AOC helping Texas

[Dem4Life1102]

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[Celerity]

1. wonderful to see this

[Thekaspervote]

2. A true patriot with a good heart...DESPITE the fact that the qgop there will find a way to diss her

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Any Texas politicians getting on board?

[Celerity]

9. here are the Texas groups that the donations flow to, I am sure many Texas Dems also are

fundraising for them as well.

The Bridge Homeless Recovery Center, Ending Community Homeless Coalition (ECHO), Family Eldercare, Houston Food Bank, and Feeding Texas are working around the clock to assist houseless, hungry and senior Texans in Travis and Dallas County, and beyond.

[TreasonousBastard]

15. Excellent. I work with similar local organizations around here. However, I was snidely thinking...

of Cancun Cruz, among others.

[George II]

35. Beto O'Rourke, although not now an elected Texas politician, has been at the forefront of this....

...from the beginning, see post #26:

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[Dem4Life1102]

40. Beto thanks AOC

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[ananda]

58. So that's who called me last night.

The woman who called was so nice and very helpful.

[Hekate]

50. I'm sure Joaquin and Julio Castro are involved. Beto O'Rourke, definitely. nt

[MagickMuffin]

4. Thank you Congresswoman Alexandria, You are showing more support than both my do nothing senators

I mean one decided it would be a great time to desert his state to party in Cancun..

[Deuxcents]

5. Real leaders get to work

ANd skip the Cancun trip

[demmiblue]

6. She is good people.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. Meh....

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that's nothing compared to Ted Cruz's valiant mission to recruit aid workers directly from Cancun....... "wait, what's that?.. Mhhm.. Vacation you say?.. Coming back early to "save face".... Oh, I see.. Never mind... ".

[Celerity]

11. lol

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

13. .

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[calimary]

24. Which of Two-faced Ted's faces was he trying to save?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

34. Not exactly

sure which one...........

[50 Shades Of Blue]

8. K & R!

[Ohio Joe]

10. K & R - nt

[gratuitous]

12. Dinesh D'Souza was wondering what all the fuss about Sen. Cruz jetting off was about

D'Souza couldn't see how Cruz could do anything to help, and maybe by reducing his infinitesimal energy consumption everything would be all right in Texas.

Here's something Cruz could be doing, Mr. D'Souza. But since it's Rep. Ocasio-Cortez doing it, it probably doesn't count and you can dismiss her work as grandstanding or something.

[GopherGal]

14. I'd really want to donate if all aid would be visibly "AOC" branded

... and I'd get to see video of the rednecks abashedly accepting the help from the "commie librulz".

There goes my petty side flaring up again. And I was doing so well once I got beyond that major lapse on Jan 20-21, flipping to Faux Noise to watch their anchors spitting out the phrase "President Biden".

[Tarc]

16. Would be a scene straight out of the "Ugly American" novel

I'd love it.

[George II]

36. Why do donations need "credit"? Beto O'Rourke isn't looking for credit, nor are the Castro brothers.

[Voltaire2]

47. Huh?

Please elaborate.

[Mariana]

52. Who said it needs "credit"?

Beto O'Rourke isn't looking for credit, nor are the Castro brothers.

Neither is Rep. Ocasio-Cortez.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

17. Thanks for posting this, Dem4Life. It makes pitching in simple.

I've been wanting to help the folks down there but like with all national disasters, one doesn't know where to start.

We can't afford to send a lot but we know every little bit adds up. My son and I can tighten out belts for a month or so to help so many in need.

Contributions go to: Houston Food Bank, Feeding Texas, ECHO (Ending Community Homelessness Coalition), Family Eldercare and The Bridge Homeless Recovery Center.

I'm thinking about giving a little more to the Red Cross as well.

Thanks for doing this, AOC.......

[niyad]

29. Even if you tell Red Cross where you want the money to go, it never does.

[ChazInAz]

18. I'm sure the GQP is helping.

Raking in those contributions.
Putting them in their pockets.

[keithbvadu2]

59. Be sure to let Ivanka and Eric manage the money.

Be sure to let Ivanka and Eric manage the money.

[MerryBlooms]

19. Not sure what her being on Twitter is all about,

how can that possibly do any good? Why is she always looking for attention?


AOC is a good egg. The amount of crap that gets shoveled at her is disgusting.

[Dem4Life1102]

25. That's true

Unfortunately the crap is not just from the GOP.

[zipplewrath]

30. Yup

But I wouldn't discuss that here.

[MerryBlooms]

39. Nope.

[MerryBlooms]

38. Yep.

[Violet_Crumble]

53. I heard she live-streamed on Twitch! I'm concerned AND outraged!!!

What is it with these disrespectful younguns? She needs to be showing some respect and turning off the internets. No good ever came of this millenial hi-tech gizmojangle...

[Voltaire2]

57. me too!!!!@@@

also what is twitch?

