No love for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from the DC Dems?

One year ago, you could find Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez working behind the bar at Flats Fix, a small taqueria near Union Square. Come January, you will find her in Washington D.C., representing New York's 14th District as the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.

But just because she is making history, doesn't mean she is making money. Ocasio-Cortez recently revealed that she is currently unable to rent a D.C. apartment.

Her transition period will be "very unusual, because I can't really take a salary," she said in an interview with The New York Times. "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."

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Rightguide said:

She has the typical Democrat IQ.

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Kirkrapine said:

She apparently quit her job to run for office, won it, and now has to deal with an earnings-gap problem. That's not stupid -- there is no better way she could have handled it.

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Rightguide said:

That isn't all she has to deal with, she's a blithering idiot.

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Rightguide said:

That isn't all she has to deal with, she's a blithering idiot.

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OldJourno said:

She'll fit right in with the Democrat caucus.
But first, the inauguration!

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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]

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