On Friday, Ocasio-Cortez once again celebrated her controversial fight in reaction to the news that Amazon is pausing construction on a headquarters building in Virginia amid massive job cuts.
“When I opposed this Amazon project coming to New York bc it was a scam of public funds, the whole power establishment came after us. Billboards went up in Times [Square] denouncing me. Powerful pols promised revenge. Op-Eds & CEOs insulted my intelligence,” she tweeted. “In the end, we were right.” …
“I know I’ll never get an apology for that time, but it was worth it,” she wrote. “We protected [New Yorkers] from a scam deal to drain public dollars from schools & infrastructure in exchange for empty promises of “Amazon jobs” w/ 0 guarantees or guardrails. Sadly, cities who took it are suffering.”
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