[ April 24, 2024 ]
An aspiring political player in Washington who may have even had a hand in key Democrat policy proposals.
Antifa activist facing assault charges was tied to Democratic policymakers
Democratic officials are distancing themselves from D.C. Antifa leader Joseph Alcoff now, but until recently he was an aspiring political player in Washington who may have even had a hand in key policy proposals.
Story continues below advertisementOn Monday, the 37-year-old has a court date in connection with charges he’s facing in Philadelphia that include aggravated assault and ethnic intimidation for allegedly being part of an Antifa mob in November that attacked two Marines, Alejandro Godinez and Luis Torres, both Hispanic. Alcoff and two others charged in the attack have pleaded not guilty.
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But while Democratic officials are distancing themselves from Alcoff now, until recently he was a well-connected, aspiring political player in Washington who may have even had a hand in key policy proposals.
His endorsement apparently mattered when several congressional Democrats in February 2018 issued press releases with his quote backing their bill on regulating payday lenders.
As the payday campaign manager for the liberal group Americans for Financial Reform, Alcoff participated in congressional Democratic press conferences, was a guest on a House Democratic podcast and met with senior officials at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from 2016 through 2018.
He was also pictured with now-House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif., and ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio. Both committees oversee financial regulatory policies Alcoff was advocating.
Alcoff met with then CFPB Director Richard Cordray and other senior CFPB officials on April 2016, again in March 2017 and a third time in May 2017, as first reported by the Washington Free Beacon.
During this time, he reportedly was an Antifa leader in Washington.
Alcoff’s former employer had little to say about the matter.
“As of December, Mr. Alcoff no longer works for AFR,” Carter Dougherty, spokesman for Americans for Financial Reform, told Fox News in an email.
Dougherty didn’t answer whether Alcoff had been fired or resigned. He also didn’t answer whether the organization was aware of Alcoff’s associations during his employment.
Alcoff was reportedly also an organizer for Smash Racism DC, the group responsible for gathering and shouting threats outside the home of Fox News host Tucker Carlson in November and for heckling Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and his wife Heidi at a Washington restaurant in September. Reports have not said Alcoff was directly involved in either incident; only that he was associated with the group.
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Democrats are hardly eager to be associated with Alcoff now. Most spokespersons for Democratic members of Congress did not respond to inquiries from Fox News, or distanced themselves from Alcoff.
In one appearance, Alcoff dressed up as “Lenny the Loan Shark” at an event last March held outside the CFPB headquarters, which featured Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va.
“The congressman has never interacted with him nor has he taken any financial policy advice from him. Their names have appeared on the same piece of paper,” Beyer spokesman Aaron Fritschner told Fox News. “He appeared at the same press conference, but they didn’t speak to each other. This person was literally wearing a shark outfit.”
In the February 2018 press statement, House and Senate Democrats co-sponsoring the Stopping Abuse and Fraud in Electronic (SAFE) Lending Act, which boosted regulation on payday lenders, issued versions of a press release, most including the Alcoff quote.
“The Consumer Bureau and Congress have in the past understood the way that payday lenders structure loans to catch Americans in a cycle of debt with exorbitant interest rates,” Alcoff said in the press releases. “It is unfortunate that some in Washington would rather open the loan shark gates than continue to think about sensible borrower protections. The SAFE Lending Act would put Washington back on track to stop the debt trap.”
In August, Alcoff was a guest on the House Democrats’ Joint Economic Committee podcast, criticizing the decline of the CFPB under the Trump administration.
“It’s been an incredible kind of erosion [Trump administration actions] recently, but these are really, really important basic functions [CFPB’s mission] that people across the country should be able to look to Washington and expect,” Alcoff said on the podcast.
In connection with the subsequent attack in Philadelphia, the two Hispanic Marines said the Antifa mob of about 10 or 12 attackers shouted racial slurs during the beating. Only three from the mob were identified and arrested. The attack happened at the same time as a right-wing rally in Philadelphia, which Antifa showed up to protest. The Marines who were assaulted said they were not even aware of the rally.
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31 Comments
3 years ago
put him in a cell with ms 13 youts
3 years ago
There is no difference between Right-Wing Groups and Antifa. They’re both Fascist organizations regardless of how they bill themselves.
3 years ago
Reply to
Jack
All right! Brilliant. What right wing groups would those be? Saying the KKK doesn’t count. Too easy.
3 years ago
Reply to
Fidei defensor
He doesn’t know cause there aren’t any.
