EXCLUSIVE: Private school, a waterside home, luxury boats, a jet-ski for four and a maid - Democratic Socialist Julia Salazar's brother reveals truth about the childhood she called 'hardscrabble'
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- Alex Salazar, 29, revealed his sister Julia Salazar, 27, actually grew up in a sprawling waterfront home with a maid and attended private school in Florida
- He told DailyMail.com how their late father Luis Hernan Salazar immigrated from Colombia as a teen and grew to be a successful U.S. commercial and cargo pilot
- He said: 'Instead I have to sit here and listen to lies about who he was and who we are. And we are not just talking about airbrushing, we are talking outright lies'
- Julia has claimed she grew up among poor, working class immigrants, was raised by a single mother, went to public school, and was forced to get a job at 14
- Alex claims they had a 'great life' and were still supported by their father after their parents' divorce, and only worked as teens to learn responsibility
- Their mother, Christine, is a New Jersey native worked as a Pan-Am airlines stewardess and later, a pharmaceutical rep who bred Dalmatians
- In a statement from Salazar's campaign her mom said she and her daughter share memories of hardship - even if her son doesn't
Avowed
socialist Julia Salazar grew up in a succession of sprawling waterfront
homes enjoying all the trappings of middle-class life, from boats and
luxury cars to pedigree pets and private school, DailyMail.com can
reveal.
The 27-year-old Democratic
candidate for the New York Senate has come unstuck in recent days after
she was outed as a former Republican and accused of faking her
hardscrabble immigrant backstory.
Now,
DailyMail.com can reveal the extent of her deception with a series of
images documenting Salazar's privileged upbringing in the upmarket Florida
enclave of Jupiter, where her family built their own four-bedroom home,
owned boats, a jet ski and rubbed shoulders with celebrities.
It
can also be revealed for the first time that Salazar's Colombian
father, a commercial and cargo pilot who became a naturalized US citizen
years before she was born, flew US troops into the Vietnam War and the
First Gulf War.
Luis Hernan Salazar,
who died from prostate cancer in 2009, also transported rocket parts for
NASA and met the space agency's legendary aerospace scientist Wernher
von Braun as well as Ronald Reagan before he became US President.
Hardly humble roots: New York
Democratic Senate candidate Julia Salazar has been accused of faking her
hardscrabble immigrant backstory
Her
older brother Alex Salazar (pictured left with their dad Luis) 29, has
revealed how they had a middle-class upbringing and admits they did 'not
struggle at all'
'My father
came here in his teens and he made a great success of his life. We did
not struggle at all. His achievements should be celebrated,' Salazar's
brother Alex, 29, told DailyMail.com.
'Instead
I have to sit here and listen to lies about who he was and who we are.
And we are not just talking about airbrushing, we are talking outright
lies.'
Salazar shot to prominence on
the coattails of fellow socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who upset Joe
Crowley in the Democratic primary for New York's 14th congressional
district.
But Salazar's campaign to
snatch the 18th Senate District seat from Martin Dilan in September
started to unravel when family members contradicted her claims about
growing up among poor, working class immigrants.
The
left-wing candidate initially stated she was born in Colombia before
backpedaling and conceding her birthplace was Miami, blaming the 'error'
on a campaign staffer.
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