The office of New York Congresswoman AOC has been directly reaching out to constituents in the Bronx and Queens to ask if their basic needs are being met during the COVID-19 pandemic.
, though, has been directly reaching out to constituents in the Bronx and Queens to ask if their basic needs are being met during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a tweet from New York-based writer Nicole Schuman about receiving a call from the Congresswoman's office quickly going viral.about the experience she had with Ocasio-Cortez's office on Thursday: "I was working at the dining table when the phone rang.
Ocasio-Cortez's office confirmed that they have implemented this kind of check-in, with Communications Director Lauren Hitt noting that volunteers for the campaign have been calling constituents "for over a month now." "We started with seniors and once we called through those moved onto to middle-aged and younger constituents," said Hitt, adding that volunteers have called 56,479 constituents and actually connected with about 3,256 of them.
Connecting directly with constituents is nothing new for Ocasio-Cortez: This is, after all, the woman who
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