{"id":12145,"date":"2020-06-21T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/aocs-squad-is-more-about-personality-than-politics\/"},"modified":"2020-06-21T00:59:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T21:59:00","slug":"aocs-squad-is-more-about-personality-than-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/aocs-squad-is-more-about-personality-than-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"#AOC\u2019s \u2018squad\u2019 is more about \u2018personality\u2019 than \u2018politics\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35814599910\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a35814599910\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/aocs-squad-is-more-about-personality-than-politics\/#AOCs_FRIENDS_AND_ENEMIES\" >AOC\u2019s FRIENDS AND ENEMIES:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#AOC\u2019s \u2018squad\u2019 is more about \u2018personality\u2019 than \u2018politics\u2019<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                        Queens Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is looking to expand her \u201csquad\u201d in the House, putting her considerable firepower behind a slew of progressive primary challengers in New York Tuesday \u2014 but insiders say she\u2019s been pulling her punches.<\/p>\n<p><span>Friends and allies of AOC as well as Democratic insiders say lawmakers who have gone the extra mile to work with her on the Hill have been spared the rod \u2014 even if their records and philosophies don\u2019t align with her <\/span><span>progressive values.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf she\u2019s got a personal relationship with you then she is less likely to support political opposition to you. Significantly less likely. A lot of her political decisions are based on personal feelings and relationships,\u201d one person familiar with her thinking told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe price of admission to the squad has less to do with politics than with personality.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15827406\"><img alt=\"Eliot Engel\" data- data- height=\"441\" width=\"294\"><\/img><figcaption><span>Eliot Engel<\/span><span>Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In open seats for retiring Reps. Nita Lowey and Jos\u00e9 E. Serrano, the freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>ist has backed Mondaire Jones and Samelys L\u00f3pez respectively. AOC has also endorsed educator Jamaal Bowman, who is looking to knock off longtime Democratic Rep. Eliot Engel, in open defiance of Engel-backer Speaker Nancy Pelosi.<\/p>\n<p>Those in the know say Engel\u2019s fatal mistake wasn\u2019t that he had <em>a bad<\/em> relationship with AOC, but the fact he didn\u2019t take the time to develop a good one.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Carolyn Maloney and Ocasio-Cortez have developed a chummy bond in Congress, where they serve on both the Committee on Financial Services and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Though they aren\u2019t \u201cfriends\u201d and you won\u2019t see them dining out together, they have worked on a number of pieces of legislation and initiatives, like 2020 Census awareness, Immigration and Customs Enforcement accountability, protecting NYCHA residents during the COVID-19 pandemic, and urging the FDA to overturn the ban on LGBT Americans from donating blood. Communication between their offices to collaborate on these and other issues is frequent and initiated by both women.<\/p>\n<p>Maloney is facing two primary challengers from the left, Suraj Patel and Lauren Ashcraft, the latter of whom has been endorsed by the AOC-aligned political action committee Brand New Congress. The race is fertile ground for woke challengers given Maloney\u2019s vote for both the Iraq War and the 1994 crime bill, which Democrats today blame for mass incarceration.<\/p>\n<p>But Ocasio-Cortez has stayed out of the race.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15827443\"><img alt=\"Carolyn Maloney\" data- data- height=\"441\" width=\"662\"><\/img><figcaption><span>Carolyn Maloney<\/span><span>REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>AOC has similar feelings for Brooklyn Rep. Yvette Clarke, who has served in the House since 2007. The two also have a close working relationship and Clarke was one of the original co-sponsors of AOC\u2019s Green New Deal legislation. Clarke narrowly survived a progressive challenge from Adem Bunkeddeko in 2018. This year she faces him again, in addition to City Councilman Chaim Deutsch on her right flank.<\/p>\n<p>To defend her seat Clarke has larded her campaign with corporate PAC money \u2014 a big no-no for AOC-style progressives. Nearly three quarters of Clarke\u2019s $705,454 campaign war chest comes from PACs, including those representing T-Mobile USA, Morgan Stanley, AT&#038;T, Comcast McDonald\u2019s and Amazon.