Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Returns To Bartending For This Reason

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York is going back to bartending again but this time is to promote minimum wage increases.

In a tweet, the political figure called out those who have looked down on the service industry.

“To the silver spoon classists saying they’re going to ‘make AOC bartend again’: You’re in luck! I’ll be bartending in NY-14 this week to promote a national living wage. So there you have it, ya bunch of milk drinkers," she wrote on social media.

The former bartender will serve a few cocktails at a restaurant in her Bronx-Queens district on Friday to promote two laws that would boost wages, including for tipped workers.

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The funny thing about beginnings is that you rarely know you’re in them. My beginning felt like a dead end. My beginning was losing a parent to cancer, working a hard job in the wake of that loss, and complete uncertainty about the future of my family. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This whole campaign started because the Bronx and Queens deserves leadership that is accountable to people over profits, and dares to pursue the most ambitious plan possible for our children’s future. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I fight for Medicare for All because I know what it’s like to feel like you’re one accident away from everything falling apart. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I push for Cradle-to-College + trade school education FOR ALL because I know that it’s wrong to have your destiny determined by your zip code. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ And lastly, I don’t take a dime from corporations because I know it’s the only way we get it done. No favors, no kickbacks, no short-changing working families and selling our futures to major corporations. Not ever. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Everyday Americans deserve better. We deserve a nation of opportunity for all. Of justice for all. Of dignity for all. And we will get it. #Ocasio2018 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 📸: @josealvarado

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The Latina recently said she was proud of her humble roots as she delivered a speech at the National Action Network convention on Friday.

“I’m proud to be a bartender,” she said. “Ain’t nothing wrong with that. There’s nothing wrong with working retail.”

“There's nothing wrong with working retail, folding clothes for other people to buy,” she continued. “There is nothing wrong with preparing the food that your neighbors will eat. There is nothing wrong with driving the buses that take your family to work.”

“There is nothing wrong with being a working person in the United States of America and there is everything dignified about it,” the New York Democrat added, “I, in fact, am encouraged when people remind the country of my past, not because of anything about my story, but because it communicates that if I could work in a restaurant and become a member of the United States Congress, so can you."