Looks like Jack is just another ignorant brainwashed liberal lying troll.
3 years ago
Reply to
Fidei defensor
The KKK have been erectile dysfunction in society for decades now.
3 years ago
Reply to
DutchessVegas
But you will never get a Dem to admit it. They always mumble something about Nixon’s Southern Strategy.
3 years ago
Reply to
DutchessVegas
You are correct, the KKK was made up of southern Democrats. It was Democrats who were for slavery in the Civil War, and suppression of blacks post-war. Democrat LBJ found another way to keep blacks down — keep them on liberal plantations.
3 years ago
Reply to
Jack
The NAZI’s liked big government, conservatives want small government. NAZI’s like political censorship (Antifa does too), conservatives like freedom of speach. I could go on, but my carpel tunnel would act up. In short, you don’t know what you are talking about. You’ve been brain washed.
3 years ago
Is this shocking news to anyone here? Yeah, me neither…
3 years ago
What to do with these pos……………………… The list is long and horrible
3 years ago
I’m SHOCKED!
3 years ago
3 years ago
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AR154U☑ᵀʳᵘᵐᵖ DEPLORABLE 2020
NO Antifa here!!
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3 years ago
Libtard Antifa trash!
3 years ago
ANTIFA is a white dominated domestic terrorist group.
3 years ago
The liberal media will try and hide his connections to the DEMS if they bother to mention him at all.
3 years ago
Pics Worth a Thousand Words! Alleged Antifa Terrorist Tied to Top Dems
By James S. Soviero
February 11, 2019
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He is reportedly the leader of SmashDC. He is also known as Jose Martin or Chepe to his communist friends, but he works for Democrats in the government under the name Joseph Jose Alcoff.
Smash DC is the group that has been assaulting Republicans and Trump officials in restaurants. They chased Ted Cruz and his wife out of a restaurant. As it happens, the leader of the group — Alcoff — uses a fake name for his communist revolutionary activities. Under his real name, he works for Democrats in government.
Smash Racism DC organizer Jose Martin, also known as “Chepe,” is a radical communist and Antifa leader operating in the U.S. He advocates for the violent overthrow of the government and for the murder of the rich and claims to have international involvement in left-wing movements, according to The Daily Caller.
This is the group that doxxed Tucker Carlson which led to their communist members showing up at Tucker’s home while his wife was alone.
They also doxxed Ann Coulter, Neil Patel, and Sean Hannity.
‘SmashRacismDC’ continued to threaten Cruz, Brett Kavanaugh, the President, and everyone on the right. “You are not safe,” they tweeted and facebooked.
A recording of the incident included the hashtag “#CancelKavanugh.”
Hours after the first tweet, Smash Racism DC doubled down on its harassment of Senator Cruz and his wife with more tweets.
“No — you can’t eat in peace — your politics are an attack on all of us You’re [sic] votes are a death wish. Your votes are hate crimes,” Smash Racism DC wrote. “Tonight Senator Ted Cruz arrived at Fiola, an upscale restaurant mere steps from the White House, to enjoy a hearty Italian dinner. He could have dined on a lavish four-course meal for only $145 while millions of Americans struggle to buy groceries. He might have sampled from the top shelf wine list as migrant children languish in cages.”
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https://www.independentsentinel.com/pics-worth-a-thousand-words-alleged-antifa-terrorist-tied-to-top-dems/
Here are more of the SMASHDC team members. 
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3 years ago
Those 2 Irish guys are probably connected to the ira. There is mixing of all terrorist groups across the globe.
3 years ago
3 years ago
I can’t understand how African Americans can belong to the
party Demos that founded the KKK.
3 years ago
These antifa scum and their enablers in office should be dead. And same goes for scum in media’s who are involved.
3 years ago
One of the reader comments below asked another commenter, Jack, to name a right-wing organization that is engaged in the current looting and property destruction. Last Friday Bill Maher named the organization QAnon as the right wing organization America needs to worry about. So go look up QAnon. You will find that it is NOT an “organization” but rather a “right-wing conspiracy theory” — meaning it is a set of opinions about conspiracies in the US. One such theory is that there was a pedophile ring operating out of the Comet Ping Pong pizza parlor in Washington. One has to have his/her head deeply buried to come up with that.
3 years ago
don’t like the rate? go to a bank….. Oh I forgot, you don’t pay your bills and have no credit… Damn racist attacking hispanics
