Submitted by Georges S
In an interesting turn of event our dear OAC the virtuous “Defund the Police” queen, hires an ex Blackwater security. employee for personal security.
AOC has spent thousands on security, including $4k-plus to ex-Blackwater contractor
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez paid thousands for personal security to a former Blackwater contractor, a review of Federal Election Commission records shows.
AOC’s campaign spent at least $4,636 at Tullis Worldwide Protection for “security services” between January and June of this year, according to the filings.
The Franconia, Virginia-based company is owned by Devin Tullis, whose other clients include the royal families of both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, according to his website.
AOC, a New York Democrat, has been among the most vocal proponents of the defund the police movement since coming to Congress, and has insisted the idea would turn blighted communities into suburban paradises.
“[Suburban] communities have lower crime rates not because they have more police but because they have more resources to support healthy society in a way that reduces crime,” she said in a June 2020 Instagram story.
When New York City moved to defund a billion dollars from the NYPD, Ocasio-Cortez slammed the measure as insufficient. “Defunding police means defunding police,” the congresswoman said in a statement at the time.
In addition to Blackwater, Tullis also worked as a bail enforcement officer, according to his LinkedIn profile.
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He refused to get into the specifics of his contract with the congresswoman, but said he frequently hired former military and law enforcement for protection jobs with VIPs — noting the gig wasn’t for the faint of heart.
“We’re not hiring social workers,” he laughed.
Blackwater, which is now known as Academi, was a private military company founded by Erik Prince, a billionaire and former Navy Seal. The company achieved infamy in the United States for furnishing some of the rougher military contractors during the Iraq War.
In September 2007, Blackwater agents took part in the Nisour Square massacre, which left 17 Iraqi civilians dead. Four agents were later convicted in 2014 on various counts of murder, manslaughter and weapons charges. They were all pardoned by President Trump in December 2020.
“Out of one corner of her mouth she is attacking the police and out of the other she is hiring cops who have gone private to protect her. So AOC, which is it?” veteran Democratic strategist Jon Reinish told The Post.
Tullis said his Blackwater days were during the early 2000s, at the beginning of his career. He said the employment didn’t last long and he was only involved in domestic security details for the company.
“Everyone says Blackwater and they think guys running and gunning and killing overseas, but that’s just not the true story,” Tullis said, calling his own work in those days. “common everyday security stuff.”
A rep for AOC declined to comment.
UNITED STATES – JULY 1: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., talks with a reporter as she walks down the House steps after the last votes of the week in Washington on Thursday, July 1, 2021. (Photo by Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
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The Tullis money was just a small piece of the more than $34,000 AOC has spent on private security and consultants in the first half of 2021, records show.
The lion’s share of the cash — $28,498 — was spent locally, at New York’s own Three Bridges, LLC, which bills itself as part of “a new generation of the private security industry.”
Another $1,552 was given to 24 & 7 Security & Investigation in Houston, which provided security for the congresswoman when she was in town to help raise money after the city was rocked by a devastating winter storm.
Owner Joe Orsak said he assigned a former Army special forces veteran to watch her.
“We got connected to [Ocasio-Cortez] through another representative that is a family friend of his,” Orsak said.
The spending spike takes place amid heightened security fears among some lawakers, in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection in Washington, D.C.
Some of the biggest security spenders have been Republicans, including Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, who has drawn ire for her vote to impeach then-President Trump.
FILE – In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, smoke fills the walkway outside the Senate Chamber as violent rioters loyal to President Donald Trump are confronted by U.S. Capitol Police officers inside the Capitol in Washington. New details from the deadly riot of Jan. 6 are contained in a previously undisclosed document prepared by the Pentagon for internal use that was obtained by the Associated Press and vetted by current and former government officials. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
Cheney has spent at least $50,400 on security so far in 2021, while another prominent Trump critic, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney spent $43,633, Axios reported. Upstate New York GOP Rep. John Katko, who also voted for impeachment, spent at least $19,874 in the same time period.
The congresswoman is far from the only police defunding advocate who has sought additional security. Her squad colleague, freshman Rep. Jamaal Bowman, asked for and received a special detail from the Yonkers Police Department to patrol his personal residence.
A rep for his office said at the time the extra muscle was necessary due to “threats” that Bowman had received.
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AOC is a jackass. No, really … she IS a jackass!!
