AOC responds to 'Sandy from the Suburbs' claim

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 June 30, 2025

The conflict between New York's most notorious "Bronx girl" and other New Yorkers hasn't calmed down yet, and it might not see an end anytime soon, it appears.

Left-leaning radical Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, has spoken out about the photo she appeared in for her high school yearbook. However, she has continued to avoid discussing her origins in Westchester County, as the New York Post reported.

“I’m proud of how I grew up and talk about it all the time,” AOC said on X Friday. “My mom cleaned houses and I helped. We cleaned tutors’ homes in exchange for SAT prep.

“Growing up between the Bronx and Yorktown deeply shaped my views of inequality & it’s a big reason I believe the things I do today!”

The Bronx claims

The Democratic lawmaker's "Bronx girl" assertions, however, have been the subject of sustained criticism; residents of northern Westchester still recall Sandy Cortez of Yorktown Heights.

“She’s embarrassing herself for doing everything possible to avoid saying she grew up in the suburbs instead of the Bronx,” state Assemblyman Matt Slater (R-Yorktown) said Sunday.

“She has said she visited extended family, she has said she commuted,” Slater said. “Now she’s in between. It’s clearly desperate attempts to protect the lie that she is from the Bronx.”

After Ocasio-Cortez demanded Trump's impeachment for ignoring Congress over the Iranian airstrikes, the representative for a portion of the Bronx and Queens engaged in an online feud with the president last week.

Trump's pushback

Trump referred to the liberal firebrand as "one of the 'dumbest' people in Congress," prompting Ocasio-Cortez to unleash a barrage of criticism on the president in a succession of tweets.

“Also, I’m a Bronx girl. You should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast. Respectfully,” Ocasio-Cortez said, referencing the president’s Queens childhood.

Ocasio-Cortez attended Yorktown High School from 2007 to 2008 after relocating there with her family from the Bronx when she was five years old.

The 35-year-old left-wing darling first gained national attention in 2018 after pulling off an upset victory, but she has since been criticized for her suburban upbringing.

AOC's greatest hits

In addition to becoming the youngest member of Congress when she took office, AOC has also had grandiose visions of a "Green New Deal," that would, quite literally in her opinion, save the world. In almost everyone else's opinion, it would end it.

Additionally, she made mainstream the idea of a "Democrat socialist," which has turned out to appear a lot like a regular socialist, but with an American twist. Her work made very real headway for New York's struggle against a socialist governor, which is currently raging.

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