How woke.ĭon’t get caught unprepared as things go south. He let Mary Jo Kopechne die at Chappaquiddick, but that’s been forgiven by everyone, including his former intern Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Kennedy was a Democratic icon, not because of his accomplishments but because of his name. ICE was created in 2003 along w/ the Patriot Act. I REGULARLY fielded calls from panicked mothers who came home to missing family members. Even as many Democrats, especially far-left progressives, are starting to finally denounce the Senator for his actions all those decades ago, there seems to be no concern that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez chose to intern for the Senator as she began her political career.Ībout 10 years ago I worked in Ted Kennedy’s foreign affairs/immigration constituent office. But there’s another angle that nobody is covering. The continuous downplaying of the tragic events by mainstream media is awful. Eyewitness testimony by the person who recovered her body at the scene, as well as the position of the body, strongly suggests she suffocated after spending a significant amount of time exhausting the oxygen in the air bubble of the submerged car. It’s not true that Kopechne “drowned.” The coroner never autopsied the body, itself a curious omission when dealing with an unattended death of a healthy young woman. Let’s start this in reverse, as it’s the best way to put this in perspective. Kennedy was able to escape, but Kopechne drowned.

Kennedy left a party on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha's Vineyard with Mary Jo Kopechne, 28 some time later, Kennedy's car went off a bridge into the water. News outlets have spent the last 50 years attempting to distance Ted Kennedy from Chappaquiddick, and this passive-voice remembrance is … perfect.Īs Twitter pal Jeff Dobbs puts it, the real crime is that the car got away with it:ĥ0 years ago today, Sen. Give the Associated Press credit for media consistency. “We found that while a small number of Capitol Visitor Center employees received virtual training on active shooter scenarios in 2020, the rest of the agency did not,” Failla wrote.Associated Press On Chappaquiddick: 50 Years Ago Today, Kennedy’s Car Did Something There was limited online active shooter training for employees in the Capitol Visitor Center, but the rest of the agency was not included. One focused on how teams would run initial surveys to assess damage after an incident. Failla wrote in his report.īecause of COVID-19, the AOC was limited in its ability to conduct training but shifted to virtual sessions and held two agencywide exercises in 2020.

“We received information from AOC employees that some AOC staff did not know what protective actions to take while inside of the Capitol building as events unfolded on January 6,” Architect of the Capitol Inspector General Christopher P. Further, the agency lacked consistent, integrated emergency preparedness training with the other legislative branch organizations working in the Capitol. The flash report, released April 27, found Architect of the Capitol plans and emergency management training did not sufficiently address situations involving active shooters and civil disturbances and the existing emergency policies regarding those events were not updated. 6, some Architect of the Capitol employees did not know what protective actions to take, a result of several emergency preparedness shortcomings highlighted by the agency’s inspector general. As violent rioters breached the Capitol on Jan.

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