| AOC Shouts
Out City Island But Bronx PPP and
Schumer's US Attorney Picks Not Yet
Answered
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
BBC
- Guardian
UK - Honduras
- ESPN
NEW YORK, SDNY
& EDNY, March 31 – The
difference between retail and
wholesale politics was again
on display Wednesday night, in
a town hall to The Bronx and
Queens, with SDNY and EDNY
questions not yet
answered.
Rep.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez held
a Zoom town hall from 6:30 to
7:30 pm, at which she took
constituent questions
including from an seven year
old who asked, What do you do
if people don't like you? To
thine own self be true was the
answer, along with references
to a desired ramp at the
Jackson Heights Post Office,
possible earmarks for City
Island, and a shout-out to the
Amazon workers in Alabama.
There was
not much on international
affairs (for example Tuesday's
life sentence for Honduras'
president's brother for
narco-trafficking, on which
Inner City Press was
interviewed on UNeTV, here
and here
from 3:10), much less the
United Nations, which
continues to ban
Bronx-based Inner City Press.
Time for a Constitutional
constituent inquiry, despite
impunity?
Then there
was a press gaggle, also on
Zoom. Inner City Press was
told to ask its questions
there, and submitted: "On the
PPP program, in the first
round(s) only 12% of NYC small
businesses got PPP loans,
versus 24% in Nebraska. And in
The Bronx, the rate of PPP
lending was every lower. What
is being done to make the
program and banks more
accountable? And,
if you have any thoughts on
Sen Schumer's recent
nominations to head the US
Attorney's Offices in SDNY and
EDNY."
Perhaps it
was the tech glitches, or the
lateness of the hour (7:50
pm). But the questions have
yet to be answered. Watch this
site.
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