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Cory Booker slams ‘false debate’ over gun control
Newark Mayor Cory Booker on Sunday said the current debate over gun control had been contrived to divide Americans. He insisted both gun owners and advocates of gun control agreed on certain common solutions. “I don’t know if anybody here has seen anybody shot, I have,” he said on ABC’s…
Cory Booker: GOP platform on women’s rights ‘an affront to where our nation should be going’
Newark Mayor Cory Booker (D) told a Planned Parenthood Federation of America rally in Charlotte, North Carolina on Tuesday that the GOP’s women’s rights platform is just another reason to reelect President Barack Obama. In a reference to Republicans’ convention refrain that they loved women, Booker told the crowd, “I…
Cory Booker developing online news service for Generation Y
In a bid to fight what he calls “an oligarchy in the media,” Newark Mayor Cory Booker told TechCrunch he’s been working on an alternative news service geared toward the Millenial generation. Dubbed #waywire, Booker said the site will blend original and syndicated video content, while allowing people to share…
Cory Booker declares support for medical marijuana
Newark Mayor Cory Booker (D) on Wednesday said that New Jersey should take steps to legalize medical marijuana for those who need it. In a series of messages posted to his Twitter account, Booker called the U.S. drug policy a “national nightmare” but stopped short of calling for complete legalization.…
Newark Mayor Cory Booker ‘very upset’ he is being ‘used by the GOP’
Newark Mayor Cory Booker (D) appeared Monday night on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show after describing the negative campaigning by President Barack Obama as “nauseating” the previous day. Republicans quickly took advantage of the incident, buying online ads to highlight his comments and launching an “I Stand with Cory” petition.…
Newark Mayor Cory Booker runs into burning house, saves woman’s life
Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, New Jersey, claims he had a “come to Jesus” moment on Thursday night after he arrived home to discover a neighbor’s residence on fire. After a moment of arguing with his security team, he charged into the blaze, which he said had fully engulfed the…
WATCH LIVE: Cory Booker speaks about saving woman from burning building
Newark Mayor Cory Booker holds a press conference to answer questions about Thursday’s fire rescue, where he helped save a neighbor from a burning building. Watch this live video from MSNBC, broadcast April 13, 2012. …
Newark mayor kicks off national marriage equality campaign
Democratic Newark mayor Cory Booker on Wednesday kicked off a new video campaign by the Human Rights Campaign that seeks to raise support for same sex marriage across the nation. “I’m Mayor Cory Booker and I support marriage equality,” he says in the first video for Americans for Marriage Equality.…
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