{"id":1180540,"date":"2022-01-02T14:34:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-02T19:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1180540"},"modified":"2022-01-02T14:34:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T19:34:09","slug":"exclusive-rep-anthony-sabatini-likens-hypocritical-ocasio-cortez-to-corrupt-communist-leaders-for-abandoning-nyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-rep-anthony-sabatini-likens-hypocritical-ocasio-cortez-to-corrupt-communist-leaders-for-abandoning-nyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Rep. Anthony Sabatini Likens \u2018Hypocritical\u2019 Ocasio-Cortez to \u2018Corrupt Communist Leaders\u2019 for \u2018Abandoning\u2019 NYers"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fexclusive-rep-anthony-sabatini-likens-hypocritical-ocasio-cortez-to-corrupt-communist-leaders-for-abandoning-nyers%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=1180540&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-640x335-1.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>Florida Rep. Anthony Sabatini (R-Howey-in-the-Hills) blasted \u201ctotally hypocritical\u201d Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for \u201cabandoning her own people\u201d for the \u201cfree\u201d Sunshine State, comparing her to 20th century \u201ccorrupt communist leaders\u201d who justified breaking their own rules, as he predicted migration to red states would continue and called on new Floridians to leave their \u201cleftist-communist\u201d views behind.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Speaking with Breitbart News on Friday in light of recent census data indicating blue states have increasingly lost population to red states over the last year, congressional candidate and state Rep. Sabatini said the trend was unsurprising, expressing his belief it would increase with time.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019m not very surprised,\u201d he said. \u201cI think that you\u2019re going to see this trend increase drastically going forward, especially now that the left is pushing lockdowns again and all this other garbage so you know there\u2019s gonna be an even bigger trend [and] faster rate of people trying to get to red states.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While his state <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandoweekly.com\/Blogs\/archives\/2021\/12\/22\/florida-saw-second-highest-population-growth-in-nation-over-last-year?media=AMP+HTML\"><span>saw<\/span><\/a><span> the second-highest population growth in the nation over the last year, Sabatini believed the same would continue to be seen for other \u201cfree\u201d states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cNot just Florida, but also Arizona, Texas, Georgia \u2014 other free states, and it\u2019s really quite sad because there\u2019s no reason for these other states to be destroying themselves but they\u2019re in total cultural suicide right now,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Anticipating that restrictions on freedom would not end with the current pandemic, he claimed that another pretext by Democrats to paralyze Americans\u2019 freedom could always be found.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHundreds of thousands of people [have migrated and] that number is going to go up next year and it\u2019ll probably continue the year after that because even though right now it\u2019s COVID that\u2019s causing them to choose to commit cultural suicide, there will be another pretext after that,\u201d he warned.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThere will be another excuse why [Democrat-run states] think they need to shut down and shut the economy and eclipse liberty, whatever it be they\u2019re gonna do it again and again,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sabatini also had a message for those leaving blue states for the Sunshine State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe message needs to be: leave any leftist politics behind, don\u2019t take any scumbag-leftist-communist views into the state of Florida because we don\u2019t like that,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cWe don\u2019t want that here, we don\u2019t need that here, and anybody that\u2019s not willing to adopt the Floridian lifestyle of freedom and prosperity needs to get the hell out of the state,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He also had harsh words for Ocasio-Cortez after the Democratic socialist congresswoman was seen <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/31\/aoc-relaxing-in-miami-beach-as-omicron-surges-in-new-york\/\"><span>vacationing<\/span><\/a><span> maskless on New Year\u2019s Eve while enjoying a drink with her boyfriend outside a Miami Beach restaurant as her home state of New York shelters amid the omicron surge, resulting in an online <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/health\/2021\/12\/31\/aoc-blasted-suggesting-republicans-mad-they-cannot-date-her\/\"><span>spat<\/span><\/a><span> with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other Republican figures.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><b>\u201c<\/b><span>She\u2019s a total communist; she\u2019s a scumbag; she\u2019s totally hypocritical,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c[She has] zero morals, no ethical fiber, just zero shame abandoning her own people in New York, coming to the \u2018Free State of Florida,\u2019 and then lying and pretending that there\u2019s no hypocrisy there,\u201d he added. \u201cShe\u2019s an embarrassment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Noting that many are \u201chaving fun\u201d calling out the congresswoman, Sabatini didn\u2019t see the humor in the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s really funny, I think it\u2019s just awful, I think it\u2019s disgusting,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI think she\u2019s a really bad person in line with a lot of the corrupt communist leaders in the 20th century who just had a lot of excuses to explain why they were allowed to break the rules that they\u2019ve set up for other people,\u201d he added. \u201cShe\u2019s an embarrassment to the United States, a really awful human.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sabatini\u2019s remarks come as blue states that have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/23\/census-americans-flee-left-wing-lockdown-states-for-open-red-states\/\"><span>repeatedly<\/span><\/a><span> imposed mask mandates, vaccine requirements, and lockdowns over the last year have lost population to red states that have done away with such policies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Newly released <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/2021\/2021-population-estimates.html\"><span>data<\/span><\/a><span> from the United States Census Bureau reveals that while blue states like California and New York have increasingly lost population from July 2020 to July 2021, red states such as Texas and Florida have seen the largest population increases.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Thirty-three states saw population increases over the last year while 17 states, and Washington, DC, saw their <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/23\/census-data-washington-dc-suffers-nations-largest-percentage-decline-population\/\"><span>populations decline<\/span><\/a><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>New York has suffered the largest numerical population decline with roughly 319,000 fewer residents today than a year ago. The state, and especially New York City, has imposed school closures, business lockdowns, vaccine requirements, and mask mandates sporadically over the last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Simultaneously, Texas \u2014 which has not had any statewide coronavirus-related restrictions since March \u2014 has gained over 310,000 residents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Florida, which continued to remain open with little-to-no restrictions, saw the second-largest numeric population gains after Texas with more than 220,890 new residents, an increase analogous to adding a city roughly the size of Orlando.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Conversely, California and Illinois saw the largest population decreases after New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In California, where mask mandates and vaccine requirements remain policy in major cities, there are nearly 262,000 fewer residents than there were before July 2020. In Illinois, with similar restrictive coronavirus-related policies and a statewide mask mandate, there are nearly 114,000 fewer residents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><i><em>Follow Joshua Klein on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshuaklein_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JoshuaKlein.<\/a><\/em><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Rep. Anthony Sabatini (R-Howey-in-the-Hills) blasted \u201ctotally hypocritical\u201d Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for \u201cabandoning her own people\u201d for the \u201cfree\u201d Sunshine State, comparing her to 20th century \u201ccorrupt communist leaders\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"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-1180540","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\/1180540","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\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180540\/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=1180540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}