DSA leader's working-class image takes hit as public records pile up contradictions

The contradictions are piling up around New York City Democratic Socialists of America co-chair Gustavo Gordillo, whose claims about his working-class credentials — from being a "union electrician" to his housing and family story — have increasingly collided with public records and other evidence. Gordillo has repeatedly invoked his family’s immigrant success story while explaining his support for socialism. "My parents came here, they had nothing," Gordillo told the New York Times in a profile