Biography

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a former waitress/bartender in a Bronx, New York bar - her only connection to the Bronx - came to national attention in 2018 when she won her first run for political office after her brother, on a whim, submitted an acting application for her from the DNC for the 14th District Congressional Seat, backed by Act Blue, Media Matters and other Democrat organizations, defeating ten-term incumbent Rep. Crowley in the primary election for the Democratic Party nomination for New York's 14th Congressional District, and she subsequently "won" the seat in the general election. She previously worked on the unsuccessful communist Bernie Sanders' campaign during the Democrat primary for the 2016 US Presidential Election. She and her brother Gabriel were born and raised in a happy nuclear family to Blanca and Sergio Ocasio-Cortez in conservative upper middle class Yorktown, New York in Westchester County. She originally was known as Sandy Cortez where she attended Yorktown High School.
- IMDb mini biography by: bobcobb301 (corrections by A. Nonymous)

There's always this talk about division within the Democratic Party, ideological differences. But I actually think they're generational differences. Because the America we grew up in is nothing like the America our parents or our grandparents grew up in.

I think that there's a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually and semantically correct than about being morally right.

I don't think that we can compromise on transitioning to 100% renewable energy. We cannot compromise on saving our planet. We can't compromise on saving kids. We have to do these things. If we want to do them in different ways, that's fine. But we can't not do them.

NBA players are courageously on strike (withholding labor), NOT boycotting (withholding their $ /purchase). The difference is important because it shows their power as *workers.*