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FILE PHOTO: The Comcast NBC logo is shown on a building in Los Angeles, California, U.S. June 13, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
April 25, 2019
By Helen Coster and Arjun Panchadar
(Reuters) – Comcast Corp reported first-quarter profit on Thursday that beat Wall Street estimates, boosted by strong additions of high-speed internet customers in a quarter that painted another mixed picture for the biggest U.S. cable provider.
Overall revenue missed analyst estimates and Comcast lost more video and phone customers than expected. Revenue from NBCUniversal’s cable networks, filmed entertainment and theme parks also fell short of expectations.
Like others in the cable television industry, Comcast is grappling with the appeal to customers of rival offerings from Alphabet Inc’s YouTube TV and subscription video services like Netflix Inc.
Earlier this week AT&T Inc and Verizon Communications Inc both reported losing more video customers than analysts expected.
AT&T shed a net 544,000 premium TV subscribers, a category that includes DirecTV satellite and U-verse television, while Verizon lost 53,000 Fios video customers.
Philadelphia-based Comcast said it lost 121,000 video customers in the quarter, more than the 29,000 it lost last quarter and the 109,000 estimated by analysts, according to research firm FactSet.
In response, the company is striving to build new services on top of its broadband network, and revenue from the high-speed internet business climbed 10 percent to $4.58 billion in the first quarter as it added 375,000 subscribers.
Those net subscriber additions beat the average analyst estimate of 356,000, according to FactSet, but were down slightly from 379,000 in the same period a year earlier.
Comcast is betting that its redesigned Xfinity X1 cable box, which allows users to find content across live TV, on-demand and streaming services like Netflix on a single menu, will help retain and attract subscribers.
Revenue at its NBCUniversal business, which includes NBC Entertainment and Universal Pictures, dropped 12.5 percent to $8.31 billion.
In January NBCUniversal announced it will launch an advertising-supported TV streaming service in 2020, which will be free for NBCUniversal’s pay-TV customers as well as Sky customers internationally.
Filmed entertainment revenue rose 7.4 percent to $1.77 billion, boosted by movies including “How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World” and “Us” while theme park revenue slipped 0.4 percent to $1.28 billion.
Revenue from broadcast television dropped 29.4 percent to $2.47 billion, though the company also broke out figures that showed revenue rose when excluding 2018 Olympics and Super Bowl from the prior-year comparison.
Comcast, which bought the British pay-TV group Sky last year, said revenue reported from Sky was $4.8 billion.
Net income attributable to Comcast rose to $3.55 billion, or 77 cents per share, from $3.12 billion, or 66 cents per share a year earlier. Excluding items, the company earned 76 cents per share, beating estimates of 68 cents per share, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.
Comcast’s overall revenue rose 18 percent to $26.86 billion, but fell short of Wall Street expectations of $27.20 billion.
(Reporting by Helen Coster and Arjun Panchadar)
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Johanna Ditsela walks between shacks next to her home in Alexandra township in Johannesburg, South Africa, April 11, 2019. REUTERS/Sumaya Hisham
April 11, 2019
By Alexander Winning and Sisipho Skweyiya
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Johanna Ditsela lives within sight of the gleaming skyscrapers of South Africa’s main financial district, but has existed in squalor for 30 years.
Unemployed and in her 50s, she picks her way along a stream full of sewage, dead rats and empty beer bottles to reach the cramped concrete and corrugated iron shack that she shares with her five children.
The shocking conditions in which people like Ditsela live are a big problem for the governing African National Congress (ANC), which faces mounting public anger over its failure to improve the lives of millions of the poorest citizens, 25 years after the end of white minority rule.
Ditsela’s Johannesburg township, Alexandra, has seen protests against overcrowding and poor public services in the run-up to a general election on May 8.
President Cyril Ramaphosa, who was campaigning for the ANC in Alexandra on Thursday, blamed the opposition Democratic Alliance party, which has controlled Johannesburg since 2016, saying: “It is upon the shoulders of local government to clean up this area.”
But he said the ANC provincial government would do more to develop the township and put a stop to newcomers erecting illegal shacks in already overcrowded areas.
