Flip-Flop: Ocasio-Cortez Revisits HQ2 Protest While Cuomo Woos Amazon

More than two weeks after Amazon announced it had scrapped plans to build part of its second headquarters in New York following opposition from local politicians, an aide to U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said that AOC would welcome the online retail giant back to the Empire State as long as there’s community involvement. Per the congresswoman’s chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti, Ocasio-Cortez opposed Amazon because of “the process by which it happened.”