Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke out about criticism of the opposition she took to the deal New York struck for Amazon's HQ2.
"All of the sudden this deal was announced, everything was set in stone, everything was decided," Ocasio-Cortez says at the beginning of her answer in the video."The community didn't feel like they had a say."
She acknowledged polls that said most New Yorkers approved the deal, but"20%, perhaps, of the city that doesn't approve were my constituents, were the community where this was put into." found that New Yorkers supported the HQ2 deal by a margin of 57% to 26%. That support was even stronger in Queens, according to the poll, which found that 60% of respondents supported it while 26% opposed it.Queens is a large borough, however, and Ocasio-Cortez's constituents are closer to where HQ2 would have risen."Where does that number come from? Turns out the number was to us kind of like pixie dust," Ocasio told constituents, according to the video.
"It's really easy for someone in Manhattan or someone in Staten Island to say they should have put Amazon in LIC. But we were finding that in Long Island City, in Woodside, in Sunnyside, in Astoria, in Ditmars, people were like, 'Tthis is going to displace us and we want a seat at the table,'" Ocasio Cortez said."And when we got a seat at the table, Amazon just said, 'We're not going to budge one bit.
"We shouldn't be inviting bullies to our neighborhood," she said, which received claps from constituents at the meeting.
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