NY-14: AOC worried about losing seat after 2021 redistricting.

[RandySF]

With New York likely to lose at least one congressional seat, the district held by Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could be broken up, forcing her to find a new winning coalition. There’s little love for the disruptive young upstart in Albany, and many state lawmakers would like nothing more than to redraw her out of office. Ocasio-Cortez seems aware of the threat, as she’s been promoting Census sign-ups in her district to ensure that her constituents are fully counted.


https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2019/12/31/what-the-embassy-attack-in-iraq-means-487970?nname=playbook&nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&nrid=0000014e-f0ed-dd93-ad7f-f8edad790000&nlid=630318

[msongs]

1. well she can keep her career as a celebrity with or without her seat. nt

[LonePirate]

3. Even as a "celebrity" she's been very effective on the committees on which she serves.

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Of course that does not matter to the right wingers and centrists who like to demonize her for no real reason other than she, as a woman of color, climbed the ladder to success, put a white man out of a job and is good at what she does.

[virgogal]

10. Her family is from

Puerto Rico,she’s not a woman of color.

[Caliman73]

11. What the heck?

She most certainly is a woman of color. I am born and raised in California with a family history in California spanning back 150 years and White people STILL ask me where I am REALLY from and compliment me on how well I speak English.

Being a citizen of the US has absolutely NOTHING to to with being a person of color. Stacey Abrams I am sure, can trace her heritage WAY back in US history and she is a woman of color.

Rethink your statement...

[uponit7771]

12. WOW !!!

[littlemissmartypants]

14. I'm pretty sure it's your familial heritage and not your address,

locale, or place of family origin that determines your ethnicity.

[pnwmom]

15. Puerto Rico is a COUNTRY, not a color.

Puerto Ricans come in all colors and races. She identifies as a woman of color and she's the one who gets to decide.

[virgogal]

16. She is as white as I am,and I'm Irish.

[Humanist_Activist]

17. Uhm, have you ever seen a picture of her before? n/t

[pnwmom]

18. Irish people also come in different races,

though they are predominately white. And some "white" Irish people have the darker "Celtic" coloring -- almost black hair and skin that easily tans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Republic_of_Ireland

Ethnic groups
Irish 82.2%, Irish travelers 0.7%, other white 9.5%, Asian 2.1%, black 1.4%, other 1.5%, unspecified 2.6% (2016 est.

[OnDoutside]

20. It's those Kerry feckers you have to be concerned about.... and those Cavan fellas with the tight

arses

Actually there's a grouping in Galway/Mayo who have that easily tanned skin, that it is reckoned have a connection to the Spanish Armada survivors who landed there in 1588.

[pnwmom]

21. My Irish relatives comprise both redheads who never tan and

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people with olive skin, brown eyes, and very dark hair -- not an uncommon mix among the Irish.

[lapucelle]

19. Has her career coach weighed in?

https://www.thecut.com/2019/10/megan-hellerer-career-life-coach.html

[Initech]

2. Chump and conservatives have been actively targeting her, this isn't good.

[empedocles]

4. AOC has long been a target because she is annoying to many to the right of

her. 'cons may go extra heavy to try and claim a flip against this NYC enemy.

[Karadeniz]

5. Here in texast, the repubs lusted after Lloyd Doggett 's seat forever. They thought they'd

Solved the problem by redistricting him into a redder population. Rep. Doggett simply put on his walking shoes and started knocking on doors. He's still serving!

[stillcool]

6. I don't see where it says she is worried...

lots of things could happen, or might not. Good idea about the census though.

[PSPS]

7. LOL. Politico has to publish a certain number of words per day.

[Sanity Claws]

8. NYS may lose a seat but I don't see that happening in NYC

NYC has been adding population since the last census while upstate NYS is losing population.
I think this article is just fake news thrown to their conservative base.

[Gothmog]

13. Albany controls redistrcting

Remember that after 2010 census, New York eliminated Anthony Weiner’s seat.

[David__77]

9. Salacious.

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