{"id":553725,"date":"2021-06-05T14:27:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T18:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=553725"},"modified":"2021-06-05T15:05:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T19:05:16","slug":"aocs-family-refuses-100k-raised-by-conservative-to-help-grandma-in-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aocs-family-refuses-100k-raised-by-conservative-to-help-grandma-in-puerto-rico\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC&#039;s Family Refuses $100K Raised by Conservative to Help Grandma in Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Faocs-family-refuses-100k-raised-by-conservative-to-help-grandma-in-puerto-rico%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=553725&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GetFile-253.aspx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A conservative columnist raised $104,153 on GoFundMe for the grandmother of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., in Puerto Rico, but the family is refusing the help after AOC called out former President Donald Trump not doing enough to help.<\/p>\n<p>After the Squad member <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1400150275676160001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posted on Twitter<\/a>, lamenting the condition of her grandmother&#8217;s home in Puerto Rico following 2017&#8217;s Hurricane Maria, conservative Daily Wire columnist Matt Walsh set up a GoFundMe page that raised $104,153, only to be told the family is refusing the donation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattWalshBlog\/status\/1401161206430371843\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Walsh tweeted<\/a> Saturday:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;UPDATE: &#8216;someone&#8217; in AOC&#8217;s abuela&#8217;s family told GoFundMe that she will not take the money, even though AOC previously claimed that her grandma was in dire straits (and it was Trump&#8217;s fault). @AOC still hasn&#8217;t acknowledged this effort or thanked us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We are in touch with the beneficiary&#8217;s family, and they have made clear they will not be accepting the funds,&#8221; the online crowdfunding site wrote in an email to Walsh.<\/p>\n<p>The site told Walsh in the email the donations would be refunded to those that contributed.<\/p>\n<p>AOC posted June 2 she had visited her grandmother in Puerto Rico, or abuela in Spanish, after she fell ill and that relief money for her grandmother&#8217;s home had not yet arrived, blaming the administration of former President Donald Trump for blocking the aid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People are being forced to flee ancestral homes and developers are taking them,&#8221; she tweeted with photos of her grandmother&#8217;s home with buckets on the floor collecting water from a leaking roof.<\/p>\n<p>Hurricane Maria slammed into the Island of Puerto Rico as a strong category 4 storm in September 2017, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/data\/tcr\/AL152017_Maria.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Weather Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The storm devastated homes, caused landslides, and downed trees, cutting many people off from their towns, according to a 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/07\/03\/737001701\/i-don-t-feel-safe-puerto-rico-preps-for-another-maria-without-enough-government\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The congresswoman said Trump&#8217;s handling of relief money for the storm was a &#8220;major role&#8221; of the problem, but also acknowledged local corruption.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1400160163634556933?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AOC tweeted<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;La Junta, local policies, etc. were all on the same page: policies that pushed out local families. To turn this around, we need audits and get recovery relief to people ASAP, without the onerous strings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Walsh and others on social media were quick to point out AOC earns around $174,000-a-year as a member of Congress, has recently purchased a pricy Tesla for around $70,000, and should be the one to help her grandmother out financially.<\/p>\n<p>AOC pushed back on Walsh, saying he had &#8220;no idea&#8221; what it meant to be a &#8220;first generation&#8221; female family member in that culture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1400161274051371008?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">She added in a tweet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;And for the record \u2013 my abuela is doing okay. It&#8217;s not about us, but about what\u2019s happening to Puerto Ricans across the island. She had a place to go to and be cared for \u2013 what about the thousands of people who do not?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A conservative columnist raised $104,153 on GoFundMe for the grandmother of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., in Puerto Rico, but the family is refusing the help after AOC called out former &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279321,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GetFile-253.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"AOC&#039;s Family Refuses $100K Raised by Conservative to Help Grandma in Puerto Rico","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GetFile-253.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"AOC&#039;s Family Refuses $100K Raised by Conservative to Help Grandma in Puerto Rico","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553725","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}