{"id":1176604,"date":"2021-12-31T21:04:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T02:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1176604"},"modified":"2021-12-31T21:04:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T02:04:29","slug":"since-december-14-aoc-hasnt-been-doing-her-job-in-person-due-to-ongoing-public-health-emergency-but-she-can-hit-up-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/since-december-14-aoc-hasnt-been-doing-her-job-in-person-due-to-ongoing-public-health-emergency-but-she-can-hit-up-miami\/","title":{"rendered":"Since December 14, AOC Hasn\u2019t Been Doing Her Job In Person Due To \u2018Ongoing Public Health Emergency,\u2019 But She Can Hit Up Miami?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">46<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsince-december-14-aoc-hasnt-been-doing-her-job-in-person-due-to-ongoing-public-health-emergency-but-she-can-hit-up-miami%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1176604&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><em>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) lashed out at critics on Friday after she was caught hanging out in Miami, Florida, as her city deals with a record-breaking number of daily coronavirus cases.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>National Review&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/aoc-spotted-in-miami-beach-as-nyc-reports-record-covid-cases\/\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;that, according to photographs obtained by the publication, Ocasio-Cortez was \u201cseated outside Doraku Sushi and Izakaya in Miami Beach Thursday afternoon, raising a cocktail in one hand and checking her phone in another.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf Republicans are mad they can\u2019t date me they can just say that instead of projecting their sexual frustrations onto my boyfriend\u2019s feet,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez responded to one of the critics calling her out. \u201cYa creepy weirdos.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was obvious that Ocasio-Cortez wanted to divert attention from the fact that she had traveled to the home of \u201cDeathsantis\u201d \u2014 the nickname given to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) because he refuses to enact mandates or lock down again over COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, her effort did not really work.<\/p>\n<p>#AOCLovesDeSantis had been trending on Twitter since last night before AOC responded with her cries of sexism and creepiness. In turn, the congresswoman responded to criticism from the DeSantis team by saying that the Floridian governor should take some tips from New York\u2019s Governor Kathy Hochul (D).<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis\u2019 press secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/desantis-team-responds-to-aoc-in-fl-school-kids-in-ny-eating-outside-in-freezing-temperatures?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter\">told The Daily Wire<\/a> that she was happy to see that AOC and her beau could eat comfortably as opposed to out in the cold like school children in New York have done this winter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlad to see AOC enjoying the Florida freedom and sunshine, but it\u2019s sad that school children in NYC are forced to eat lunch outside in freezing temperatures this winter due to the draconian and useless COVID policies pushed by AOC and her fellow progressives,\u201d DeSantis spokeswoman Christina Pushaw said.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, none of this explains why AOC feels comfortable traveling to Florida, but not showing up at Congress to do her job.<\/p>\n<p>Western Journal\u2019s Cameron Arcand flagged that on December 14, AOC <a href=\"https:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/legislative\/proxy-letters\/117\/1\/active\/Ocasio-Cortez-NY14-20211214-13.pdf\">sent an official letter<\/a> to Cheryl L. Johnson, Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, stating that she would be voting via proxy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI continue to be unable to physically attend proceedings in the House Chamber due to the ongoing public health emergency and hereby grant the authority to cast my vote by proxy to the Honorable Jes\u00fas G. \u2018Chuy\u2019 Garc\u00eda (IL) who has agreed to serve as my proxy,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said. \u201cI understand this revokes the prior grant of my proxy to the Honorable Cori Bush (MO), previously authorized on December 14, 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cI continue to be unable to physically attend proceedings in the House Chamber due to the ongoing public health emergency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In this Dec. 14 letter, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AOC<\/a> is saying that she is voting by proxy, and is unintentionally saying that FL could be safer than D.C.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ky6CGOwFYh\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ky6CGOwFYh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cameron Arcand (@cameron_arcand) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cameron_arcand\/status\/1477045499102474242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 31, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, AOC is able to find some rest and relaxation in sunny Miami. And, perhaps her trip to a red state will hasten the end of COVID-19 measures across America by showing that Florida\u2019s freedom is better than New York\u2019s nanny state in dealing with the virus.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) apparently believes that it is now safe enough to travel cross country to Florida for a holiday getaway in the sun, but not safe enough to travel to the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., for her taxpayer-funded job. On Thursday night, National Review published a photo that the outlet claimed shows &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1176604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1176604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1176604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1176604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1176604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1176604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}