Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said she has Republicans “stutter-stepping” in a fight over an invitation for her to meet coal miners in Kentucky.
She had been asked by Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky., to talk about her “Green New Deal,” but after accepting, Ocasio-Cortez was told she had to first apologize to Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, for an exchange stemming from a feud over Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Sept. 11 comments.
“GOP thought they could catch us with a bluff. Now we’ve got ‘em on their back foot stutter-stepping #TooLate,” Ocasio-Cortez said on Twitter Wednesday in response to a GQ article titled “Kentucky Republicans Worried Inviting AOC to Meet with Coal Miners Might Backfire.”
GOP thought they could catch us with a bluff.
Now we’ve got ‘em on their back foot stutter-stepping ??♀️ #TooLate https://t.co/DY15KPy9Tv
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 17, 2019
In a separate tweet, Ocasio-Cortez said she recently invited Barr to visit the Bronx, but he had declined.
You know what’s interesting?
Last month I invited @RepAndyBarr to come visit us in the Bronx and offer perspective in our MSNBC Climate Town Hall.
He said no, because UK had an NCAA game that night. Fair.
So I offered to fly him home in time for the game.
He still said no. ??♀️ https://t.co/ZP2ltnEBc4
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 17, 2019
Barr sent a letter to Ocasio-Cortez on Friday telling her to “apologize” to Crenshaw “prior to coming to visit Kentucky.”
Today, I delivered the letter below to @AOC, calling on her to apologize for her comments to our colleague @DanCrenshawTX before she plans her trip to Kentucky to learn how the Green New Deal could impact our Commonwealth. pic.twitter.com/j52dAcIi4E
— Rep. Andy Barr (@RepAndyBarr) April 12, 2019
Ocasio-Cortez sent a tweet Thursday asking why Crenshaw does not “do something” about terrorism. Her rebuke of Crenshaw came after he criticized Omar, D-Minn., for describing the Sept. 11 attacks as “some people” who “did something.”
You refuse to cosponsor the 9/11 Victim’s Compensation Fund, yet have the audacity to drum resentment towards Ilhan w/completely out-of-context quotes.
In 2018, right-wing extremists were behind almost ALL US domestic terrorist killings. Why don’t you go do something about that? https://t.co/rkb92IxkKX
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 11, 2019
Crenshaw, 34, is a formerly Navy SEAL who served 10 years, including in Afghanistan where he was a lieutenant commander.
The invitation was extended by Barr last month after Ocasio-Cortez, 29, went on a viral rant defending her controversial “Green New Deal” proposal as anti-elite.
Watch every second of this… @AOC is so incredibly spot on. pic.twitter.com/ESP4dC5TTo
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) March 27, 2019
“Luckily, we still have open borders with Kentucky. We don’t need Congressman Barr to meet with coal miners and have a town hall, though we’d love his participation if we do,” Corbin Trent, Ocasio-Cortez’s communications director, told The Courier-Journal Friday.
