First class hypocrite! Progressive champion AOC books luxury front row seat for American Airlines flight from Austin to NYC
- AOC was photographed by a fellow passenger aboard flight AA1405 on a Boeing 737-800 from Austin to John F. Kennedy International Airport last Sunday
- A fellow passenger took a snap of Ocasio- Cortez sitting in the front row wearing a large mask and a baseball cap
- Her first-class experience included 21-inch wide seats and an additional 7 inches of leg room as well as full dinner service
- Ocasio-Cortez was travelling back to New York after visiting Texas to endorse congressional hopeful and former Austin City Council Member Greg Casar
- AOC has been labeled a hypocrite for living a luxury lifestyle while her constituents in the Bronx and Queens live in poverty
AOC ditched the socialist act last week to bask in the luxury of a first class seat on an American Airlines flight from Austin to JFK.
The Congresswoman was photographed aboard flight AA1405 on a Boeing 737-800 from Austin to John F. Kennedy International Airport last Sunday, the New York Post reported.
A fellow passenger took a snap of Ocasio- Cortez enjoying her comfortable front row wearing a large mask and a baseball cap.
‘I don’t sense anyone in first class knew she was there or someone of her celebrity was there,’ the tipster told the Post. ‘She was also pretty incognito.’
Ocasio-Cortez was travelling back to New York after visiting Texas to endorse congressional hopeful and former Austin City Council Member Greg Casar
AOC was photographed by a fellow passenger aboard flight AA1405 on a Boeing 737-800 from Austin to John F. Kennedy International Airport last Sunday
Ocasio- Cortez would have coughed up between $400 to $600 for a one-way first-class American Airlines flight from Austin to New York City on Sunday, while economy flights would have cost her between $300 to $400, the Post reported.
Her first-class experience included 21-inch wide seats and an additional 7 inches of leg room as well as full dinner service.
‘They would have received the choice of sandwich with salad, side, dessert. Alcohol offerings are available complimentary,’ an airline rep told the Post.
According to a person who knew AOC earlier in her political career, the self-proclaimed socialist has grown a taste for the finer things in life.
‘This is definitely different,’ the person told the Post. ‘There has definitely been a shift in her desires to enjoy the finer things in life.’
‘She lives above a Whole Foods and drives a Tesla, so she probably feels more at home up front,’ one of AOC’s fellow Democratic Congress members told the Post about her flying accommodations.
Ocasio-Cortez, who represents the 14th Congressional District, which spans part of the Bronx and Queens, was travelling back to New York after visiting Texas to endorse congressional hopeful and former Austin City Council Member Greg Casar who is looking to represent Texas’s 35th Congressional District.
Her first-class experience included 21-inch wide seats and an additional 7 inches of leg room as well as full dinner service
AOC caused a stir last year when she attended the MET gala, sporting a white custom dress with the message ‘Tax the rich’ emblazoned on the back
Republicans snarkily reacted to AOC’s visit to Austin, saying she should come more often.
‘We invite AOC to come to Texas as often as she can. Every time she comes to the Lone Star State, it’s a gift because she reminds Texans of how much they despise socialism,’ a Republican National Committee spokesman said.
AOC – who previously posed on the cover of Vanity Fair, drives a $35,000 Tesla and claims to be ‘100% grass roots from the Bronx’ despite growing up in a wealthy NYC suburb. She caused a stir last year when she attended the Met gala, sporting a white custom dress with the message ‘Tax the rich’ emblazoned on the back.
But she has been labeled a hypocrite for living a luxury lifestyle while her constituents in the Bronx and Queens live in poverty.
AOC has been very vocal in the past about her stance on taxing millionaires.
In 2019 she advocated to raising taxes of to 70 percent for the wealthy in order to fund measures against climate change.
She has 12.8 million Twitter followers, and has been blamed for having an outsize influence on Democrat politics.
Recent polling shows many centrist Democrats are appalled by AOC and her so-called ‘Squad’ of progressive representatives’ hard-left stance on issues such as defunding the police and immigration.
The same survey warned that Joe Biden’s party faces a bloodbath in the upcoming November midterms if it cannot present a more moderate stance on economic and social issues, and ignore the shrill fury of online motormouths pollsters have warned do not reflect the interests of ordinary American voters.
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