New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been exposed taking thousands in lobbyist cash, despite one of her key campaign pledges being never to do so.
According to an investigation by The Washington Examiner, which analyzed her campaign’s financial disclosures, Ocasio-Cortez has taken thousands in donations from a prominent political lobbyist.
The report states:
Dave Koshgarian, a lobbyist with Ernst & Young, has been Ocasio-Cortez’s most consistent donor, sending her thousands of dollars beginning in 2020.
Koshgarian has represented a number of corporate clients, including Duke Energy, MetLife, General Electric, Charles Schwab, and BlackRock, according to lobbying disclosures.
Other clients represented by Ocasio-Cortez’s lobbyist donors include, among others, Nike, Delta Air Lines, healthcare trade associations, and the New Venture Fund, one arm of a massive Democratic-aligned dark money network managed by the Arabella Advisors consulting firm.
Such donations are deeply ironic given that Ocasio-Cortez has made her supposed refusal to take lobbyist cash a centerpiece of her political platform.
On her X profile, which has nearly 13 million followers, she describes herself as “people-funded” and refusing to take “lobbyist [cash].”
The 35-year-old Congresswoman is still licking her wounds after Donald Trump’s stunning victory against Kamala Harris, a candidate she had enthusiastically endorsed.
Speaking on a podcast back in June, Ocasio-Cortez expressed her fear that Trump would “round up” his political opponents and throw her in prison in the event of his return to the White House.
“I mean, it sounds nuts, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this guy threw me in jail,” she said at the time. “He’s out of his mind. I mean, he did his whole first campaign around ‘lock her up.’ This is his motto.”
She continued:
I take him at his word when he says that he’s going to round up people. I take him at his word when he threatens journalists. I take him at his word.
I feel like what we saw in his first presidency was an amuse-bouche to what his intentions are. He has learned from his mistakes of appointing professionals, and he will not make that mistake next time.
AOC Says Trump Will ‘Round Up’ His Political Enemies, Throw Her In Jail If He Wins
While there are many individuals who may be going to prison for their crimes over the past four years, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is almost certainly not one of them.
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