Congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) delivered yet another misleading tweet. This time, it was about her Congressional orientation for newly elected members of Congress.
In today’s edition of her totally wrong or misleading tweets, Ocasio-Cortez claimed the new members of Congress had to attend an indoctrination session filled with nefarious lobbyists as part of the orientation process:
Although Ocasio-Cortez was clearly horrified at the orientation, the reality is that neither she nor the other 60 plus Congressmembers-elect needed to go to this event. As Sarah D. Wire of the Los Angeles Times pointed out, Ocasio-Cortez chose to go to this event. It was not a required part of her orientation:
Even some of her fellow members of Congress noted they didn’t attend the event in previous years – READ MORE