Ocasio-Cortez Told GOP Lawmaker She ‘Won’t Be So Nice Next Time’ After Confrontation
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is often the target of conservatives’ ire. And that was on full display this summer when a Republican Congressman accosted her on the steps of the Capitol. In July, Rep. Ted Yoho…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is often the target of conservatives’ ire. And that was on full display this summer when a Republican Congressman accosted her on the steps of the Capitol.
In July, Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) approached her on the steps of the Capitol and called her “disgusting” for saying that poverty was leading to an increase in crime.
“You are out of your freaking mind,” he added.
The exchange was overheard by a reporter who said that the New York lawmaker responded by telling him he was being “rude.”
As Yoho left, he reportedly called Ocasio-Cortez a “f**cking b**ch.”
However, that was not the end of the story. She told Vanity Fair that the day after the incident, she told Yoho, “You do that to me again, I won’t be so nice next time.”
She added that she felt Yoho’s actions verged “into the zone of harassment, discrimination.”
In a speech on the House floor after the incident, Ocasio-Cortez addressed Yoho’s comments and a “culture of lack of impunity, of accepting of violence and violent language against women and an entire structure of power that supports that.”