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Alexandria attended Boston University. She has a bachelor’s degree in economics and international relations from Boston University.

Representative Ocasio-Cortez |

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - House clerk's office

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is originally from the Bronx, New York. She earned a bachelor's degree in economics and international relations from Boston University.

Alexandria previously worked as an educational director for the National Hispanic Institute and as a restaurant worker.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's campaign for U.S. Representative in New York’s 14th Congressional District.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez currently serves as the U.S. Representative for New York District 14. She was first elected to the position in 2018.

As a House Representative, introduced the "Just Society" bills, which would raise the federal poverty line, include immigrants in social safety net programs, require federal contractors to pay a living wage, strengthen renters' rights, and decrease recidivism.

Sponsored the Loan Shark Prevention Act, which would cap credit card interest rates at 15%.

As a House Representative, introduced the Green New Deal, which would "put millions to work in good-paying, union jobs repairing the nation’s infrastructure, reducing air and water pollution, and fighting the intertwined economic, social, racial and climate crises crippling the country."

Supported the Inflation Reduction Act to fund the Internal Revenue Service to pursue wealthy tax evaders, establish a 15 percent minimum tax rate on the wealthiest corporations, and implement a one percent tax on stock buybacks.

Plans to establish a federal jobs guarantee to provide living-wage union jobs pegged to inflation, full healthcare, and childcare and sick leave.

Wants to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act to expand the power of workers and labor unions.

Supports heavily fining corporations that engage in union-busting practices.

Advocates for prohibiting the federal government from doing business with companies that do not provide union protections to workers.

Supports providing loans and direct payments to small businesses and workers during economic emergencies.

Wants to require corporations receiving federal aid to maintain workforce levels, benefits, and pay rates.

Introduced the Place to Prosper Act to promote affordable housing development, protect tenants from discrimination based on income source, and cap rent increases at three percent or the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index.

Supports a permanent repeal of the Faircloth Amendment to expand public housing options.

Advocates for $70 billion in funding to fix the national public housing system and an additional $10 billion to remove lead.

Supports guaranteeing legal counsel to tenants during eviction proceedings.

- As a House Representative, introduced the "Just Society" bills, which would raise the federal poverty line, include immigrants in social safety net programs, require federal contractors to pay a living wage, strengthen renters' rights, and decrease recidivism.
- Sponsored the Loan Shark Prevention Act, which would cap credit card interest rates at 15%.
- As a House Representative, introduced the Green New Deal, which would "put millions to work in good-paying, union jobs repairing the nation’s infrastructure, reducing air and water pollution, and fighting the intertwined economic, social, racial and climate crises crippling the country."
- Supported the Inflation Reduction Act to fund the Internal Revenue Service to pursue wealthy tax evaders, establish a 15 percent minimum tax rate on the wealthiest corporations, and implement a one percent tax on stock buybacks.
- Plans to establish a federal jobs guarantee to provide living-wage union jobs pegged to inflation, full healthcare, and childcare and sick leave.
- Wants to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act to expand the power of workers and labor unions.
- Supports heavily fining corporations that engage in union-busting practices.
- Advocates for prohibiting the federal government from doing business with companies that do not provide union protections to workers.
- Supports providing loans and direct payments to small businesses and workers during economic emergencies.
- Wants to require corporations receiving federal aid to maintain workforce levels, benefits, and pay rates.
- Introduced the Place to Prosper Act to promote affordable housing development, protect tenants from discrimination based on income source, and cap rent increases at three percent or the percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index.
- Supports a permanent repeal of the Faircloth Amendment to expand public housing options.
- Advocates for $70 billion in funding to fix the national public housing system and an additional $10 billion to remove lead.
- Supports guaranteeing legal counsel to tenants during eviction proceedings.

Economy

Supports reallocating funds from the "failed war on drugs" to treat opioid addiction.

