Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) marketing campaign is underneath fireplace for filings displaying tens of hundreds of {dollars} spent on luxurious accommodations and a Unhealthy Bunny venue rental in Puerto Rico as her marketing campaign claims that she “repeatedly travels to Puerto Rico to assist native causes and host occasions that require each workers and safety.”
In accordance with a report from Fox Information, the Democrat socialist’s marketing campaign spent a whopping $50,000 in Puerto Rico alone from June to September on objects together with however not restricted to a venue rental and luxurious accommodations. Extra particularly, the $23,000 venue rental occurred across the identical space the place she was seen dancing at a Unhealthy Bunny live performance.
Per Fox Information:
Movies that emerged on social media from the August journey present AOC visiting a housing improvement to rail in opposition to gentrification whereas different footage from social media confirmed her dancing in what seems to be field seats at a Unhealthy Bunny live performance on Aug. 10 alongside Rep. Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y. Between August and September, Unhealthy Bunny held a 31-show “Residency” tour on the standard “El Choli” Coliseo de Puerto Rico in San Juan, which was attended by a slew of celebrities like LeBron James, Iggy Azalea, Penelope Cruz, and Austin Butler, amongst others.
In the meantime, a marketing campaign finance report from the third quarter, which information marketing campaign bills for members of Congress between July 1 and Sept. 30, exhibits that AOC’s marketing campaign spent over $15,000 at two luxurious accommodations in San Juan, the place Unhealthy Bunny was holding his “Residency” tour. The marketing campaign additionally spent over $10,500 on meals and catering providers, the filings present.
Unhealthy Bunny — a cross-dressing Puerto Rican rapper — is the headliner for the upcoming Tremendous Bowl, drawing controversy and calls for to search out one other artist.
That apart, Q3 filings finally revealed that her marketing campaign spent $15,489.77 on resort stays in Puerto Rico, in addition to $10,743.13 for catering and meals.
The filings additionally revealed that Ocasio-Cortez spent hundreds at boutique luxurious accommodations throughout, paradoxically, her “Preventing Oligarchy” tour with socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). As an illustration, she reportedly spent $5,000 on the Resort Vermont in Burlington and $3,000 for a keep at Arlo Williamsburg in New York. She is just not the one socialist hypocrite, as Sanders earlier this 12 months defended his use of personal jets for his tour, stating, “You assume I’m going to be sitting on a ready line at United ready whereas 30,000 persons are ready?”
Ocasio-Cortez’s marketing campaign supervisor Oliver Hidalgo-Wohlleben instructed Fox Information Digital that the Democrat “repeatedly travels to Puerto Rico to assist native causes and host occasions that require each workers and safety” and referred to the actions as investments in grassroot organizing.
“She is deeply happy with her funding in grassroots organizing and can proceed to be energetic in advocating for each folks on the island and the thousands and thousands of Puerto Ricans within the diaspora,” he added.
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