New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been exposed taking thousands in lobbyist cash, despite one of her key campaign pledges being never to do so.
According to an investigation nu The Washington Examiner, which analyzed her campaign’s financial disclosures, Ocasio-Cortez has taken thousands in donations from a prominent political lobbyist.
The report states:
Dave Koshgarian, a lobbyist with Ernst & Young, has been Ocasio-Cortez’s most consistent donor, sending her thousands of dollars beginning in 2020.
Koshgarian has represented a number of corporate clients, including Duke Energy, MetLife, General Electric, Charles Schwab, and BlackRock, according to lobbying disclosures.
Other clients represented by Ocasio-Cortez’s lobbyist donors include, among others, Nike, Delta Air Lines, healthcare trade associations, and the New Venture Fund, one arm of a massive Democratic-aligned dark money network managed by the Arabella Advisors consulting firm.
Such donations are deeply ironic given that Ocasio-Cortez has made her supposed refusal to take lobbyist cash a centerpiece of her political platform.
On her X profile, which has nearly 13 million followers, she describes herself as “people-funded” and refusing to take “lobbyist [cash].” […]
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