Ocasio-Cortez Constituents Fed Up With Her: Absentee ‘Rock Star’
Charlie Kirk Staff
05/13/2025

New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is facing a mutiny from her own constituents that could jeopardize her political ambitions.
Voters in her Bronx, Queens district have started complaining that the “rock star” representative is “never” in her district working, The New York Post reported.
The representative used to have regular town halls, but now they are rare occurrences in which voters can rarely get a question in, and sometimes the Democrat only attends via phone call.
“This woman has done nothing for the community she was once again elected to serve,” Lauro Vazquez of Woodside, Queens, said.
Last week at a town hall in Jackson Heights, Queens the representative only stayed for around an hour and answered only six questions from constituents after the meeting was previously postponed.
“Of course, it’s cancelled — too busy jet setting around on private jets screaming about ‘oligarchs’ and setting up her bid for a POTUS run,” Vazquez said. “This woman has done nothing for the community she was once again elected to serve.”
“It’s hard to find a private plane – it’s Easter weekend,” Jackson Heights resident Tatiana Lacatus said, mocking the representative. “She is too big for us.”
“She’s flying around on private jets, talking about the oligarchy, which is not really resonating with the regular guy – the person going shopping over here at the supermarket,” Ramses Frias, a Republican City Council candidate, said. “She’s a rock star.”
One complaint from her constituents is that she has not done anything to oppose an $8 billion casino proposal by New York Mets owner Steve Cohen because, she said, it is not in her district.
“The Citi Field Park has been redistricted out of my district,” the representative said.
“I have respectfully made my position on this known to folks who are weighing in on it. I don’t really have anything to do on that besides making my position known,” she said.
But her critics said she often gets involved with things that are not even in her state, like when she volunteered at a Houston food bank after Hurricane Ida, if it gets her national attention.
“I wish she did more,” one of her former campaign volunteers, Aimee Rosato, said. “We don’t need a casino, it drives me a bit wild.”
“She will help if it gets her name on national issues,” Jackson Heights’ Gloria Contreras said. “She’s about her and getting worldwide attention while ignoring her constituents.”