Socialist Sweetheart Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Under Fire For Misleading Bio

Ohhhhhh this is rich.

Socialist sweetheart Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez– or as DNC Chair Tom Perez calls her, the future of the Democratic Party– is in a bit of a pickle. You see, her whole “I’m just a cool girl from the Bronx” shtick is going down in flames. For starters, she grew up in Yorktown Heights in Westchester County. AKA one of the richest counties in the country.

That’s not the only thing she’s, erm, stretched the truth on, either. She’s under fire for subtly reshuffling her bio.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweaks bio after residency questions https://t.co/H4oEOJ885g pic.twitter.com/nZFhMYTym5

— lohud.com (@lohud) July 6, 2018

As the Journal News reported, the original online bio for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — the 28-year-old Bernie Sanders protégé who defeated longtime Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley on June 26 — seemed to suggest that she commuted to a school in the suburbs from her family’s home in the Bronx borough of New York City.

But after critics noted that she and her family left the Bronx when she was 5 years old, the bio was changed to imply that the Bronx was home to her “extended family,” the newspaper reported.

Still, no mention was made that her family moved to Yorktown, north of the Bronx, where records indicate Ocasio-Cortez lived with her mother and brother until their home was sold in 2016 for $355,500, according to the report.

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Guess those humble beginnings aren’t as humble as she wants them to be!