A GOP email calling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a "national terrorist" charged to an outside company

COLUMBUS, Ohio – The President of the Republican Federation of Ohio College announced that a fundraising e-mail calling on US Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "a national terrorist" had been sent by a collection firm of funds without his knowledge and without his authorization.

The email, sent Wednesday, provoked an immediate and widespread condemnation on social media. Ocasio-Cortez, a self-proclaimed socialist, whose declared opinions quickly made her a prime target of Republicans, tweeted that this rhetoric has led to "an outburst of death threats" against itself and others.

The fundraising email was sent on behalf of the president of the Ohio College Republican Federation, Tom Ferrall, a former University of Dayton. But Ferrall told Cleveland.com on Thursday that neither he nor any other Republican from Ohio University had been involved in creating the e-mail, and they did not even know it existed until they have seen people tweeting about it.

Ferrall said that the fund-raising company outside the state, whose name he refused, violated an agreement banning the sending of e-mails on behalf of the Republican Federation of the College. from Ohio before Mr. Ferrall, as chairman, first had the opportunity to consider and approve it.

Ferrall stated that when he had learned of the existence of this email, he had become "very displeased" and had informed the fundraising company that his group had immediately severed his ties with the company and was not would never work with her again.

Ferrall said he had asked the company why she had decided to send a fundraising e-mail calling the new congressman from New York a "national terrorist."

"They offered hot food [explanation] like "We try to maximize our donations by sending provocative topics" or something like that, "said Ferrall." They did not give a full explanation, even though I asked for one. "

Ferrall said that he did not know how many people the e-mail had been sent, the company did not share this information with the federation.

He also said he was not sure whether anyone had donated to the Republican Federation of Ohio College as a result of this e-mail. If the group discovers that such donations have been made, Mr. Ferrall said that the leaders of the organization "were already exploring options to address this problem."

Ferrall reiterated that the Republican Federation of Ohio College apologized to Ocasio-Cortez for email.

"The points of view expressed are not something that I approve of and especially not those of our members," he said. "No matter who it comes from, it's a bad message to send."

Wednesday's remittance was the first to call Ocasio-Cortez "a national terrorist" she was also ridiculed aggressively in a number of previous fundraising requests from Republicans from Ohio College.

After a reporter from the Center for Public Integrity posted on Twitter some of these previous emails on Wednesday, Dayton University officials called Ferrall because they had noticed that some of the emails indicated the address from his campus.

School officials told Ferrall that he was not allowed to use the address of his campus for political fundraisers. Ferrall has agreed to clear the address of past messages and not to use it in the future, according to Ferrall and a statement released by the university.