Ditsela, a lifelong ANC supporter, wasn’t listening. She stayed at home rather than hear Ramaphosa, and like other residents of Alexandra, says she might not vote next month.
“I normally vote, but the ANC is not doing anything for me, honestly,” she said, sitting on a worn leather sofa in her shack and wiping away tears. “I need a job, and I need a house for my kids so that I can raise them in a dignified way.”
The ANC is expected to win another parliamentary majority next month, but analysts say its share of the vote will probably fall from the 62 percent it received in 2014. if turnout is low, it could lose control of Johannesburg’s Gauteng province.
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Alexandra residents say a government project to develop the township, launched to much fanfare in 2001, has barely scratched the surface of what needs to be done.
A model of how Alexandra was meant to look once the project was completed – with parks interspersed between neat rows of houses – now gathers dust in a children’s library on 3rd Avenue, its lights no longer working.
Outside the library, ANC placards in the party’s black, green and gold promising economic growth ring hollow. So, too, do those of the DA, which has failed to meaningfully improve many people’s lives since it took control of Johannesburg.
High-profile politicians stop by Alexandra before elections, but residents say that, when the votes are counted, the visits dry up.
“We know that Ramaphosa has come to calm us down before the election,” said Kgomotso Mosepidi, a 47-year-old technology specialist who waited to see Ramaphosa on Thursday – but found he had been whisked away by aides before she could get close.
Neither the DA nor the ANC could tell Reuters how much money provincial and local government had spent on the Alexandra Renewal Project, started under former president Thabo Mbeki.
Both parties say an audit is needed to work out what went wrong. Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba told Reuters the ANC had incited recent protests in Alexandra to smear the DA’s reputation – a claim denied by the ANC.
Khensani Yehova, a 43-year-old who sells fried bread, known as “fat cakes”, for 1 rand (7 U.S. cents) from a roadside stall, lives in an old part of the township where her mother bought a house in the 1980s.
She wants government to put the same effort into developing Alexandra as it does the more famous Soweto township, where tens of thousands of tourists flock every year to the former home of Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black president.
Mandela lived in Alexandra too, but few make the journey there. As Yehova says: “Officials don’t take Alexandra seriously.”
(Additional reporting by Siyabonga Sishi; Editing by Alexandra Zavis and Kevin Liffey)
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Iraqi families walk in a shopping street in Baghdad, Iraq April 4, 2019. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani
April 10, 2019
By Maher Nazeh
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – With the blast finally walls gone, some 16 years after the U.S.-led invasion, life in the Iraqi capital Baghdad is starting to look like any normal bustling city.
Families and friends hang out in cafes and shopping malls, people hold birthday parties in public and traders ply their wares from roadside stalls.
Saif Ahmed, an owner of a cafe in the upscale district of Zayyona in eastern Baghdad, said the removal of miles of the concrete walls from the streets had encouraged families to visit malls and cafes and stay until late into the night.
“Baghdad is looking different now, for the better. Families are staying until after midnight in markets, restaurants and cafes. I feel so happy to see Baghdad life is returning to normal,” he said.
The walls, put up a year after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, served to protect the city from years of sectarian civil war and the fight against Islamic State militants. Iraq declared victory over the group in late 2017.
Senior military commanders say there have been no attacks by insurgents for more than a year.
“Baghdad is enjoying considerable security. We managed to keep terrorists away from the capital,” said Lieutenant General Jaleel al-Rubaie, commander of the Baghdad Operations Command.
Soon after he came to power late last year, Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi ordered the removal of the towering walls to signal the improvement in security – letting light back into long obscured parts of the city.
For Hutham al-Ansary, who lost her husband in the violence in 2004, the feeling that Baghdad is finally safe brings tears of happiness.
“Baghdad is beautiful, despite all tragedies, with this improved security and peace. I still have a bitter feeling about the past but today is better than yesterday,” said Ansary, a women’s rights activist, with her two daughters at one of Baghdad’s parks.
Many people are now more comfortable about spending time outdoors.
“I’m happy that finally I can celebrate my son’s birthday in a public garden, something we were not brave enough to do fearing bombs,” Sally Adnan, a Health Ministry employee, said at Abu Nawas Gardens by the Tigris river.
