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Liberal icon, new Democratic star wade into GOP-heavy Kansas
AP ^ | July 21, 2018 | THOMAS BEAUMONT and ROXANA HEGEMAN

Posted on 07/21/2018 9:58:55 AM PDT by yoe

The new face of an emerging democratic socialist movement joined its patriarch in the most unlikely place Friday, calling on Kansans unhappy with the direction of the country to get off the sidelines in a pivotal Republican-held congressional district.

“We know that people in Kansas, just like everywhere else in this country, just like families in the Bronx, just want a fair shake,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the surprise winner in a New York House primary last month, told a frenetic crowd of more than 3,000 in a Kansas suburb of Kansas City.

[snip]The 28-year-old Latina from New York and the 76-year-old Jewish senator from Vermont struck a stark contrast in the hotel ballroom, though they reflected the range of people in the racially and ethnically mixed crowd, weighted toward millennials but including gray-haired activists and parents with children.

Their combined messages sought to unite not just the diverse group in the hall, but restless liberals around the country.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Kansas; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: aoc; berniesanders; joecrowley; kansas; ks2018; newyork; ocasiocortez; vermont
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To: DoodleDawg

Was the crowd grassroots or were they paid participants to look good for the camera?

Did anyone report on what she spoke about. Did she wing it or was it a stump speech?


41 posted on 07/21/2018 12:09:39 PM PDT by ThankYouFreeRepublic (An)
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To: rktman

I am guessing that AP did not mention the ocasio gaffe about turning the seat red.

I wont click on an AP link. Am I right?


42 posted on 07/21/2018 12:19:01 PM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives. Do nothing, they win and we lose.)
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To: relictele

Shouldnt Hillary be campaigning for Welder? Or is she too toxic?


43 posted on 07/21/2018 12:23:50 PM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives. Do nothing, they win and we lose.)
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To: Col Frank Slade

Depending on when her birthday is, she would be eligible in 2024 or 2025.

If she turns 29 this year, she could be eligible in 2024.


44 posted on 07/21/2018 12:38:03 PM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives. Do nothing, they win and we lose.)
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To: Col Frank Slade

oh good grief, I meant 2028


45 posted on 07/21/2018 12:38:56 PM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives. Do nothing, they win and we lose.)
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To: ThankYouFreeRepublic
Was the crowd grassroots or were they paid participants to look good for the camera?

I'm pretty sure it's grassroots. Welder doesn't have the money for a rent-a-crowd and he's from Wyandotte as well so these were his neighbors.

46 posted on 07/21/2018 12:45:55 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: yoe

Fair shake = your money.


47 posted on 07/21/2018 12:48:03 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: joshua c

No clicky AP.


48 posted on 07/21/2018 12:54:50 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: humbleexpert
As if Trump Derangement Syndrome weren’t enough to send the Democrats over the edge, they’ve now also contracted Ocasio-Cortez Disorder, which compels them to endlessly promote a silly young Socialist Latina whose every other utterance is an embarrassment.

Actually, the establishment Democrats and multimillionaire party elders are wishing she'd go away, and take crazy uncle Bernie with her.

They're thinking the same thing we are; let Ocasio-Cortez turn the Democratic Party into an abode of angry Latino socialism and all the reasonably sane independents will flee or, gasp, vote for Trump!

49 posted on 07/21/2018 3:08:35 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: yoe

50 posted on 07/21/2018 4:16:02 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: DoodleDawg

Thank you


51 posted on 07/21/2018 6:22:41 PM PDT by ThankYouFreeRepublic (An)
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To: yoe

Sorry, the image you posted overscans my monitor.


52 posted on 07/21/2018 6:31:24 PM PDT by upchuck (As we head to the midterms, please (re)read Confessions of Congressman X - tinyurl.com/congressmanx)
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