A
few days back, the House Ethics Committee announced that it has extended its
investigation into Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) aka
AOC for possible violation of congressional rules.
The OCE found "substantial reason” that
AOC “accepted
impermissible gifts" at the MET Gala in 2021 where she wore the
infamous white dress with "Tax The Rich" scrawled across the back.
The
OCE report revealed
that AOC was provided with the dress, a handbag, shoes, and jewelry for the
event and payments for hair, makeup, and transportation services from her hotel
room to the gala.
Key
excerpts from the
report are as follows:
"…despite
various efforts to address compliance concerns in advance of the Met Gala
through counsel, and despite representations to the Committee regarding
compliance with House rules, it appears several thousands of dollars’ worth of
services may have remained unpaid absent the OCE initiating this review."
“…Payment
for these goods and services did not occur until after the OCE contacted her
(AOC) in connection with this review"
The report
cited House rules, House Gift Guidance, Committee Precedent, and even
federal law, including 5 U.S.C. § 7353(a)
which
states that:
"no
Member of Congress...shall solicit or accept anything of value from a person—
(1) seeking
official action from, doing business with, or (in the case of executive branch
officers and employees) conducting activities regulated by, the individual’s
employing entity;
or
(2) whose
interests may be substantially affected by the performance or nonperformance of
the individual’s official duties."
The NY Post reported that Janna Pea, an executive at the
far-left PR firm BerlinRosen,
designer Aurora James and the Brother Vellies brand behind “Tax the Rich” couture
gown failed to cooperate in the probe.
As
expected, AOC took no responsibility for her actions, and nor did she apologize.
AOC
followed maneuvers from the Clinton and Obama playbook.
Like
Clinton and Obama, AOC blamed everyone but herself and crawled toward
victimhood.
AOC
told the Office of Congressional Ethics that she just saw documents about the
unpaid invoices the day before they met.
"I
just never, ever, ever would have allowed that to happen knowing what I have
learned," she told investigators,
"But
I wasn't privy to the invoices, wasn't privy to the ones that had been sent."
Whenever
Obama was in trouble, he would make general statements and join the criticism
of the catastrophe as if he were a media commentator and was not to blame.
Obama knew that the media would glorify it as a moment of introspection.
AOC
called it “a deeply regrettable situation”, and claimed to feel “terrible for
especially the small businesses that were impacted."
AOC blamed
a campaign staffer who no longer works for her campaign. Knowing AOC,
she may claim she sacked her staffer because she has ‘zero tolerance for
ethical violations’. The socialist who claims to stand for the persecuted
minorities had no hesitation in scapegoating her staffer.
So
how has AOC been with the less fortunate, apart from her campaign staffer?
AOC refused to side with the
exploited workers of Amazon's Staten Island distribution center who were
attempting to unionize. But when they did successfully unionize AOC attempted to take
credit
AOC
ardently supports extreme gun control measures for citizens. But for
herself, she spends thousands of dollars and has
armed bodyguards, obviously, it is taxpayer money.
AOC
supports defunding the police who protect regular citizens. For herself, she
demanded around-the-clock police protection around the Capitol Building
following the January 6th protests.
Back
to the MET gala.
The
event was occurring just yards from where the NYPD was arresting "defund
the police" protesters — a cause that AOC claims to support.
But
AOC was busy posing before cameras and enjoying luxuries at the party where
tickets are priced from $35,000 to $50,000 while tables go from $200,000 to
$300,000.
There
was no reason for the AOC to be there, it wasn’t going to benefit her
constituents. But AOC used her campaign as an expense account to pay for her
indulgences. This is corruption.
The
‘Tax The Rich’ line on the dress was clearly an afterthought, so she can claim
that her attendance at the gala was an act of protest. This gives her a basis
to claim she protesting against income inequality and hence attending the event
was part of her work.
It
could be argued that the stunt may have backfired.
Had
AOC not posed in that dress to receive so much attention, there probably would
never have been a probe. There are myriad other instances of corruption in D.C.
that never receives any attention
Perhaps
it was overconfidence.
Her
previous amateur publicity stunts that AOC specializes in seem to have worked.
In
2019 AOC posed before a chain link fence and appeared to be shedding tears over
"caged" children of illegal aliens. Eventually, it was revealed that
she merely posing before a parking lot fence for the cameras.
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1143379755540066305
https://twitter.com/TimmaySays/status/1143986385914945536
Last
year, AOC and others were briefly
detained outside the Supreme Court following protests against the
decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. But AOC claimed to have been arrested and she
even held her arms behind her back and wrists close to one another before
cameras to give the impression she was handcuffed.
Also
last year, AOC claimed that she had found a unique method of displaying her
commitment to the ‘resistance’ by ‘redoing her nails’. AOC claimed she
grew up in a socially conservative and religious household where
women wearing red nail polish and lipstick were “frowned upon”, hence she was
opting for red to abortion rights.
https://twitter.com/johnrobertgage/status/1543090165912141824
AOC
is also an expert at claiming victimhood and blame her failures on on systemic sexism, racism, misogyny, etc.
Don’t
be too surprised if she implies that the MET gala probe was also driven by bigotry.
She could claim that white men couldn’t tolerate a woman of color at the
prestigious gala and that her ‘tax the rich’ protest made everyone
uncomfortable and hence she was targeted.
It is
unlikely that AOC will receive any punitive measures, at worse it could be a
small fine.
AOC
may be an object of mockery among some, but she does have a loyal base.
She
understands her voters, particularly the younger ones very well. She knows they
conflate her statements and her amateur stunts with action. She knows they will
never evaluate her record in Congress but rather her videos on social media.
Hence
AOC will be reelected to the House for as long as she wants and someday she
could become Speaker of the House. She could also become Senator or Governor of New York.
Maybe
she decides to run for the White House instead where she could win.
AOC’s
attendance at the MET gala and reluctance to pay for her luxuries is not an
anomaly but a norm in D.C.
AOC
is being probed because she was reckless and blatant, the rest in D.C. find
legal ways of corruption and do it from within the shadows.
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