{"id":1703625,"date":"2022-10-20T11:33:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T15:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1703625"},"modified":"2022-10-20T11:33:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T15:33:25","slug":"ocasio-cortez-dances-to-angry-constituents-chants-of-aoc-has-got-to-go-at-raucous-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ocasio-cortez-dances-to-angry-constituents-chants-of-aoc-has-got-to-go-at-raucous-town-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocasio-Cortez Dances To Angry Constituents\u2019 Chants Of \u2018AOC Has Got To Go\u2019 At Raucous Town Hall"},"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\">32<\/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%2Focasio-cortez-dances-to-angry-constituents-chants-of-aoc-has-got-to-go-at-raucous-town-hall%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=1703625&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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ocasio-cortez-on-having-faked-being-in-handcuffs-its-a-republican-conspiracy-theory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/a> appeared to mock her own angry constituents at an event Wednesday night, smiling and rhythmically moving to chants of \u201cAOC has got to go\u201d as she sat on a stage.<\/p>\n<p>In a video posted on social media, the two-term congresswoman from Queens, New York, smiles and moves her shoulders to the chants and an accompanying bongo drum beat before sipping from a bottle of water. It was the latest case of Ocasio-Cortez facing constituents angry at her support for sending military aid to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery classy, thank you sir,\u201d she says in the video, pointing at someone in the crowd who had presumably heckled her.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">AOC dances to protesters chanting \u201cAOC has got to go\u201d at an event in her district tonight<\/p>\n<p>How absolutely humiliating.<\/p>\n<p>Watch. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ap8sFJJei2\">pic.twitter.com\/Ap8sFJJei2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Danny De Urbina (@dannydeurbina) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dannydeurbina\/status\/1582943310871949312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freedomnews.tv\/2022\/10\/19\/protesters-disrupt-aoc-listening-forum-qa-in-astoria-queens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FreedomNews.TV reported<\/a> the incident occurred in the Queens neighborhood of Astoria and that protesters were angry about rising crime,\u00a0LGBTQ+ community housing, and vaccine mandates.<\/p>\n<p>The lights were turned off briefly and the politician ushered out of the room before returning and saying, \u201cI\u2019m not allowed to be in a room with the lights turned off,\u201d according to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>The incident came a week after Ocasio-Cortez was heckled at a town hall event for, in the words of angry constituents, \u201cvoting to start a nuclear war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongresswoman! None of this matters unless there\u2019s a nuclear war, which you voted to send arms and weapons to Ukraine,\u201d one protester shouted in a video posted on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>That heckler and another praised former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, who last week announced she had left the party due to its newfound hawkishness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTulsi Gabbard has shown guts where you\u2019ve shown cowardice,\u201d the second heckler yelled, demanding that AOC follow Gabbard\u2019s lead and denounce the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez, like all members of the House, is up for re-election next month. The 33-year-old avowed socialist and charter member of the so-called \u201cSquad\u201d has faced accusations that she has abandoned some of her far-left principles since going to Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Although her 14th District seat appears safe, Ocasio-Cortez faces a challenge from Bronx business owner Tina Forte, who describes herself as \u201csocially liberal and fiscally conservative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAOC has spent her time raising taxes, bad-mouthing business owners, and pushing away large employers like Amazon \u2013 denying thousands of jobs to New Yorkers and harming our economy,\u201d Forte recently\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/news\/2021\/08\/25\/tina-forte-capitol-riot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared to mock her own angry constituents at an event Wednesday night, smiling and rhythmically moving to chants of \u201cAOC has got to go\u201d as she sat on a stage. In a video posted on social media, the two-term congresswoman from Queens, New York, smiles and moves her shoulders to the chants &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1530479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1703625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703625","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1703625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1530479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}