A feud playing out on Times Square billboards escalated on Friday after a group supportive of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defended her opposition to Amazon's New York headquarters deal.After a conservative business advocacy group blamed Ocasio-Cortez for 25,000 lost jobs and $4 billion in lost wages as a result of Amazon's cancellation of its Long Island City HQ2, a progressive group hit back with another billboard."Fighting gentrification in NYC, helping to stop a $2.8 billion tax give-away, taking on the world's 3rd largest corporation, thanks AOC!" the Democracy for America ad read.A feud playing out on Manhattan billboards escalated on Friday after a progressive group put up its own ad defending Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's opposition to Amazon's planned New York headquarters.The public fight began when the Job Creators Network, a conservative business advocacy group, put up a billboard in Times Square blaming Ocasio-Cortez for 25,000 lost jobs and $4 billion in lost wages as a result of Amazon's cancellation of its Long Island City HQ2."Thanks for Nothing, AOC!" read the ad, which was placed in a tourist-heavy spot.Ocasio-Cortez hit back at JCN in a series of tweets on Thursday in which she called the attack "wack" and said the group does the bidding of the pro-Trump billionaires it's funded by. The 29-year-old also argued that JCN's campaign is proof of how effectively she and her allies are "fighting dark money & anti-worker policies."JCN was founded by Bernard Marcus, a billionaire who donated to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. And the billionaire Mercer family, who also donated to Trump's campaign and funded the conservative news site Breitbart, have donated to a related group, the Job Creators Alliance.JCN didn't relent, putting up two more billboards on Thursday, one of which read, "Hey AOC, saw your wack tweet."Read more: 'Hey AOC, saw your wack tweet': Conservative business group escalates Times Square billboard feud with Ocasio-Cortez over Amazon HQ2 pulloutOn Friday morning, progressive political action committee Democracy for America jumped into the fight, putting up its own Times Square billboard defending Ocasio-Cortez."Fighting gentrification in NYC, helping to stop a $2.8 billion tax give-away, taking on the world's 3rd largest corporation, thanks AOC!" the ad read.Hey, @JobCreatorsUSA, someone must have messed up your @AOC billboard. We fixed it for you. And, #ThanksAOC! Love, #AmericansAgainstBillionaires pic.twitter.com/2HvQ0PAPUE' Democracy for America (@DFAaction) February 21, 2019Ocasio-Cortez was anoutspoken opponentof Amazon's HQ2 deal, but local lawmakers and activists led the pushback to the plans. The tech company was set to receive nearly $3 billion in tax incentives from the city and the state and said it would create 25,000 jobs for New Yorkers over the next decade.Amazon cited the resistance of local politiciansin a blog post announcing the cancellation.Alex Ma contributed to this report.SEE ALSO:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explains 'farting cows' and a 70% tax on the ultra-rich on 'Desus & Mero'Join the conversation about this storyNOW WATCH: Meet the three women who married Donald Trump
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