Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez alters her campaign bio to fudge ‘girl from the Bronx’ misrepresentation

American Thinker ^ | 07/07/2018 | Thomas Lifson

[SeekAndFind]

Now that she’s the “it girl” of the Democrats, who "represents the future of our party," according to the party chair Tom Perez, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s biographical claims have come under scrutiny, and cannot withstand the sunshine. Most notoriously (for now!) her claim that she commuted 40 minutes from her home in the Bronx to school in Westchester doesn’t pass the smell test.   Mark Lungariello, of her actual home town (not the Bronx) Rockland/Westchester Journal News, writes:

U.S. congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s online bio was tweaked days after she faced scrutiny over where she grew up. (snip)

Her bio was called into question by some conservatives after the victory because she lived and went to school in Westchester County, New York, which some critics charged contradicted her Bronx girl campaign narrative.

The bio previously stated, “She ended up attending public school 40 minutes north in Yorktown, and much of her life was defined by the 40-minute commute between school and her family in the Bronx.”

That sentence in the bio has since been changed, though it still doesn’t explicitly state that she moved out of the Bronx to Yorktown when she was 5 years old.

“She ended up attending public school in Yorktown, 40 minutes north of her birthplace,” it now states. “As a result, much of her early life was spent in transit between her tight-knit extended family in the Bronx & her daily student life."

Face it: she lied. And she still is fudging the truth. "Tight-knit extended family" is a deceptive term meant to imply she lived in the Bronx when in fact she lived in upscale Westchester.

Would you buy a used biography from this woman?

[Trillian]

She has big horse teeth and crazy eyes. Being a democrat period = no go zone.

[Drew68]

So, has her Republican opponent, Anthony Pappas, filed paperwork with the FEC yet allowing him to accept donations?

Is he going to mount something resembling even the most modest opposition?

[hal ogen]

“Gorgeous”??? Ugly on the inside...ugly on the outside. A liar and commie loser.

[ViLaLuz]

She’s “gorgeous” in a Huma Abedin sort of way.

[mewzilla]

In my neck of the Upstate NY woods, we call what she did LYING.

And we’re not real keen on that.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: In my neck of the Upstate NY woods, we call what she did LYING.

And we’re not real keen on that.

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Unfortunately, you don’t get to vote for or against her upstate. Where she is, the folks don’t even care.

Heck, she won the primaries MAINLY BECAUSE OF VOTER APATHY. Hardly anyone showed up to vote on that day and she won because her supporters were more active.

[1Old Pro]

In my neck of the Upstate NY woods, we call what she did LYING. And we’re not real keen on that.

Gillibrand pulled the same stunt when running for Congress. She moved from her NYC apartment upstate in the district and made a point to campaign on having guns under her bed...we know how that turned out. Downstate voters determine statewide elections and generally support Leftists in their own local elections.