It’s recently been established that Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’ claim to be some tough, street-smart, gal, from the Bronx was nothing more than a self-styled urban myth. Truth is, “Sandy” lived in Yorktown Heights, a lovely suburban Westchester community a solid hour north of Yankee Stadium. She graduated from Yorktown High School, famous nationally for having won 7 state lacrosse championships.
But there’s to more her story that seems to have gone mostly unreported. After the economics major graduated from tony Boston University she founded Brook Avenue Press in the NYC. The company’s goal was to publish children’s books. The outfit was set up to “develop and identify stories and literature in urban areas like New York, specifically communities like The Bronx,” said Ocasio-Cortez.
Unsurprisingly, budding socialist AOC relied on a New York City subsidized program called the Sunshine Bronx Business Incubator which aimed at helping start-ups in that borough. “You see a huge return on your investment here. People pay $500 an hour for consulting that we get for free by the water cooler.” she bubbled.
AOC’s promise to collaborate with “designers, artists, and authors that really know the urban story and help develop stories for kids.”, did not, according to the NY Post, produce a single book from her publishing house.
What Ocasio-Cortez’s initial, and hopefully only, foray into the free market did produce was a warrant served by NYS on July 6, 2017, notifying her she owed $1,618.36 in unpaid corporate taxes.
It would seem that issue remains “unresolved”. Despite initial pledges to pay her delinquencies, Ocasio-Cortez has still failed to pay nearly five years after the fact, as she works to contest the warrant her office claims was issued “in error,” according to The Washington Exam
iner. As a result, her total amount owed in delinquent taxes has grown to nearly $2,500.
The queen of tax the rich sits in one of the top U.S. income brackets, and is constantly hawking expensive “merch”. Yet she can’t pony up what is pocket change to settle a long overdue tax bill on a miserably failed business, subsidized by tax payer dollars. This is the kind of hypocrisy reserved for the Socialists who love the high life for themselves (Bernie Sanders) but not for those for whom they supposedly serve.
Those of us who have stood with the writer of this article since April 15th 2009 (TAX DAY AND THE REBIRTH OF THE TEA PARTY ) are well aware of the hipocracy that surrounds the left…. We spent hours, days, weeks, years, one on one, meetings in big rooms and little rooms, street corners, hot and humid days, below freezing… Read more »
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Sandy, like Bernie Sanders, has never worked a day in her life. But just like the Obongos and other leftist grifters, will one day leave public office with great wealth.
You must just have woken up with a terrible headache, because your usual brilliance was missing here. “Sandy.. has never worked a day in her life.” That is a deliberate lie to the point of being slanderous. She was an activist and working as a waitress and bartender. Perhaps ask the editor to delete your post and my reply.
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The problem isn’t that she was working as a waitress and a bartender… The problem is that she is a Socialist who is working VERY HARD to destroy the country she HATES: the United States. Here is a phony proletarian posing as a Bronx Proletarian when she actually lived in upscale Yorktown and who went to expensive Boston College where… Read more »
Boston University not Boston College.
Excuse me, Boston University… maybe next year she will be cleaning. She went to Boston do College if she thinks it’s serves or interest to lie about it.