{"id":1931681,"date":"2023-05-16T08:40:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T12:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-aoc-staffer-is-a-top-official-of-the-new-york-communist-party\/"},"modified":"2023-05-16T08:43:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T12:43:53","slug":"former-aoc-staffer-is-a-top-official-of-the-new-york-communist-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-aoc-staffer-is-a-top-official-of-the-new-york-communist-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-AOC Staffer Now High-Ranking NY Communist Party Member"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fformer-aoc-staffer-is-a-top-official-of-the-new-york-communist-party%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=1931681&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--><h2>Former Aide to AOC Now a Senior Official in NY Communist Party<\/h2>\n<h3>Meet Justine Medina<\/h3>\n<p>Justine Medina, a former aide to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is now a senior official in the New York State Communist Party. The New York Post recently discovered that Medina had worked as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-aoc-staffer-is-a-top-official-of-the-new-york-communist-party\/\" title=\"Ex-AOC Staffer Now High-Ranking NY Communist Party Member\">key policy writer<\/a> for AOC&#8217;s reelection campaign in 2020. <\/p>\n<p>Medina&#8217;s new position on the Executive Committee of the New York State Communist Party was publicized by the Communist Party newspaper, People&#8217;s World. In July 2021, the publication identified Medina as the co-chair of the New York Young Communist League, after she had worked for the congresswoman. <\/p>\n<p>Medina is also an active member of the Amazon Labor Union at JFK8 and a leader in the nationwide unionization campaign at the online retailer. <\/p>\n<h3>A History of Far-Left Views<\/h3>\n<p>Before and after AOC&#8217;s reelection, Medina openly bragged about being a Marxist. According to Federal Election Commission (FEC) data published by The New York Post, she received more than $35,000 between February and November of that year. <\/p>\n<p>Medina&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/severe-flooding-hits-indonesian-capital\/\" title=\"Severe flooding hits Indonesian capital\">social media posts show<\/a> a history of making pro-Marxist statements before and during her employment with Ocasio-Cortez. In October 2020, she posted on Twitter, &#8220;[W]ell, I *am* a Communist, but work for AOC &#038; helped start Queens DSA&#8217;s Electoral WG, so I def see utility in working on the Dem ballot line!&#8221; A month later, she proudly declared, &#8220;Communism is about equality, democracy, peace, the advancement of workers, the oppressed, and humanity in general.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dennis-prager-nice-people-do-a-lot-of-damage\/\" title=\"Dennis Prager: Nice People Do a Lot of Damage\">communist regimes killed<\/a> an estimated 100 million of their own people in the last century, Medina ominously warned that the path to communism would be &#8220;unkind&#8221; to those who &#8220;block progress,&#8221; adding, &#8220;[B]ut communism is good and shouldn&#8217;t scare you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked on Twitter whether she believed in the Maoist or Leninist variety of Communism, Medina responded:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Maoist or Leninist?<\/b> Neither, I&#8217;m a Marxist-Leninist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justine Medina, a former aide to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is now a senior official of the New York State Communist Party. Medina worked as a key policy writer for Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s reelection campaign in 2020. Her new position on the Executive Committee was publicized by the Communist Party newspaper, People&#8217;s World.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":1931682,"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":[543],"tags":[6092,26880,4167,4787,6566],"class_list":["post-1931681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-communist","tag-ex-aoc","tag-high-ranking","tag-party","tag-staffer"],"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\/1931681","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\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1931682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}