“Life in Baghdad is more interesting now,” said Adnan, who was wounded in a car bomb in 2008.
“The wounds on my face are part of Iraq’s history. I’m keeping them to show my sons when they grow up,” she said.
(Reporting by Maher Nazeh; Writing by Ahmed Rasheed; Editing by Ahmed Aboulenein and Alison Williams)
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U.S. tourist Kimberly Sue Endicott poses with her guide, Jean Paul Mirenge in Uganda, April 7, 2019, in this image taken from social media. Picture taken April 7, 2019. Wild Frontiers/via REUTERS
April 10, 2019
KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda has arrested eight local people suspected of involvement in the kidnap of an American tourist and her guide last week, the government said on Wednesday.
Kimberley Sue Endecott, 35, and local guide Jean Paul Mirenge-Remezo were ambushed and seized by gunmen as they drove in Queen Elizabeth National Park in southwest Uganda on April 2.
The kidnappers demanded a ransom of $500,000 and the pair were released six days later.
Confirming the arrests on a government Twitter account, spokesman Ofwono Opondo said he hoped they would help break a larger criminal network in Uganda and neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo. Ugandan police had announced arrests on Tuesday, but not given the number.
The firm that organized Endecott’s safari said she and her guide were released after a “negotiated settlement” and a Ugandan official also said a ransom was paid.
But Opondo contradicted that.
“The policy of the (government of Uganda) is that we don’t pay ransom. What you have been hearing is just rumor-mongering,” he said.
Given the importance of income from tourism, President Yoweri Museveni’s government was eager to solve the case and restore a feeling of safety in national parks.
In 1999, an American couple, four Britons and two New Zealanders were killed along with four guides after being ambushed by gunmen in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park.
(Reporting by Elias Biryabarema; Editing by George Obulutsa and Andrew Cawthorne)
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U.S. tourist Kimberly Sue Endicott poses with her guide, Jean Paul Mirenge in Uganda, April 7, 2019, in this image taken from social media. Wild Frontiers/via REUTERS
April 9, 2019
By Elias Biryabarema
KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda said Tuesday some suspects had been arrested in connection with last week’s kidnap of an American tourist and her tour guide in a national park while a minister told a local TV that a ransom had been paid to free them.
Tourist Kimberley Sue Endecott, 35, and guide Jean Paul Mirenge-Remezo were ambushed and seized by gunmen as they drove in Queen Elizabeth National Park in the country’s southwest near the border with Democratic Republic of Congo on April 2.
It’s one of Uganda’s most visited parks, home to antelopes, lions, elephants, hippos, crocodile and leopards.
The kidnappers later demanded a ransom of $500,000. On Sunday Ugandan security officials said they had rescued the pair unharmed near the border.
In a statement on Tuesday, police said: “The joint security team actively investigating the kidnapping incident … has made some arrests of suspects, on suspicion of being involved.”
Police did not give details about the suspects but said they had been detained during “raids and extensive searches” in Kanungu district, more than 400 km (250 miles) southwest of the capital Kampala.
On Tuesday, junior tourism minister, Godfrey Kiwanda Ssubi, told NBS TV that a ransom was paid to secure the victims.
“Whatever these people (kidnappers) demanded for was paid,” Ssubi said.
“The money had to be taken … everything was done to save the lives of these people.”
Ugandan security officials had earlier refused to acknowledge the payment despite several reports in local and international media.
The United States has maintained it follows a policy of no concessions to kidnappers although the tour firm that arranged the safari told Reuters the captives were released after a “negotiated settlement” with the assistance of the US government.
In a tweet on Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump urged Ugandan authorities to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice “openly and quickly”.
(Reporting by Elias Biryabarema; Editing by Giles Elgood)
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Uganda’s police spokesperson Fred Enanga addresses the media on the rescue of American tourist Kimberley Sue Endecott, who was abducted by gunmen in Queen Elizabeth National Park, at the police headquarters in Kampala, Uganda April 8, 2019. REUTERS/Newton Nabwaya
April 8, 2019
By Elias Biryabarema
KAMPALA (Reuters) – An American tourist and her guide who were abducted in Uganda last week were released after a “negotiated settlement” was reached with the kidnappers, the firm that organized her safari told Reuters on Monday.