[marlakay]

20. I read the stuff Joe sent

With fema is just sitting fir days waiting for someone to pick up generators and diesel. It's almost like they want to make sure nothing comes from him so they can fake blame him.

[Mariana]

22. I think it's more that they really are that incompetent.

They have no idea what to do, and are unwilling or unable to learn.

[NBachers]

21. And here's the link:

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/aoc-social-20210218/

I posted this on my Facebook page:

I have donated $50.00 to a Texas relief organization started by Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

From Rep. Ocasio-Cortez' Twitter page: "Team AOC is launching relief efforts for Texas starting today. Our first effort is a partnership w/ 5 Texas orgs getting on-the-ground relief to Texans ASAP."

100% of my $50.00 donation is being immediately split between:

The Bridge Homeless Recovery Center, Ending Community Homeless Coalition (ECHO), Family Eldercare, Houston Food Bank, and Feeding Texas. They are working around the clock to assist houseless, hungry and senior Texans in Travis and Dallas County, and beyond.

[LAS14]

23. OK. I'm in. We'll split our money between...

... this effort by AOC, just to show that progressives are nice people, and whatever the Lutherans are doing. (They always do something.)

[George II]

26. Private citizen Beto O'Rourke has been on the case for a couple of days. He's organized nationwide..

...phone banks assisting stranded Texans and has been soliciting contributions to various organizations.

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[Dem4Life1102]

28. Good for him

Beto is great. So is AOC for trying to help people in a state she doesn’t represent.

[George II]

31. Beto doesn't represent Texas either.

[Dem4Life1102]

33. True

Texas is lucky to have him. And I’m sure he is grateful for AOC’s help.

[murielm99]

32. Yes, Beto was on the ball right away.

He doesn't have to do this, either.

[Dem4Life1102]

41. True he didn't

And he is grateful to others who didn’t either.

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[murielm99]

42. What is AOC doing for her own district?

What legislation has she sponsored lately? How has her attendance been?

You seem to keep up with her activities. Do you know about any of her other work, work she is doing closer to home?

Just curious.

[tonedevil]

43. If it is as dire as you paint...

surely she will never be reelected.

[Dem4Life1102]

44. Well since we are moving the goal posts

She participated in the House Financial Services committee today while helping to raise the Million dollars to help the people of Texas.

She just had a town hall for people in her district.

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And has partnered with Chuck Schumer to secure funding for low income New Yorkers.

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[murielm99]

45. Well, thank you for answering my question.

Good to know.

I am more likely to follow the activities of Lauren Underwood and Cheri Bustos, two Democratic Congresswomen in my state, who work hard and get things done with little fanfare. We could use ten more just like them.

What you fail to mention is that AOC has been too critical of the moderates in our party, people like Cheri Bustos. Those are the only types of Democrats likely to be elected in purple districts like those of Bustos and Underwood. Both barely won their elections, because they were targeted by the republican party. This article is a couple of months old, but it shows how AOC creates tension within our party:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/cheri-bustos-house-democratic-campaign-chair-aoc-b1719968.html

Nancy Pelosi knows that we need unity. I am grateful for her leadership and her support of all our Democratic Congresspeople.

[tonedevil]

46. I think most Democratic moderates...

could use a solid understanding of Martin Luther King's Letter From Birmingham Jail.

[murielm99]

48. And one can cherrypick,

even when referring to this classic.

[tonedevil]

54. I'm sure that happens. /nt

[betsuni]

51. +1

[Dem4Life1102]

56. Reading that article

Several moderates attacked AOC first and she just responded. And it was moderates like Abigail Spanberger who voted against Nancy Pelosi for speaker while AOC did.

[BobTheSubgenius]

27. I wonder if anyone will notice that they are getting more help from AOC.

More than from one of the Senators??!?!!

What a useless POS that man is. A big, greasy ball of nasty. Even his family doesn't seem to like him all that much, which was evidenced in a "campaign" video of a few years ago that made A-W-K-W-A-R-D into an Olympic event.

Total cringefest.

[rdking647]

37. i'd take 100 AOC's over our shitstain of a senator

#cancuncruz

[Withywindle]

49. THIS is "unity"

Not Democrats caving to GQP policy demands even though we won the election decisively.

But helping people in need, regardless. Some of this money she raised will go to people who hate her guts and want her dead. She's not fussing about that, though, there's no provision that the help only goes to helping "our" people. It's a matter of principle. If people are cold and hungry and have no electricity, they should be helped and they don't need to be a certain "type" of people. Being human is enough.

It won't win over the worst of the worst, but some who are teetering on the edge might remember this. We can hope. But in the meantime, she's just doing it because it's the right thing to do.

[tonedevil]

55. Doing the right thing...

because it is the right thing is what I aspire to.

[Lunabell]

60. She makes me proud to call myself a Democrat!!!!!!!

She is the kind of leader in this party we need. AOC puts her money where her mouth is and does good for humanity.

Meanwhile, that piece of shit Cruz takes a Mexican vaycay and leaves his dog in the house to freeze.