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A second prominent Democrat has been caught maskless in Florida.
Last week, New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was caught maskless in Miami as cases of coronavirus reached a record high in New York.
California Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell, who recently claimed that Republicans had “prolonged” the COVID-19 pandemic, was photographed maskless as he vacationed with his family in Florida.
The photos show a maskless Swalwell tending to his infant son as he spoke with a female in the lobby of the Loews Miami Beach Hotel.
If Swalwell truly believed his own rhetoric about COVID, Florida, and mandates, he would not take his maskless unvaccinated baby to Loews Hotel South Beach during the Omicron case surge in Miami.
It’s not hypocrisy. It’s hierarchy. pic.twitter.com/sSHNpHG8Dd
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 (@ChristinaPushaw) January 6, 2022
AOC came under fire last week after she was seen seated outside Doraku Sushi and Izakaya in Miami Beach Thursday afternoon.
Soon after the images went viral on social media, Ocasio-Cortez accused Republicans of attacking her because they have “deranged sexual frustrations” and need “therapy.”
“If Republicans are mad they can’t date me they can just say that instead of projecting their sexual frustrations onto my boyfriend’s feet. Ya creepy weirdos,” she said in response to a tweet from former advisor to President Donald Trump, Steve Cortes.
If Republicans are mad they can’t date me they can just say that instead of projecting their sexual frustrations onto my boyfriend’s feet.
Ya creepy weirdos https://t.co/Z7bZCgXpWJ
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 31, 2021
“It’s starting to get old ignoring the very obvious, strange, and deranged sexual frustrations that underpin the Republican fixation on me, women,& LGBT+ people in general. These people clearly need therapy, won’t do it, and use politics as their outlet instead. It’s really weird,” she said.
It’s starting to get old ignoring the very obvious, strange, and deranged sexual frustrations that underpin the Republican fixation on me, women,& LGBT+ people in general.
These people clearly need therapy, won’t do it, and use politics as their outlet instead. It’s really weird
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 31, 2021
The far-left lawmaker was also spotted maskless at a packed drag bar in Miami.
In the clip, Ocasio-Cortez is seen being applauded by a large crowd of mostly, if not entirely, unmasked Drag Queen bar-goers.
EXPOSED: AOC is STILL lounging it up in Florida, in large crowds and maskless. This time at a Drag Queen bar in Miami.
Rules for thee but not for me. pic.twitter.com/8l30GFA0GT
— Brendon Leslie (@BrendonLeslie) January 2, 2022
Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis mocked how Democrat leaders from liberal states with “draconian” and excessive COVID policies keep coming to Florida for vacation.
During a press conference earlier this week, DeSantis was asked about AOC enjoying her time in the Republican state and had the crowd laughing quite a few times.
DeSantis quipped, “If I had a dollar for every lockdown politician who decided to escape to Florida over the last two years, I’d be a pretty doggone wealthy man, lemme tell ya.”
“I mean, Congresspeople, mayors, governors, I mean, you name it. It’s interesting, though, the reception that some of these folks will get in Florida because I think a lot of Floridians say, ‘Wait a minute. You’re bashing us because we’re not doing your draconian policies and yet we’re the first place you want to flee to, to basically be able to enjoy life,’” DeSantis added.
“And so I’m not surprised to see that continue to happen. I could tell you, there are probably about a half-dozen governors who had restrictions on their people and then were spotted at various points in Florida. Some of it’s been public; some of it’s not been public, but you know, people tell me these things and so these things are spotted,” he continued.
“And so that’s just the reality that we’re dealing with,” he said. “I’m happy, though, that Florida’s a place where people know that they can come and they can live like normal people; they can make their own decisions.”