NY liberal lawmaker rips AOC as 'absent' from home district after 'performative' Supreme Court stunt
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Fellow liberal Democrat state Sen. Jessica Ramos blasted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as “absent," out of touch after a med student called out her “performative’ Supreme Court stunt.
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The medical student wrote in a July 21 tweet that "a couple of the most highly respected health policy academics recenly [sic] set up a meeting with AOC’s office to discuss NHS style healthcare reform. They were told bluntly by AOC’s staff, ‘we’re not doing healthcare right now.’"
"So, while she’s doing performative resistance art for the camera’s [sic] she’s ‘not doing healthcare right now," he added, referring to Ocasio-Cortez recently being accused of pretending to be handcuffed while police escorted her away from a pro-abortion protest at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. "We are in the middle of two pandemics & people are still dying because they lack healthcare. this is not fighting."
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