Posted on 11/08/2018 1:08:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) told The New York Times in an interview Thursday that she will need to wait for her congressional salary to kick in before she can rent an apartment in D.C.
She explained that the transition period will be “very unusual, because I can’t really take a salary. I have three months without a salary before I’m a member of Congress. So, how do I get an apartment? Those little things are very real.”
Ocasio-Cortez also told the Times that she had saved money before leaving her job at a restaurant and had planned accordingly with her partner.
“We’re kind of just dealing with the logistics of it day by day, but I’ve really been just kind of squirreling away and then hoping that gets me to January," she said.
Ocasio-Cortez explained on Twitter after the interview's release that while everything with her housing is being figured out, her struggle with housing costs is one of "many little ways in which our electoral system isn’t even designed (nor prepared) for working-class people to lead."
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Ocasio-Cortez, who on Tuesday became the youngest women in history elected to Congress, worked as a bartender before toppling veteran lawmaker Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.) in the Democratic primary election in June.
They don’t have waitress jobs in DC?
That is quite a statement for Boston University when a person who holds their degree in economics doesn't have the presence of mind to execute a short term loan secured by a GUARANTEED employment contract of $348,000 for the next 24 months.
“You just pay for it.”
Maybe she can hock some of her $5,000 outfits.
She has guaranteed employment for the next four years at $700,000. I hardly think she would be considered any kind of a risk.
Oops, $350,000. Hopefully her constituents will realize their mistake and not reelect her.
She’s an avowed socialist with no expressed sense of financial realities, and currently unemployed. Yes she’s assured a good income in the near future, but you _know_ she’s gonna be blowing thru that like a firehose.
If OC had any business sense/experience, she’d see this problem as a simple matter of travel expenses. My wife was a traveling consultant for years; I’d drop her off at the airport Monday morning, and pick her up Thursday night ... in the meantime, she’d work long hours, and sleep at a cheap hotel near the client’s site; food/housing/travel was reimbursed by the business. OC should have absolutely no trouble doing the same until she can afford her own preferred solutions.
That OC doesn’t see this as a standard solved business problem shows how absolutely unprepared she is to address a $5,000,000,000,000 budget and bossing around 350,000,000 complete strangers.
...and that’s one reason we DO elect “one-percenters” to such offices: they KNOW how $#!^ works at that scale, and already have people handling mundanities like transport & housing.
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