AOC chief of Staff attacks Sharice Davids

[RandySF]

Link to tweet

?s=21

[Iliyah]

1. Why is he attacking Democratic women?

[RandySF]

3. A Democratic woman of color.

[Iliyah]

5. Didn't he attacked NP as well?

[Thekaspervote]

4. Not sure if this is still the burr under the saddle, aoc and sanders campaigned against Sherice

We all know how that turned out

I like her less and less everyday!

No offense meant in calling congress woman David’s Sherice!

[George II]

41. Yes, they campaigned for a white male running against Sharice Davids, a Native American woman.

[Gothmog]

81. Tha AOC supported candidate was weak

I really like Comfressperson David’s

[Hortensis]

24. He's calling ALL normal Democrats southern racists. Us!

Not just America's first female Native American congressman from Kansas.

Why? Just speculation, but he's a left-wing extremist with a long history of attacking and lying about the Democratic Party, including all through the 2015-2016 election. Remember his claims that the Democratic Parties of many states stole the elections?

And his hostility has continued behind the scenes since Ocasio was sworn in. Not only are her colleagues fed up with his hostile misbehaviors inside their caucus, but his behavior is threatening Ocasio's career as well.

So my best guess is this is he and his fellow JD/Brand New Congress hostiles threatening Ocasio with they'll do if she fires or tries to get them under better control. After all, 2020 is election year for her also and she can always be added to their hit list if they decide she's just another "corrupt, corporatist" Democrat.

Of course, I could be wrong and she could really be with them, but what appear to be intelligent and responsible behaviors since taking office have frequently contradicted that. Just for instance, she's often called out Republicans as the main threat to our nation, not Democrats, something these far-left dissidents never do.

In any case, I suspect she's in trouble whether she does fall in line with her queen-makers or doesn't. She badly needs some good friends in the party, and in getting her to publicly support his misbehaviors the JDers on her staff are busy trying to cut any lifelines she might have established.

Her colleagues don't like being called rabid racists any more than we do.

[Thekaspervote]

28. Thank you.. very informative. Had no idea. Seems he has boat loads of money as well.

Typical monied person who thinks I’ll do and say as I please, and you aren’t going to stop me. Aoc best be finding the guts to fire him

[melman]

2. What happened to no tweeting?

I thought that was the new rule.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

6. It's Pelosi's rule.

The "squad", or "justice league", doesn't necessarily recognize the speaker's leadership. AOC seems to want to start a new tea party.

[melman]

7. "It's Pelosi's rule"

Then shouldn't it apply to the official House Democrats twitter account?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

9. The rule applies if you support Pelosi.

I don't think our congressional gang of four fully supports the speaker.

[lapucelle]

69. Saikat isn't a member of the Democratic Caucus. Saikat is staff.

Representative Davids is a sitting congresswoman and a member of the caucus. The Congresswoman was elected to office. Nobody elected Saikat to anything, and he more than deserved the clapback.

"Who is this guy" indeed.

[W_HAMILTON]

12. I'm pretty sure the rule wasn't that you can't defend House Democrats.

[lapucelle]

59. Saiket isn't a member of the Democratic caucus. Congresswoman Davids is.

Saiket embarrassed himself and deserved to be clapped back.

He might be a millionaire political hobbyist, but nobody elected Saiket to anything. He's staff.

[Hekate]

8. As long as you're still standing with AOC, advise her to dump this guy

I take you at your word: that image is from your post

[ProudLib72]

45. + 1

Two times in as many days is too much. She needs to dump his ass now!

[George II]

40. That applies to Democratic Members of Congress.

[melman]

42. Oh

So then staff tweets are no problem. Okay.

[George II]

44. You can interpret it any way you want, but Chakrabarti is on a Member of Congress' staff, but....

...."House Democrats" is NOT on a Member of Congress' staff.

[melman]

49. Incorrect

The head of messaging and communications for @HouseDemocrats is Michael Hardaway.




https://twitter.com/michaelhardaway?lang=en





and as you can see here, he is also head of communications and messaging for Hakeem Jefferies.


thus he is indeed on a Member of Congress' staff.

