Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, backed by a team of supporting colleagues, led an hour of passionate speeches on the floor of the House Thursday morning calling Rep. Ted Yoho, Florida, for “dehumanizing” insults against her and criticizing your attempt. apologize for being too short.
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Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., recounted how Yoho approached her on the steps of the Capitol on Monday, put a finger to her face and called her “disgusting,” “crazy,” and “dangerous.” Later, she said Yoho called her “f — ing b — h,” which was heard by reporters.
“I won’t stay awake until late at night waiting for an apology from a man who has no regrets for calling women and using abusive language towards women,” he said.
Ocasio-Cortez said she is used to being harassed as a woman in the United States, recalling her time as a waitress and rider for New York City subways, and then being attacked by President Trump as a member of Congress.
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The liberal politician and freshman “squad” member said she was prepared to let Yoho’s remarks go, until the retired Republican congressman tried to apologize on the floor of the House on Wednesday and instead used his wife e daughters as “shields” and “excuses for the poor.” behavior, “she said.
Yoho said in his Wednesday speech that he has two daughters and that he has been married for almost five decades, making him “very aware of my language.”
“I am two years younger than Mr. Yoho’s youngest daughter. I am also someone’s daughter,” Ocasio-Cortez said, excited to speak of her late father. “Fortunately, my father is not alive to see how Mr. Yoho treated his daughter. My mother saw Mr. Yoho’s disrespect on the floor of this House towards me on television, and I am here because I have to show them my parents that I am their daughter and that they did not raise me to accept the abuse of men. “
Ocasio-Cortez ended her 10-minute monologue by thanking Yoho for showing how common harassment is against women, including members of Congress, and what a “pattern” of dehumanizing behavior is like.
“I want to thank him for showing the world that you can be a powerful man and harass women,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “You can have harassing daughters and women, without remorse, you can marry and harass women. You can take photos and project an image to the world of being a family man and harass women without remorse and with a sense of impunity. It happens every day in this country. It happened here on the steps of our nation’s Capitol. “
Yoho apologized on the floor of the House on Wednesday after a report that called the congresswoman “f —— b —-“.
“I appear before you this morning to address the contest that I injected in the already controversial Congress,” Yoho said. “I get up to apologize for the abrupt form of the conversation I had with my colleague from New York. It is true that we do not agree with the policies and visions for the United States. But that does not mean that we should be disrespectful.”
“The offensive words of insult the press attributed to me were never spoken to my colleagues. And if they were interpreted that way, I apologize for their misunderstanding,” Yoho said.
But AOC quickly indicated on Twitter that it did not accept the apology.
She wrote that Yoho did not “apologize or mention any action he took,” did not “accept responsibility” and lied about their interaction, saying “this was not a ‘conversation’, it was a verbal assault.”
In his controversial exchange with Ocasio-Cortez, which was first reported by The Hill, the outlet reported that, as he confronted the congresswoman for her previous comments on crime in New York City fueled by the pandemic and poverty in Instead of the lack of vigilance, he called her “disgusting” and “beside herself.” He reportedly did not make the comment “f —— b —-” until after the two separated, and was not speaking to anyone in particular when he made the comment.
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However, his office denied those comments and told Politico that the legislator had simply said “bulls —“.
Ocasio-Cortez’s speech on Thursday was followed by passionate speeches from 16 Democrats, including the three squad representatives, Representatives Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Pressley, who praised the first-year representative for confronting Yoho and said the women will not go. to withstand such attacks. Many female colleagues, as part of the historic class of women representatives in Congress, recalled the abusive language they have experienced in their lives and said it is not acceptable.
“We are here to say that we will not allow sexism, misogyny and patriarchy to stop us,” said Omar, D-Minn. “We will not apologize for advocating for women everywhere. We will not apologize for reclaiming the power that women deserved for centuries. And we will send a message to our daughters and their daughters that they deserve fundamental equality.”
Fox News’ Tyler Olson contributed to this report.
