If you were going to come up with a parody of a clueless, ethically challenged, commie-socialist urban politician, you could hardly parody such a person better than the real-life Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). She’s a self-parodying figure herself, a former bartender who claims a degree in economics but who wouldn’t recognize a statement of free-market economic principles if it were stapled to her nose.
Now AOC is in some hot ethical water, and the burner on which that water is beginning to bubble is a question: Is she married, or not?
This is the kind of Schiff we’re coming to expect from Democrats in the House and Senate.
The Washington Free Beacon has more:
The committee’s rebuke stemmed from a lengthy explanation Ocasio-Cortez’s attorney provided to justify why the New York lawmaker accepted a free ticket worth $35,000 for Roberts to attend the 2021 Met Gala alongside her. At the time, that was a gift Ocasio-Cortez could only accept for her legally-married spouse. But Ocasio-Cortez has never been legally married. She has lived with Roberts since 2016 and the pair became engaged in 2022, but there’s no evidence the couple has legally tied the knot, and Ocasio-Cortez hasn’t been pictured wearing her engagement ring in public since November 2023.
Despite that, to Ocasio-Cortez, “Roberts is considered a ‘spouse’,” her attorney, David Mitrani, explained to the House Ethics Committee in his May 16 letter.
Roberts is only considered her “spouse” in context of federal campaign finance law, Mitrani said, an interpretation that Ocasio-Cortez has used to grant her partner several privileges typically afforded only to legally-married spouses of lawmakers. That includes securing Roberts his free ride to the 2021 Met Gala and later, in 2023, gifted travel to Japan and South Korea, the Washington Free Beacon reported. Mitrani revealed in his letter that Roberts has also owned a congressional “spouse pin” ever since Ocasio-Cortez entered Congress in 2019, a bauble that grants him access to parts of the Capitol complex not accessible to the public.
Aristotle’s rule of non-contradiction applies here; two contradictory statements of fact cannot both be simultaneously true. One must be false. AOC cannot be married to this guy and not at the same time. One must be true, and it looks to this writer like that fact is, she’s not married to Riley Roberts or anyone else. She’s been flouting the ethics rules, and she’s getting away with it.
I’ll essay a personal opinion here, that Riley Roberts should wake up every morning with unbounded gratitude that they are not legally married, and that he can bail without a long divorce proceeding, should he suffer a sudden rush of brains to the head. Marxist cant, we can only imagine, makes for a poor sort of pillow talk.
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Now, the House Ethics Committee has rebuked AOC for her flouting of ethical standards. AOC’s reply is, very likely, “So what?” She may be a little more circumspect in the future – or, she may not. If there’s one thing that AOC has and to spare, it’s an overweening sense of self-righteousness, and it doesn’t seem likely that she’ll change her behavior much, nor, honestly, will she face any serious consequences. She’ll still be a shoo-in for re-election in her far-left district. She’ll still hold the unlimited admiration of the leftist nincompoops who clap like trained seals as she buzzes around the country in a private jet with a dessicated old Bolshevik from Vermont to run their yaps about “oligarchy.”
Yes, AOC is ethically challenged. And yes, despite our pointing and laughing, she’s going to be sitting right there in that House seat, for as long as she wants it – unless she runs for the Senate, or (oh please please please please) the White House.
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