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From Fox News: A Democrat official who helped Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez build support before her historic first election win told Fox News Digital that the lawmaker has abandoned and “betrayed” her constituents in a Queens neighborhood that has been riddled with crime under her leadership, including open-air prostitution, robberies and petty crime.
Some constituents have likened conditions along Roosevelt Avenue to those of a Third World country, while others say the migrant women soliciting sex in front of businesses remind them of a red-light district in Bangkok.
The area has garnered national attention for its unsanitary nature where illegal vendors overtake sidewalks selling unregulated food, secondhand clothing and other counterfeit merchandise.
Ramon Ramirez Baez, an author and former Democrat Committeeman for the 39th Assembly District, said the quality of life has rapidly deteriorated there since Ocasio-Cortez sprang an historic upset in 2018, unseating longtime Democrat Congressman Joe Crowley to become the nation’s youngest congresswoman.
Ramirez Baez, who is well known in the district, especially among other Dominican immigrants, said the Democrat socialist reached out to him for help when she only had about $39,000 in the bank, compared to Crowley’s nearly $2 million war chest.
Ramirez Baez explained that it was he who introduced Ocasio-Cortez to many business owners, campaigned with her and even personally paid for a venue for a debate between AOC and Crowley. However, Crowley never showed up for the debate, which ended up giving AOC a huge boost.
Now Ramirez Baez is furious, as he says AOC has turned out to be no better than Crowley, and her Queens office, just a block away from his apartment, is always closed.
“We never saw that lady, never, she disappeared. She [didn’t] do anything for the community, nothing, nothing!” he fumed in an interview with Fox News Digital.
“She disappeared from my community. You never saw Alexandria in my community, nobody saw her in her office. All the time closed,” he continued.
“She goes all over the place, like a movie star, she goes to Texas, all over the place, but what about the community?” he added.
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