Job Creators Network slams AOC for wrecking NY Amazon plan in wake of 'Tax the Rich' ethics investigation

In the wake of a House Ethics Committee report suggesting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez may have violated congressional rules by accepting gifts she wore when attending a pricey Manhattan museum gala, some are revisiting their criticism of her opposition to Amazon building a new base in New York.

“AOC is like the gift that keeps on giving. If she spent actually more time worrying about creating jobs versus killing jobs we’d be in a much better situation and maybe she should stop going to so many performances at the MET [Metropolitan Museum of Art] and really focus on her district, and creating jobs and bringing jobs to her district,” said Job Creators Network CEO Alfredo Ortiz in a Monday morning interview on FOX News.  

Ortiz, who lives in Arlington, Virginia where Amazon built a new base said the transformation in that area is “unbelievable.”

“This area has seen massive transformation, and that could have been New York,” Ortiz said. “She is a job killer.”

Ortiz’s interview came in the wake of a U.S. House Ethics Committee disclosing that it decided in December to extend its review of the Bronx Congresswoman’s decision to accept free invitations for her and her fiancée’, Riley Roberts, to attend a $35,000 per ticket event as guests of Vogue magazine.

House investigators found that while attendance of the gala was permissible since Vogue was one of the organizers, they have “substantial reason to believe” the Bronx Congresswoman may have violated ethics rules by accepting lavish clothing and shoes that she wore, among them a white dress advertising the words, “Tax the Rich.”

That assessment was recently revealed in an 18-page report published by the Ethics Committee on March 2.

Ethics rules prohibit Congressional members from accepting gifts such as “a gratuity, favor, discount, entertainment, hospitality, loan, forbearance, or other item having monetary value.”

Ortiz’s appearance also comes amid a billboard campaign by JCN illuminating Ocasio-Cortez’s decision to target Amazon.

“25,000 Lost NYC Jobs… $4 Billion in Lost Wages… $12 Billion in Lost Economic Activity for NY… Thanks for Nothing, AOC!” one billboard reads.

When asked how the Bronx based representative has performed for the people of her area, Ortiz responded, “absolutely disastrous… her math doesn’t add up… people are fleeing these blue states…” and referenced Wal Mart’s decision to leave Oregon.

“Our small businesses don’t have that ability [to just close up and relocate cross country]… and citing Florida’s zero income tax said, “these are the kinds of states that actually create jobs not the tax hikes and regulation policies that actually kill jobs in blue states.”