[1]Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress

A couple
weeks ago, we sent our supporters a survey and asked if folks had any
questions. One question/theme we heard a few times was Alexandria’s
thoughts on the Democratic Party »

Now, I think that when it comes to the Democratic Party, one of the big
questions that we've seen is, what has happened with the Democratic Party
and the working class?

And I think that from my vantage point, I think I see a lot of what's
happened.

I was a waitress, right up until I got elected to Congress. This was not a
cute summer job that I had as a teenager and then I did some jobs and then
I got elected to Congress years later. I went from wiping down a bar and
walking behind it to walking into the halls of Congress.

And the reason I did that and the reason I ran was not because I was
running against a Republican. It's because I ran against a Democrat that I
did not believe centered families or communities like mine or saw the pain
of people like me.

And a lot of what I saw at that time was a Democrat that only ran against
Trump and did not support a vision with clarity that spoke to my material
reality.

And I got to a point as a waitress where I felt like if my member of
Congress wouldn't support a $15 minimum wage and say it with their full
chest with clarity, then I would, and again, I'm not speaking for every
single district or every single person.

I'm recounting the story of what happened in my life. I felt like if my
representative from a deep blue seat could not fight for my right to have
health care unequivocally, then I would fight for my right to have health
care and for my community's right to have health care guaranteed,
unequivocally.

I, at the time, felt like our representation took a lot of corporate
money, a lot of lobbyist money and answered more to the people and the
class that they raised money from than the people who voted for them.

And I ran for office to change that.

Any observations that I raise, I believe have to do with longer term
trends around our Party and what we can do to improve and get back to our
roots as champions of the working class.

But at the end of the day, the ultimate problem is our ability to clearly
and forthrightly advocate for an agenda that clearly champions the working
class.

To me, that's things like a $15 minimum wage, Medicare for All or at the
very least lowering the age of Medicare until it hits zero.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

We need to show widespread support for Alexandria so she can continue
doing what she was elected to do: demand better.

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