Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shuts down this conservative reporter for trying to use ‘creepy’ photo of her coat to prove she’s secretly rich

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Matthew Chapman at AlterNet:

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the freshly-elected New York Democratic Socialist who will become the youngest woman ever in Congress, is arriving on Capitol Hill as one of its less affluent members. Indeed, like most women her age, housing costs are a struggle for her, and she cannot afford the rent on an apartment in Washington, D.C.

But that does not sit with conservatives, who are desperate to prove Ocasio-Cortez is secretly well-off and living the high life so they can say she has no business railing against income inequality. Right-wing commentator John Cardillo even posted an image of her (very small) childhood home in Yorktown Heights and claimed victory because it was not a “Bronx hood upbringing.”

On Thursday, the campaign to prove Ocasio-Cortez is lying about her poverty reached a new low when Eddie Scarry, a reporter for the conservative Washington Examiner, tweeted an image of her from the back, and cited her coat as proof:

[Hill staffer sent me this pic of Ocasio-Cortez they took just now. I’ll tell you something: that jacket and coat don’t look like a girl who struggles. pic.twitter.com/oaLpy5aXlt

— Eddie Scarry (@eScarry)

November 15, 2018]

Scarry eventually deleted the tweet in question, but another Twitter user preserved it as a screenshot:

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But perhaps the best response of all came from Ocasio-Cortez herself:

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shuts down this conservative reporter for trying to use ‘creepy’ photo of her coat to prove she’s secretly rich