Truly a woman of the working class!https://nypost.com/2025/12/11/us-news/aoc-splurged-nearly-50k-on-pricey-hotel-stays-dining-and-renting-puerto-rico-concert-venue-where-bad-bunny-performed/AOC splurged nearly $50K on pricey hotel stays, dining and renting Puerto Rico concert venue where Bad Bunny performedRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) dropped almost $50,000 on hotels and meals in Puerto Rico in the third quarter of this year — as well as renting a San Juan venue where she was caught on tape grooving at an August Bad Bunny concert.AOC’s principal campaign committee shelled out $680.52 on July 28 to stay at the lavish Hotel Palacio Provincial, along with another $1,507.26 on Aug. 29 and a whopping $9,440,79 on Sept. 29, according to third quarter federal campaign finance filings — even as the “Squad” rep on her social media accounts denounced gentrification that was taking place on the island.
The “first-class,” “adults only” Hotel Palacio Provincial boasts of being “situated within an historic early 19th century building” with “transcendent hints of the structure’s grand colonial past” — even as the “Squad” rep on her social media accounts denounced gentrification that was taking place on the island while visiting in August.On Aug. 25, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress also paid $3,861.20 to Hotel El Convento, another 19th century property touting its “old world charm and elegance,” the Federal Election Commission filings show.In all, the campaign forked over $15,489.77 for lodging in Puerto Rico between July 1 and Sept. 30.At least $10,743.13 was spent on meals and catering services on Aug. 25 and Sept. 29, per the FEC filings for that period.Elsewhere on the island, the 34-year-old Bronx and Queens Democrat danced alongside Brooklyn Rep. Nydia Velázquez at an Aug. 10 Bad Bunny concert held in San Juan as part of the anti-ICE rapper‘s “Residency tour.”NBA star LeBron James, hip-hop artist Iggy Azalea, actress Penelope Cruz and actor Austin Butler were among the other attendees.Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign spent more than $23,000 on “venue rental” at the same location, the Coliseo De Puerto Rico, on June 24 and Aug. 25. It’s unclear whether the expenses were related to the Bad Bunny shows.Fox News first reported on the filings, and a campaign manager for the congresswoman, Oliver Hidalgo-Wohlleben, responded in a statement to the outlet that Ocasio-Cortez “regularly travels to Puerto Rico to support local causes and host events that require both staff and security.”“She is deeply proud of her investment in grassroots organizing and will continue to be active in advocating for both people on the island and the millions of Puerto Ricans in the diaspora,” Hidalgo-Wohlleben added.
Throughout the third quarter, the Ocasio-Cortez campaign spent thousands of dollars more on various “boutique” hotel stays and expensive food vendors on the US mainland — including as part of her “Fighting Oligarchy” tour with socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).Those outlays included $6,600 for stays at the Hotel Vermont in Burlington.Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign coffers also were used for $2,000 lodging at the Thompson Central Park Hotel in Manhattan — and a $3,000 stay at the Arlo Williamsburg in Brooklyn.Other expenses included $6,300 for a meal at Italian restaurant Ama in the capitol’s Navy Yard neighborhood.Another $11,500 was shelled out for dining in DC, Vermont, the Bronx and Latham, NY, ice cream company Mr. Ding-a-ling.
>>1464965>it's a NYpost hitpieceShe gets paid $174,000 a year. Who gives a shit if she spends that much on food. It must be a slow news day if the NYpost is sensationalizing this over the usual race bait crime stories.
>>1464965This reminds me of that time more evidence of Donald Trump's decades long friendship with notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein came to light and OP got paid a laughably small sum to try to distract from that with bullshit noise
>>14649681) She's not spending her own money, she's spending campaign money2) She spends all her time talking about helping the poor but she'd rather eat at a 5-star restaurant and stay in 5-star hotels than actually help the poor.>>1464969awwww Epstein is babby's first political scandal! So cute :)
>>1464972HOW DARE SHE!, SHE OUGHT TO APOLOGIZE!!If she had any brains, she fleece privately like I do to the suckers and losers(like the dOPy) and accepting blatant oversea bribes and getting a taste from my relatives
>>1464972What is her voting record, the part of her job that actually impacts people's lives, on matters of assistance for the poor vs gifts for the rich?As someone with a very genuine and sincere concern about AOC's relationship with the poor who isn't trying to distract from another story with the same tired attacks the right has been using against Democrats for decades, surely you can speak on this.
