Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez D NY was wrong to threaten her fellow Congressional Democrats with putting them on a list of Democratic primary election targets because of their vote to require the reporting of undocumented immigrants who try to buy a gun to ICE / U.S. Immigration and customs enforcement. She was wrong and extremely hypocritical because she is willing to establish a mccarthy like political monitoring system within the Democratic Party while objecting to the reporting of undocumented immigrants ( people who have already violated immigration law, not a moral judgement but a fact ) for trying to buy a gun. She campaigned for office supporting gun control legislation, her action will be used by republicans to show she supports gun control for Americans but not undocumented immigrants. Her mccarthy like threat against Democrats who disagree with her will be used by republicans to show how undemocratic and authoritarian Democratic Socialism is. Rep Ocasio-Cortez, your political immaturity is showing big time, get it under control before you cause serious harm to the Democratic Party's plans to defeat the republicans in 2020. From The Hill.....
Ocasio-Cortez rebukes Dem centrists over gun control vote
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) upbraided centrist House Democrats on Saturday after a vote on gun control earlier this week split the party.
Ocasio-Cortez went after the "splinter group of Dems" on Twitter after the vote this week exposed divisions within the Democratic Caucus on an amendment to a universal background check bill.
More than two dozen moderate Democrats helped Republicans in the minority tack on a motion to recommit to the background check bill that would to notify U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) if a person in the country illegally tries to buy a gun.
“Mind you, the same small splinter group of Dems that tried to deny Pelosi the speakership, fund the wall during the shutdown when the public didn’t want it, & are now voting in surprise ICE amendments to gun safety legislation are being called the ‘moderate wing’ of the party,” Ocasio-Cortez, a progressive firebrand and staunch ICE critic, tweeted Saturday.
Mind you, the same small splinter group of Dems that tried to deny Pelosi the speakership, fund the wall during the shutdown when the public didn’t want it, & are now voting in surprise ICE amendments to gun safety legislation are being called the “moderate wing” of the party.
Reports surfaced that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Ocasio-Cortez teamed up to push back on the defectors.
“Vote 'no.' Just vote 'no,' because the fact is a vote 'yes' is to give leverage to the other side, to surrender the leverage on the floor of the House,” Pelosi told reporters of the message she relayed to Democrats.
Meanwhile, Ocasio-Cortez has denied reports that she threatened to add centrist Democrats who bucked the party to a list to potentially be primaried, saying she was upset with the members of her caucus who took a position in support of ICE.
“Again, didn’t threaten a primary. I was upset that 26 Dems forced the other 200+ to vote for a pro-ICE provision at the last min without warning,” she tweeted Saturday.
“If you’re mad that I think people SHOULD KNOW when Dems vote to expand ICE powers, then be mad. ICE is a dangerous agency with 0 accountability, widespread reporting of rape, abuse of power, + children dying in DHS custody. Having a D next to your name doesn’t make that right.”
Again, didn’t threaten a primary.
I was upset that 26 Dems forced the other 200+ to vote for a pro-ICE provision at the last min without warning.
Because I think an agency that pins children down + forcibly injects them w/ antipsychotic drugs shouldn’t be given more power.
Ocasio-Cortez was responding in part to an article from The Washington Post that detailed criticism of the New York representative from centrist House Democrats who felt endangered by the alleged primary threat.
“Being unified means ensuring that Democrats aren’t primary-ing other sitting Democrats,” Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), a co-chairman of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, told the Post. “Since when is it OK to put you on a Nixonian list? We need to have a big tent in our party or we won’t keep the House or win the White House.”
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