Ocasio-Cortez shreds conservative TV host for sharing picture of her childhood home

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

New York Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tore into a conservative TV host who tweeted a picture of her childhood home in an attempt to discredit her.

John Cardillo, a host of Newsmax's "America Talks Live," shared a picture of Ocasio-Cortez’s childhood home in Yorktown Heights, falsely claiming she lived there until she went to attend Brown University.

“This is the Yorktown Heights (very nice area) home @Ocasio2018 grew up in before going off to Ivy League Brown University,” Cardillo tweeted. “A far cry from the Bronx hood upbringing she’s selling.”

Link to tweet

Ocasio-Cortez lived in the Bronx's Parkchester apartments before moving to Yorktown Heights at age 5 to attend a better public school then what was available in the Bronx at that time, according to her campaign website. She later attended Boston University.

The self-proclaimed democratic socialist is running as a Democrat in New York’s 14th Congressional District, which encompasses the Bronx and Queens, after defeating incumbent Rep. Joseph Crowley (D) in a stunning primary earlier this month.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/395090-ocasio-cortez-shreds-conservative-commentator-for-sharing-picture-of-her

If you click on the Twitter link you'll see she defends herself pretty well against the RWNJ

[bettyellen]

1. That's odd, I saw in the NYT then describing her commute from the Bx to Yorktown Heights in HS....

And it stuck out in my mind because I grew up in the Bronx and commuted 45 min to an hour just to the N Bx. Figured it must have been Metro North express trains or something. Not great if major papers were spreading misinformation.