{"id":597263,"date":"2021-07-19T17:06:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T21:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=597263"},"modified":"2021-07-19T17:06:12","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T21:06:12","slug":"ocasio-cortez-needs-fame-invests-1-4-million-in-merch-much-of-it-emblazoned-with-her-initials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ocasio-cortez-needs-fame-invests-1-4-million-in-merch-much-of-it-emblazoned-with-her-initials\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocasio-Cortez Needs Fame, Invests $1.4 Million In Merch, Much Of It Emblazoned With Her Initials"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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-needs-fame-invests-1-4-million-in-merch-much-of-it-emblazoned-with-her-initials%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=597263&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\/2021\/07\/Ocasio-Cortez-2-scaled.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in another move to make herself ubiquitous, paid a political merchandise firm a whopping $1.4 million from her campaign coffers just in the first six months of 2021 to create T-shirts and hats with leftist slogans such as \u201cTax the Rich\u201d and \u201cAbolish ICE\u201d \u2014 much of the merchandise featuring her initials.<\/p>\n<p>That sum paid to Financial Innovations, a political merchandise firm, according to campaign disclosures to the Federal Election Commission, is roughly twice as much as what she paid to the firm the previous two years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9803295\/AOC-makes-push-political-merchandise.html\">The Daily Mail<\/a> noted.<\/p>\n<p>Financial Innovations has also created merchandise for Elizabeth Warren, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden.&nbsp;According to Andrew Frawley, who managed the merchandise operation for Andrew Yang\u2019s 2020 presidential campaign, the Ocasio-Cortez campaign could accrue at least a 50% profit from sales of the merchandise.<\/p>\n<p>Last December, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/aoc-hawking-anti-rich-sweatshirts-only-rich-people-can-afford\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported, \u201cAt her online store at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/shop.ocasiocortez.com\/products\/tax-the-rich-sweatshirt\">shop.ocasiocortez.com<\/a>, the former bartender is selling sweatshirts that say, \u2018TAX THE RICH.\u2019 You can also buy a \u2018New Green Deal\u2019 coffee mug for $27. Then there\u2019s the \u2018Drink Water &amp; Don\u2019t Be Racist\u2019 T-shirt for $27. And the \u2018cancel student debt\u2019 shirt for the same price. And the \u2018ABOLISH ICE\u2019 dad hat for $28. But the \u2018SOCIAL ECONOMIC RACIAL JUSTICE\u2019 sweatshirt will set you back $65.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first question in the FAQ section addresses returns: \u2018We do not accept returns or exchanges,\u2019\u201d The Daily Wire added.<\/p>\n<p>In December 2020, Ocasio-Cortez <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/this-is-wrong-ocasio-cortez-slammed-after-suggesting-shes-a-hard-worker-while-republicans-are-lazy\/\">bragged<\/a> that she was a hard worker while Republicans just \u201csit around on leather chairs all day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She tweeted, \u201cThe thing that these conservative Senators don\u2019t seem to understand is that I\u2019ve actually had a physically difficult working-class job without good healthcare most of my adult life. I bring that work ethic to Congress &amp; to my community. They sit around on leather chairs all day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepublicans like to make fun of the fact that I used to be a waitress, but we all know if they ever had to do a double they\u2019d be the ones found crying in the walk-in fridge halfway through their first shift bc someone yelled at them for bringing seltzer when they wanted sparkling,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>As far as Ocasio-Cortez via-a-vis ICE, in January 2020 former Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Tom Homan <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/watch-former-ice-director-unloads-on-idiotic-dangerous-disgusting-ocasio-cortez\/\">blasted<\/a> Ocasio-Cortez after she stated, &nbsp;\u201cOrganizing is about tipping people off if you start to see that ICE and CBP are in communities, to try to keep people safe. \u2026 I\u2019m here because Senator Sanders has actually committed to breaking up ICE and CBP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Homan responded, \u201cIt\u2019s ridiculous, it\u2019s extremely stupid statement made by somebody I\u2019ve never considered real smart anyways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut here\u2019s an elected lawmaker, she\u2019s a congresswoman standing on a stage telling people how to obstruct ICE, tipping off people ICE is looking and she needs to realize that 9-out-of-10 of everybody ICE arrested last year was a convicted criminal or pending criminal charges,\u201d Homan continued. \u201cLast year, 137,000 criminals, 2,000 were murderers, 12,000 sex offenses, 45,000 assaults, 62,000 drug offenses, 10,000 weapons offenses, and she wants the community to tip these people if ICE is in their neighborhood operating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Homan concluded, \u201cICE\u2019s job is already extremely dangerous, now she\u2019s making it more dangerous. She\u2019s one of these Democrats who keeps saying, \u2018nobody\u2019s above the law, the president is above the law, we need to impeach the president cause he\u2019s not about the law,\u2019 but apparently illegal aliens are above the law because ICE isn\u2019t allowed to arrest them, it\u2019s ridiculous statement. It\u2019s a dangerous statement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>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 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. 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