Link to tweet

[George II]

51. What account was used to send the tweet?

[melman]

52. The official House Democrats account

And there is no doubt that Michael Hardaway is the person that sent it.


unless you think it's a coincidence he tweeted this right after.

Link to tweet

[George II]

55. Like I said, you can interpret it any way you want.

[melman]

56. Interpret what?

[Cha]

84. lol.. deflection much?

[dalton99a]

10. Despicable.

[Thekaspervote]

14. It is!! Why is she supporting this guy.. nuts!!

[comradebillyboy]

16. He, she and Bernie all campaigned against Davids in the

2018 primary. Will they try to have a Justice Democrat primary her next year, along with all those Congressional Black Caucus members they are targeting?

[George II]

43. They already have a candidate set up to run against Lacy Clay (a POC) next year. It's the same....

....person who lost last year to him, Cori Bush (also a POC).

They have a candidate declared against Henry Cuellar in Texas.
They have a candidate declared against Eliot Engel in New York.
They've been talking about putting candidates up against Gregory Meeks and Hakeem Jeffries.

All incumbents who are very popular in their districts. And all five endorsed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 primaries (note, this is NOT refighting the primaries!)

[Me.]

11. So Let's See...Here's The Chief Of Staff

For the person who intimated that Speaker Pelosi is racist calling out a Native American for being racist. If he's going to be the person initiating discussions such as this, we should know something about him...

This millionaire who helped fund a billion dollar company and is the primary author of the GND.

“Chakrabarti worked on Wall Street, followed by eight years in Silicon Valley at a number of start-ups and founding a web design tool called Mockingbird and then serving as a founding engineer at payments processing company Stripe (valued at 9 billion)”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saikat_Chakrabarti

[Archae]

13. Same guy who has as a hero a WW2 fascist.

https://www.newsweek.com/who-was-subhas-chandra-bose-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-senior-staffer-criticized-sporting-image-1448687

[Me.]

15. Not Just Senior Staffer...Chief Of Staff

some choice...

[cwydro]

62. This guy is bad news.

I like AOC, but she might want to rethink this particular choice.

[NewDayOranges]

17. Divide and conquer tactics are divide and conquer tactics...

No matter who starts them.

Quit falling for the bait, everybody. When you spot someone using those tactics, turn on them and attack them - don't give a lot of thought to the subject of their attacks...

[EllieBC]

18. He's attacking Davids and wore a shirt

celebrating a Nazi collaborator.

No one needs to attempt divide and conquer when AOC has trash like that as her chief of staff.

[Cha]

22. Tell that to Chakabarti.

[jalan48]

19. What votes is he talking about? First i've heard of this.

[NurseJackie]

20. I think she'll probably not be re-elected.

[Thekaspervote]

21. Agree

[RandySF]

23. Davids?

The district's turning blue pretty blue.

[NurseJackie]

25. Sorry, I should have been clearer: AOC will not be re-elected.

[Igel]

30. Up to her constituents.

They may like what she's doing for them and not care what she's doing elsewhere. I don't know what she's done for her district.

Or perhaps they'll like her attitude and care more psychological than material benefits. Their call.

[NurseJackie]

32. Any word on if she's opened an office in her district, yet?

I don't know what she's done for her district.

Any word on if she's opened an office in her district, yet?

[wishstar]

33. She opened her district office over 4 months ago

[NurseJackie]

37. I wonder why nobody answers the phone during business hours.

I wonder why nobody answers the phone during business hours. You get a recording that says "contact us on the web at ocasio-cortez.house.gov/", then *click*.

Not a single call answered by a live person.

If you would, please give her office a call on Monday morning 718-662-5970 to see what the recording says or to let us know if a live person answers.

As far as I can tell, when it comes to a "working" office (with real people) she's still borrowing State Representative Reyes' office for her "Bronx" office! No photos of how much actual working office space her staff has, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was probably just a desk in the corner of Reyes' office.

I know that I wouldn't be happy with MY Representative if I couldn't reach him and if he didn't have a local office. I'll bet that many of her constituents probably feel the same way.

