Friday, February 15, 2019

Amazon's failure to launch in NY blames AOC

Amazon's pullout from its planned headquarters in New York was based on far-left lawmakers, especially Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who actually cheered the pullout in spite of the massive jobs the company would have brought to the "Wormy Apple." The company rightfully said that working there had made it a hostile environment to do business.

"If you talk to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, it's 'Never Amazon,'" Jodi Seth, the head of policy communications for Amazon, told NBC News in an interview on Thursday. "If you talk to [New York City Councilman Jimmy] Van Bramer, it's unions," she said.

Seth added that "it wasn't any one incident" that drove Amazon, a Seattle-based tech giant, to its decision. It was the virulent political discussions that took place over the past three months that also led up to the decision.
"It was that the environment over the course of the past three months had not got any better. There were some local and state elected officials who refused to meet with Amazon and criticized us day in and day out about the plan." 
Seth has been at Amazon since October 2017 according to her LinkedIn profile. She said the company didn't know whether the "deal would be approved until a year from now," but said it was "pretty confident" in the approval, mentioning that Gov. Andrew Cuomo "was working hard to make it happen, but looking at the opposition and the timeline we decided we don't want to work in this environment in the long term."

In a fiery statement on Thursday, Cuomo blamed the shocking decision on socialist democratic darling Ocasio-Cortez and other envious commies like her.

"[A] small group [of] politicians put their own narrow political interests above their community – which poll after poll showed overwhelmingly supported bringing Amazon to Long Island City – the state's economic future and the best interests of the people of this state," Cuomo said publicly. "The New York State Senate has done tremendous damage. They should be held accountable for this lost economic opportunity."

Upon hearing the news, Ocasio-Cortez, who has a basic undergraduate degree in international relations and allegedly economics, cheered Amazon's decision, mostly because she doesn't understand the ramifications of what it means for the city, and largely because she doesn't give a damn.
The lost jobs would have paid on average $150,000 per year for 25,000 employees.
Seth made it clear that Amazon does not intend to re-open talks with New York lawmakers and does not intend to find another headquarters for the jobs.

Amazon will go ahead as planned with the second part of its HQ2, to be built in Northern Virginia, and its distribution center said to open in Nashville.

In addition to the 25,000 jobs, Amazon would've brought $2.5 billion in investment and eventually 8 million square feet of office space to Long Island City as part of the deal announced last November.

Schadenfreude, NYC! You deserve AOC.

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