Ocasio-Cortez Fires Back at Laura Ingraham For Posting ‘Wack’ Billboard That Criticizes Her Over Amazon HQ2

Fox News host Laura Ingraham posted a photo of a billboard up in Times Square that criticizes Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) over Amazon pulling out of its HQ2 expansion in New York.

The billboard — funded by Job Creators Network, a conservative advocacy group — calls out the freshman Democrat for opposing Amazon’s move.

Check out the sign in Times Sq.! ⁦Thanks to @JobCreatorsUSA⁩! pic.twitter.com/iIN0DTo8r2

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) February 20, 2019

Ocasio-Cortez replied on Twitter: “Few things effectively communicate the power we’ve built in fighting dark money & anti-worker policies like billionaire-funded groups blowing tons of cash on wack billboards (this one is funded by the Mercers).”

If you’re a regular reader of Breitbart, a website funded by the Mercer family, you might recognize Job Creators Network from the frequent articles the website used to run promoting the group — which is also funded by the Mercer family.

Few things effectively communicate the power we’ve built in fighting dark money & anti-worker policies like billionaire-funded groups blowing tons of cash on wack billboards (this one is funded by the Mercers).

(PS fact that it’s in Times Sq tells you this isn’t for/by NYers.) https://t.co/B4QTPi1r2k

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 21, 2019

In her tweets, Ocasio-Cortez also made sure to point out that Times Square is the worst. She posted an iconic clip of The Office‘s Michael Scott calling one particular part of the Square — featuring a gigantic Red Lobster and equally mammoth Bubba Gump Shrimp — “the heart of civilization.”

https://t.co/qUuTGDJ7yl had to

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 21, 2019

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