Women like me aren't supposed to run for office
I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family
Mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx
I was born in a place where your zip code determines your destiny
My name is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
I'm an educator, an organizer, a working class New Yorker
I've worked with expectant mothers, I've waited tables, and led classrooms
and going into politics wasn't in the plan
But after 20 years of the same representation, we have to ask:
who has New York been changing for?
Every day gets harder for working families like mine to get by
The rent gets higher, health care covers less, and our income stays the same
It's clear that these changes haven't been for us
and we deserve a champion
It's time to fight for a New York that working families can afford
That's why I'm running for Congress
This race is about people vs. money
We've got people, they've got money
It's time we acknowledge that not all Democrats are the same
That a Democrat who takes corporate money, profits off foreclosure, doesn't live here
doesn't send his kids to our schools, doesn't drink our water or breathe our air
cannot possibly represent us
What the Bronx and Queens needs is Medicare-for-all, tuition-free public college
a federal jobs guarantee, and criminal justice reform
We can do it now
It doesn't take a hundred years to do this
It takes political courage
A New York for the many is possible
It's time for one of us
Vote for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on June 26
My name is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and I approved this message.