Amid fears the incident could deter tourists from visiting the East African country, U.S. President Donald Trump called on Twitter for the kidnappers to be found.
Ugandan authorities said on Sunday that Kimberley Sue Endecott, 35, and her driver, Jean Paul, had been rescued unharmed after being seized by gunmen in Queen Elizabeth National Park, near the border with Democratic Republic of Congo, on April 2. The kidnappers later demanded a ransom of $500,000 for Endecott’s release.
The acknowledgement of negotiations with the captors follows reports in several local media outlets, including state-owned daily New Vision, that a ransom was paid before the two were freed.
“A negotiated settlement was arranged with the assistance of the American government,” a spokesman for the tour firm, Wild Frontiers Safaris Uganda, told Reuters. “I don’t have details of the final settlement”
New Vision reported on Monday, citing undisclosed sources, that a ransom of $30,000 had been paid.
In Washington, a State Department official said the United States maintains a “no concessions” policy that covers ransoms for Americans taken captive.
“We firmly believe that making concessions increases the risks for Americans and others traveling abroad,” the official said, adding that the United States had worked closely with Ugandan authorities for the release of Endecott. “We cannot get into the details of this case, but can confirm that we worked closely with our Ugandan counterparts,” the official added.
Uganda Police spokeswoman Polly Namaye said she could not confirm whether a ransom had been paid.
It remains unclear who was responsible for the abduction, which took place in an area once roamed by fighters belonging to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), an anti-Kampala rebel group that is now mostly dormant. The group is still believed to have camps in eastern Congo.
“Uganda must find the kidnappers of the American Tourist and guide before people will feel safe in going there,” Trump tweeted on Monday. “Bring them to justice openly and quickly!”
Tourism is a key source of foreign exchange for Uganda and there are concerns the incident might raise safety fears and discourage visitors.
In a tweet on Monday, President Yoweri Museveni promised to “deal with these isolated pockets of criminals.”
“I want to reassure the country and our tourists that Uganda is safe and we shall continue to improve the security in our parks. Come and enjoy the Pearl of Africa,” he wrote.
The last attack on tourists in a Ugandan park was in 1999. An American couple, four Britons and two New Zealanders were killed along with four Ugandan guides after being ambushed by gunmen in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, a few kilometers south of the Queen Elizabeth park.
Queen Elizabeth National Park is one of most visited in the East African country, with tourists flocking there to see lions, hippos, crocodiles and various types of antelope.
(Reporting by Elias Biryabarema; Additional reporting by Lesley Wroughton in Washington; Editing by Catherine Evans and Leslie Adler)
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Democrats often complain that tax cuts primarily benefit “the rich,” but apparently they only think it’s a problem when rich conservatives get a tax break, because they’re outraged that President Trump’s tax cuts scaled back a generous subsidy enjoyed by well-off taxpayers in liberal states.
A key provision of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was a new cap on the so-called State and Local Tax (“SALT”) Deduction, which allows taxpayers to deduct state and local taxes on their federal tax return. This provision forces taxpayers in low-tax states such as Florida and Texas to effectively subsidize those in high-tax states such as New York and California.
For years, blue-state Democrats have been able to raise state income and property taxes far higher than voters might normally tolerate. That’s because the SALT deduction softened the impact for taxpayers in those states, particularly for the rich campaign-donor class. Since the SALT deduction only applies to taxpayers who itemize their returns, its benefits naturally accrue to those in the highest income bracket.
There was previously no limit to how much taxpayers could deduct through SALT, but even though the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act capped the deduction at $10,000, almost 93 percent of American taxpayers will be unaffected. It’s likely that fewer taxpayers will elect to take advantage of SALT, since the law also doubled the standard deduction, but about 11 million of the highest-earning Americans living in high-tax states are seeing their federal income tax liabilities increase.
It’s curious that liberals who criticized Trump so vociferously for “cutting taxes on the wealthy” are so upset by an element of the tax reform plan that merely takes away a tax break enjoyed disproportionately by the wealthy.