Supported the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act to expand background check requirements for firearm sales to individuals under 21 years of age, close the dating partner loophole, and increase funding for mental health programs and school security.

Advocates for investing in the social safety net, healthcare, education, and housing rather than mass incarceration to address the root causes of violence.

Supports ending the death penalty, life sentences without the possibility of parole, mandatory minimum sentences, solitary confinement, and cash bail.

Wants to decriminalize activities associated with poverty and housing instability, such as sex work and drug use.

Supports paying incarcerated individuals at least the federal minimum wage for labor and expanding Pell Grants.

Advocates for ending qualified immunity, eliminating the pipeline of military weapons to police departments, banning tear gas and rubber bullets, and ending quality-of-life policing.

- Supports reallocating funds from the "failed war on drugs" to treat opioid addiction.
- Supported the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act to expand background check requirements for firearm sales to individuals under 21 years of age, close the dating partner loophole, and increase funding for mental health programs and school security.
- Advocates for investing in the social safety net, healthcare, education, and housing rather than mass incarceration to address the root causes of violence.
- Supports ending the death penalty, life sentences without the possibility of parole, mandatory minimum sentences, solitary confinement, and cash bail.
- Wants to decriminalize activities associated with poverty and housing instability, such as sex work and drug use.
- Supports paying incarcerated individuals at least the federal minimum wage for labor and expanding Pell Grants.
- Advocates for ending qualified immunity, eliminating the pipeline of military weapons to police departments, banning tear gas and rubber bullets, and ending quality-of-life policing.

Public Safety

As a House Representative, worked with Senator Schumer to include a Funeral Assistance Program into the COVID-19 relief package.

Supports implementing Medicare for All to establish a universal national healthcare system that covers primary, mental, dental, vision, women's health, and emergency care.

Wants to uncouple health insurance coverage from employment status.

Supports allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, capping insulin prices at $35 per month, and capping out-of-pocket costs at $2,000 per year for Medicare beneficiaries.

Advocates for expanding Medicaid to include home healthcare services to allow seniors to age in place.

- As a House Representative, worked with Senator Schumer to include a Funeral Assistance Program into the COVID-19 relief package.
- Supports implementing Medicare for All to establish a universal national healthcare system that covers primary, mental, dental, vision, women's health, and emergency care.
- Wants to uncouple health insurance coverage from employment status.
- Supports allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, capping insulin prices at $35 per month, and capping out-of-pocket costs at $2,000 per year for Medicare beneficiaries.
- Advocates for expanding Medicaid to include home healthcare services to allow seniors to age in place.

Healthcare

As a House Representative, introduced the Green New Deal, which would create millions of jobs in infrastructure repair and pollution reduction.

Supported a $369 billion investment to combat climate change, develop clean energy jobs, and reduce emissions.

Supports expanding renewable power sources, building energy-efficient grids, retrofitting buildings, and investing in high-speed rail.

Supports the creation of the American Climate Corps to provide jobs dedicated to addressing climate change.

- As a House Representative, introduced the Green New Deal, which would create millions of jobs in infrastructure repair and pollution reduction.
- Supported a $369 billion investment to combat climate change, develop clean energy jobs, and reduce emissions.
- Supports expanding renewable power sources, building energy-efficient grids, retrofitting buildings, and investing in high-speed rail.
- Supports the creation of the American Climate Corps to provide jobs dedicated to addressing climate change.

Energy & the Environment

As a House Representative, led a letter to the Biden administration urging them to increase the cap on refugees to 200,000 people.

Wants to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as a deportation force.

Supports the Embrace Act to ensure that all individuals in need, regardless of immigration status, are eligible for social safety net programs.

Plans to bring troops home and end air strikes to conclude long-term military conflicts.

Opposes high levels of military spending on fighter jet and nuclear weapon modernization programs.

Led passage of the Puerto Rico Status Act to establish a process for residents to determine their political future.

Wants to cancel Puerto Rico's public debt, waive the Jones Act, and repeal the PROMESA Act.

