Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ripped Jet Blue for their patriotic flyover of New York City to honor Coronavirus victims and First Responders Thursday night; blasting the American airliner for “burning jet fuel at low altitudes.”
“Nothing like a corporate PR campaign that burns jet fuel at low altitudes over vulnerable communities dying from a respiratory virus that compounds on our preexisting and disproportionate exposure to air pollution to show healthcare workers we care,” posted an angry AOC.
Nothing like a corporate PR campaign that burns jet fuel at low altitudes over vulnerable communities dying from a respiratory virus that compounds on our preexisting and disproportionate exposure to air pollution to show healthcare workers we care https://t.co/xyCr3tojgn
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) May 7, 2020
REMINDER: Tonight at 7pm, our I❤NY, NYPD and FDNY planes are joining NYC’s #ClapBecauseWeCare with a flyover salute for our hometown healthcare heroes and first responders. pic.twitter.com/E9Fe2Li0q3
— JetBlue (@JetBlue) May 7, 2020
“REMINDER: Tonight at 7pm, our I Heart NY, NYPD and FDNY planes are joining NYC’s #ClapBecauseWeCare with a flyover salute for our hometown healthcare heroes and first responders,” posted the company before the flyover.
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AOC on VIRUS: Disease Exposing American ‘Inequities’ That Are ‘Brushed Under the Rug’
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continued to call for massive, structural change as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic Monday morning; saying the disease is exposing “inequities that we’ve been trying to brush under the rug.”
“What we’re really seeing is just this crisis really putting so much weight and expanding and really blowing up a lot of the inequities that we’ve been trying to brush under the rug for a very long time,” said AOC on social media.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "What we're really seeing is just this crisis really putting so much weight and expanding and really blowing up a lot of the inequities that we've been trying to brush under the rug for a very long time." pic.twitter.com/Wsz3RD7HRT
— The Hill (@thehill) May 4, 2020
Ocasio-Cortez bizarrely called-out “home-owners” on social media Wednesday; saying Coronavirus relief efforts should not “squeeze” people can’t afford to own land.
“It makes no sense that we are squeezing people that already cannot afford to purchase their own home for more money than a person who already owns land and is a land-owning member or a home-owning member of our economy,” said a video posted by the Congresswoman on Twitter.
Rep. @AOC: "It makes no sense that we are squeezing people that already cannot afford to purchase their own home for more money than a person who already owns land and is a land-owning member or a home-owning member of our economy." pic.twitter.com/VbKXzgN2nL
— The Hill (@thehill) April 29, 2020
Watch AOC’s video above.
AOC on VIRUS: Senate’s Bipartisan Coronavirus Relief Bill ‘Shameful!’… Nothing but ‘Crumbs’
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doubled-down on her fierce opposition to the Senate’s bipartisan Coronavirus relief package Friday; calling the legislation “shameful” and “crumbs” for American families.
“Our community’s reality is this country’s future if we don’t do anything. Hospital workers do not have protective equipment. We don’t have the necessary ventilators. We have to go into this vote eyes wide open,” said Rep. Ocasio-Cortez on the House Floor.
.@RepAOC @AOC: "Our community's reality is this country's future if we don't do anything. Hospital workers do not have protective equipment. We don't have the necessary ventilators. We have to go into this vote eyes wide open…" pic.twitter.com/PaFGc9ncKM
— CSPAN (@cspan) March 27, 2020
“Shameful! The greed of that fight is wrong, for crumbs for our families, and the option that we have is to let them suffer with nothing or to allow this greed and billions of dollars which will be leveraged into trillions of dollars!” she screamed.
Watch Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’ comments above.