{"id":16636,"date":"2025-06-26T15:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T15:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/16636\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T15:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T15:42:08","slug":"ny-lawmaker-refutes-aocs-bronx-roots-claim-with-yearbook-photo-give-it-up-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/16636\/","title":{"rendered":"NY lawmaker refutes AOC\u2019s Bronx roots claim with yearbook photo: \u2018give it up already\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 New York State Assemblyman Matt Slater, R-District 94, fired back at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. on Tuesday, after she claimed to have originally come from New York City\u2019s Bronx borough.<\/p>\n<p>AOC\u2019s claim came after President Donald Trump slammed her as one of the \u201cdumbest people in Congress.\u201d She fired back at the president via X and touted her tough upbringing in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. President, don\u2019t take your anger out on me &#8211; I\u2019m just a silly girl,\u201d she wrote. \u201cTake it out on whoever convinced you to betray the American people and our Constitution by illegally bombing Iran and dragging us into war. It only took you 5 months to break almost every promise you made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, I\u2019m a Bronx girl,\u201d she added. \u201cYou should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast. Respectfully.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Assemblyman Slater then responded to the post with a photo of his Yorktown High School yearbook showing Rep. Ocasio-Cortez listed among the students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c@AOC if you&#8217;re a BX girl then why are you in my Yorktown yearbook?\u201d he asked. \u201cGive it up already.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times reported in 2018 that Rep. Ocasio-Cortez was born in the Bronx. Her family reportedly moved to Yorktown when she was 5, but she later returned to the Bronx after graduating college.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_jlwalker_\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_jlwalker_\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Follow <\/a>Jackson Walker on X at @_jlwalker_ for the latest trending national news. Have a news tip? Send it to jacwalker@sbgtv.com.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 New York State Assemblyman Matt Slater, R-District 94, fired back at Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,15082,8471,327,16395,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,277,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,16396,16394],"class_list":{"0":"post-16636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-aoc","10":"tag-bronx","11":"tag-congress","12":"tag-matt-slater","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-trump","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa","26":"tag-yearbook","27":"tag-yorktown"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114750432939721477","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}