The Republican Party is as obsessed with freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) as they are afraid of her. Fox News runs nonstop coverage on the young Democratic Socialist, giving her free air time and building her national platform even as they attack her for threatening the corrupt, plutocratic governing style of the GOP. Ocasio-Cortez stands strong in the face of all of it and has already proven herself to be an intelligent, savvy, and caring politician.
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Recently, Kentucky Republicans thought they’d concocted a clever stunt to embarrass AOC by inviting her to come visit a coal mine, a reaction to her Green New Deal and push for lower emissions. Presumably, Congressman Andy Barr (R-KY), the man who extended the invitation, believed she would either ignore him or decline, thus proving that she doesn’t care about American workers. Instead, Ocasio-Cortez said she would be “happy” to make the visit.
An odd fact worth noting is that Barr doesn’t even have any active coal mines in his district, so one must wonder how genuine his offer was.
Since then, Barr had added a cowardly caveat to his invitation by demanding that AOC apologize to Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) after she responded bluntly to some of his bad faith rhetoric about Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN). She absolutely does not owe Crenshaw an apology, and Barr is using this unrelated issue to back out of the invitation. It’s pathetic and just another example of the rank cowardice that infests the modern Republican Party.
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Today, I delivered the letter below to @AOC, calling on her to apologize for her comments to our colleague @DanCrenshawTX before she plans her trip to Kentucky to learn how the Green New Deal could impact our Commonwealth. pic.twitter.com/j52dAcIi4E
— Rep. Andy Barr (@RepAndyBarr) April 12, 2019
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Now, Ocasio-Cortez has taken to Twitter to mock the Republican backtracking. She said the GOP thought they’d be able to catch her with a bluff. They were sorely mistaken.
GOP thought they could catch us with a bluff.
Now we’ve got ‘em on their back foot stutter-stepping 💁🏽♀️ #TooLate https://t.co/DY15KPy9Tv
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) 17 April 2019
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Shortly after, AOC tweeted about the coal mine invite again, by explaining that she also extended an invitation to Representative Barr to visit the Bronx to discuss climate change. He said no, offering the sad excuse that he wanted to watch an NCAA game. When she offered to fly him home so that he could still catch the game, he declined. Once again, AOC caught him in a bluff. She continues to outmatch and outplay the GOP at every turn.
You know what’s interesting?
Last month I invited @RepAndyBarr to come visit us in the Bronx and offer perspective in our MSNBC Climate Town Hall.
He said no, because UK had an NCAA game that night. Fair.
So I offered to fly him home in time for the game.
He still said no. 🤷🏽♀️ https://t.co/ZP2ltnEBc4
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) 17 April 2019