Take New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, for instance. His state has some of the highest tax rates in the country, yet it is nonetheless facing a $2.3 billion budget deficit. Cuomo is blaming the changes to the SALT deduction, saying that wealthy New Yorkers are now shifting their assets to other states or utilizing tax shelters to avoid the state’s punitive taxes.
It turns out that without low-tax states paying a share of their taxes, rich New Yorkers and Californians have discovered that it makes more sense to relocate. I certainly did. California, where I used to live, has a top marginal income tax rate of 13.3 percent. Tennessee, where I hang my hat now, has none — at least on regular income. The barbeque is better here, too!
In Cuomo’s case, most of his wealthy New Yorker donors were probably wintering in Florida anyway. Bad luck for him that Florida doesn’t have a state income tax, either, because if they start lining up for Florida driver’s licenses in any significant numbers, it’s going to bankrupt the Empire State.
Most of the high earners left in these predominately coastal liberal strongholds have stuck around mainly because the SALT deduction gave them a hefty discount on their state taxes. In New York, for instance, the average SALT deduction was $22,000 before the reform. That money came straight out of the pot that pays for national defense, interstate transport, national parks, and all the other federally funded services that Americans depend on.
Donald Trump’s historic tax reform has put an end to all of that, and Democrats are up in arms. Four high-tax states are even suing to get their money back, arguing that the federal government has a responsibility to provide lavish tax breaks to their richest residents.
Next time you hear Democrats complain about “tax cuts for the rich,” remember that they’re the same ones who are going to the mat to protect tax breaks for wealthy liberals at the expense of middle-class Americans in low-tax states.
FILE PHOTO: The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati waves to her supporters during an election campaign rally on the occasion of the death anniversary of Kanshi Ram, founder of BSP, in Lucknow, India, October 9, 2016. REUTERS/Pawan Kumar/File Photo
April 2, 2019
By Munsif Vengattil and Suchitra Mohanty
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A powerful leader of India’s low-caste community on Tuesday told a court that setting up dozens of statues of herself reflected the will of the people to honor her and others at the bottom of the rigid Hindu caste hierarchy.
Mayawati, an icon of the Dalits and a four-time chief minister of the most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, has been an aggressive campaigner for the rights of the oppressed, vowing to shake the stranglehold of India’s upper castes on politics.
As leader of the state, she spent millions of dollars on memorial parks featuring life-sized marble and sandstone statues of elephants, her party symbol, Dalit icons and herself, evoking figures from history who built monuments as their legacies.
Mayawati, who ended her last term in office in 2012 but is bidding to play a key national role in general elections this month, said the statues were built with the support of lawmakers who wanted to respect a low-caste woman leader.
“Certainly I could not go contrary to the wishes of the state legislators,” she said in a signed statement to a court that is weighing a request from her critics for permission to demolish the statues as a waste of public funds.
Mayawati leads the Bahujan Samaj Party that has forged an alliance with a regional group to pose a challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Hindu nationalist party in general elections that start on April 11.
She called the case against her politically motivated and “gross abuse” of the court process, and asked why other parties’ expenditure of public funds for similar causes had not prompted questions from her critics.
She cited the example of a $400-million statue of independence hero Vallabhbhai Patel that Modi inaugurated last year and which is nearly twice the height of New York’s Statue of Liberty.
When she governed Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati blanketed hundreds of acres of prime real estate in Lucknow, the state capital, and elsewhere in pink marble and sandstone monuments.
The memorials are a major tourist attraction in Lucknow and entry tickets generate huge daily revenue for the state, she added in her statement.
(Reporting by Munsif Vengattil and Suchitra Mohanty; Editing by Clarence Fernandez and Sanjeev Miglani)
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If you’re a 14-year-old girl where I live, you can walk into a clinic and get an abortion without your parents ever knowing. But if you want to go see “Unplanned,” a movie about abortion that opened in theaters nationwide Friday, you’ll need Mom or Dad (or some adult guardian) to accompany you. This is the strange state of affairs in our modern era, where abortion continues to be one of the most divisive political issues of the day.
“Unplanned” is the story of Abby Johnson, a former director of a Texas Planned Parenthood clinic, and the youngest in its history, at that. For eight years, she somehow worked at one of Planned Parenthood’s busiest abortion mills without ever watching one transpire. Until, one day, she did.
