‘She’s Definitely Cosplaying as a Poor Person’: Democratic Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez Claims She Worked in an ‘iPhone Case Factory.’ It Was Actually a Hipster Artisanal Workshop.

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a self-styled "working class" Washington Democrat, claims she worked in an "iPhone case factory" in college to pay her tuition after her father cut her off because she wouldn’t go to church. But the shop was actually a boutique artisanal workshop that made wooden, hand-crafted cases, according to her former roommate.

Gluesenkamp Perez has repeatedly said she juggled the "factory" gig alongside her jobs as a nanny and a barista while attending Reed College,...