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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's office doesn't answer phone calls
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A call to AOCs Jackson Heights office goes to a series of voicemails with no ability to leave a message as of Monday.
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Aides to Ocasio-Cortez say the issue is call volume. Their office deployed a special phone filtering system that blocks callers without New York or DC area codes from even making it through. Such callers get a message directing them to the Bronx Democrats website. Theres no option to leave a message.
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Other members of Congress with a large national profile have staff picking up phones in their DC and district offices consistently, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and AOCs fellow freshmen squad members. The Post was able to get through even when calling from an area code outside of DC and not from the members home state.
https://nypost.com/2019/08/20/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-office-doesnt-answer-phone-calls/?utm_source=twitter_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons
Not a promising development
H2O Man
(73,692 posts)I have never experienced any trouble in contacting her office. And I am in regular communication with them.
melman
(7,681 posts)Thanks.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Rep. Ocasio-Cortez would probably have to hire two full-time staffers just to handle the whackadoos. Seems like she's practicing some fiscal restraint as well as concentrating on her duties without getting side-tracked by the whackos.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)leftstreet
(36,119 posts)Wow.
Good for her!
flor-de-jasmim
(2,126 posts)melman
(7,681 posts)Is that why you didn't provide a link?
brooklynite
(94,950 posts)Doesn't make a difference unless you think the story is factually wrong.
melman
(7,681 posts)The New York Post is a right wing rag. As you certainly know.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)melman
(7,681 posts)Imagine saying it doesn't make a difference where a story comes from.
Because Rupert Murdoch's hate sheet is just as legit as any other source. Unreal.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)a lot more. I've forgotten how many are paid for by us, but it's a good number, and many reps hire additional themselves as needed.
There's been a shakeup at her office, and this might have something to do with that. A couple of Justice Democrats/Brand New Congress anti-Democrat radicals who came in on her coattails made themselves extremely unpopular with hundreds of congressional colleagues their job requires them to work with (surprise!), and their departure was announced 3 weeks ago. But there's no mention of who will be her new chief of staff and communications director yet.
demmiblue
(36,914 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Autumn
(45,120 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)I have 212 and tried all her phone and got hung up on every time. As far as an office, does she even have one? Last I heard she had a desk in someone else's office.
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)She probably get more hate mail and phone calls than any other Congressperson. There are even ways to fake your area code for the determined trolls.
Opel_Justwax
(230 posts)You can send a letter through the US mail or leave comments at their web site. Congress members are not YOUR personal representative.
LiberalFighter
(51,300 posts)All that would happen if they got thru would be directed to call their own representative.