It was the moment, she describes, that “changed everything.”
It’s also the film’s opening scene — the filmmakers waste no time. Abby feeds her daughter breakfast, drives to work, parks her car, and then gets called unexpectedly into the backroom, a windowless, sterile space where a girl lies whimpering on a table and a menacing abortion doctor, with a splatter shield covering his face, barks at Abby to hold the ultrasound wand while he performs the procedure.
Something about the abortion doctor made me shift uncomfortably in my seat. Later I learned why: The actor was a former abortion doctor who had performed over 1,000 abortions. He knew, quite literally, what he was doing. But like Abby, he experienced an event that changed everything: He witnessed his 6-year-old daughter struck by a car in front of their home. She died in his arms. When he returned to work, his first order of business was a late-term abortion. He performed it, but afterwards froze. In an interview he said:
“But after all those years, after 1,200 abortions, after over 100 late-term abortions, I really looked. I really looked at that pile of body parts on the side of the table. And for the first time in my life, all I could see was somebody’s son or daughter. And in that moment it hit me all at once, a lot like what Abby describes, it me so hard. … I had just buried my daughter, and here someone had come to me and offered me money to kill their son or daughter. And I said yes.”
The raw emotional intensity of the film no doubt draws on the very real ways that many of the actors have been personally touched by abortion. When the actress who plays Abby, Ashley Bratcher, called her mom to say she’d gotten the part, her mom tearfully revealed that she had planned to abort Ashley, only getting off the operating table when the sight of a very pregnant nurse made her too sick to follow through.
In an irony that only life could deliver, the directors had unwittingly cast an abortion survivor to play a survivor of the abortion industry. And they were wise to unveil the climax up front; undoubtedly people will walk out of this movie, unable to stomach the realities of abortion that it dramatizes. Young girls in pink gowns, drugged and groaning while a nurse rations out crackers. Nurses jokingly referring to the “products of conception” (or POC) room as the “pieces of children room.” Dead babies rolled out in canisters like any other trash. These are the realities of abortion that America chooses not to see.
But Abby Johnson saw a life taken before her eyes, and more and more people like her are speaking the truth about the abortion industry and its quotas and medical deceit and predatory behavior. Abby, through her organization, And Then There Were None, has helped over 500 abortion workers, including seven doctors, leave the industry.
The message of “Unplanned” is ultimately a hopeful one. It’s a story about freedom and healing, something no doubt countless post-abortive women are in search of. Abby had two abortions herself, worked for the biggest abortion provider in the country, and was able to walk away and find peace. It’s a story that every woman harmed by abortion has the right to hear.
But it’s a story, and a film, that is certainly deserving of its R rating. Because sometimes the only way we can move forward into the light is to start by looking at the harshest of truths.
New York socialist and climate-change activist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is adept at making national political waves and headlines, but “her heart is not in the Bronx,” as she is proving to do little for her actual constituents, according to the N.Y. Post.
“I thought AOC would be our savior, but that’s not the case,” Roxanne Delgado, 40, who has sought assistance in saving an animal shelter and cleaning up parks in the district, told the Post.
Delgado has been seeking her congresswoman’s help, resorting to Twitter to try to contact her:
“@errollouis @JuanMaBenitez Can someone ask @aoc to please have a contact for constituents services. NO one working in #biaggi or #gillibrand office on her behalf. NO email or contact on @AOC’s page except DC number which has full #voicemail and no one picks up. @nypost”
Anthony Vitaliano, 78, has also sought Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s ear in her district, looking for help with postal service and graffiti concerns.
“She has to address these local issues,” Vitaliano, a former police officer, told the Post. “Her district is everywhere else in the US. Her heart is not in the Bronx.”
Former Rep. Joe Crowley, D-N.Y., who was upset by AOC in the November election, was much more attentive to the constituents, sending a representative to community board meetings, according to Vitaliano.
“Tommy cared about us,” Vitaliano told the Post.
Making matters worse, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez has yet to set up an office in her district, and her deputy district director Naureen Akhter claims she is having difficulty finding space, according to the Post.
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