{"id":1484803,"date":"2022-05-19T17:45:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T21:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1484803"},"modified":"2022-05-19T17:45:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T21:45:19","slug":"aoc-gets-engaged-to-longtime-boyfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-gets-engaged-to-longtime-boyfriend\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC Gets Engaged To Longtime Boyfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faoc-gets-engaged-to-longtime-boyfriend%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1484803&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/88A32E8C-54A8-45BA-AD9B-4E1F1E98D8BC-scaled.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) confirmed on Thursday that she is engaged to longtime partner Riley Roberts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s true!\u201d the progressive lawmaker said on Twitter. \u201cThank you all for the well wishes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It\u2019s true! Thank you all for the well wishes \u263a\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i5cm9awN3S\">https:\/\/t.co\/i5cm9awN3S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1527360876503699469?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cWe got engaged last month in my family\u2019s hometown in Puerto Rico,\u201d she told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/aoc-engagement-confirmed-boyfriend-name-riley-roberts-2022-5\"><span>Business Insider<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cNo future details yet, we\u2019re taking some space to savor this time before diving into planning.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A photographer from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/in-the-know\/3494592-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-engaged-to-longtime-boyfriend-riley-roberts\/\"><span>The Hill<\/span><\/a><span> snapped a picture earlier on Thursday of Ocasio-Cortez sporting an engagement ring. \u201cWhile Ocasio-Cortez maintains a famously heavy social media presence \u2014 with more than 8 million Instagram followers and nearly 13 million on Twitter \u2014 she\u2019s typically kept details of her romantic life under wraps,\u201d the outlet explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Earlier today <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thehill?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@thehill<\/a>\u2018s photog Greg Nash captured <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AOC<\/a> sporting some bling on her ring finger. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qmaGIKvXK7\">pic.twitter.com\/qmaGIKvXK7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Judy Kurtz (@JudyKurtz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JudyKurtz\/status\/1527356932096688128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The ring, according to Ocasio-Cortez, is \u201czero emission and recycled gold.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Close! It\u2019s zero emission and recycled gold \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1527391727589400579?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Ocasio-Cortez began dating Roberts, a marketing professional, during their time as undergraduates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cRoberts and Ocasio-Cortez met at Boston University\u2019s Coffee and Conversation in 2011 \u2014 a Friday-afternoon student town hall where Ocasio-Cortez often drove discussions \u2014 but friends of the couple didn\u2019t know they had been dating until years after they all graduated,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/aoc-engagement-confirmed-boyfriend-name-riley-roberts-2022-5\"><span>Insider<\/span><\/a><span> reported. \u201cAfter they were both done with school, the couple broke up, and Roberts eventually moved back to Arizona. They later rekindled the relationship in New York.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ocasio-Cortez and Roberts \u201ccame from different corners of the country,\u201d according to <\/span><span>the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/19\/aoc-engaged-to-longtime-boyfriend-riley-roberts\/\"><span>New York Post<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cOcasio-Cortez was born in the Bronx and moved at a young age with her parents to Yorktown in suburban Westchester County where she attended public schools until she graduated high school in 2007\u2026 Roberts grew up in a wealthy area of Paradise Valley, Ariz., the son of a real-estate agent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Roberts helped Ocasio-Cortez in her 2018 upset victory over longtime Democratic lawmaker Joe Crowley by collecting signatures to put his girlfriend on the ballot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-engaged-riley-roberts-1355917\/\"><span>Rolling Stone<\/span><\/a><span>, Roberts rarely steps into the limelight, but appeared in the 2019 documentary \u201cKnock Down the House,\u201d which details the rise of several progressive lawmakers. In a biography about Ocasio-Cortez, author Josh Gondleman wrote that Roberts \u201cdoesn\u2019t fit the stereotype of a politician\u2019s partner.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHe doesn\u2019t seem focus-grouped or media-trained for state dinners and press conferences. We know he\u2019s supportive and encouraging in private,\u201d Gondelman explained. \u201cAnd his expertise, as far as his public image goes, is his elusiveness and restraint.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ocasio-Cortez is most famous for her \u201cGreen New Deal,\u201d which seeks to fight the \u201cintertwined economic, social, racial and climate crises crippling the country,\u201d according to her office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe Green New Deal has three core components: jobs, justice and climate,\u201d said Ocasio-Cortez in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ocasio-cortez.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/ocasio-cortez-markey-reintroduce-green-new-deal-resolution-0\"><span>statement<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cThe dozens of bills that have sprung from this resolution since we introduced it two years ago all contain 1) a commitment to creating good-paying union jobs; 2) prioritizing frontline and vulnerable communities disproportionately affected by climate change \u2013 including communities of color, indigenous land, deindustrialized communities and fossil fuel hubs; and 3) reducing greenhouse gas emissions from human sources by 40 to 60% within 10 years and net-zero global emissions by 2050, in line with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\u2019s finding that global temperatures must not increase more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrialized levels in order to avoid the most severe impacts of climate change.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) confirmed on Thursday that she is engaged to longtime partner Riley Roberts.\u201cIt\u2019s true!\u201d the progressive lawmaker said on Twitter. \u201cThank you all for the well wishes.\u201dIt\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1484830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1484830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}