[Vegas Roller]

48. That office is just a mail-drop

No human beings are physically present there.

Who needs an office for a revolution anyway? A bank account is enough.

[NurseJackie]

73. Exactly.

[Gothmog]

80. That is not how a functioning office work

Why is there not a functioning office operating?

[NurseJackie]

82. I guess they just have different priorities.

[Gothmog]

91. People who live in that district can just retweet AOC'S tweet

[NurseJackie]

97. How easy!

[TexasTowelie]

60. I think that her constituents wanted the 25,000 jobs that Amazon would have brought to her district.

While Amazon did decide to bring some jobs to that district, it wasn't because of anything that AOC did.

[George II]

75. The additional facility and jobs Amazon is adding is in Manhattan, not Queens or the Bronx.

[Dorian Gray]

87. I don't think LIC

where Amazon was supposed to go, was technically her district. Their Rep is Carolyn Maloney.

[George II]

88. Yes, the original huge facility was going to be in LIC, this new office space will be....

....on the west side of Manhattan near Penn Station (and one in the old US Post Office Building)

That is in Jerry Nadler's district, Carolyn Maloney's district (who has been redistricted a few times since being a Congresswoman) is the east side.

[Dorian Gray]

89. Maloney's district

includes the east side, UN area, but also Long Island City and Greenpoint, BK. So it crosses the river. (The LIC factory was supposed to be in her district (12). Not Ocasio-Cortez's (14).) People blamed AOC for being against it. Some of her constituents might have benefitted from it. But it wasn't her district nor was she involved in the dealing to get Amazon here. (Just wanted to make that clear.) Post 60 (which started this particular subthread) stated that it was her district.

[George II]

90. Hah! I just checked that, it WAS going to be in the 12th District. Thanks....

The Congressional Districts in NYC have been changed so much and are so odd it's almost impossible to keep up with them.

Look at Jerry Nadler's 10th District - West Side of Manhattan, a skinny sliver along the docks of Brooklyn, then a big section of central Brooklyn. Nydia Velázquez' 7th District is just as bad - a tiny section of lower Manhattan and a strip snaking through Brooklyn and Queens.

Edit to add: that must really make Carolyn Maloney angry, she was very much in favor of it.

[Dorian Gray]

98. It's almost impossible to keep track of.

I live in BK and had been following the Amazon stuff closely, which is the only reason I had an inkling it wasn't in AOC's district. She has Astoria, which is right there, so it would make sense to think she's LIC, too. It's so confusing.

[George II]

100. I was born in Brooklyn (Bed Stuy) and lived in Bushwick until nine years old...

Then we moved to Flushing, not far from the current District line between the 4th and 14th, lived there until my mid-20s. I may have been in the 14th at one time, who knows?

Look at poor Carolyn Maloney - she was in the 14th District for 20 years, now the 12th.

The 12th now stretches from the east side of Manhattan, Astoria, part of LIC, Greenpoint in Brooklyn and Roosevelt Island. Must be tough for her to keep track of her constituents. Most of it was the 14th at one time.

Makes your head spin!

[GuyNamedNathan]

83. Yay, more gentrification.

[Gothmog]

79. Agreed

[wryter2000]

26. This crap has to stop.

Time to knock a few heads together.

[beachbum bob]

27. Is he on Putins payroll? Just saying he is doing Puntin/trump handiwork

[Sapient Donkey]

53. I've been seeing more and more attacks on liberal democrats from certain segments of the left

Often times separating themselves from liberals and saying that liberalism is the problem. Odd seeing people on the left attack liberals and liberalism. I expect some of it from more extreme leftists, but it seems more common these days online. Not sure how much that represents the real world, though. I also question the motives of many of them. While I don't think they are all Russian/Chinese/whatever bots or right-wing provocateurs, I do wonder how much of the amplification of these messages are coming from such groups.

[DFW]

29. I think we are dealing with a new species here

For lack of another term, I call them the Just Not Democrats.

