The brother and mother of a New York City socialist candidate came out to publicly denounce the biographical claims she’s made during the campaign. (Washington Free Beacon)
A Tablet profile last week first revealed that state Senate candidate Julia Salazar, a progressive darling depicting herself as a Jewish immigrant, was actually born in the United States and ran several Christian organizations in college. One of the sources negating Salazar’s claims was her own brother Alex Salazar, who told Tablet that they were both born in Miami and their father was not Jewish.
In a piece published Thursday, New York magazine City & State sat down with Alex and their mother Christine Salazar and discovered even more discrepancies in her life story.
Contrary to Salazar’s claim that “my mom ended up raising my brother and me as a single mom, without a college degree and from a working-class background,” her brother says they lived comfortably and their father made six-figures as a pilot and continued to pay child support following their divorce.
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Salazar’s claim that “I was raised by a single mom who didn’t have a college degree. My father didn’t graduate from high school,” was also wrong, they said. Christine Salazar got a college degree in psychology when her daughter was eight. Her husband, Luis Hernan Salazar, attended high school in Santa Barbara, California, although it’s unclear whether he ever graduated from the school. Christine Salazar said it’s possible he received his degree from a night school as an adult if he did not in fact graduate from the California school as a teen.
Another fib from Salazar involved her family’s immigration status. Her campaign website asserts “We didn’t all have permanent residence in the U.S.” However, every one of her relatives legally became a U.S. citizen before her birth.
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