A “working-class” “immigrant” socialist who turns out to be the scion of a middle-class, white-bread suburb, with a whacking trust fund financing their idle political dilettantism? The only surprise here is that it’s not Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez this time.
Brooklyn state senator Julia Salazar, a Democratic socialist who has presented herself as a champion of the working class, was living off a large trust fund during her campaign for state office, according to a Thursday New York Post report.
New financial disclosure forms obtained by the Post showed the trust was worth more than $10 million, although Salazar, 28, has now claimed that number was in error. Instead, the New York Democrat says the trust she dipped into during her campaign is worth about $400,000.
She must have had to live on ramen and soup-kitchen handouts, the poor, struggling kid.
“Nobody in my entire family is a millionaire. I do not own property,” she tweeted. “I have debt. Last year my annual salary was less than $50,000, because I had to take an unpaid leave from my job at a nonprofit in June order to run for office, and received $18,000 from my dead dad’s trust.”
Salazar, is a self-proclaimed democratic socialist who has been endorsed by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She initially received fawning media coverage due to her similarities to Ocasio-Cortez and for her background as a progressive working-class immigrant from a Jewish family with an Ivy League education.
Except that even her own family reckon that’s a load of verkakte nonsense.
But later reports uncovered alleged inconsistencies with regard to her personal narrative. Salazar’s attempts to portray herself as a working-class immigrant came under scrutiny, especially after her own family members appeared to contradict some of her claims.
Salazar’s assertions that her family split time between the U.S. and Colombia, and that her earliest childhood memories were from Colombia, were rebutted by her brother, Alex.
“We weren’t an immigrant family,” Alex told the New York Times last year, noting he only remembers a pair of short trips to Colombia as a child…He also disputed his sister’s account of their family’s financial situation, saying the Salazars were “certainly middle class, or upper middle class,” while growing up in a comfortable community in Jupiter, FL.
Oh, come on: look at this hovel. It’s nowt more a small shoebox in the middle of the road.