[Thekaspervote]

31. Good one!! Hope that catches on..

[UniteFightBack]

39. It's starting to look like we have our version of the tea party here. nt

[DFW]

68. They can choose whatever term they like

It‘s what they do and say that interests me. They can call themselves the Caucus of Democratic Aardvarks for all I care. It‘s whether they have the Democratic Party‘s interests at heart and thwarting the Republican Party as their major goals that I care about. If they want a yellow flag with a hammer and a pickle as their battle flag, I really am not bothered.

[fallout87]

34. Does this guy work for republicans?

I mean, really? Whats this asshole's deal??

[Raven]

35. AOC should take control of this and tell

this guy to keep his mouth shut. She's the Rep, he's the staff. If he doesn't, he should go.

[Tiggeroshii]

58. Agreed

This isn't cool

[SidDithers]

36. And Bernie and AOC went all the way to Kansas...

to campaign for her opponent during the Democratic primary.

Imagine that.

Sid

[obamanut2012]

47. Yup, they campaigned against the Native, lesbian, civil rights attorney

And now this guy.

[xmas74]

70. And against Lacy Clay,

Which several members here stated shouldn't "upset me".

[George II]

76. The candidate they supported against her was a white male. So Chak, let's STOP these....

....purity assessments and attacks.

[xmas74]

95. Not just a white male

But one who didn't even grow up in the area, compared to Davids. He had recently moved there to run in that race. Davids was from the area and knew what the constituents needed.

[JI7]

74. if only he worked as hard to support the democratic candidate for Governor in his own state

but then again he didn't support the democratic Governor of his own state when he tried to get single payer passed either.

[Thekaspervote]

38. Beginning to see shades of a wanna be bannon....aoc what are you thinking!

[obamanut2012]

46. She is also a civil rights attorney

This guy sucks, and AOC's reluctance to even just tell him to STFU really makes me question her judgement. Gosh.

[Vegas Roller]

50. Chakrabarti is there only for the money n/t

[TheFarseer]

54. I'm usually an AOC supporter

But calling Democratic Congress people racist is really distressing and it has to stop. I thought progressives were about ideas and not identity politics. I don’t understand what they are doing.

[RandySF]

64. Especially when the accused is a gay woman of color.

[Tarc]

66. Is that the game now? Intersectionality Bingo?

The more things one is, the more immunity one is to criticism. Fascinating.

[RandySF]

67. So, Sharice IS racist?

[Tiggeroshii]

57. Nah.

:smdh:

[TexasTowelie]

61. "I don't believe that Sharice is a racist person, but..."

is a literary device known as an allusion which is a passing or indirect descriptive reference to something.

It's rare that anything positive is stated after using the word "but".

[cwydro]

63. Spot on. This "I don't think ------ is a racist, but..." is kind of getting to be a thing, isn't it?

Bad way to go about getting any message across.

[Cha]

85. EXACTLY!

[xmas74]

71. I've been with Davids since Day 1.

If I lived an hour west of my current location I would be in her district.

I've met her. Very intelligent and well spoken, understands the needs of her constituents well.

[Cha]

86. Me too, xmas.. it was so exciting to

see her win the primary and the GE!

[xmas74]

92. I was so disappointed in my Missouri races.

Vicky beat a superior candidate in Renee Hoagenson and then Clair lost-horrible. But Sharice pulled through,even with the truly hateful attack ads on TV every night.

She's a bit of an inspiration around my area.

[Cha]

93. Awww.. sorry about your

Missouri races.

Rep Davids is very inspiring.. around here, too!

[xmas74]

94. Vicky Hartzler is my congress person.

I live with disappointment and disgust daily.

[Cha]

96. ..

[Gothmog]

77. These attacks on Rep. David's are wrong

These attacks are very wrong

[treestar]

78. Why always attacking other Democrats

But never Republicans?

[Sapient Donkey]

99. Which votes and what is the reasoning that leads him to believe they are enabling?

This is one of the biggest things that annoys me about politics today, and the way people use platforms like twitter. They make bold and often times inflammatory assertions, but then don't go into any details about how they came to their conclusions. It's as if people just throw out whatever thoughts come to their head without putting it through any examination. And then when pushed for an explanation, they deflect through various means.