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🗓️ 8 March 2019
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0:00.0 | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is now facing four separate complaints. Two complaints were filed |
0:05.6 | with the Federal Election Commission over mishandling funds or misreporting funds, |
0:10.0 | and there have been two complaints to the Office of Congressional Ethics over her email use |
0:14.8 | and her Twitter use. Now she's only been in office for a few months, so this seems to be |
0:19.6 | a huge amount of scrutiny for a new member of Congress, which she is probably the most famous |
0:24.4 | Democrat now with over three million followers. Many people are wondering, has she actually done |
0:30.0 | anything wrong, or is it just that she's going up against the machine, Cortez is absolutely an |
0:35.4 | outsider, and she's facing down and even threatening some Democrats with removing them from office |
0:40.1 | using primary techniques, and she's very clearly made the conservatives angry with her far left |
0:45.6 | proposals. Now whether or not she's actually done anything wrong is going to be up to the committees |
0:50.2 | that have received the complaints, but sure enough it looks like some media outlets are trying to |
0:54.9 | downplay the fact that people are actually complaining. So today let's go through these various |
1:00.5 | complaints and look at some of the criticism over how the media has actually handled this. |
1:05.3 | But before we get started, make sure you're following the over on minds at mines.com slash Tim |
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1:19.9 | videos, just share them on social media to help spread the message. The first story came around |
1:24.8 | the end of February, this from the New York Post. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's campaign may have |
1:29.6 | illegally paid her boyfriend. The Coolidge Reagan Foundation alleged in the complaint that |
1:34.6 | brand new congress PAC paid Ocasio-Cortez's boyfriend Riley Roberts for marketing services |
1:40.3 | after the PAC was hired by her campaign. Using the third party PAC to pay her boyfriend |
1:45.6 | may have violated campaign finance laws a lawyer for the Coolidge Reagan Foundation told the |
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