Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Ms. Venezuela not from Venezuela...or the Bronx

We were born in Mt. Kisko, New York, and lived in an apartment there for the first year of our life. Our earliest memories are in our parent's first home, a condo in Croton -on-Hudson. In 1979 the family moved into a three bedroom home in a nice cul-de-sac in The Town of Cortlandt, the inspiration for the street in A Line through the Desert. Here we remained until college in 1992. The Town of Cortlandt is where we are from.

We bring this up becuase it turns out the Dem candidate for NY's 14th Congressional District, Alexandira Ocasio-Cortez (Ms. Venezuela) is not really from the Bronx. Ok, Ms. Venezuela was born in the Bronx and spent her first five years there. But it turns out the scrappy, hard bitten, tough as nails, dare we say 'wise' Latina is actually from Yorktown Heights, which is just a few towns over from our own Town of Cortlandt. That's Westchester County folks. We'll let the Daily Mail explain:

[Ms. Venezuela's] home, a single-story with a finished basement, most recently sold for $355,000 in 2016. The median annual income in the area is $116,741, compared to the median annual income of $48,315 in Parkchester's zip code, according to the latest Census data.

'It was clear to her, even then, that the zip code a child was born in determined much of their destiny,' Ocasio-Cortez's official bio reads.

While attending Yorktown High School in Westchester, she entered the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair where she won second place for her microbiology project.
Our own high school, Hen Hud, used to play Yorktown all the time. As we recall they had a great Lacrosse team, which is pretty white, no?

Ms. Venezuela is a nice Westchester girl who wanted to get away from the 'burbs and live in an exciting place, in this case Queens. Doing so is something of a Westchester girl right of passage on the road to marrying a nice professional and moving out to say, Plainfield, New Jersey or Rockaway on Long Island.*

That said, Alexandira's heart is in Venezuela:
*Pronounced Long-guy-lnd.

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