New York congressional candidate and democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the political world’s rising superstar.
Her popularity is so gangbusters, she won a primary race in June in a
New York congressional district she wasn’t even running in as a
write-in candidate, according to the New York Daily News.
Well, surprise surprise, her popularity extends all the way to the West Coast.
Ocasio-Cortez has two fundraisers planned Tuesday in San Francisco’s
Mission District, and both have sold out. One even sold out twice.
The first fundraiser the firebrand candidate will attend is a
high-price affair at The Assembly, hosted by a who’s-who of local
progressives including Supervisor Jane Kim, among a bevy of others. The
tickets range from a “friend” seat at $50 to a “host” level seat at
$2,700.
Yowza. I felt my wallet shiver just typing that.
It’s the second fundraiser of Tuesday evening, however, that has many
locals energized. Tickets for an appearance at the bar El Rio,
organized by the San Francisco Progressive Alliance, ranged in price
from $10 to $250, and sold out last Wednesday within hours of being
posted online. In fact, San Francisco Berniecrats Co-Chair Claire Lau
tells me, demand was so high to see Ocasio-Cortez that organizers
switched venues to Gray Area on Mission Street.
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Source: San Francisco Examiner (via Empire Report New York)
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