To fight the oligarchy, she must live like the oligarchy.
New York “Squad” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — who fancies herself a working-class champion against the ultrawealthy — appears to have lived it up at ritzy hotels with her team during her cross-country “Fighting Oligarchy” tour with fellow far-left Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), campaign filings suggest.
AOC’s campaign shelled out $3,508.92 alone at the Vdara Hotel & Spa — which boasts a five-star relaxation retreat and posh penthouses — in Las Vegas during the tour in March.
Baseline prices for some rooms at the ritzy hotel can run up to nearly $1,000, depending on the day.
It was not immediately clear what type of services the darling of the socialist set may have enjoyed at the costly hot spot, what time frame was involved or how many staffers helped rack it up the hefty bill, which was first reported by the Washington Examiner.
Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders, a millionaire, began their “Fighting Oligarchy” tour earlier this year to mobilize the country’s progressive base against the Trump administration.
Her campaign’s Vegas hotel expenditure occurred around the time of a town-hall event she participated in about a 20 minutes away with Sanders and Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.) in Northern Las Vegas on March 20 to rail against the top 1%.
“The only division that is truly hurting our country the most is the endless greed by those at the very, very top at the cost of everyone else,” Ocasio-Cortez proclaimed to cheers from the audience at the time.
“That is why it has always been up to us, the working class of America. Our power comes from remaining focused together and building a movement where there is a place for everyone.”
The Post previously published an exclusive photo of Ocasio-Cortez, an avowed climate-change warrior, getting cozy in a roomy first-class cabin during her flight from New York to Las Vegas the day before the town-hall event.
Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign made another eyebrow-raising expenditure in April when her political apparatus spent $3,445.59 on accommodations at Asher Adams, a luxury hotel with “striking views” of the Wasatch mountains in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Her team listed the disbursement days after an April 13 rally she attended with Sanders in Salt Lake City, where she railed against her colleagues in Congress for profiting off of stock trades.
Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign also listed a $58.54 payment to the swanky hotel in May for reasons that aren’t entirely clear.
On the same day that her campaign reported the payment to Asher Adams, it also listed a $3,165.76 disbursement to the Leo Kent Hotel in Tucson, Ariz. Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders had stumped in Tucson about a month before during their “Fighting Oligarchy” tour.
Sanders’ campaign finance disclosures reveal that his team made payments to some of the same hotels around the same time Ocasio-Cortez’s team did — but largely spent much less on them.
His camp’s payments include a $624.28 disbursement at the Leo Kent on April 10 and three payments of $487.54 each to the Vdara on March 24.
The Sanders’ campaign shelled out far more on hotel stays overall than Ocasio-Cortez’s campaign this year, but the bulk of his expenses were in Illinois or Vermont and booked through Hotels.com, seemingly unrelated to the “Fighting Oligarchy” tour.
His campaign had more than 216 FEC entries related to hotel stays compared to the congresswoman’s 16, according to an analysis of FEC records.
Reps for Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders did not respond to Post requests for comment.
