In 2016 @repjoecrowley voted to pass #PROMESA which created a Fiscal Control Board to oversee PR’s finances. This board mandated that debt holders like banks and hedge funds need to be paid out of PR’s budget before anything else. To Joe, banks come firsthttps://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1001924759377141765 …
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To do this, they cut budgets across the board, closing hundreds of public schools (even before the hurricane) and paving the way for for-profit charter schools. Naturally, these moves have been opposed by teachers unions and parents.


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This board also pushes for the selling off of Puerto Rican public infrastructure, by installing pro-privatization executives who wreck the utilities to make them easier and cheaper to purchase (ostensibly to their friends).


https://theintercept.com/2017/10/26/disaster-capitalists-take-big-step-toward-privatizing-puerto-ricos-electric-grid/ …pic.twitter.com/p2CvxVBJh4
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Speaking of predatory investors, they make up the largest group of donors to @repjoecrowley . Both in New York and Puerto Rico, this is an industry that preys on working people to siphon off as much of their gains as possible.



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While it’s difficult to find everyone who owns Puerto Rico’s debt (the island is not allowed to audit it), a quick glance through Crowley’s top donors shows $100,000+ in contributions from top offenders like Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and UBS AG.
http://www.ibtimes.com/puerto-ricos-debt-addiction-was-fed-banks-passed-risk-bond-buyers-1990649 …pic.twitter.com/KoP8ZLCU90
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Blackstone Group, who has given $35,000+ to Crowley, profits off of the island’s mortgage crisis. Blackstone owns 40% of predatory reverse mortgages on the island and did not stop its “aggressive” tactics even in the wake of Hurricane Maria.

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Crowley also receives donations from companies like Abbott Laboratories, who closed their Puerto Rican factory in 2014, following a trend of pharma companies divesting from Puerto Rico in search of cheaper labor elsewhere.


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Unlike @repjoecrowley , @Ocasio2018 plans to use Congressional office to actually help the people of Puerto Rico, by cancelling wall street debt and funding a Marshall Plan for the island. Read more here: https://ocasio2018.com/issues
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If you’re tired of people like @repjoecrowley playing two-faced neocolonialist, passing legislation to help parasites leech money from the people of Puerto Rico, vote @Ocasio2018 6/26!
@DemSocialists@nycDSA@UptownBronxDSA@People4Bernie@OurRevolution@justicedems@DSABoriSocpic.twitter.com/jpcKydLuM6
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