The Democrat Congressional Alexandria Ocasio Cortez has been called in when a question arises that she grew up in wealthy Westchester County.
Ocasio Cortez is 28 years old who born in the Bronx, County. She was two years old when her late father, Sergio Cortez, Bought a quaint three-bedroom in Yorktown Heights, New York, in 1991.
In her biography, a contradiction was seen that states that Bronx public schools in the late 80s and 90s sent her parents to get a solution. She ended up in public school 40 minutes in Yorktown and mostly her life was defined by the 40-minute commute by the link of school and her family in the Bronx.
She also boasted on Stephen Colbert’s late-night show that President Donald was born in Queens and would not handle a girl from the Bronx such as herself. Questions arise about the early biography of ‘girl from the Bronx.’ She spent her childhood time in Westchester County.
Ocasio Cortez’s family moved to the home in Yorktown Height’s New York. At this time, she was five years old, and then she left to go to private Brown University.
Her biography omits her time living in Westchester instead claiming that her life was defined by the commute between an upstate school and the Bronx before her shock Democratic primary defeat of 10 terms congressional incumbent Joe Crowley on Tuesday Night.
Moreover, Cortez featured her hard luck as a key selling point in her insurgent campaign.
She believed to be a shoo-in for the House in the November general election.
Ocasio Cortez was born in 1989, and her parents are Sergio Ocasio Roman and Blanca Ocasio Cortez, who belong to New York City. Her mother was the CEO of Kirschenbaum & Ocasio-Roman Architects, PC, and her main focus was on remodeling and renovations.
In her biography, her father’s introduction is given as a small business owner. Ocasio grew up in a working-class household, and her mother cleaned homes, and everyone pitched in on the family business.
Ocasio Cortez’s picture was revealed as an infant with her father, an architect, and CEO of his own company. Her father died in 2008 due to lung cancer.
They also loved Parkchester, which is a planned community in the Bronx. When the shifted news was confirmed in the New York Times interview with mother, Blanca Ocasio Cortez.Her home is a single story with a finished basement and now sold out for $355,000 in 2016.
The annual income in the area is $116,741 that compared to the median annual budget that is $48,315 in Parkchester’s Zip code.
After High school in Westchester, she went to the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, where she won the second position for her microbiology project. MIT’s Lincoln laboratory was named as an astroids after her 23238 Ocasio Cortez as a prize.
She was with her mother and brother Gabriel along with her grandmother in 2015. She studied economics and International relations at Brown University. At this time, she also received the news of her father’s death.
She stated that due to her father’s death, her family faced a financial crisis. He left no will and putting their home on the brink of foreclosure.
That’s why the home sold, and again now Cortez loves in the Bronx apartment where she spent her early five years. Furthermore, she also told MSNBC’s Morning Joe in an interview. Her mother cleaned the homes and drove the school bus at this time.
After completed her graduation, she returned to the Bronx and founded Brook Avenue Press. It is a publishing house that seeks designer artists and writers from urban areas to help paint the Bronx in a positive light in children’s stories.
Alexandria Ocasio Cortez worked at a Mexican restaurant to make ends meet during the New York Primaries.
Her involvement in the primary election failed in the 2016 nomination, but that was not the only one. In 2016, she also participated in the primary election against the Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock and visited Flint. She participated in vigils for Hurricane Maria last year and claimed to take the life of her grandfather in Puerto Rico. Well, she came back at FlatsFix, a trendy restaurant in Manhattan’s Union Square.
At that time, she also got the call from other veterans of the Sanders campaign and asking her to run for Congress in the 14th District.
Recently she visited Tornillo, Texas, and protest against US border policy. She has never held elected office because there were no funds to conduct polling on the race. Crowley was one of the powerful Democrats of New York, succeeding Nancy Pelosi as leader of the Party’s congressional Caucus and becoming speaker.
However, Cortez defeated Crowley with a modest campaign. She says she started out of a paper bag while passing out flyers between her restaurant shifts.
Her family helped her campaign ads and said she would not take corporate cash. Now she is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and endorsed by a group. In her platforms, ICE, assault weapons, ban, universal guaranteed employment, and 415 minimum wager and medicare are included.
