Hey @aoc, glad you’ll be joining in Austin in #Tx21 for @sxsw – but if you want to get there timely, you gotta start walking! See you in ATX! pic.twitter.com/yHXLCIXPRg
— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) February 22, 2019
Boom.
Via Daily Caller:
Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy reminded Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Friday that she better get started on her walk from Washington, D.C., to Austin for South by Southwest’s (SXSW) 2019 conference in an apparent nod to the Green New Deal’s net-zero greenhouse gas emissions goal.
“Hey [Ocasio-Cortez], glad you’ll be joining in Austin in #Tx21 for [SXSW] — but if you want to get there timely, you gotta start walking!” Roy tweeted.
The self-proclaimed Democratic socialist was added to the list of SXSW speakers in January to discuss “privacy, mass surveillance, foreign influence campaigns and the spread of propaganda,” according to the conference’s website. SXSW is held annually in Austin, Texas, where it celebrates “the convergence of the interactive, film, and music industries.”
Ocasio-Cortez is a frequent critic of climate change and is notable for her rhetoric on the issue.