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Does she have one of these too?
Posted on 08/17/2018 11:12:41 AM PDT by simpson96
Democratic New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez decided to ban the media from her latest town hall event with constituents.
Ocasio-Cortez has been conducting a “listening tour” throughout the 14th district to talk with local residents about immigration, healthcare, and various other issues. However, according to the Queens Chronicle, Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign refused to allow any TV or newspaper reporters into her last event in Corona, Queens.
Campaign spokesman Corbin Trent said the ban was the campaign’s response to an incident last week where Ocasio-Cortez met with healthcare activist Ady Barkan, and the two of them were “mobbed” by journalists despite it being a non-Q&A event. Trent told the Chronicle that the ban should be temporary and the campaign is still interested in maintaining an open relationship with local media.
“We wanted to help create a space where community members felt comfortable and open to express themselves without the distraction of cameras and press. These were the first set of events where the press has been excluded,” said Trent. “This is an outlier and will not be the norm. We’re still adjusting our logistics to fit Alexandria’s national profile.”
Critics have taken Ocasio-Cortez to task since she won the Democratic primary, after making embarrassing comments in her recent interviews.
(Excerpt) Read more at mediaite.com ...
Because banning the media from your campaign events is always a winning strategy for new candidates. /s
Maybe Omarosa can attend & get us a recording.
Did she realize she might lose ?
Maybe she can campaign like Hillary and just phone it in from this point forward.
Trump hates Fake News, Ms. Venezuela hates Real News. LOL
Maybe Omarosa will attend and secretly record it for posterity.
LOL, good one.
If she wins her district then there are a LOT of stupid people there...
See? Trump is right. The media is the enemy.
BTTT
I wonder if Hitlery or Crazy Bernie or Mad Maxine or Bat Crap Crazy Nancy Pelosi will campaign for her this fall.
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Does she have one of these too?
I hope Omarosa attended
Like when they reported Ocasio-Cortez turned down a debate with a man, saying she doesn’t deal with men with bad intentions,
likening the debate invite as some lewd suggestion.
I guess in her "community" men lure women into sex by suggesting a debate. ROTFLOL.
I’m listening for the MSM reaction to this blasphemy... So far it’s crickets...
It’s amazing to me how much media attention she is getting considering she had less than 16k votes.
Not to mention she will more than likely lose the general election in Nov. to Crowley who is still on the ballot.
You can bet Crowley’s not going let her win.
Jim Acosta is outraged!!!
CNN to wall to wall coverage any minute now.
Nevermind.
Will the media report on that? No. They will continue doing everything they can to help her out.
I can’t wait for the 300+ joint MSM editorials condemning Cortes for treating reporters this way.
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