AOC's Democratic challenger Marty Dolan accuses her of 'screwing up' New York by 'inviting' illegal migrants to take over and pushing 'radical' out-of-touch ideas
'The squad muchachas want to turn NYC into Caracas,' Dolan said
AOC's constituents have 'grown tired' of her soft-on-crime policies
By MORGAN PHILLIPS, CONGRESS REPORTER ON CAPITOL HILL FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and JESSICA SATHERLEY
PUBLISHED: 09:04 EDT, 25 April 2024 | UPDATED: 13:53 EDT, 25 April 2024
Liberal firebrand Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is facing a Democratic challenger in June who says her 'radicalism' has 'screwed up' New York and is intent on reversing the city's course.
After a long career in global finance, 66-year-old Westchester native Marty Dolan is taking AOC head-on and insists her constituents have grown tired of soft-on-crime policies and rhetoric that 'invites' unlawful migrants into the district.
Dolan tore into the so-called progressive 'Squad' in Congress that is comprised in part by New York members Ocasio-Cortez and Jamaal Bowman.
'The squad muchachas want to turn NYC into Caracas,' Dolan said at a recent fundraiser.
He described the damage AOC and her progressive allies are creating during an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com.
'AOC and [Rep.] Jamaal Bowman are two poor representatives for their people because they're presenting radical ideas that are not generated from their constituents - they're their own ideas. I think the community has seen enough.'
Liberal firebrand Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is facing a Democratic challenger in June who says her 'radicalism' has 'screwed up' New York and is intent on reversing the city's course.
'The squad muchachas want to turn NYC into Caracas,' Marty Dolan said at a recent fundraiser, tearing into the so-called progressive 'Squad' in Congress
After a long career in global finance, 66-year-old Westchester native Marty Dolan is taking AOC head-on and insists her constituents have grown tired of soft-on-crime policies and rhetoric that 'invites' unlawful migrants into the district
'On June 25th I'm going to have a Peking Duck party - for lame duck AOC,' Dolan said, confident that his long-shot candidacy that will face the headwinds of his opponent's national fame could emerge successful.
It all started when Ocasio-Cortez 'screwed up the Amazon decision,' Dolan said in an interview with DailyMail.com.
Ocasio-Cortez's vocal opposition to Amazon's planned new headquarters in Long Island City in part led to the corporate behemoth scrapping its plans to come to New York.
'It's remarkable, you know, the whole goal of most representatives is to bring jobs to their communities,' Dolan said. 'So it's a grievous wound to the district and her reputation.'
Dolan tore into the city's liberal bail reform, 14 percent marginal tax rate and embracing of unlawful immigrants.
'AOC has had her chance. So now she has to run on her track record, which is that the streets of queens are filled with illegal immigrants and crime,' he said.
'She's encouraging people to make the trek from Ecuador to the Texas border - tens of thousands of people die. The radicals are responsible for death and suffering along this trail.'
And while the former business executive is no fan of radicalism, he's no conservative. Dolan believes in centralizing lawmaking at the federal level - so that localities can be left to focus on matters like crime and infrastructure.
He said one of the first things he would do in office is a 'symbolic' move - changing the U.S. motto from 'In God we trust' back to 'E Pluribus Unum,' or 'Out of many, one.' 'We're one country, we're not 50 states. And we're not Democrats and Republicans.'
'The New York City Council is acting like they're the founding fathers of New York under the Constitution all over again. But instead what they should be doing is you know, making sure that the basic services of public safety you know, picking up the trash.'
Dolan went on: 'What I'm saying is, what Alexander Hamilton would do, George Washington would do is they would say, you know, we can't have different abortion laws in each state. We can't have different gun control laws in each state. We can't have different health care laws in each state.'
'We should harmonize these at the federal level, because of many we are one and then what the cities and the states ought to be focused on is delivering public safety. Transportation, the basic services.'
Then, the Democrat has lofty goals to deal with the national debt, lower the state and local tax rate in New York while fixing income inequality through raising taxes on billionaires and instituting a 'luxury sales' tax.
The largest sector of New Yorkers who are fleeing the state are married tax filers making between $100,000 and $500,000, according to a report put out by state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.
'It's a mom and a dad, you know, maybe school teachers, they're earning $150,000 and they just don't see how they're going to succeed so they leave. Well, that that's a killer,' said Dolan, 'because then you're bringing in an illegal immigrant who, they're taking money out of the public treasury, and you can see what happens.'