Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV Critic“This issue is not about one incident,” declared Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez today in a searing response to being accosted and insulted with profanity by Republican Ted Yoho of Florida earlier this week. “It is cultural,” the Democrat for New York’s 14th congressional district added, garnering strong reaction from Hollywood, past Presidential contenders and others.In her 10-minute remarks on the floor of the House of Representatives on Thursday, the savvy progressive politician known to many simply as AOC took aim at Yoho’s behavior and his non-apology of yesterday as being “accepting a violence and violent language against women, an entire structure of power that supports that.”.
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