On Feb. 5, the congressional office of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted a new blog entry under “energy issues” detailing her "Green New Deal" proposal and answering “frequently asked questions.”
The page, announcing an 8:30 a.m. launch on Feb. 7, is now gone, and a top adviser suggested Friday it was actually authored and distributed by the GOP.
By the afternoon of Feb. 7, Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., removed the document from her website without explanation but following backlash and even ridicule over the radical plans outlined within it, including a call to "eliminate emissions from cows or air travel" — which would functionally ban the latter — and to provide “economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work.”
The document vanished just hours after Ocasio-Cortez and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., formally unveiled a "Green New Deal" resolution that has so far attracted 67 Democratic co-sponsors in the House. It’s a nonbinding measure that is less detailed than the now-deleted FAQ document but calls for a complete and speedy overhaul of the nation’s energy, transportation, and farming sectors in order to eliminate carbon emissions in the coming decades.
The communications staff has so far not responded to an inquiry about the now-missing blog post.
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4 comments:
Occasional Cortex doesn't have a brain and needs to be removed from office along with the Muslim and the Pakistani women! God deliver this country from these people PLEASE!
Someone needs to stop her carbon emission. As well as a few more people.
No mystery. She's become accustomed to letting her mouth get several light years ahead of her brain and being saluted by her fans. Emotions rather than analysis.
It was a crazy and embarrassing plan and document. Someone must have pointed out how long it would take her to ride her bike back and forth to NYC from DC.
Keep her talking
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