Alongside fellow "Squad" members Reps. Cori Bush and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley is in the running for Biggest D.C. Hypocrite.
A new report has revealed that the progressive Democrat raked in between $5,000 and $15,000 in income from her tenants all while calling for America's landlords to cancel rent.
“Pressley’s 2020 financial disclosure, filed on Friday, disclosed between $5,000 and $15,000 in rental income from a Boston property in her husband’s name. The property was converted into a multi-family apartment after it was purchased, according to Pressley’s disclosure,” Fox News reported, adding, “Pressley’s office did not immediately return Fox News’ request for comment on whether she and her husband canceled rent for their tenants at any point in 2020. She disclosed the same range of rental income – between $5,000 and $15,000 – in 2020 as she did in 2019, before the pandemic began.”
The same year she was collecting thousands from her tenants, she was calling on other landlords to cancel rent.
"Keeping families housed is a matter of public health. We must cancel rent, extend eviction and foreclosure moratoriums, provide rental assistance, and offer legal representation for those at risk of eviction. This is a public health emergency," she tweeted in December 2020.
Keeping families housed is a matter of public health.
— Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (@RepPressley) December 1, 2020
We must cancel rent, extend eviction and foreclosure moratoriums, provide rental assistance, and offer legal representation for those at risk of eviction. This is a public health emergency.https://t.co/jmHEmfVjVa
Pressley is happy to call for everyday Americans to lose rental income, but when it comes to her own properties, she's ready and willing to shake down her tenants during a nationwide pandemic.
The hypocrisy of our national leaders has been on full display throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Politicians like Nancy Pelosi shut down salons while demanding private hair appointments. Politicians like AOC tell Americans to mask up without doing so themselves, and politicians like Rep. Pressley call for eviction moratoriums while collecting rent from their tenants.
It's time to force Congress to live by the same laws and regulations they impose on everyone else. They'll never limit their own power, but we can do it for them with a Convention of States.
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