Ocasio-Cortez Slams Mitch McConnell Over A Quote His Campaign Never Said

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) blasted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Tuesday for a statement that his campaign never issued.

The incident first began after a photograph of a group of young men, donning the majority leader’s campaign t-shirt and posing with a cutout of the New York congresswoman, circulated around social media. The picture was taken over the weekend at the annual Fancy Farm picnic in Kentucky and was posted to Instagram with the caption “break me off a piece of that Fancy Farm.”



“Hey [McConnell] – these young men look like they work for you,” Ocasio-Cortez said referencing the picture. “Just want to clarify: are you paying young men to practice groping [and] choking members of Congress [with] your payroll, or is this just the standard culture of #TeamMitch? Thanks.”

A spokesman for the McConnell campaign responded to Ocasio-Cortez, denying that the group had any affiliation with the Senate majority leader. He further slammed the self-proclaimed “radical” congresswoman and left-wing media for using the picture to “demonize, stereotype, and publicly castigate every young person who dares to get involved with Republican politics.”

“These young men are not campaign staff, they’re high schoolers,” Kevin Golden, McConnell’s campaign manager said in a statement. “It’s incredible that the national media has sought to once again paint a target on their backs rather than report real, and significant news in our country.”

“Team Mitch in no way condones any aggressive, suggestive, or demeaning act toward life-sized cardboard cutouts of any gender,” Golden said in a separate statement.

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That is some funny crap, lets quickly pass a law to protect morons from being made fun of.
Bullying cardboard OMG.

Hillary’s speechwriters got drunk and fondled her own cardboard cutout when she was running for president/senate.
She remained a Senator and they remained on her payroll.
She had to have known about it, it was everywhere at that time.
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LOL.
She kept paying both of these men for a long time.

“Mitch McConnell’s campaign manager essentially says boys will be boys in response to that image of teens groping and choking a cutout of [Ocasio-Cortez],” The Daily Beast tweeted along with the published article.

When ANTIFA destroys property and violently attacks opponents, her response is, apparently, “liberals will be liberals” since she will not denounce it.

Sandy should consider herself lucky. At least they didn’t have themselves photographed holding her fake severed head, wrote a play about her assassination or suggested blowing up her home.

@kitt: There is a real risk here, though. The real AOC is difficult to differentiate from the cardboard AOC, except the pulp version is probably smarter.