https://newrepublic.com/minutes/139...lic.com/minutes/139825/cory-booker-not-friend Cory Booker is not your friend. Fresh off a rousing speech against Jeff Sessions’s nomination to become attorney general, Booker voted against an affordable drug proposal from Senators Amy Klobuchar and Bernie Sanders on Wednesday evening. Had it passed, the bill would have created a reserve fund to allow Americans to import inexpensive prescription drugs from Canada. Booker was one of 13 Democrats to reject it, a boon to Big Pharma
the 13: Bennet (D-CO), Nay Booker (D-NJ), Nay Cantwell (D-WA), Nay Carper (D-DE), Nay Casey (D-PA), Nay Coons (D-DE), Nay Donnelly (D-IN), Nay Heinrich (D-NM), Nay Heitkamp (D-ND), Nay Menendez (D-NJ), Nay Murray (D-WA), Nay Tester (D-MT), Nay Warner (D-VA), Nay
As someone who is dedicating his life to and works in health care this saddens and sickens me. F-ck Cory Booker and **** the 12 others I understand the 'reason' someone can select nay but it's a complete copout of a reason
There's a lot of pharmaceutical companies in New Jersey, which Booker represents...they likely donate handsome sums of money to Booker.
This. I remember reading somewhere that he received about $270,000 (maybe more) from big pharma for his campaigns.
I think Booker is an automatic L to Trump (or to Pence, if Trump is gone by 2020). The Democrats really really don't get it if they nominate this guy. They need a bonafide populist, not a business-as-usual good fundraiser. What good did $ do them in 2016?
Did anyone follow Cory Booker getting on his knees as big pharma unzipped its pants? More Republicans voted for the amendment than Democrats voted against it. It was hilarious. Ted Cruz voted for it, and Booker voted against it.
No Sanders, no Kaine. Put Booker in with Castro to see if either one can motivate and inspire, but ultimately you're going to need a middle-aged white Democrat from one of those Rust Belt states, in the hope that Trump screws stuff up enough for people to just want competency or pretend they just really hated Hillary.
Nope, corporosexual relations is straight to hell in my religion. But don't let that stop you from assuming every Middle Easterner is a Muslim!
Interesting story about Corrie Booker getting his start by the big money right wing think tank The Manhattan Insitute. He was showered by right wing and big corporate money to be a Manchurian Black candidate in the Democratic Party. Great read. http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/01/27/st-cory-booker-an-interview-with-glen-ford/ ++++++++++ I was not impressed by him, he didn’t have even a good record of attendance at the Newark city council. He was 31 years old at the time, he was prone to gimmicky demonstrations just to get press coverage, and I knew that his national political coming out had been at a power luncheon of the Manhattan Institute, which is one of the New York stars of the right wing constellation of think tanks and media-influencing outfits. And being invited to a power luncheon of the Manhattan Institute is basically an introduction to the folks on the right, on the corporate right, basically saying ‘he’s one of ours’. But I really didn’t pay that much attention because, again, he was just a 31 year old first term Newark city councilman who wasn’t making much of an impression in his hometown, or rather the town that he adopted. But when he declared his candidacy for mayor in early 2002, I immediately went to the web after going to his campaign speech to see what kind of reaction there was in the press. And what shocked me was not just all the press coverage that he got, and Newark, New Jersey wasn’t in the habit of getting lots of press coverage for anything political, any of its political elements, but that the whole damned internet lit up in terms of the whole entire constellation of right wing organizations. They were all saying ‘Go Cory!’ They knew him by his first name! And I’m talking about every conceivable right wing corporate-funded organization with this character Cory Booker, who I thought was just an obscure councilman in Newark, New Jersey. And that had a profound effect on the political direction of the Black Commentator, which was the internet political journal that I was about to cofound in March of 2002. What it showed was that the corporate right, which we associate of course with the Republican Party and which had been dabbling in Black politics only on the level of Black Republicans and solitary conservative Black academics, people like Steele and Thomas Sowell and, as I said, Black Republicans who not elected one of their own to a majority-black district since the last Black Republican congressman left the scene in 1935, that they were getting their feet wet in Black politics for the first time with, among other candidates, Cory Booker. Cory Booker, as soon as he declared his candidacy, had a campaign war chest full of contributions that were equal to or more than that of the incumbent four term mayor, who was thought to be the most powerful Black politician in New Jersey. But immediately Cory Booker was out-spending him! Cory Booker got the endorsement of the totality of the corporate media! The newspapers and radio stations, which had not paid attention to Newark politics since the first Black mayor was elected in Newark in 1970, they all knew his name. And that’s when I made the connection to the Manhattan Institute and said ‘well, they must have engineered this.’ Cory Booker came within a few thousand votes of unseating Sharpe James, the incumbent mayor, when he made his first run in 2002.
Corey Booker, telling us to hold off now on talking about taking Jared Kushner's security clearance away.
Doesn't look gay to me but if he is he's smart enough to get one hell of a show piece she is smoking hot.
Exhibit A for proof that, aside for ideological differences, most politicians are scumbags whores to special interests. Booker can go f*CK himself.
