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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,304 posts)
Wed Jul 17, 2019, 12:25 PM Jul 2019

Ocasio-Cortez gets new 2020 challenger: a Republican immigrant from Jamaica

EXCLUSIVE -- Scherie Murray, a New York businesswoman who immigrated from Jamaica as a child and is active in state Republican politics, is launching a campaign Wednesday for the congressional seat held by Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Fox News has learned.

In a phone interview, Murray, 38, confirmed her intention to run for the New York congressional seat as a Republican.

“There is a crisis in Queens, and it’s called AOC,” Murray told Fox News. “And instead of focusing on us, she’s focusing on being famous. Mainly rolling back progress and authoring the job-killing Green New Deal and killing the Amazon New York deal.”

Murray, who was born in Jamaica and moved to the United States when she was 9, is officially launching her campaign Wednesday with an introductory video that takes sharp jabs at the 29-year-old Ocasio-Cortez.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ocasio-cortez-gets-new-2020-challenger-a-republican-immigrant-from-jamaica/ar-AAEs7Fy?li=BBnb7Kz

Lotsa luck. People in Queens know and hate Trump.

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Ocasio-Cortez gets new 2020 challenger: a Republican immigrant from Jamaica (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 2019 OP
I wonder who is fuinding him? Dyedinthewoolliberal Jul 2019 #1
Her...n/t bluecollar2 Jul 2019 #3
Mitch's cocaine money? SunSeeker Jul 2019 #4
Koch brothers or others in that lot. redstatebluegirl Jul 2019 #5
oops! Dyedinthewoolliberal Jul 2019 #8
Republicans are so cynical. nt SunSeeker Jul 2019 #2
good luck with that Scherie Celerity Jul 2019 #6
She is aligning herself with trump the racist .... CatMor Jul 2019 #7
Anyone who aligns with Trump at this point. . . DinahMoeHum Jul 2019 #9
A Republican is not going to win that district n/t obamanut2012 Jul 2019 #10
I believe she already knows that, and this looks like nothing but a publicity stunt Brother Buzz Jul 2019 #11
LOL at that! Blue_Tires Jul 2019 #12
So I guess she won't have to "go back where she came from"? Wounded Bear Jul 2019 #13

Celerity

(43,589 posts)
6. good luck with that Scherie
Wed Jul 17, 2019, 12:42 PM
Jul 2019
https://www.facebook.com/ScherieSMurray/photos/a.1873990725979953/2300202460025442/?type=3&theater

Scherie S. Murray
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Brother Buzz

(36,478 posts)
11. I believe she already knows that, and this looks like nothing but a publicity stunt
Wed Jul 17, 2019, 01:10 PM
Jul 2019

She's a flake, but to her credit, she has chutzpah

She ran for the New York State Assembly in 2015 as a candidate for District 29, and lost the election to Democrat Alicia Hyndman in a landslide. She earned just about 7 percent of the vote.

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