Posted on 11/09/2018 6:06:33 AM PST by Enlightened1
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez apparently believes the “electoral system” is unfair because she can’t receive her congressional salary until she’s actually sworn in as a member of Congress.
On Thursday, the 29-year-old socialist spoke with The New York Times about her election victory on Tuesday.
But rather than discuss her ideas for Congress, Ocasio-Cortez complained about not being able to afford an apartment in Washington, D.C.
Given that she will not be sworn in as a member of Congress until January, the Democratic socialist complained about not receiving her congressional salary for another three months.
“I have three months without a salary before I’m a member of Congress, so how do I get an apartment?” Ocasio-Cortez said. “Those little things are very real.”
Ocasio-Cortez said she and her “partner” have been saving money since her days as a bartender in New York, but decried that it wasn’t enough to get her an apartment in D.C.
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Um ... how have you been getting by so far? Keep doing that.
Welcome to reality, Occasio comie moron.
Doesn't that define a Democrat?
Ask Mommy and Daddy
This is what the Republic has come to.....
I doubt any pole would have anything to do with her.
Starbucks is always hiring
Congress is just a form of White Collar Welfare.
Lol, looks like SE DC
Funny! You forgot the concrete block shelves though. And maybe pot and jug wine, this isn’t the 70s ya know!
She got her degree from Boston University, do they just give them out to anybody?
They need to do some serious QA work on what they are doing.
Or is this simply how it is these days?
She can “just pay for it”
Regarding her statement yesterday; “I have three months without a salary before I’m a member of Congress. So, how do I get an apartment? Those little things are very real.”
That is quite a statement for Boston University when a person who holds their degree in economics doesn’t have the presence of mind to execute a short term loan secured by a GUARANTEED employment contract of $348,000 for the next 24 months.
This bio from Wiki makes her media personality seem absolutely bizarre to me :
” From 2003 to 2007, Ocasio-Cortez attended Yorktown High School,[13] where she won second prize in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with a research project on microbiology. As a result, the International Astronomical Union named a small asteroid after her: 23238 Ocasio-Cortez.[14][15]
In high school, she took part in the National Hispanic Institute’s Lorenzo de Zavala (LDZ) Youth Legislative Session. She later became the LDZ Secretary of State while she attended Boston University. Ocasio-Cortez had a John F. Lopez Fellowship.[16]
In 2008, while Ocasio-Cortez was a sophomore at Boston University, her father died of lung cancer.[17][18][19] During college, she was an intern in the immigration office of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy.[20] She graduated cum laude from Boston University’s College of Arts and Sciences in 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in economics and international relations.[16][21][22]”
Ocasio-Cortez has described her background as working-class, and relates many of her political positions to it. When her father died intestate of lung cancer in 2008,[23] she became involved in a long probate battle to settle his estate. She has said that the experience helped her learn “firsthand how attorneys appointed by the court to administer an estate can enrich themselves at the expense of the families struggling to make sense of the bureaucracy.”[24]
She credits seeing the treatment of her cousin by law enforcement, as well as her Catholic faith, for her desire to overhaul mass incarceration in the criminal-justice system.[25]
Does she need the book “Wiping your own a$$ for dummies” too?
Dimmer than a five-Watt bulb.
Isn’t there a nice hotel with a bar near 11th and Pennsylvania that used to be a Post Office? Might they need a bartender?
Just think, after another dozen terms she will be a multi-millionaire like Nancy Polluted.
Didn’t I just see a picture of her wearing a $5,000 outfit?
Do what every other demonRAT does, sell your vote 'on the come', give blow jobs for cash, sleep with 'senior members of the black caucus' and stay at their DC pads.
Give up some of that 'free stuff' that you are always touting.
Classic affirmative action degree recipient. She filled a quota, they gave her a degree
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