of hypocrisy at its 'best'. You dine with a burger eating friend and don't care, but expect MY family to give it up. Big reasons to laugh you out of the line up. #GoHomeFool pic.twitter.com/tAyKIyP9O9— Kristi (@butterflysecret) March 3, 2019
to be clear, this picture was only taken and sent to me because AOC told the country to eat less hamburgers and her COS is here eating a hamburger. Notice how she wasn’t confronted and forced to leave the restaurant like liberals have been doing to the GOP?— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) February 27, 2019
AOC Chief of Staff:— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) February 10, 2019
“a FAQ that was clearly unfinished and that doesn’t represent the [Green New Deal] resolution got published to the website by mistake” https://t.co/98S5DOKvjE
@AOC claims that at the Green New Deal FAQ was “an early draft” accidentally posted. Someone sent me the information from the PDF: It was created by AOC’s Chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti at 10:09. pic.twitter.com/c20uvdZEO3— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) February 9, 2019
You call it a “mistake” that the Green New Deal FAQ doc was posted on AOC’s website, but last night Robert Hockett went on Tucker Carlson’s show & claimed it had never even happened at all... & AOC retweeted the video of him lying. Will AOC apologize for spreading misinformation? https://t.co/kOlI77xSi1— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) February 9, 2019
Why is anyone giving @AOC a pass? She clearly linked to the Green New Deal FAQ sheet on her website and therefore owns the contents of it. She’s just embarrassed because it looks like it was written by @TheOnion. https://t.co/AWZHQKdpU4— Lisa Boothe (@LisaMarieBoothe) February 10, 2019
If the Green New Deal FAQ document published by AOC’s Chief of Staff and uploaded to AOC’s official congressional website and sent to media outlets was the “wrong” draft, where is the “right” draft and what does it say? https://t.co/3XH31mkQxu— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) February 12, 2019
BREAKING: California Gov. Gavin Newsom abandoning plan for high-speed train from Los Angeles to San Francisco, says it is too costly. Comes just days after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) announced Green New Deal plan to build high speed trains across US to replace air travel.— BNL NEWS (@BreakingNLive) February 12, 2019
Flawed decision-making and poor contract management led to billions in cost overruns and years of delays in the as-yet unbuilt California high-speed rail line, an audit found. https://t.co/HJrQOTnJ8U— AP West Region (@APWestRegion) November 15, 2018
That's what Marxist Socialist Democrats do... mismanage, waste, launder taxpayer money. Then have the nerve to tell us they need to raise our taxes because they don't have enough money to pay for public services. They never have enough taxpayer money or money in general. Take for example in California:
More than $1 billion in Lottery funds goes to California public education each year. Here’s a quick breakdown of where the money goes:
More than $1 billion in Lottery funds goes to California public education each year. Here’s a quick breakdown of where the money goes:
- 63% of Lottery funds are spent on salaries and benefits for educators. This money helps school districts fund class-size reduction programs, hire classroom aids, nurses, school psychologists, and specialists
- 20% of Lottery funds are used to buy instructional materials for the classroom; including textbooks, classroom supplies, computers and software, library books and laboratory equipment
- 17% of Lottery funds are used to support other programs and services.
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