Some Democrats in the House are very upset with AOC and speaking out against her because she’s not contributing to the DCCC and she’s actively funding campaigns against some of her colleagues:
FOX NEWS – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has already topped the fundraising charts in her short time in Congress, but the liberal darling won’t donate a cent of her millions to Democrats’ House campaign organization — a position that has rankled some of her colleagues, Fox News has learned.
Instead, Ocasio-Cortez is building her own fundraising operation for fellow progressive candidates to bypass the official Democratic Party infrastructure. Already, she’s actively funding primary challengers to oust certain Democratic colleagues.
“Deadbeat Cortez!”
“Sometimes the question comes: ‘Do you want to be in a majority or do you want to be in the minority?’” Rep. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., told Fox News, when asked about AOC’s stance. “And do you want to be part of a team?”
Another source was less diplomatic: “Deadbeat Cortez should pay her bills,” complained a House Democratic aide. “She’s always whining about people paying their fair share and here she is leaving her friends with the bill.”
AOC doesn’t care…
Their gripe is that Ocasio-Cortez hasn’t given any money to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the party arm with the sole job of electing Democrats to the House. Records obtained by Fox News show the New York Democrat has failed to pay any of her $250,000 in “dues” to the DCCC.
Her goose egg of a contribution is no accident. Ocasio-Cortez says she has beef with the DCCC and she’ll withhold her money in protest of how the Democratic Party won’t back insurgent progressive primary candidates, like herself, in the name of protecting incumbents.
“For me personally, I’m not paying D-trip dues,” said Ocasio-Cortez, using slang for the DCCC and citing a “myriad of reasons.”
“One, I don’t agree with the policy around blacklisting groups that help progressive candidates,” she said, referring to a DCCC effort to sideline vendors who assist challengers to members of Congress. “I think we need to evolve as a party and make room for that.”
Instead, Ocasio-Cortez is ramping up her donor base with the help of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., whom she endorsed for president in October, to funnel money directly to progressive candidates.
You might compare AOC to Jim DeMint, in that he was trying to get more conservatives in the Senate just as AOC is trying to get more vocal socialists into the House. DeMint rankled Senate GOP leadership just as AOC is doing in the House by not giving to the DCCC. And, at least as far as tactics go, she’s willing to fight her party to get rid of the moderates just like DeMint did in the Senate, which brought us Ted Cruz.
The huge difference, however, is that DeMint was trying to preserve the constitutional republic that the founders created that is responsible for the very liberty we enjoy. AOC is actively trying to destroy this republic, trying to turn is into a socialist nightmare that will likely go the way of Venezuela or worse if she succeeds.