Toe curling moment Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez DANCES to the heckling crowd as they chant “AOC has gotta go” at a raucous town hall meeting in Queens
- The squad member was accosted by protesters at a town hall meeting in Queens on Wednesday night
- As the crowd booed her, the second-term congresswoman sat on the stage, sipping from a bottle of water and beginning to groove along to the shouts and drums
- The progressive democrat has long been accused by some critics of being too left-wing, but now some liberals are also accusing her of being too right-wing
- Last week, AOC was castigated in a separate town hall for its support of funding Ukraine’s war effort
- The second congresswoman is running for re-election against Tina Forte
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was filmed grooving along with protesters who chanted “AOC must go” while being supported by a drumbeat at a restless town hall meeting.
Protesters confronted the second-term congresswoman at a Queens city hall on Tuesday night.
The grinning congresswoman shrugged off the aggressive criticism as she sipped from a water bottle and began shrugging her shoulders in time to the chants.
She sat on a stage the entire time and kept smiling, even as an angry woman seemed ready to burn with anger as she screamed herself hoarsely from the seats.
Despite AOC’s famously progressive leanings, the masses who protested her candidacy claim she has strayed too far from her original, anti-elitist platform and has become one of the politicians she is set to replace.
Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez danced along onstage as protesters chanted “AOC must go” at a Queens city hall on Tuesday night
AOC kept dancing even as this protester screamed herself hoarsely from the seats while another woman seemed to be trying to calm her down
AOC is in the form of challenging those who disagree with her, but this is the first time she’s done so through the medium of dance.
In a recent interview with GQ, she blamed a nationwide hatred of “women of color” for her fear that she might not be alive by September.
“People ask me questions about the future. And realistically, I can’t even tell you if I’ll be alive in September,” she told the glossy magazine.
However, the profile bills her as “the political voice of a generation — and a cultural star whose power extends beyond politics,” a title she may have struggled to maintain amid complaints from some of her constituents.
This is the second town hall event in recent days where the progressive politician has been heckled for her actions in DC.
Last week she was booed at a Bronx city hall. Her former supporters questioned her decision to continue sending military aid to Ukraine.
“You voted to mobilize Ukrainian Nazis and send them money,” he shouted.
“You did not do anything. Tulsi Gabbard has shown courage where you have shown cowardice,” he continued, referring to the former Democratic presidential nominee’s public decision to leave the Democratic Party last week.
The interruption was met with a mixture of shouts – and some applause – as the congresswoman told the men to wait their turn as there appeared to be a number of voters waiting to ask AOC questions.
The congresswoman tried to calm the crowd on Wednesday night
Getting used to it: It was the second town hall in a week that the progressive lawmaker was shouted down by her constituents
During her relatively short tenure in Congress, the outspoken politician has been questioned about her behavior on a number of occasions – and with increasing frequency by members of her own party.
She has apparently risen to prominence in the world of high fashion, appearing on the covers of not only GQ but also Vanity Fair in stunning and expensive outfits.
Last September, she strutted the red carpet at the Met Gala in a designer dress with “tax the rich” written on the back in red letters. Her dinner tickets, valued at around $10,000, to the swanky event were reportedly compensated by the museum.
Following her bold red carpet look, her official website began selling nearly $60 sweatshirts with the same slogan as her Vogue-approved look.
The officer earns a six-figure salary and frequently speaks live to her 8.6 million Instagram followers from her luxury apartment in DC’s Navy Yard neighborhood.
Playing into her protesters’ arguments, despite her big promises to change the game in Washington and for the American people, she has consistently been ranked among the least effective members of Congress.
According to the bipartisan Center for Effective Lawmaking, the congresswoman has failed to ever introduce a “substantial” law that made it past the introductory stage. And that despite a unified Democratic Party in the capital for the last two years.