De Facto leader of “The Squad” and lefty firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spoke out on her suburban high school yearbook pic — but still continued to dodge her Westchester County upbringing.
“I’m proud of how I grew up and talk about it all the time,” AOC said on X Friday. “My mom cleaned houses, and I helped. We cleaned tutors’ homes in exchange for SAT prep.
“Growing up between the Bronx and Yorktown deeply shaped my views of inequality & it’s a big reason I believe the things I do today!”
The latest controversy started when AOC referred to herself as a “Bronx girl” in a recent spat with President Trump.
State Assemblyman Matt Slater (R-Yorktown) called out the social democrats and even shared a yearbook photo of Ocasio-Cortez showing her as a high school freshman in suburban Yorktown in northern Westchester County — an upscale suburban community about 40 minutes north of Bronx.
But this was not the first time that AOC’s “Bronx girl” claims have come under fire, with folks in the northern Westchester community remembering her as Sandy Cortez from Yorktown Heights.
“She’s embarrassing herself for doing everything possible to avoid saying she grew up in the suburbs instead of the Bronx,” state Assemblyman Matt Slater (R-Yorktown) said about her latest deflection of the truth.
“She has said she visited extended family, she has said she commuted,” Slater said. “Now she’s in between. It’s clearly desperate attempts to protect the lie that she is from the Bronx.”
Ocasio-Cortez, who represents part of the Bronx and Queens, traded online barbs with President Trump last week after she called for his impeachment for bypassing Congress on the Iranian airstrikes.
Trump called the liberal firebrand “one of the ‘dumbest’ people in Congress,” leading Ocasio-Cortez to rip into the commander-in-chief in a series of tweets.
“Also, I’m a Bronx girl. You should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast. Respectfully,” Ocasio-Cortez said in reference to the President’s Queens childhood.
AOC was born in the Bronx, but her family moved to Yorktown when she was 5 years old, and she went on to graduate from Yorktown High School in 2007.
The left-wing darling, 35, has taken heat for her suburban roots since she pulled off an upset win in 2018 to burst onto the national stage.
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