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15827453\"><img alt=\"Yvette Clarke\" data- data- height=\"441\" width=\"662\"><\/img><figcaption><span>Yvette Clarke<\/span><span>William Farrington<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Clarke (and Maloney) both signed a letter to Jeff Bezos begging the Amazon boss to consider New York City for their corporate headquarters \u2014 something AOC and her allies bitterly opposed and ultimately derailed. Last year Clarke also faced questions over $120,000 which dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eared from her congressional office\u2019s operations budget.<\/p>\n<p>But AOC has also stayed out of that race too.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez kept out of the Engel race as long as she could, resisting months of lobbying from those around her, insiders say. She only pulled the trigger last week,\u00a0after Engel was busted on a hot mic saying he wouldn\u2019t care about the George Floyd protests if he didn\u2019t have a primary.<\/p>\n<p>AOC is less disposed to some of the men of the New York and metro-area delegations, like Brooklyn\/Queens Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, who engaged in a nasty public Twitter spat with her old chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti. She also doesn\u2019t care for New Jersey Democrat Josh Gottheimer, who has been a forceful critic of the squad.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15827483\"><img alt=\"Josh Gottheimer and Hakeem Jeffries\" data- data- height=\"441\" width=\"662\"><\/img><figcaption><span>Josh Gottheimer and Hakeem Jeffries<\/span><span>CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images; Michael Brochstein\/SOPA Images\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Though her PAC, Courage to Change, has thrown her support and money behind seven progressive candidates around the country, all but Samelys Lopez were out of state.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez would also be more than happy if notorious Queens Rep. Gregory Meeks were knocked off by his progressive challenger Shaniyat Chowdhury. Meeks, has long been cited as one of the most corrupt members of Congress, and he replaced Rep. Joe Crowley as Queens party boss after Crowley lost to AOC in 2018. He played a pivotal role in beating back AOC\u2019s candidate for district attorney, Tiffany Caban, last year.<\/p>\n<p>Chowdhury, 28, a former bartender and Marine who worked on AOC\u2019s campaign, has so far failed to catch fire, and Ocasio-Cortez is loathe step in and risk future cooperation with Meeks by backing a loser.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15827465\"><img alt=\"Gregory Meeks\" data- data- height=\"441\" width=\"662\"><\/img><figcaption><span>Gregory Meeks<\/span><span>AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s not willing to die on every hill. She picks her spot,\u201d veteran Democratic strategist James Carville, who admires AOC\u2019s savviness, told The Post. \u201cIf you\u2019re a baseball fan, she\u2019s patient at the plate. She doesn\u2019t swing at every pitch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New York primary voters will head to the polls on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<\/hr>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"AOCs_FRIENDS_AND_ENEMIES\"><\/span>AOC\u2019s FRIENDS AND ENEMIES:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15867125\"><img alt=\"AOC's friends and enemies\" data- data- height=\"441\" width=\"294\"><\/img><figcaption><span>NY Post<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>AOC\u2019s friends:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-Manhattan):<\/strong> AOC and Maloney sit on two committees together and have worked closely on legislation and initiatives.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-Brooklyn):<\/strong>Clarke was an original co-sponsor of Ocasio-Cortez\u2019 Green New Deal legislation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-Brooklyn):<\/strong>Velazquez, who, like AOC, is of Puerto Rican heritage, has been an unofficial mentor to her freshman colleague.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>AOC\u2019s enemies:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D\u2013N.J.):<\/strong> Gottheimer, a conservative Dem from Wykoff, has been a longtime critic of the squad.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn):<\/strong> Jeffries doesn\u2019t have a much of a relationship with AOC, and didn\u2019t help things by publicly attacking her former chief of staff on Twitter.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-Queens):<\/strong> Once called the most corrupt House member, Democrat replaced AOC\u2019s predecessor, Joe Crowley, as head of the Queens party.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/06\/20\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-picks-battles-in-june-primaries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch Movies<\/a> or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#AOC\u2019s \u2018squad\u2019 is more about \u2018personality\u2019 than \u2018politics\u2019&#8221; Queens Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is looking to expand her \u201csquad\u201d in the House, putting her considerable firepower behind a slew of progressive primary challengers in New York Tuesday \u2014 but insiders say she\u2019s been pulling her punches. 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