Comments by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have resulted in an intra-party struggle by suggesting that Pelosi was being 'outright disrespectful' with 'the explicit singling out of newly elected women of
The squabble between four first-term, progressive House members and Speaker Nancy Pelosi escalated Thursday, with other Democrats of color lambasting their colleagues for suggesting the party's top Democrat was racially motivated when she privately scolded the caucus over recent tweets.
that Pelosi had been"outright disrespectful" with"the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color." Then-House Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census and National Archives Chairman Lacy Clay holds up a photograph of some of the 425 million 2010 census forms already printed and ready during a news conference with Rep. Joe Baca and then-Congressional Black Caucus chair Rep. Barbara Lee and then-Congressional Hispanic Caucus chair Rep. Nydia Velazquez outside the U.S. Capitol October 22, 2009, in Washington, DC.
"Because you can't get your way and because you are you getting pushback, you resort to use the race card? Unbelievable. Unbelievable to me," he said. "I have never, in all of my interactions with her, ever thought that anything she has said or done, was racially motivated, other than to look out for people of color and to make sure that people of color that we represent in our communities have the resources just like anybody else, or to make sure that the Congress that we have—which we've all been bragging about—is the most diverse Congress in the history of our nation," Demings said.
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