{"id":99678,"date":"2020-05-15T20:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T00:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=99678"},"modified":"2020-05-15T17:12:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T21:12:23","slug":"surprise-surprise-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=99678","title":{"rendered":"Surprise, Surprise!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-99419\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/aoc1.png?resize=300%2C158&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/aoc1.png?resize=300%2C158&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/aoc1.png?resize=768%2C403&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/aoc1.png?resize=500%2C263&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/aoc1.png?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, I did wonder when or if it would ever happen that a dimwit elected to the US Congress could get shown the door so quickly, but &#8211; well, it is going to happen.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortes, a\/k\/a AOC, and best known for her play-acting skills, e.g., weeping for the camera at a fence when she\u2019s barely 3 feet from an open gate at a Texas border station, has been tossed aside and replaced by someone else for the November elections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/rick-moran\/2020\/05\/13\/aoc-booted-from-working-family-party-ballot-by-primary-challenger-n390361\">https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/rick-moran\/2020\/05\/13\/aoc-booted-from-working-family-party-ballot-by-primary-challenger-n390361<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/05\/12\/michelle-caruso-cabrera-gets-aoc-off-working-families-partys-ballot-line\/\"><em>New York Post:<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Queens Supreme Court Judge Phillip Hom ordered the Board of Elections to remove the congresswoman, who goes by her initials AOC on social media, from the WFP line after hearing a legal challenge filed by her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/04\/23\/aoc-primary-challenger-slams-her-vote-against-coronavirus-relief-package\/\">Democratic Party primary opponent<\/a>, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera.<\/p>\n<p>Hom said a review of the WFP\u2019s petition filed for AOC found that it \u201ccontained less than the required number of signatures of enrolled party members necessary for party designation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Granted, the elections don&#8217;t come up until November, but there isn&#8217;t a whole lot of time between now and then to find another spot to get those signatures.\u00a0 Is it too soon for her to write her memoirs?<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-98463\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/aoc1.png?resize=300%2C252&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/aoc1.png?resize=300%2C252&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/aoc1.png?resize=768%2C645&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/aoc1.png?resize=396%2C333&amp;ssl=1 396w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/aoc1.png?w=864&amp;ssl=1 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I do wish her well in finding another job. Life is tough, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I did wonder when or if it would ever happen that a dimwit elected to the US Congress could get shown the door so quickly, but &#8211; well, it is going to happen. 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