Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) on Saturday criticized Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) for mocking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-N.Y.) experience as a bartender.
Luna wrote on the social platform X that while she does not often agree with Ocasio-Cortez, to “knock her or anyone for being a bartender is not a ‘hit,’ it’s tone deaf.”
“Plenty of people don’t come from political pedigree,” added Luna, who served in the Oregon Air National Guard for five years. “There are plenty of people who go through school etc and are hardworking Americans and they have the right to run for office. Shoot, half of DC spends its time in bars and love the bartenders.”
Kennedy said on Fox News’s “Hannity Special” earlier this week that Ocasio-Cortez is “kind of like Vice President Kamala Harris, but with more bartending experience.” The Louisiana Republican also said the progressive lawmaker, who worked as a bartender in the Bronx after graduating from Boston University, “has never been accused of being a policy maven.”
