Along with donning suffragist white for her swearing-in as a House member and clapping back at the GOP over her college dance video, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has made a point to laud an essential person in her life. The New York Democrat posted an emotional tribute to her mother on Twitter and Instagram early Sunday morning. So many people sacrificed so much for this to happen ― my mother most of all,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote. “Mami mopped floors, drove school buses, + answered phones,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote. When my father died, she was left a single mother of 2, and again she had to start over.

Source: Huffington Post January 06, 2019 16:52 UTC