Same as the old boss

We all know the lyric…well, those of us old enough to know better do. “Meet the new boss – same as the old boss” from the Who in  “Won’t Get Fooled Again”.

But for voters in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’, (aka AOC, Occasional Cortex, and many more) district, it is all too sadly true. Even the local Democrats aren’t happy.

A Democrat official who helped Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez build support before her historic first election win told Fox News Digital that the lawmaker has abandoned and “betrayed” her constituents in a Queens neighborhood that has been riddled with crime under her leadership, including open-air prostitution, robberies and petty crime.

Some constituents have likened conditions along Roosevelt Avenue to those of a Third World country, while others say the migrant women soliciting sex in front of businesses remind them of a red-light district in Bangkok.

Jokes about AOC’s possible origin in conjunction will not be gleefully laughed at encouraged accepted ah, hell, knock yourselves out.

Ramon Ramirez Baez, an author and former Democrat Committeeman for the 39th Assembly District, said the quality of life has rapidly deteriorated there since Ocasio-Cortez sprang an historic upset in 2018, unseating longtime Democrat Congressman Joe Crowley to become the nation’s youngest congresswoman.

He said the then unknown political novice had been a fresh face on the scene who promised to work hard for the people of Corona, Jackson Heights and Elmhurst, and to be an on-the-ground presence for them, unlike career politician Crowley, who at that point was a 10-term incumbent and eyeing to be the next House Speaker.

“I paid for that debate, I have an invoice for everything I did for Ms. Alexandria,” a frustrated Ramirez Baez said, waving a document to the camera. He said he has all his expenses from her campaign documented in one of the many books he has written about her.

But since Ocasio-Cortez rose to power, Ramirez Baez said she has been missing in action and has acted no differently from Crowley.

“We never saw that lady, never, she disappeared,” he told Fox News Digital. “She [didn’t] do anything for the community, nothing, nothing.”

“I’m there for you, my door is always open” – how many times do pols say that?

Rivera said locals don’t know how to get in touch with her office as she doesn’t appear to have any in Queens. Ocasio-Cortez’s website lists an office in Queens, by appointment only, which is the same address as the office of New York City Councilwoman Tiffany Caban.

“What happened? You have to be [in the] community to do an event. She never did any event. I never saw Alexandria come to do a town hall meeting, to listen to the community, nothing. She disappeared.”

“She goes all over the place, like a movie star, she goes to Texas, all over the place, but what about the community?”

Mr. Ramirez Baez also unloads about her being a socialist (with which he has some experience, having lived in both Cuba and Russia).

If she said to me she is socialist, I would never support it,” Ramirez Baez declared. He said that part of her socialist agenda is an open-border policy with regard to immigration, which he opined has contributed to the decline of the neighborhood as many illegal vendors and sex workers on Roosevelt Avenue are migrants who have no jobs or work permits and also clog up resources.

“She only defends the socialist agenda, which is not for the American people. . . .  She doesn’t understand what [socialism] means,” said Ramirez Baez  Fox News

Pretty damning reading – check the article out.

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