You wait till she get her tits in a ringer.
There is dumb
There is dumber than dumb
AOC is a horses ass
She needs a new adjective/noun evoking even more hostility.
So Trump pardoned those murderous thugs and left Assange to rot in jail? Scum bag.
Are there 3 more duplicitous, lying phony bastards than DeBlasio, Cuomo and Cortez? It’s no wonder New York is losing population. My question is who are the assholes who are staying?
Government employees and welfare recipients , who else would stay in NEW YORK CITY or STATE
Should I say the Rats ass… Think about it I am not wrong
This acting job she was awarded is not so much fun anymore as she is called out for the hypocrite that she is.
lol… you think that would bother her??? Really??? Pathological liars are not bothered by getting called out, they simply produce another lie to obfuscate other lies.
Oh yeah, being called out and made fun of constantly definitely bothers her, regardless of the pileup of lies. She knows she is out of her league.
Not sure what’s going on with this site today, but I’ve left two different comments, both of which have found their way to wherever my missing socks have wound up. Maybe they’ll turn up later.
Missing socks wind up in the Hose Zone.
Ozone / Hose Zone …. get it? Groan …..
Hoe’s Zone; Ho’s zone; Ho-Hos Zone;…
You mean Valhalla Harris has them? How’d she get a hold of them?
So what, she can still be got too.. Blackwater or not, there is always an opening for that one head shot. You might be surprised what a suppressed .22 rifle can do at 100 yards… Just stating the obvious…
I just chose you at random; I’m trying my missing post again. I had always thought Blackwater was primarily patriots, but I’m beginning to think they’re more mercenaries. Seriously who would take a bullet for AOC?
Newsflash; they can ALL be got. Question is; can they be got while the getter gets away? Secret Service can only do so much, especially for Senators and Congress critters.
President and Vice-President security extends out to a distance difficult to escape from unless you are not worried about escape. Senate, Congress and ALL OTHER protected individuals are very executable with the ability for escape if you do it smartly.. First hand knowledge of a millionaire taking 3 suppressed .22 rounds in the stomach from 105 yards.. Security was ex SF/mercs, and all they would do is protect their principle by dragging him into his limo.. They don’t get paid to go after the shooter… Yes, the liberal scumbag lived.. Next time, head shots..
I watched a video the other day that had someone shooting grapefruit sized groups with a suppressed 22 at 200 yards. Just good ole 40grain LR rounds.
Poking holes in 1/4in plywood.
All you could hear was the firing pin click.
And a . 222 it is still very popular at 300 yards. I have various but Anshutz target rifle and Sako hunting rifle will do me out because it is deadly accurate after two shots… like toilet paper square accurate
Shooting her is the WORST thing you can do.
You have taken an imbecile and elevated her to a hero and martyr.
She will be revered as a woman who was killed for her beliefs, raising those beliefs beyond scrutiny.
Even the gods do not kill their enemies.
“Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad.”
No, Ms. OC requires a persistent campaign of image assassination.
Constant ridicule, incessant background research and exposure, and non-stop hypocrisy highlighting.
The minute she loses office or is at least out of the limelight, she can be Seth Rich-ed.
The random robbery-gone-bad technique seems to be in favor these days.
AOC , as this elected ignoramus struts about in her custom tailored clothing parasitically sucking a lifestyle off the tax payers indebted tit and telling Americans what they should be doing with less and less as her and her ilk take more and more just remember she expected us in fuck over land to fix hurricane damage to her grandmothers roof in Puerto RICO !
I guess she doesn’t have a check book and a cell phone or a deep pocket in her designer suit !
I understand that (deep pocket) was a euphemism; but come on; tailored high end women’s clothing only has pockets more for appearance’ sake than actual use. A lot like congress critters themselves. They are pretty useless.
You do know he is being protected by Secret Service on his drug buys, right???
Even King Louis and Mary Antoinette’s palace guards were not enough when the population finally came for them. Same for Mussolini, Czar Nicholas and family, Ceausescu, and all the rest.
So — just whose money has occasionally-conscious ‘spent’? Hers — or US Citizen & Taxpayer money?
In MSP — after their ‘defund the police’ rant that contributed to an extended summer of rioting/looting/burning/shooting — the local city politicians spent more than $4,500 per day of Taxpayer money for their personal security … how quaint of them.
Well her money was our money, so…..