AOC Campaign Fundraises After Steve King Feud: ‘Zero Patience’ For ‘Racists’

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 12: U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks during a meeting of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform June 12, 2019 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The committee held a meetin... WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 12: U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks during a meeting of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform June 12, 2019 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The committee held a meeting on “a resolution recommending that the House of Representatives find the Attorney General and the Secretary of Commerce in contempt of Congress.” (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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After Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) dissed Rep. Steve King (R-IA) for his suggestion that she visit a Holocaust memorial, her campaign put out a fundraising email about the feud that equated King with “completely certified, card-carrying and flag waving racists.”

“Before making any comment on anti-semitism and racism, Steve King should look in the mirror. Last year, King was stripped of all of his committee assignments after brazenly defending white nationalism — in reality, he should have resigned,” the fundraising email said. “No Republican — especially Steve King — can force this campaign to stop speaking truth to power. We’ve build a movement that will fight for justice in all of its forms.”

The Ocasio-Cortez fundraising email asked supporters to donate $3 to the campaign before the next Federal Election Commission deadline at the end of the month.

“This campaign has absolutely zero patience for completely certified, card-carrying and flag-waving racists,” the email continued. “They thrive off attention — which is why we must starve them of it.”

The back-and-forth with Ocasio-Cortez and King began after King tweeted at the congresswoman, suggesting she accept the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp museum’s offer to guide her through a visit. Ocasio-Cortez shot back, pointing out that King also met with “fringe Austrian neo-Nazi groups” during the same trip.

The freshman congresswoman has been criticized by many on the right for arguing that the immigrant detention centers at the U.S.-Mexico border are “concentration camps.”

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  1. “No Republican — especially Steve King — can force this campaign to stop speaking truth to power. We’ve build a movement that will fight for justice in all of its forms.”

    And no Democrats should stop speaking truth to power, either.

  2. Good for her.
    I’m SICK AND TIRED of people attacking anyone calling these “detention centers” concentration camps, which is what they are. Even Godwin of Godwin’s Law fame has said so now, responding to Chris Hayes’ recent statement that he will call them “detention centers” because the other term is too loaded.
    AOC continues to rack up the victories. YOU GO GIRL!

  3. Avatar for pshah pshah says:

    Since Steve King is an unapologetic racist, there’s no point in inviting him to visit the so-called “detention centers “, so he can see for himself how abysmal the situation is - that his Party caused. So good for AOC for just owning him.

  4. Any chance we can live in a world in which these statements are made for the sake of public discourse and not to try to get me to donate $3 NOW!.

    If she keeps up her public presence on really important issues, AOC will be able to raise as much money as she needs when she needs it from regular small donors. Turning politics into a hit the $3 button every time you are freaked out, a political Pavlovian response, is bad for everyone.

    Then again if I had $3 for every racist or stupid-ass thing Steve King has said I’d be a Godzillionaire.

  5. I think AOC has been doing that regularly without asking for donations.

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