- A conservative author and reporter tweeted a picture taken from behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and criticized her clothes as being too nice, saying they didn't match her working-class public persona.
- Eddie Scarry, the reporter, got predictably torched on Twitter, was denounced by a member of his own publication, and eventually deleted the tweet.
- Ocasio-Cortez is without an income until she takes her job in Congress in January.
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A conservative author criticized Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's clothes for not looking poor enough
Ocasio-Cortez campaigned on her working-class upbringing and life. Before entering politics, she worked as a bartender.
A conservative writer slammed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, here in New York in June, for wearing a "jacket and coat don't look like a girl who struggles."
A conservative author and reporter tweeted a picture taken from behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and criticized her clothes as being too nice, saying they didn't match her working-class public persona.
Eddie Scarry, the reporter, got predictably torched on Twitter and was denounced by a member of his own publication. He eventually deleted the tweet.
The now-deleted tweet.
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"Hill staffer sent me this pic of Ocasio-Cortez they took just now. I'll tell you something: that jacket and coat don't look like a girl who struggles," Scarry wrote.
Ocasio-Cortez campaigned on her working-class upbringing and life. Before entering politics, she worked as a bartender and took on student debt while getting a degree in economics.
After defeating Democrat incumbent Joe Crowley in one of the biggest upsets of the 2018 midterm elections, Ocasio-Cortez noted that she was in between jobs and without an income.
As a congresswoman, Ocasio-Cortez can expect to pull in $174,000 a year, placing her in a high tax bracket by anyone's count. But she'll have to maintain a residence two expensive districts: New York's 14th, and Washington, DC.
Ocasio-Cortez is the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, and does not have the accumulated wealth that see other incoming congress members through the transition.
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She commented on the struggle her financial struggle on Twitter, saying: "
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