Thread by @VABVOX

A huge supporter of #OcasioCortez, I thought AOC was a w-c waitress like I was as I worked my way through college while supporting my family.
Facts: her dad was a Westchester architect. She's a grad of BU.

Still ousted a big fish--but by only 4k votes.
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I DESPERATELY want what @Ocasio2018 is campaigning for. I have been fighting for socialized #healthcare and income equality since high school.

But no false narratives: AOC won because she worked very hard & Crowley didn't. That's classic establishment politics, not revolution.

#AlexandriaOcasioCortez has SUCH an impressive resume that I am seriously po'd at how the MSM and others are erasing & dismissing her accomplishments to fit their own narratives.

AOC was already a high school star who won a national science award with a project in microbiology.

Then @Ocasio2018 went on to college at #BostonUniversity and had a fellowship there. She graduated FOURTH in her class and interned for Sen. Ted Kennedy WHILE she was in college.

ARE YOU IMPRESSED YET???

Then @Ocasio2018 graduated in 2011 with a degree in economics and international relations.

She credits her Catholic faith with helping her get through her father's death. He had no will & that left the family in financial shambles. It also got her activist juices flowing.

After her father's death @Ocasio2018 founded a small press specializing in children's literature, Brook Avenue Press. She was an educator for the National Hispanic Institute and served as Educational Director of the 2017 Northeast Collegiate World Series.

Quite the resume.