AOC riles Dems by refusing to pay party dues, bankrolling colleagues' opponents

[civilwarbuff]

EXCLUSIVE: 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.

“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?"

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) Chairwoman Cheri Bustos downplayed Ocasio-Cortez’s decision to shun dues and pointed to the record-breaking fundraising numbers the committee has notched without her.

“That's always up to individual members so I guess I don't think about it one way or another,” Bustos said when asked about Ocasio-Cortez's stance. “We’re raising record amounts of money from our members.”

The DCCC declined to comment further on the matter of Ocasio-Cortez and her dues.

Another Democrat was less diplomatic: “Deadbeat Cortez should pay her bills,” complained the Democratic source. “She’s always whining about people paying their fair share and here she is leaving her friends with the bill.”

Their gripe is that Ocasio-Cortez hasn’t given any money to the DCCC, 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.
AOC riles Dems by refusing to pay party dues, bankrolling colleagues' opponents

Just one big happy......LOL

 

[Hank77]

How can she be a 'Deadbeat' if she has already topped the funding charts?
It seems to me that the 'Deadbeat' is the one who isn't out there hustling to earn their own funding and whining about not getting some of her's.

I don't know anyone who would share their hard-earned funds with someone who doesn't agree with their platform. And seeing that it is at the discretion of the members and not a rule what they do with their funds how can she 'have a bill' to pay?

 

[rambot]

It's weird how diversity of opinions in political parties is view with disdain and scorn as if it's a bad thing.

You guys have two monolithic parties that are supposed to represent 330,000,000 different view points?

It's catagorically absurd. If I were american, I'd LOOOOOVE dissention from within parties

I hope BOTH parties split.

Have further left AND right wings of each of the parties have their OWN party for a 4 party system to see how it could work.

Both groups have pointed fingers and gloated while the other parties "struggled" with this. What everyone SHOULD be doing is chearing this sorta thing on.

The whole existence of America's two party system (and it likely never changing) seems to be bent on the American idea of "winning"...the only important thing in politics is that my side won (or their side lost). It seems a bit juvenile at times.

Who cares about poor decisions? Inept or dishonest government? What's best for the country?