Dem Rep. Pat Ryan silent over rivals claims he sends kids to DC school while calling NY home
A Republican congressional candidate accused Democratic Rep.Pat Ryan of sending his kids to schools near Washington, DC instead of in the suburban New York district he claims as his primary residence.GOP candidate Jackie Auringer, who’s running against Ryan for a House of Representatives seat in New York’s Hudson Valley region, is calling for an investigation into whether the Democrat or another household member claimed DC as a residence for tuition-free public school enrollment.“Pat Ryan has collected more than $60,000 from taxpayers for lodging in Washington while receiving a $12,400 veterans property-tax exemption on his claimed primary residence in New York,” Auringer said.“At the same time, we now know his family has been using DC schools.
The question for DC officials is simple — who claimed DC residency, and were those representations accurate?”Auringer sent a letter to the DC Office of the State Superintendent of Education, which investigates questions of nonresidency in the city’s public schools.Auringer said reviews are mandatory following a report of potential fraud.Democratic socialist Rep.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has previously said whether or not an elected official enrolls children in public schools is an indication of whether he or she is invested in the district.In 2018, Ocasio-Cortez criticized her primary opponent, then-Democratic Rep.Joe Crowley, for enrolling his kids in Virginia schools near the capital instead of in his Queens-Brooklyn district.
Crowley’s family lived in Virginia full time while he maintained a home in the district.“A Democrat who takes corporate money, profits off foreclosure, doesn’t live here, doesn’t send his kids to our schools, doesn’t drink our water or breathe our air cannot possibly represent us,” the-insurgent Ocasio-Cortez said in a campaign video at the time.She shocked the political world by toppling Crowley, who was also the Queens Democratic Party chairman, in the that year’s pr...