WASHINGTON — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) dropped nearly $50,000 on accommodations and meals in Puerto Rico within the third quarter of this yr — in addition to renting a San Juan venue the place she was caught on tape grooving at an August Dangerous Bunny live performance.
AOC’s principal marketing campaign committee shelled out $680.52 on July 28 to remain on the lavish Lodge Palacio Provincial, together with one other $1,507.26 on Aug. 29 and a whopping $9,440,79 on Sept. 29, in accordance with third quarter federal marketing campaign finance filings — even because the “Squad” rep on her social media accounts denounced gentrification that was going down on the island.
The “first-class,” “adults solely” Palacio Provincial boasts of being “located inside an historic early nineteenth century constructing” with “transcendent hints of the construction’s grand colonial previous.”
On Aug. 25, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress additionally paid $3,861.20 to Lodge El Convento, one other nineteenth century property touting its “previous world allure and magnificence,” the Federal Election Fee filings present.
In all, the marketing campaign forked over $15,489.77 for lodging in Puerto Rico between July 1 and Sept. 30.
A minimum of $10,743.13 was spent on meals and catering providers on Aug. 25 and Sept. 29, per the FEC filings for that interval.
Elsewhere on the island, the 34-year-old Bronx and Queens Democrat danced alongside Brooklyn Rep. Nydia Velázquez at an Aug. 10 Dangerous Bunny live performance held in San Juan as a 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 had been among the many different attendees.
Ocasio-Cortez’s marketing campaign spent greater than $23,000 on “venue rental” on the similar location, the Coliseo De Puerto Rico, on June 24 and Aug. 25. It’s unclear whether or not the bills had been associated to the Dangerous Bunny reveals.
Fox Information first reported on the filings, and a marketing campaign supervisor for the congresswoman, Oliver Hidalgo-Wohlleben, responded in an announcement to the outlet that Ocasio-Cortez “usually travels to Puerto Rico to assist native causes and host occasions that require each workers and safety.”
“She is deeply pleased with her funding in grassroots organizing and can proceed to be lively in advocating for each individuals on the island and the thousands and thousands of Puerto Ricans within the diaspora,” Hidalgo-Wohlleben added.
All through the third quarter, the Ocasio-Cortez marketing campaign spent 1000’s of {dollars} extra on varied “boutique” resort stays and costly meals distributors on the US mainland — together with as a part of her “Combating Oligarchy” tour with socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
These outlays included $6,600 for stays on the Lodge Vermont in Burlington.
Ocasio-Cortez’s marketing campaign coffers additionally had been used for $2,000 lodging on the Thompson Central Park Lodge in Manhattan — and a $3,000 keep on the Arlo Williamsburg in Brooklyn.
Different bills included $6,300 for a meal at Italian restaurant Ama within the capitol’s Navy Yard neighborhood.
One other $11,500 was shelled out for eating in DC, Vermont, the Bronx and Latham, NY, ice cream firm Mr. Ding-a-ling.
