Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ain't what she's cracked up to be

It turns out that the 'poor girl from the Bronx' Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the new face of the leftist Democrats, isn't as poor as she had claimed to be.

The campaign biography of Ocasio-Cortez describes a hardscrabble life in 'dah Bronx', but that's as close to the truth as Michael Moore having plans of becoming a Calvin Klein underwear model. It was recently revealed that she didn't grow up in the Bronx--she grew up in tony Westchester County.

The socialist is currently 28, and although she was born in the Bronx and now lives there, land county records reveal that her late father Sergio Cortez-Roman bought a 3-bedroom in Yorktown Heights, New York in 1991, when Alexandria was two.

She didn't mention that in her official biography but actually contradicts that little fact by stating in part: "The state of Bronx public schools in the late 80s and early 90s sent her parents on a search for a solution. She ended up attending public school 40 minutes north of Yorktown, and much of her life was defined by the 40 minute commute between school and her family in the Bronx."

This is what is known among political circles as a lie.

Ocasio-Cortez also bragged on the once-funny Stephen Colbert show that President Trump, born in Queens, wouldn't know how to handle "a girl from the Bronx" such as herself. [See previous paragraph.]

The Daily Mail exposed Ocasio-Cortez's lies and she did not respond to their request for comment, typical of what leftists do when caught.

Before defeating the incumbent and arrogant Democratic primary opponent Joe "I Can't Lose" Crowley, socialist Ocasio-Cortez was basically unknown. Partly responsible for her win may have be credited to her hard-luck, "oh woe is me," biography which is now known to be based on lies and deception.

So what else is new on the left?

New York's 14th district encompasses parts of the Bronx and Queens, with a hard left-leaning population that still buys "Che" tee-shirts and knows nothing about the failures of socialism, for the most part. Ocasio-Cortez is expected to win big in the general election because Republicans don't promise free stuff they can't deliver.

Ocasio-Cortez was born in 1989 in New York City. Her father, an architect and CEO of Kirschenbaum & Ocasio-Roman Architects, was also originally from and he died from lung cancer in 2008.

Ocasio-Cortez, a socialist prefabricator, claimed in her campaign biography that her father was a "small business owner." His company focused on remodeling and renovations.

 Daniel Greenfield discusses the father's business and its relationship to the race card in Front Page Magazine.

The campaign bio states that "She grew up in a working-class household where her mothier cleaned homes and everyone pitched in on the family business."

The bio forgets to mention that when she was about five, the family moved to the house in Westchester County, a fact even confirmed by The New York Times.

The home was a single-story with a finished basement and recently sold [in 2016] for $355,000. The median annual income in the area is $116,741, compared to the $48,315 median income in Parkchester.

Ironically, the bio states "It was clear to her, even then, that the zip code a child was born in determined much to their destiny."

Of course, that's a lie. The United States is one of the most income mobile nations on earth where income is determined by whether you finish high school, get a job and get married before having babies.

Her biggest political involvement was with the Bernie Sanders failed bid to run the country into the ground. Last year she participated in vigils for Hurricane Maria--which she claims took the life of her grandfather in Puerto Rico.

This probably needs to be fact checked.

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