Love your podcast and newsletter and have learned an incredible amount from both. Thank you! I need to reach out while I am thinking of it. In the "Lure of Political Outsiders" episode you present AOC as a balance to Lauren Boebert with the explanation that AOC was a bartender before becoming Congressional Representative. I'd like to push back on that equivalency.
From AOC website:
"After high school, Alexandria attended Boston University, and graduated with degrees in Economics and International Relations ... During this period she also had the opportunity to intern in the office of the late Senator Ted Kennedy. Her role in Senator Kennedy’s office provided a firsthand view of the heartbreak families endured after being separated by ICE. These experiences led the Congresswoman to organize Latinx youth in The Bronx and across the United States, eventually, she began work as an Educational Director with the National Hispanic Institute, a role in which she helped Americans, DREAMers and undocumented youth in community leadership and college readiness.
"Following the financial crisis of 2008, tragedy struck when her father passed away suddenly from cancer. The medical bills and other growing expenses placed their home at risk of foreclosure. Alexandria pulled extra shifts to work as a waitress and bartender to support her family, deepening her commitment to issues impacting working-class people."
Thank you for considering this information. There is more to AOC than "she was a bartender."
Love your podcast and newsletter and have learned an incredible amount from both. Thank you! I need to reach out while I am thinking of it. In the "Lure of Political Outsiders" episode you present AOC as a balance to Lauren Boebert with the explanation that AOC was a bartender before becoming Congressional Representative. I'd like to push back on that equivalency.
From AOC website:
"After high school, Alexandria attended Boston University, and graduated with degrees in Economics and International Relations ... During this period she also had the opportunity to intern in the office of the late Senator Ted Kennedy. Her role in Senator Kennedy’s office provided a firsthand view of the heartbreak families endured after being separated by ICE. These experiences led the Congresswoman to organize Latinx youth in The Bronx and across the United States, eventually, she began work as an Educational Director with the National Hispanic Institute, a role in which she helped Americans, DREAMers and undocumented youth in community leadership and college readiness.
"Following the financial crisis of 2008, tragedy struck when her father passed away suddenly from cancer. The medical bills and other growing expenses placed their home at risk of foreclosure. Alexandria pulled extra shifts to work as a waitress and bartender to support her family, deepening her commitment to issues impacting working-class people."
Thank you for considering this information. There is more to AOC than "she was a bartender."
Thanks for offering this correction, Elise.