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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Torches 'Wack' Attack Billboard With A Scene From 'The Office'

The freshman lawmaker evoked Michael Scott to make her point.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) evoked a scene from the U.S. version of “The Office” to mock a billboard in Times Square that attacks her.

Early Thursday, the freshman lawmaker used a Twitter thread to hit back at the ad, which was paid for by the conservative Jobs Creator Network and criticized her disapproval of Amazon’s now-pulled planned headquarters in the city:

In a second tweet, she noted how the Jobs Creator Network was funded by conservative groups, including the Mercer Family Foundation:

Ocasio-Cortez later said:

She then shared the scene from the hit comedy:

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