>>1464973https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutismyou don't even understand the issue. It's the hypocrisy of her being a Democratic Socialist who rants about the rich and how we need to give more money to poor people and then she does shit like this.
>>1464975Because remember kids, you aren't allowed to spend money on anything if you take issue with the system. If you do, then any pointing out how much the rich are fucking over the poor is invalid.
>>1464965>>1464972>Looks deeper>These were all campaign events across three monthsOk so who fucking cares? She spent campaign money on campaign events. It wasn't even like she spent it all on herself; this is including paying for catering and staff.
>>1464979You don't even have to spend moneyI remember when the right spent several days trying to make AOC double parking at a Whole Foods an international incidentThey're so scared of her it's hilarious
>>1464981why can't she have campaign events at a normal hotel or a normal restaurant? Is she afraid of being too close to the poors?>>1464982>scaredLMAO it's the opposite, the reason we give attention to her is because we want her to become the face of the Democratic party. I hope she runs in 2028 and somehow wins the nomination, it would be funny.
>Shows up at a rich bastard's party that cost $35k just to get in>Tax the rich dressThis isn't the first time.
>>1464995So nothing in your script to address her actual voting record, huh. Just plow on with pre-written talking points until your shift ends.>>1464974
>>1464965Holy smokes, 50 thousand dollars over three months!?!?That does it! From now on, I'm voting for the party that is cutting healthcare subsides for the poor, shutting down hospitals in poor rural areas, and slashing federal loans for nursing students (one of the few dependable professionals left for pulling people out of poverty), all while cutting taxes for the rich and giving billions of dollars in taxpayer funded bailouts to the farmers whose livelihood they ruined with tariffs!They stand for THE LITTLE GUY!
>>1464995>why can't she have campaign events at a normal hotel or a normal restaurant? Is she afraid of being too close to the poors?Those usually don't have the personnel or space to handle a big campaign event you retard. The reason the places that serve as those venues are so expensive is BECAUSE they have the capabilities to serve as those event venues.
>>1465000>Let me just make up a fanfic real quickYou do realize the big bills were because those were events and they have to pay staff and catering, right? She isn't one of Trump's cronies burning 100k on a private jet to go to a party halfway across the country with an FBI escort.
>>1465001>You're right and I am wrongI accept your concession>>1465005yes they do "retard"Thanks for being the 100th example of leftists on /news/ being underage though>>1465006>You do realize the big bills were because those were events at some of the most expensive restaurants and hotels, right?yes
>>1465003Every time I pay my exorbitantly expensive healthcare premiums I'll rest easy knowing the only possible alternative is someone who paid for an expensive hotel room in Puerto Rico. Every time I pay more at the grocery store, I'll rest easy knowing I voted for Donald, who certainly has never misallocated campaign finances (and certainly not a felony over using campaign finances to pay off a porn star).
>>1465009>No response to any of the points made whatsoever, just "N-nu-uh you're stoopid!" three times in a rowThey really scrape the bottom of the barrel recruiting you weekend shills, don't they
>>1465012>Yes, you are right, and I concede againI already accepted your concession but okay
>>1465017>No uLol
>>1464972She pays back her campaign with her own money dumbass. >>1465012They send the worst mentally deficient ones here.
>>1465019>>1465021why do you keep conceding after I already accepted you concession?
>>1465022Fix your bot Rajeesh, it's not even coherent anymore
>>1465023>You're right and I concedewe already established that
>>1465024What?
>>1465025The right wing shill lost control of it's distraction thread so now it's just screeching incoherentlyIt happens a lot on this board. You get used to it
>>1465027>>1464968This is why you ignore their threads, notice how the right wing hit piece threads are where all the shill hide to build up engagements and their paycheck?Ignore their threads.
Meanwhile drmupf spends that in 30 minutes while golfing
>>1465045let them have this one they need itTrump steals money from his base with stuff like Trump coin, and gives their money to the rich but this really upsets them
>>1464965>>but think of the environment and what will happen if the orange man wins again, give me money so i can spe~nd I mean fight facism and capitalism
>>1465234trump isn't pretending to be fighting for the working class while being a capitalistic pig
>>1465040There's 28 posts in this thread you absolute wiener. And about 20 of them are you flipping out on OP who also doesn't really care. No one cares. No one.
>>1464965The Sainted Mother Trotsky is spending funds having a blast instead of giving to workers?Interesting Brown Old Scam.Biberals, how can you allow this lack of total communism?
>>1465238He merely ran on that platform but when Trump lies it’s cute!