- As a House Representative, led a letter to the Biden administration urging them to increase the cap on refugees to 200,000 people.
- Wants to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as a deportation force.
- Supports the Embrace Act to ensure that all individuals in need, regardless of immigration status, are eligible for social safety net programs.
- Plans to bring troops home and end air strikes to conclude long-term military conflicts.
- Opposes high levels of military spending on fighter jet and nuclear weapon modernization programs.
- Led passage of the Puerto Rico Status Act to establish a process for residents to determine their political future.
- Wants to cancel Puerto Rico's public debt, waive the Jones Act, and repeal the PROMESA Act.

Foreign Policy and Immigration

Believes women's rights are human rights and supports equal pay, workplace safety, and paid parental leave.

Supports expanding Social Security, Medicaid, and the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) programs to cover doula and midwife services, childcare costs, and menstrual hygiene products.

Wants to end discrimination against LGBTQIA+ individuals in healthcare access.

Supports repealing the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act and Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA/FOSTA) laws to protect individuals engaged in sex work from legal and societal violence.

- Believes women's rights are human rights and supports equal pay, workplace safety, and paid parental leave.
- Supports expanding Social Security, Medicaid, and the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) programs to cover doula and midwife services, childcare costs, and menstrual hygiene products.
- Wants to end discrimination against LGBTQIA+ individuals in healthcare access.
- Supports repealing the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act and Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA/FOSTA) laws to protect individuals engaged in sex work from legal and societal violence.

Voting & Elections

Supports strengthening the public education system and opposing budget cuts for school districts

Co-sponsored the College for All Act to establish tuition-free public college and trade school.

Supports the Student Debt Cancellation Act to forgive outstanding federal and private student loans.

Supports expanding free tutoring and literacy programs.

Wants to eliminate police presence from schools and decriminalize truancy.

- Supports strengthening the public education system and opposing budget cuts for school districts
- Co-sponsored the College for All Act to establish tuition-free public college and trade school.
- Supports the Student Debt Cancellation Act to forgive outstanding federal and private student loans.
- Supports expanding free tutoring and literacy programs.
- Wants to eliminate police presence from schools and decriminalize truancy.

Education

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

As of June 18, 2026, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Alexandria is from Parkchester, Bronx, New York. She attended Boston University. She has a bachelor’s degree in economics from Boston University and a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Boston University. She lives in East Elmhurst.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's campaign for U.S. Representative is her first entry into politics.

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Felipe Garcia has a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of New Mexico and a master's degree in healthcare administration from Baruch College. He lives in the Hunts Point area of the Bronx. He is of Dominican and Puerto Rican heritage.

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Hunts Point native Felipe Garcia challenging AOC in June primary

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Felipe Garcia earned his bachelor's degree in psychology from The City College of New York and his master's degree in healthcare administration from the Zicklin School of Business. He volunteers with the Associate of Energy Engineers. He lives in the Hunts Point area of The Bronx. 

Felipe currently works as the director of energy management and implementation at Ross Energy Consulting. He previously worked as the director of energy management at Mount Sinai Health System and as a unit director at Crothall Healthcare. 

Felipe previously served as a member of the New Mexico House of Representatives from 2013 to 2015. He did not seek re-election in 2014 and left office in 2015.

Felipe's campaign for U.S. House of Representatives, representing New York's 14th Congressional District, is his first run for public office. 

Plans to lower energy costs, stabilize housing expenses, and implement policies that aim to reduce financial burdens.

Supports modernizing infrastructure to lower bills, create cleaner communities, and generate more local jobs.

Supports workforce development and trade programs to create pathways to high-paying careers.

Calls for workforce development and trade programs to create pathways to high-paying careers.

- Plans to lower energy costs, stabilize housing expenses, and implement policies that aim to reduce financial burdens.
- Supports modernizing infrastructure to lower bills, create cleaner communities, and generate more local jobs.
- Calls for workforce development and trade programs to create pathways to high-paying careers.

