AOC’s Chief of Staff is reportedly resigning from the congresswoman’s team in DC to go work on the Green New Deal or something:
WASHINGTON EXAMINER – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti and communications director Corbin Trent are both leaving her D.C. office.
“Saikat has decided to leave the office of Rep. Ocasio-Cortez to work with New Consensus to further develop plans for a Green New Deal,” Trent told the Intercept Friday.
“We are extraordinarily grateful for his service to advance a bold agenda and improve the lives of the people in NY-14. From his co-founding of Justice Democrats to his work on the Ocasio-Cortez campaign and in the official office, Saikat’s goal has always been to do whatever he can to help the larger progressive movement, and we look forward to continuing working with him to do just that.”
Chakrabarti, 33, is a Harvard graduate and technology entrepreneur who became an organizer for Bernie Sanders during the socialist’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Trent is just joining AOC’s 2020 campaign for re-election, so no biggie there.
It continues…
The controversial chief of staff came under fire earlier in the month after pictures and video of him wearing a T-shirt featuring Nazi collaborator Subhas Chandra Bose resurfaced.
He also came under fire for stating that her signature Green New Deal was not really about saving the planet, saying that “it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all … we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.”
Both of those incidents are true, but I don’t think either of those really contributed to his ‘resigning’.
If anything it was the remarks he made about his fellow Democrats in Congress who voted for border funding in June:
Whoa. @AOC’s chief just deleted this. pic.twitter.com/xRJphPAkwb
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) June 27, 2019
Democrats and Peloso were furious about that tweet and they had to have a ‘family meeting’ to calm everyone down.
Fast forward to last Friday, Pelosi and AOC met for the first time and I suspect Chakrabarti was a serious topic. In fact I would venture a guess and say that perhaps his ‘resigning’ is a direct result of that meeting. ¯_(ツ)_/¯