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Ocasio-Cortez Accuses Pelosi of Racism, Singling Out Women of Color

AOC attacks Democrat leader, calls House speaker a racist, 'outright disrespectful'

 on 11th July 2019 @ 7.00pm
omg   aoc just  like totally  went there with pelosi © press
OMG! #AOC just 'like totally' went there with Pelosi

Radical Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) upped the ante in her battle for dominance with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday night, calling the Democratic leader a racist.

Ocasio-Cortez blasted the House speaker as “outright disrespectful” for criticizing women of color within the party.

The New York socialist was responding to Pelosi’s repeated attempts at reining in some of the radical far-left members of her caucus.

Pelosi recently chastised freshman lawmakers for focusing too much on their social media popularity rather than winning support in Congress.

“When these comments first started, I kind of thought that she was keeping the progressive flank at more of an arm’s distance in order to protect more moderate members, which I understood,” Ocasio-Cortez told the Washington Post.

“But the persistent singling out — it got to a point where it was just outright disrespectful — the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color.”

the relationship between ocasio cortez and pelosi has been growing increasingly frosty © press
The relationship between Ocasio-Cortez and Pelosi has been growing increasingly frosty

According to Breitbart, Pelosi and Ocasio-Cortez — also known as “AOC” — have feuded ever since the “Democratic socialist” newcomer upset incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY), a member of the party’s leadership team under Pelosi, in last year’s primary race.

The latest spat began on Saturday when columnist Maureen Dowd of the New York Times reported that Pelosi had disparaged AOC and her allies on the left (original links):

I asked Pelosi whether, after being the subject of so many you-go-girl memes for literally clapping back at Trump, it was jarring to get a bad headline like the one in HuffPost that day — “What The Hell Is Nancy Pelosi Doing?” 
The article described the outrage of the Squad, as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts are known.
Pelosi feels that the four made themselves irrelevant to the process by voting against “our bill,” as she put it, which she felt was the strongest one she could get.
“All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world,” she said.
“But they didn’t have any following. They’re four people and that’s how many votes they got.”

AOC responded on Twitter by calling out Pelosi for her past efforts to disparage the party’s “Democratic socialist” wing:

On Wednesday, Pelosi held a meeting with her caucus in which she reportedly insisted on party unity, and discouraged House members from tweeting criticisms of each other or the leadership.

Asked by reporters whether she regretted criticizing AOC in public, Pelosi said: “Regrets is [sic] not what I do.”

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Pelosi has been critical of the far-left Democrats Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Ocasio-Cortez did not tweet. But she did talk to the Washington Post, the newspaper of record in the capital city:

“When these comments first started, I kind of thought that she was keeping the progressive flank at more of an arm’s distance in order to protect more moderate members, which I understood,” Ocasio-Cortez told The Washington Post.
“But the persistent singling out . . . it got to a point where it was just outright disrespectful . . . the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color.”

The Post noted that even though Pelosi had posed with AOC and other “Justice Democrats” on the cover of Rolling Stone earlier this year, the two have not spoken “one-on-one” since February.

Pelosi was apparently upset that Ocasio-Cortez had declined to serve on a select committee on climate change, preferring to launch her own "Green New Deal."

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