Ousted Democratic Leader Slams AOC!

Outgoing lawmaker says AOC is not a team player.

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) was defeated. Maloney can now spend time with his husband and children. His loss was shocking but no surprising. He managed to self destruct himself when he forced Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) to move to another district which did not even back him. Torres is openly gay as well as Maloney. 

Both will be finding a new line of work or run in 2024.

The Republicans have not taken back Congress as of yet. They may win the House but end up not winning the Senate.

As the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Maloney was in charge of helping embattled Democrats win in competitive seats. He ended up being the one on the embattled list.

He took issue with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). She backed his primary challenger and did not play a pivotal role in helping New York Democrats win.

Ocasio-Cortez is noise. 

It's hard to get rid her. She is in a safe Democratic district.

Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO), Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) are the most controversial women in office. They are noise makers who have little accomplishments other than trolling and driving the political leaders nuts.

Maloney was asked about the midterms by Nicholas Fandos of the New York Times on Thursday during a wide-ranging interview. When discussing Ocasio-Cortez, Maloney pulled few punches.

“There is a debate in New York right now about the New York Democratic Party, and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and some on the left are arguing its leadership is part of the problem here,” Fandos said to the outgoing congressman. “Is that a conversation you are a part of?”

Maloney responded:

"The last time I ran into A.O.C., we were beating her endorsed candidate two to one in a primary, and I didn’t see her one minute of these midterms helping our House majority. So, I’m not sure what kind of advice she has, but I’m sure she’ll be generous with it.

But let’s be clear, she had almost nothing to do with what turned out to be an historic defense of our majority. Didn’t pay a dollar of dues. Didn’t do anything for our frontline candidates except give them money when they didn’t want it from her."

The congressman went on to call Ocasio-Cortez “an important voice” who was nonetheless absent during the campaign.

“There are other voices who should be heard, especially when suburban voters have clearly rejected the ideas that she’s most associated with, from defunding the police on down,” Maloney concluded. “She’s an important voice in our politics. But when it comes to passing our agenda through the Congress, or standing our ground on the political battlefield, she was nowhere to be found.”

Many Democrats have voiced frustration with her and The Squad always being in the junk food media. They believe the Republicans use her as a scapegoat. They want her to actually work instead of being the left's version of Marjorie Taylor Greene.