Posted on 11/08/2018 1:08:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) told The New York Times in an interview Thursday that she will need to wait for her congressional salary to kick in before she can rent an apartment in D.C.
She explained that the transition period will be “very unusual, because I can’t really take a salary. 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.”
Ocasio-Cortez also told the Times that she had saved money before leaving her job at a restaurant and had planned accordingly with her partner.
“We’re kind of just dealing with the logistics of it day by day, but I’ve really been just kind of squirreling away and then hoping that gets me to January," she said.
Ocasio-Cortez explained on Twitter after the interview's release that while everything with her housing is being figured out, her struggle with housing costs is one of "many little ways in which our electoral system isn’t even designed (nor prepared) for working-class people to lead."
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Ocasio-Cortez, who on Tuesday became the youngest women in history elected to Congress, worked as a bartender before toppling veteran lawmaker Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.) in the Democratic primary election in June.
There’s always pole dancing....
Gee and I just sent my tiny wee violin out to the cleaners
SOOOOORRY
Perhaps there a dorm room at the electoral college
It is possible that she is genuinely not intelligent enough to figure out the problem on her own.
Life is tough. Well, no doubt she’ll be a millionaire soon enough.
reminded me of the Wayne comment: life is tough,it is tougher when you are stupid.
I bet she will put in a bill that the “government “ pay for all rentals in DC. If asked where the money will come from she would respond from the money bureau.
Even Congress critters salery won’t get an apartment in D.C. not even in Anacostia.
Abraham Lincoln shared a bed when he was in congress, IIRC.
“her struggle with housing costs is one of “many little ways in which our electoral system isn’t even designed (nor prepared) for working-class people to lead.”
That doesn’t even make sense.
Actually, I wouldn’t mind if this was more common.
It would be great if a large percentage of congress actually had to live on their salary.
I have nothing against people who earn (and enjoy) wealth, I just think it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world if some of them had to live at ‘merely’ an upper-middle class level.
And I would definitely tip her well for a lap dance (I got major crap from a lib friend for saying this bwhahahahah).
Whats the problem? Why can’t comrade Ocasio Cortez just commandeer an apartment?
Years ago, I was at the Newark, NJ corporate office of the company I worked for. The airport closed due to a storm. I spent hours calling and looking for a hotel room.
The colleagues I had spent two days with were presumably liberals, being New Jersey and all.
They watched me struggling to find accommodations. Not one offered me a couch.
That’s how liberals are.
Here's a small economics question for this twit. We have a printed, fiat, currency, manipulated to near zero interest rates by our Central Bank, loaned to large banks and investors looking for yield anywhere they can. We have a massive Federal Government centered in Washington DC that spends nearly $4 Trillion per year, a large part of that from debt. You complain about the cost of a home literally in the center of it this government-sponsored tidal wave of money and speculation.
Question: will more government involvement fix this?
She looks like a younger better version of Huma Abedin...an opportunity she should explore, could get her access to mega bucks...
just sayin’ ;>)
:-)
Do what lots of freshman congress critters do.....live at the Y
Yep, I don’t doubt that a bit. Most all of them are for helping the down and out until it comes to themselves doing the helping.
It’s all good. She’ll be a multi-millionaire within 2 years...
There are plenty of inexpensive places to rent in eastern cities but elite liberals don’t want to live in those neighborhoods.
it’s called goal-oriented financial planning, OC. And no, goals don’t need government subsidies, which is what OC is hinting at. Welcome to the adult world beyond the bar stools.
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