A conservative group with the single aim of unseating Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spent $32,000 on Monday to convince New York City voters that she doesn’t represent their interests.
The Stop AOC PAC, started in March by Virginia lawyer Dan Backer, plans to file its expenditure report Wednesday.
A draft obtained by The Post shows two $5,000 payments to Becki Donatelli, a Virginia-based digital fundraising strategist who consulted on John McCain’s two presidential runs.
That money will go to digital ads, Backer told The Post.
There’s also $7,000 going to a Florida company called Mobilize the Message that will hire a two-person team to go door-to-door in Ocasio-Cortez’s Bronx and Queens district next week to deliver thousands of flyers criticizing her for undermining the Amazon deal, costing the city 25,000 jobs.
Finally, there’s $15,000 for RRTV Media in Ohio to purchase local TV ads slamming the 29-year-old freshman congresswoman.
Spanish language TV spots are scheduled for this summer.
“I think it’s important that there be an organized and effective opposition to AOC,” Backer said in an interview.
“Our focus is going to be on the way AOC has failed her own constituents,” he said, citing Amazon’s decision in February to pull out of the deal with the city and state to open a campus in Queens because of opposition from some local officials, her included.
“Her ideology has meant real, meaningful, substantive pain for her district,” Backer said.
“We’re going to do everything we can to make sure her district has that in mind come 2020,” he said.
The Virginia lawyer isn’t the only one targeting the progressive star. The Post reported earlier this week that Ocasio-Cortez has inspired three potential Republican challenges and a multimillionaire mystery donor committed to funding an across-the-aisle race.
The PAC had previously spent around $16,000, largely for digital outreach to voters, according to Federal Election Commission data.
Backer said he hopes to raise $1 million by the middle of the summer. So far, he’s collected a few donations of $1,000 or more, but most have been in the $25-to-$35 range from some 200 donors.
“The organization is very singled-minded,” Backer said. “The organization exists so that she doesn’t get reelected.”
Ocasio-Cortez pulled in over $700,000 for her 2020 race in the first three months of the year — a haul that topped all but one of the 28 members in New York’s congressional delegation. That member was Rep. Antonio Delgado, a Democrat who’s been targeted by the National Republican Congressional Committee.
A spokesman for the congresswoman declined comment.