Supports investing in prevention strategies to keep young people away from violence.

Supports the creation of specialized intervention units that combine mental health professionals and trained officers to de-escalate dangerous situations and prevent repeat incidents.

Advocates for the creation of specialized intervention units that combine mental health professionals and trained officers to de-escalate dangerous situations and prevent repeat incidents.

- Supports investing in prevention strategies to keep young people away from violence.
- Advocates for the creation of specialized intervention units that combine mental health professionals and trained officers to de-escalate dangerous situations and prevent repeat incidents.

Supports addressing mental health emergencies with urgency and accountability through mobile clinicians, real-time data, and community-based care.

- Supports addressing mental health emergencies with urgency and accountability through mobile clinicians, real-time data, and community-based care.

As of June 18, 2026, Felipe Garcia’s website did not contain information on this issue.

- Advocates for a ban on insider trading.

Wants to add professional paths and certifications to the high school curriculum and offer guaranteed jobs upon graduation in fields such as phlebotomy, security or food handling.

- Wants to add professional paths and certifications to the high school curriculum and offer guaranteed jobs upon graduation in fields such as phlebotomy, security or food handling.

Felipe Garcia

Supports modernizing infrastructure to lower bills, create local jobs, and reduce waste.

Supports strengthening connections between schools and careers, particularly in technical and trade fields.

Marty Dolan - Ballotpedia

Marty Dolan is originally from Jersey City, New Jersey. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Union College and a Master of Business Administration in international business from Harvard Business School. Marty has three grown children and two grandchildren.

Marty currently works as the part-time chairman of the board for Fleming Re and Fleming International Reinsurance. He also works as a part-time board member for Captis Intelligence, Incorporated, and as a self-employed senior advisor for Dolan & Company. Marty previously worked for the New York State Assembly speaker and the Washington, D.C., Public Defenders Office.

Marty previously ran as a candidate for the14th Congressional District.

Supports moving pension and Medicare costs to the federal government, which he said would decrease taxes by 25% to 30% in New York.

Proposed a congestion pricing model for the Bronx.

Supports family tax accounts to incentivize savings and investments for families.

Believes in prioritizing policies over protests.

Believes the affordability crisis and stagnant real wages are driven by the globalization and compression of wages.

- Supports moving pension and Medicare costs to the federal government, which he said would decrease taxes by 25% to 30% in New York.
- Proposed a congestion pricing model for the Bronx.
- Supports family tax accounts to incentivize savings and investments for families.
- Believes in prioritizing policies over protests.
- Believes the affordability crisis and stagnant real wages are driven by the globalization and compression of wages.

As of June 18, 2026, Marty Dolan’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Believes New York City schools are failing despite high spending, saying "Half the kids can’t read, write or do math at grade level."

Supports Youth Fast Start Accounts, which are savings accounts for children to promote future financial independence.

Supports raising the hourly value of the workforce by improving education.

- Believes New York City schools are failing despite high spending, saying "Half the kids can’t read, write or do math at grade level."
- Supports Youth Fast Start Accounts, which are savings accounts for children to promote future financial independence.
- Supports raising the hourly value of the workforce by improving education.

Marty Dolan

Marty previously worked as a driver for Mayor Peter Peyser of Irvington, New York, and held managing director roles at Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley.

Marty is from Lawrence, Massachusetts. He attended Union College. He has a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of New Hampshire. He lives with his wife and two children.

Marty is a retired insurance executive. He previously worked at various insurance firms.

Marty Dolan is a former member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, representing the Rockingham 4 district. He was elected in 2010 and served one term on the House Education Committee and the House Resources, Recreation and Development Committee. He was not re-elected in 2012. Dolan previously ran for U.S. Representative for New York’s 14th Congressional District in the 2024 Democratic primary and did not win. He is currently campaigning for New York City’s Public Advocate position in the 2025 citywide election.

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