I just received this letter from Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez. Conservative politicians and pundits have been unrelenting in
their attempts to embarrass her and destroy her career. Fox News constantly tries to portray her as ignorant and dumb.
Their attempts have failed. Rather than destroy her, the constant attention to
her has given her lots of publicity and they have catapulted her to being a
house hold name. She has become a dominating figure in Congress. She is smart
and able to defend herself when she is attacked. I hope AOC not only wins
re-election, but I hope more people as her, progressive and left wing, win
elections and move in on our stodgy conservative congress.
-SJ Otto
So from AOC:
When I first announced my campaign for Congress, people told
me it wasn’t possible for someone like me to run and win. They said we couldn’t
raise enough money or earn the endorsements needed to unseat a powerful
incumbent.
We proved them wrong. We showed that the grassroots could
beat the big money and establishment insiders. This year, I became the youngest
woman to serve in Congress — and I want another young progressive woman
to shatter that
record in 2020.
That’s why I’m proud to endorse Jessica
Cisneros for Congress. She’s
a progressive fighter running up against an entrenched incumbent. She can’t win
this race on her own — but with the people behind her, she’ll be unstoppable.
That’s why I’m asking you to help her right now:
Jessica was born and raised in the border town of Laredo . The daughter of
immigrant farmworkers, she grew up watching her parents work hard but still
struggle to get by. While her parents fought to keep their small business
afloat, she saw firsthand how many of the laws written in D.C. weren’t written
to protect people like her. And she noticed that the people elected to
represent her were more accountable to corporate donors than to the members of
her community.
Just like us in 2018, Jessica is running against a powerful
incumbent as an unapologetic advocate for her community. Her opponent, Henry
Cuellar, has more than $3,000,000 in his campaign bank account, and these funds
aren’t coming from the grassroots. They’re coming from corporate PACs, Big Oil,
and private prison corporations like GEO Group.
She needs our help to compete on an even
playing field. Can I count on you to chip in today?
I need your help to bring Jessica to Congress so we can fight
together for a Green New Deal, Medicare for All and fixing our broken
immigration system. Together we can shift the center of gravity in Congress
away from the privileged, powerful few and towards the many.
Pa'lante,
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