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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Feb 21, 2019, 09:27 AM Feb 2019

Ocasio-Cortez Fires Back at Laura Ingraham For Posting 'Wack' Billboard That Criticizes Her...

Ocasio-Cortez Fires Back at Laura Ingraham For Posting ‘Wack’ Billboard That Criticizes Her Over Amazon HQ2

by Aidan McLaughlin | Feb 21st, 2019, 7:45 am

Fox News host Laura Ingraham posted a photo of a billboard up in Times Square that criticizes Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) over Amazon pulling out of its HQ2 expansion in New York.

The billboard — funded by Job Creators Network, a conservative advocacy group — calls out the freshman Democrat for opposing Amazon’s move.




Ocasio-Cortez replied on Twitter: “Few things effectively communicate the power we’ve built in fighting dark money & anti-worker policies like billionaire-funded groups blowing tons of cash on wack billboards (this one is funded by the Mercers).”

If you’re a regular reader of Breitbart, a website funded by the Mercer family, you might recognize Job Creators Network from the frequent articles the website used to run promoting the group — which is also funded by the Mercer family.




In her tweets, Ocasio-Cortez also made sure to point out that Times Square is the worst. She posted an iconic clip of The Office‘s Michael Scott calling one particular part of the Square — featuring a gigantic Red Lobster and equally mammoth Bubba Gump Shrimp — “the heart of civilization.”




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https://www.mediaite.com/online/ocasio-cortez-fires-back-at-laura-ingraham-for-posting-wack-billboard-that-criticizes-her-over-amazon-hq2/

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Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
2. Wikipedia page:
Thu Feb 21, 2019, 09:39 AM
Feb 2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_Creators_Network

Membership
JCN was founded by Bernie Marcus, the co-founder and former CEO of Home Depot. The organization's president is Alfredo Ortiz, a former Pepsi and Kraft executive. While the president and director of communications for the JCN foundation is Elaine Parker. Its members include:

Brad Anderson, former CEO and vice chairman of Best Buy
Heidi Ganahl, founder and CEO of Camp Bow Wow
Carlos Gazitua, CEO of Sergio's Restaurants
Doug Haugh, president of Mansfield Oil
Andy Puzder, CEO of CKE Restaurants


Bolded items will no longer be patronized by me.

Squinch

(50,955 posts)
11. Ooh! I already knew about the other guys but now I know not to use Best Buy anymore either.
Thu Feb 21, 2019, 11:33 AM
Feb 2019

Home Depot's executive dining room must be like a snakepit.

jmowreader

(50,560 posts)
14. Bernie hasn't worked for Home Depot for years
Thu Feb 21, 2019, 12:44 PM
Feb 2019

Both the founders got run off because they wouldn’t agree to turn their store into a version of Walmart.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
4. The Mercers are downright evil.
Thu Feb 21, 2019, 09:41 AM
Feb 2019

From funding Breitbart to enabling Brexit, they are rotten to the core.

procon

(15,805 posts)
5. if the guys from the billionaire boys club are scared
Thu Feb 21, 2019, 09:52 AM
Feb 2019

enough of AOC that they're ponying up money to smear her in a public disinformation campaign, she must be doing something right.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
7. Job Creators Network?
Thu Feb 21, 2019, 09:58 AM
Feb 2019

How do they have time to put up billboards against a freshman representative, when they should be creating scads of jobs with the oodles of money the Republican tax break showered on them?

They might also come to regret creating the ThanksAOC.com website.

 

PeeJ52

(1,588 posts)
9. These people are so stupid. She'd never be able to afford all this advertising. Yay AOC!!!
Thu Feb 21, 2019, 10:17 AM
Feb 2019

Keep with the truth and sharp rebuttals and you win!

manhattan123

(302 posts)
10. She sent a few tweets...
Thu Feb 21, 2019, 10:25 AM
Feb 2019

And apparently that was enough to scare the richest man in the world and his ruthless company to pull out of a real estate deal. She really IS powerful. lol

PatrickforO

(14,577 posts)
13. Pah. 'Job creators network.'
Thu Feb 21, 2019, 12:32 PM
Feb 2019

Talk about a misleading organizational name.

Cause it ain't about job creation. It is about minimum wage job creation, right to work stuff. No benefits. Some Amazon fulfillment center workers pee in bottles because the restrooms are so far away and they are scared they'll get in trouble. Talk about a meaningless, hateful place to work.

But hey, don't you feel good the Mercer's just got that giant tax cut?

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