The majority don't want it. One politician stood up and got Amazon to reneg.
Now, political "leaders" want to defy the majority and give Amazon billions in corporate Socialism.
The sheer ignorance in that post is outstanding. Did you just crawled out from under a rock, or stumbled in here from an alternate dimension?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Top ‘Villain’ in Amazon Pullout, Poll Finds
By
Azi Paybarah | March 19, 2019
When Amazon announced last month that it was canceling plans to build a major campus in Queens, the company did not directly blame any one person or group.
But others have.
Governor Cuomo, who with Mayor de Blasio helped negotiate the deal largely in private, blamed the State Senate, where crucial leaders opposed the plan.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who opposed the campus, blamed Amazon for seeking $3 billion in tax breaks and incentives that she said should have been spent elsewhere.
Now a poll is offering insight into how the public feels about the deal’s collapse. Over a third of New Yorkers point the finger at Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, according to a
Siena College Research Institute survey of 700 voters.
Here’s what else you need to know about the poll, which was released yesterday:
The deal was popular across the state:
Two-thirds of voters said Amazon’s withdrawal was bad for New York.
Sixty-three percent of Democrats and 56 percent of self-identified liberals said the cancellation was bad for New York.
Sixty-four percent of New York City voters agreed with them.
Blame fell on Ms. Ocasio-Cortez:
Thirty-eight percent of voters faulted the congresswoman for the deal’s demise, identifying her as a “villain.” “Local activists in Queens” were labeled villains by 34 percent of voters.
In the New York City suburbs, 50 percent of voters blamed Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. Upstate, the number was 40 percent; in the five boroughs, it was 29 percent.
A spokesman for Ms. Ocasio-Cortez declined to comment on the poll results.
What about the governor and mayor? Mr. Cuomo and Mr. de Blasio were each seen as a villain by fewer than 30 percent of voters.
What about Amazon? The company was blamed by 26 percent of voters.
The takeaways:
• The progressive base that cheered Ms. Ocasio-Cortez as she railed against the deal was not representative of most voters.
“Those closest to a project don’t necessarily reflect the views of a wider audience,” said Steven Greenberg, a pollster with Siena College. (I asked Mr. Greenberg if by “closest” he meant physical proximity, and he replied, “Yes.”)
• “Local activists in Queens” were blamed more often for the plan’s demise than the State Senate was. In the suburbs, 39 percent of voters labeled the activists as villains, but only 23 percent labeled the Senate as such.
This matters in part because Democrats need to retain suburban seats to hold on to their Senate majority.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/nyregion/newyorktoday/AOC-Amazon-nyc.html