If there is one service that divides the left it is Uber.
On one hand, the left demands a so-called living wage, wails about how capitalism needs to be regulated, and wants to support government-backed, union-protected groups. On the other hand, the left enjoys affordable and convenient services like Uber.
One of these individuals is democratic socialist it-girl Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
She tweeted in March 2018:
NYC’s fourth driver suicide. Yellow cab drivers are in financial ruin due to the unregulated expansion of Uber. What was a living wage job now pays under minimum.
We need:
– to call Uber drivers what they are: EMPLOYEES, not contractors
– Fed jobs guarantee
– Prep for automation https://t.co/FjfapJV2ni— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) March 21, 2018
Interesting.
Now it turns out that Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign spent big bucks on Uber.
Using Federal Election Commission (FEC) data, Fox News reported:
But between April and late June, the Ocasio-Cortez campaign recorded spending nearly $4,000 on Uber for what appears to be 160 rides by its staff, Federal Election Commission (FEC) records reveal.
The payments to California-based Uber ranged from just 59 cents to $82.26 and were filed under “car service.” There’s no data yet for the months of July and August.
Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign does use a New York-based company for travel, but it’s not the traditional yellow cabs that receive the money.
The FEC records show that the campaign spent nearly $2,500 for more than 90 rides with the so-called ride-sharing startup company Juno that pitched itself as an alternative to Uber for drivers as it offered slightly better pay and an option to accumulate the company’s stock. There’s no data yet for any rides taken by the Ocasio-Cortez campaign between in July and August.
You have to love the hypocrisy of the left.
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