Popular US pollie breaks record
ALEXANDRIA Ocasio-Cortez is breaking records.
A powerful recent video of the 29-year-old Congresswoman calling for campaign finance law reforms in the United States is now the most viewed video featuring a politician in Twitter’s history.
In five minutes, the New York Democrat demonstrated how the current legal system encourages and rewards politicians for pursuing personal and corporate interests instead of those of the people.
In the video, Ms OcasioCortez delivers an impassioned argument to the House Oversight Committee calling out corruption at the highest levels of US government.
She posed a simple series of questions to ethics experts to demonstrate how a politician looking to advance their own interests could avoid being held accountable in Congress.
“I’m going to be the bad guy,” she began. “I want to get away with as much bad things as possible, ideally to enrich myself and advance my interests, even if that means putting my interests ahead of the American people.”
She asks the panel of experts to confirm whether she could use “special-interest dark money” from corporate political action committees (PACs) to fund her campaign, pay off adversaries to stay quiet, create laws to benefit her donors, and then buy stocks in companies that would benefit from these laws.
The panel confirmed she could do all these things.