Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (AOC) Fighting Oligarchy tour with Sen. Bernie Sanders is facing new scrutiny after campaign finance filings revealed the congresswoman spent thousands of donor dollars on luxury boutique hotels.
While railing against billionaires and corporate greed, Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign shelled out $3,508.92 at the upscale Vdara Hotel & Spa in Las Vegas on March 25. Around the same time as a Tucson rally, filings show she paid $3,165.76 to The Leo Kent Hotel, a high-rise boutique property in Arizona. Days earlier, she joined Sanders for a Vegas rally while decrying “oligarchy” from the stage.
The spending didn’t stop there. Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign also dropped $3,445.59 at the lavish Asher Adams Hotel in Salt Lake City, coinciding with an April rally in Utah. Reports show her team also spent heavily at CitizenM in California, Hotel Vermont, Hotel Renegade in Idaho, and the Lansdowne Resort and Spa in Virginia.
Sanders bragged that the Fighting Oligarchy tour drew more than 300,000 attendees across 34 rallies in 20 states. Yet both he and Ocasio-Cortez flew private to several West Coast stops, according to earlier reports, undercutting their message of standing against the wealthy elite.
The hypocrisy is striking. As critics point out, railing against the “billionaire class” while living it up at high-end hotels sends a clear message about priorities.
