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Leftists blasting the rich spend campaign donations on cushy hotels
Lee’s campaign wrote down $1,450 in “travel” expenses on April 28 for CordeValle Resort, a golf hotel in San Martin with a spa and other amenities, the campaign filings show. The records do not specify why Lee’s campaign spent money on a resort on the opposite coast from her congressional seat.
Three weeks earlier, the far-left lawmaker told a Michigan audience that the rich are their adversaries at a rally for Democratic Senate candidate Abdul el Sayed. “I see other people who are fighting like hell to make you feel like your enemy is sitting next to you, that your enemy is somebody who worships differently than you are, or looks differently than you are, comes from a different socioeconomic status than you — unless they are the [upper] class, then that is your enemy,” Lee said in a video posted by the Washington Free Beacon.
Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign spent up to $2,200 at four-star hotels in Georgia, Illinois, multiple Manhattan areas, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Minnesota, including in May at a Chicago facility next to a beach, according to the filings.
Meanwhile, Khanna’s campaign spent $1,167 in April at the four-star Pendry hotel in Manhattan and $3,302 for a “facility rental” at the Darcy hotel in D.C. that month, FEC records show.
Ocasio-Cortez and Lee became Democratic Socialists of America members to get elected and still largely align with the DSA’s movement, while Khanna calls himself a “progressive” capitalist. The three have pushed legislation to restrict PAC donations or gifts to Supreme Court justices, portraying it as an effort to rein in elites.
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“As it stands, Supreme Court Justices are accepting gifts from wealthy benefactors and people with special interests before the Court, actively furthering the distrust between working-class Americans and our legal institutions,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a Tuesday statement about her Supreme Court bill. The congresswoman also stayed at expensive hotels while rallying across the country for a “Fighting Oligarchy” tour last year, the Washington Examiner previously reported.