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Ocasio-Cortez was a fierce critic of the planned Amazon headquarters in New York which would have received $1.2 billion in tax benefits if it had gone through with its original plans to put its. Jun 17, 2019 Amazon says Ocasio-Cortez is “just wrong.” In an interview with ABC News’ “This Week,” the New York Democrat blasted Amazon, claiming low worker pay contributes to Bezos’ status as the world’s.
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A new poll has revealed that 38 percent of New Yorkers believe that AOC was the ‘villain’ in Amazon’s failed attempt to bring its second headquarters to Queens, New York.
New York Says Amazon HQ2 Loss is AOC’s Fault
The Siena College poll, which was released on Monday, has revealed that New Yorkers believe Rep. Alexasandria Ocasio Cortez (D-N.Y.) was the biggest antagonist when it comes to apportioning the blame for Amazon’s decision to pull out of locating its second headquarters in Queens.
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Anything is possible: today was the day a group of dedicated, everyday New Yorkers & their neighbors defeated Amazon’s corporate greed, its worker exploitation, and the power of the richest man in the world. https://t.co/nyvm5vtH9k
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 14, 2019
In the same poll, only 12 percent of people said that they believe AOC was the ‘hero’ of the story.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not alone in being cast as the villain, however, with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio also being singled out for their parts in the Amazon HQ2 fiasco.
Another 26 percent pointed the finger at Amazon itself for backing out of its agreement.
New Yorkers Overwhelmingly Favored Amazon HQ2
The Siena College poll paints a clear picture of who exactly New Yorkers feel is most responsible for Amazon pulling out of Queens. It also suggests that AOC made a big mistake when deciding to go to war with the Jeff Bezos-controlled e-commerce superpower.
By a margin of 67 percent to 21 percent, the New Yorkers questioned in the poll believe that not welcoming Amazon to Queens was a bad move on the part of NYC.
And in a further question related to the terms of the deal which so incensed AOC, a margin of 61 percent to 30 percent stated that they were in favor of the $3 billion in state and city incentives that Amazon was due to receive for bringing 25,000 jobs to New York.
It seems as though the AOC-influenced the decision for Amazon to backtrack on its plans also played badly with those supporters whom the freshman senator would most likely consider her base.
Fifty-six percent of self-described liberals also believe that not bringing Amazon to New York was bad for the state.
Siena College pollster Steven Greenberg had this to say on the poll’s findings:
“While some may have celebrated Amazon’s announcement to pull the plug, the vast majority of New Yorkers of every stripe thought it was bad for the Empire State.”
Voters Want Amazon to Reconsider NYC Exit
Despite high-profile protests partially led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, most New York voters supported Amazon’s HQ2 plans. Source: Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP
Interestingly, according to Greenberg’s reading of the poll’s results, New Yorkers would be overwhelmingly in favor if Amazon and local politicians could perform an about-face that would see the company finally decide to locate its HQ2 in Queens.
Mr. Greenberg stated:
“The Amazon deal was seen as very contentious, however, there was strong support for it last month, before it got cancelled. There is an overwhelming feeling that its cancellation was bad for the state. And there is strong support – among all demographic groups – for Amazon to reconsider and move forward. Clearly, jobs outweigh the cost of government incentives in the minds of most voters.”
With the majority of New Yorkers obviously massively against the decision for Amazon to abandon NYC, it remains to be seen whether Ocasio-Cortez will be one of those politicians willing to mend fences with Mr. Bezos and the Amazon suits in order to give New Yorkers what they want.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio says that US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was wrong on understanding the Amazon deal
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio tells NBC's Chuck Todd that US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was wrong on understanding the Amazon deal.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio suggested on Sunday that critics of the potential Amazon campus New York City — such as Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — got the facts wrong over the money behind the tax breaks.
On Sunday morning, de Blasio responded in the affirmative when Chuck Todd of NBC News’ “Meet the Press” asked if the tax breaks offered to Amazon weren’t “money you had over here. And it was going over there.”
The Democratic mayor said: “And that $3 billion that would go back in tax incentives was only after we were getting the jobs and getting the revenue.”
“There’s no money — right,” de Blasio added.
Amazon had chosen the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens to build a $2.5 billion campus that could house 25,000 workers, in addition to new offices planned for northern Virginia.
“If we were willing to give away $3 billion for this deal, we could invest those $3 billion in our district ourselves, if we wanted to. We could hire out more teachers. We can fix our subways. We can put a lot of people to work for that money, if we wanted to,” Ocasio-Cortez said last week after the technology giant announced on Thursday that it had dropped plans to build the new headquarters in America’s largest city amid pressure from politicians and activists.
The mayor also noted to Todd that the deal could have been a way for progressive leaders to show a balance on economic issues.
“I have no problem with my fellow progressives critiquing a deal or wanting more from Amazon — I wanted more from Amazon, too,” de Blasio said. “The bottom line is, this was an example of an abuse of corporate power. They had an agreement with the people of New York City.”
He added: “They said they wanted a partnership, but the minute there were criticisms, they walked away. What does that say to working people, that a company would leave them high and dry, simply because some people raised criticism?”
The city was eager to lure the company and its thousands of high-paying technology jobs, offering billions in tax incentives and lighting the Empire State Building in Amazon orange in November.
De Blasio and Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the $2.8 billion in tax breaks and subsidies they were offering Amazon would result in $27 billion in tax revenue. The governor and the mayor had argued that the project would spur economic growth that would pay for the $2.8 billion in state and city incentives many times over.
“We are disappointed to have reached this conclusion — we love New York,” the online giant from Seattle said in a blog post announcing its withdrawal.
Cuomo lashed out at fellow New York politicians over Amazon’s change of heart, saying the project would have helped diversify the city’s economy, cement its status as an emerging hub of technology and generate money for schools, housing and transit.
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“A small group (of) politicians put their own narrow political interests above their community,” he said.
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Fox News’ Andrew O’Reilly and The Associated Press contributed to this report.